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06 January 2009

Ask Mecha I can't decide...[More:]

Keep the nose stud? Lose the nose stud?

It's more than fine in terms of work for me to keep it. It's small, and quite pretty...

But I think I might be sick of it.

So I take it out...

but then I kind of miss it.

I'm 25 for what it's worth... Am I getting too old for the nose stud? I've had it for about 2 years now.
I don't know if there's a cutoff age. Some people seem to feel it's permanently part of their image, so I have plenty of 40something friends still sporting theirs happily. On the other hand, some people have had it as sort of a youthful experiment and then left it behind at some point. And on the third hand, I have at least one fortysomething girlfriend who never had one, and then went out and got one last year.

So I don't think it's something you age into or out of. Just something that can change with your self-image, as your own idea of how you want to look changes.
posted by Miko 06 January | 22:21
I like them, and I like them more on older people than on younger people. So I vote to keep it until you're 50. (Or take it out now and then reinstitute the stud when you're 30.)
posted by mudpuppie 06 January | 22:22
Swap it out for a spike and tell people you're a unicorn.
posted by jonmc 06 January | 22:24
A different gemstone? A different style altogether?
posted by Ardiril 06 January | 22:28
(Or take it out now and then reinstitute the stud when you're 30.)

Oog. I saw a friend get a redo on a nose piercing that had healed over. She turned green from pain and swore it was many times worse than the first time. Of course, that was back in the bad old days of using ear-piercing guns and getting it done from one of the more adventurous mall/hair stylist piercing purveyors...and as I recall there was serious pain involved in mine (first one, done at the same time, hit a nerve, thought my right eye was going to fall right out), so take that for what it's worth. I sometimes wish I still had mine, which I got rid of when I worked for the gov't. I'd take it out every morning & put it back in every evening, and finally the ring broke from metal stress. I was going to replace it, but thought, "Why? So I can sit around the apartment watching tv and look punk?"

Um...that's neither here nor there. Need pics for informed vote. Be advised that if you've had it for any length of time, the scar will be there always, and will taunt you with your inability to put any jewelry through it without weeping in pain and giving up and having a very red nose for days.
posted by elizard 06 January | 22:31
Remember my screw earrings? Put one of those in it. That'd be an eye-catcher.
posted by jonmc 06 January | 22:43
OH! That would be awesome jonmc!

I could also put my paper plane in... but my nose is big enough already that it doesn't need to become any more airborne!
posted by jonathanstrange 06 January | 22:46
If anyone looks at you funny, just use your best germanic accent and say "Iz Frankenschnozz. You have problem wid dat?"
posted by jonmc 06 January | 22:47
I've thought of getting a big round red one...

then I could dress up as either a witch, or Rudolph.
posted by jonathanstrange 06 January | 22:49
Works for some people.
Doesn't work for others.

Couldn't tell you based on text alone.

I understand your pain, though. I go through the same process every so often with my beard. And I make the same post. :P
posted by CitrusFreak12 06 January | 22:58
I'll post photo's when I get home... can't connect my phone to my work computer.
posted by jonathanstrange 06 January | 23:01
How about the ball end of an E string?
posted by Ardiril 06 January | 23:12
Mrs mendel, just turned 30, just got a nose stud last week. (I got my earlobes done at 8ga at the same time.)

Here's my theory on piercings: YOU'RE used to it, but it's still having the "new" effect on everyone else that sees it for the first time. That makes 'em worth keeping even if it's a bit old news to you.

Go get something interesting on your opposite ear to go with it. (Conch?)
posted by mendel 07 January | 00:24
I have a friend who got one in her late 50's.

Age is not a consideration here, in my fifty year old opinion.
posted by bunnyfire 07 January | 07:31
I'm 37 and still have mine. I say "meh" to age appropriatism.
posted by gomichild 07 January | 09:02
Yeah age is not really a factor. I have a few friends with moms who have them. Like I said, works for some people.
posted by CitrusFreak12 07 January | 14:06
I had my nose pierced twice in my late 30s. The first time I took it out to change the jewelry, got distracted and it closed up enough that I couldn't insert the new one (or the old one). The second time (about a year later, it was repierced a couple months after the first closure) I somehow removed the screw in my sleep. Again, it was too closed up to reinsert the jewelry. I still want to get it pierced again (I'm 42), but just haven't taken the time/money.

So, in short (too late!), age hasn't a thing to do with it. I really miss mine.
posted by deborah 07 January | 16:32
Why do you have a nose stud? Why do you still have a nose stud? If you can't answer these questions, take it out.
posted by Eideteker 09 January | 00:17
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