Sorry for the comparison but it goes through the center skin or cartilage.
Septum ring in regular nose piercing.
Septum piercing after four years.
Typically a septum piercing goes through a fleshy spot below the cartilage since piercing the cartilage can result in significant bleeding and even septal hematoma pools of clotted blood formation according to an article in american family physician.
It comes in various colors and is shaped almost like a horseshoe.
The septum is the division between nostrils so the piercing would resemble how a bull s nose ring would look.
Other nose rings are attached through the side of the flare of your nose being rings or simple studs that adorn the crease.
This does not allow the jewelry to be flipped up into the nose at all and cbrs seem like they d be harder to keep clean in a fresh septum piercing.
For those who really have to hide their piercing a lot there s also a septum retainer.
Your septum is the wall made mostly of cartilage between your two nostrils.
In fact the practice of piercing the nose including the septum has its roots in the middle east where it started over 4 000 years ago according to an article in jama dermatology.
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