Long story short: Got a septril piercing, started to stretch it and the fucker started migrating. Pulled it with the intention of just repiercing at a larger gauge later but was just curious if anyone had any knowledge or experience on if a septril can just be punched out? Specifically a high forward facing septril, obviously wouldn't try to punch out a lower septril.
I got my septril pierced last year at a 16g, it initially looked a little crooked but we weren't totally sure if it was due to being pierced at a slight angle or if it was just my nose as it has been broken many of times in addition to having a severely deviated septum. regardless, it was not dramatic at all so we decided to see how it would go. At the 16g it seemed to even out pretty well as it healed and then even more so as I continued to stretch my septum back up to size. Then comes the weird part of stretching the septril. My first stretch to 14g seemed to even it out even more but as it settled over a few months, it shifted to the right slightly, but only on the top, the back end of the post remained where it was. So, I said fuck it and stretched it to the 12g to see if it would straighten back out... sure as fuck, it straightened right out... but then migrated and started traveling left across the tip of my nose and just kept going, so I pulled it out, am letting it close and am going to re-pierce at a larger gauge, might even just say fuck it and punch it out after doing some more research on it to see how safe that is.
My questions here though are what were the rest of you pierced at for your septrils for those who have them? I know 16g-14g is standard but I felt like 16g was too small to start at and wouldn't be stable enough. In addition to that, and the strange one to me, has anyone else had a piercing migrate after already being healed for over a year? I have had a shit ton of piercings in my time and have been involved in body mod and piercing communities for over 20 years and have never seen what happened to me before (outside of industrials, navels and such, I literally mean for just a flat back labret post piercing through a thick portion of tissue. Obviously there are many piercings that will migrate or reject even years down the road, this one specifically just seems weird to me.)
Alright, so I have been planning to get my wife a new tattoo for mother's day for a while now and we started discussing it and looking at designs to try to put together to take to the artist. After a little while of discussing and looking over some different options and finding a few things she liked, it ended up being time for me to go pick up kids from school and she was getting ready to go to work for a few as she helps out a guy friend of hers who owns a company (whom I absolutely despise for various reasons including him putting his nose in our business and relationship on multiple occasions.) So, we decided to put it down for a few and we were going to pick it back up later tonight. Well... then she gets home a little bit ago and is all sorts of excited and starts to tell me that she was showing this guy the pictures we had kind of looked at and he just out of nowhere decided to take them all and put them into some AI platform that put all of them together. Low and behold... now my wife has this design that she loves, that our children and herself are symbolized and incorporated into, that this fucking guy pushed himself into being a part of as far as I'm concerned and now I have nothing to do with what was supposed to be a very close to home, sentimental thing other than being the wallet funding it.
Now, I didn't blow up on my wife or anything but I'd be a liar if I said I don't get visibly and audibly irritable every time this guy is brought up and in this specific instance I explained to her that I didn't care for the fact that now I am going to have to look at a tattoo every single day that represents my wife and children, that this fucking dude made himself a part of and pushed me out of. Now, I know... all he did was throw some pictures into some AI bullshit, that she absolutely loves it and I know the artist is going to alter the design himself and everything but there is still a part of me that utterly fucking hates this idea. Tattoos for me have always been a very spiritual and sentimental thing, from the designs to the meanings to the artist doing it... they have always been very close knit, tight circle, close to home kind of things for me. So I understand that this probably means a lot more to me than to a lot of people who just get inked up cause they like it. So please, as much as I don't normally ask the opinion of those on the internet? Am I being a douche about this? Do I just get the fuck over it? Cause she's acting like I'm being ridiculous and that it doesn't matter. But to me, having him be a part of something, even if it is miniscule, that is permanently being put in my wife's flesh and is something as personal as my fucking kids, utterly disgusts me and she knows it.
For those of you with large gauge conch/flat punches that wear plugs, what are you using for headphones?
I have 10mm flats and 8mm conches. Over the ear headphones are uncomfortable due to the flats and earbuds literally won't go in due to the conches. (once I'm done stretching and switch to eyelets I don't think it will be a problem anymore but that's a good ways away considering I am about 4mm away from end goal for my conches.) I have seen these bone conduction headphones that look like they would work alright but at the same time, I am curious to see what the rest of you use and recommend before I go buying a bunch of different shit to figure it out myself.