Nose Update- Nose Piercing Aftercare

Not want to shove a picture of my nose in front of your for no reason, I thought I would give you an update on my nose piercing an how I am finding the aftercare.I hope it'll be of use to anyone going through the same thing or if anyone is considering having theirs done too.

As everyone knows if they've ever had anything pierced the best way to clean a piercing is good old sea salt mixed in warm water. No chemical nasties and definately nothing containing alcohol- that will just irritate the skin around it. What I do is make up a saline solution, soak a cotton wool pad in it until it's pretty saturated and hold it to the piercing.Let the water soak into the piercing. This is particularly useful to help clean away any crusty lymph. Then two Q tips in the water to wipe and clean around the piercing. Try to avoid knocking the stud and NEVER take your stud out. You'll do more damage than good. I do try to wipe the inside of my nose which may seem pointless because, well, it's the inside of your nose. It's never going to be squeaky clean.

A quick word on infection. It is perfectly normal to get a small amount of crusty lymph. That's good to have and it means that your body is doing is doing it's job and healing. If it's infected, you will know. It will hurt, be very sore and may or may not ooze pus. Pus is thicker and more yellow than lymph. Pretty, I know.

I know it's easy to say don't knock but accidents do happen and I've knocked mine plenty of time. However, the other day, I did it pretty bad and nearly knocked it clean out. Don't panic. Carefully push it back in and wash it straight away. Now, the next day, I noticed I had developed a bit of a purple bump on one side of my piercing. It's pretty faint but you can see it on the above picture. If this does happen, to up your cleaning, the best way I found to help the bump was to fill a cup up with warm salty water, almost to the brim and pretty much stick your nose straight in there for as long as you can. It looks weird and feels weirder but trust me, it does the job. Two days after doing this, my bump had significantly gone down. It's still on the mend and I'm still going to have a few more weeks before I change the jewellery (no less than 6 weeks down the line) and honestly, the longer you clean it, the better.

I hope that this is some use for anyone considering having a nose piercing

Any questions, as ever, feel free to ask :)

xx

Outfit Of The Day feat Nose Piercing

Jacket- Asos

Dress- H&M

Boots- Asos

Necklace- Topshop

Lipstick- Ruby Woo

Yep, I finally finally bit the bullet and got my nose pierced! Yay! It was mainly because I had finished my summer job and could let it heal over the months that I'm back at uni before Christmas. Basically, the piercing asked me whether I would want to ever wear a ring (which was a yes) and then drew three dots on my nose with a felt pen for me to choose. Does it hurt? Yes. Not so much the initial prick but all the wiggling around bit that comes after and my eyes were streammming. But it wears off quickly and everything's gravy. No hotness or throbbing. Just a nice stud sitting cushty in your nose.

I snapped a sneaking OOTD in Urban Outfitters and it was the first outing for my new biker jacket and boots. I actually got several hours out of them before they really began to rub. I've basically just hobbled home. However, my big annoyance of the day was my handbag. I bought it from Zara a while ago, long ago enough for me to have chucked the receipt, but the cashier didn't do it properly or whatever, but it still sets off certain security alarms which is super awkward. I probably should have gone back and got it sorted at the time but you get so used to them going off all the time, you don't really notice. Anyway, I went into Zara- alarm goes off and I explain basically exactly the same here. Can they sort it out/deactivate what ever tag they left in it? No. They need a receipt. Balls. Or a bank statement. And I'm like seriously? It's got all my junk in it, clearly from your shop and I don't have a bank statement on me which wouldn't necessarily prove anything and they wouldn't deactivate it. So hopefully I'm going to go into the one in my uni town and explain it, armed with bank statement and hopefully will put an end to it. Just super irritating though. It would literally only take them two seconds to sort it out. Eurgh.

Anyway, rant over. 

And either way, I'm super happy with my new nose stud and I picked up a few bits and bobs for myself as well which I will show you all tomorrow!

xx