How to change a nose screw in less than 30 minutes
You know how it is when you get a package in the mail and you can’t wait to open it. Whether it’s a book or a gadget or a toy or clothes or jewelry or whatever, you just cannot help yourself — you must read it/play with it/try it on. It’s a compulsion, a temptation, the new whatever is calling your name, begging for your attention, and it’s oh-so-hard to ignore.
So today when the package came, I was giddy like a kid on Christmas. I pulled out the pretty new nose screw with excited awe. It was everything it had promised it would be. So I rushed right upstairs to try it on and see how it looked.
Remember what it was like when you first started wearing contacts? Remember how frustrating it was? Oh, when the eye doctor put them in for you at your fitting, they just slipped right in and all was good, but that first time you had to do it yourself…Oy. Remember sitting at the table with the towel laid out in front of you and the magnifying mirror as you labored to stick that annoying piece of plastic in your eye. Remember how you’d slowly draw your fingertip with the contact precariously balanced on the top toward your eye? Remember how at the last minute, you’d blink and you’d have to spend the next 30 seconds or so trying to figure out where the contact bounced to? Or remember how it’d go in funny and every time you’d blink — and you’d blink a lot as the tears formed — it would feel like someone was sticking a hot poker in your eye?
Well, trying to figure out how to put a nose screw in your nose for the first time is 10 times more painful…and there are no instructions and I couldn’t find anything on the web explaining how to do it and even now that it’s in, I couldn’t tell you how it got there.
Mind you, I admit that a week after I got my nose pierced my nose screw had come out and I had to work it back in and technically that was the “first time” but I’m not counting it because the piercing was new and I was panicked about the hole closing and this time I thought it would go smoother because it’s mostly healed…
Oh, and one more tip: Don’t try to change your nose screw in the middle of an allergy attack and a runny nose…ewwww….
tags: nose piercing
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on July 12, 2005 at 3:12 pm
sherrice said:
Damnit. I really thought you would be able to tell me.
on July 23, 2005 at 3:48 am
Shawna said:
I was hoping you could tell me too! lol Mine just came out while I was washing it and now I can’t get it back in. I put an earing stud in it for now and am trying to find instructions online….but as you said no help!
on July 24, 2005 at 12:27 pm
nmallory said:
I have actually created my directions in this post.
on July 27, 2005 at 11:31 am
Emily said:
Okay…tips for getting it OUT? I change this jewelry like every six months and every time I go through the ordeal of getting it out, I think “Oh I am totally going to remember exactly what I did when the little devil finally came out.” And of course, I never do.
on July 27, 2005 at 7:12 pm
n. mallory said:
OK….seriously, it took me a while to figure out getting it out on purpose.
I put my thumb in and turn it, pushing slightly upward until it starts actually moving upward. Then with my other hand I begin twisting in the same direction from above until just the last curved tip is inside and then just sort of unhook it.
I hope that helps.
on August 28, 2005 at 2:15 am
Chinaman From Hell said:
Im going to get my nose pierced in a week. I really need some information about wether i should get my Piercer to use a nail gun or not. Is it okay? Does it hurt? Please help me out i dont really need the information but it would be grand if i could still get it. I think that it would help me out a bit. I can’t find anything on the web.
on August 28, 2005 at 5:44 pm
n. mallory said:
A good body piercer will use a sterilized needle. You should also try to find one who’s licensed and it’s preferable to use one recommended to you by someone you know.
on October 28, 2005 at 11:35 am
Kim said:
Crap! I got my nose done 3.5 weeks ago and want to change the screw. The one I have (from the piercer) is sticking up about 1/8th of an inch out of my nose, and it’s bigger than I really wanted. I was hoping you’d say, “Yeah, go ahead and change it yourself! No problem”. Unfortunately, your post has scared the crap out of me and I’ll suffer with this FrankenNose til 6 weeks have passed.
Sigh.
on January 3, 2006 at 12:06 am
lindsey said:
can someone please email me back if u have any suggestions…(tinkerbell32800@msn.com)
i have to take my nose ring out for my new job, ive had it for over a year…i have spacers for it n all n i have one of the studs that u push through n it has like a bigger part on the bottom of it for it to stay in your nose. its been pulled out accidentally twice n that hurt like a bitch…i was wondering if anyone knew a good way or well easy way to take it out
on February 6, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Natalie said:
I accidentally came across this post while looking for instructions myself. mmallory, I just want to say, whoever you are, I am very grateful to you right now after 40 min. of hell and pain and trying to get a nose screw in, after I read your instructions, I got it in in about 2 min. I am a very happy girl right now. Can’t believe there aren’t normal instruction anywhere… thanks again!
on May 17, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Kaylita said:
n. Mallory,
You have really made my day… Awww… man. I had this regular stud in my nose for about a year and when I finally decided to buy real nose rings I realized that I had no clue how to put it on. I was standing in front of the bathroom mirror for about 1 hour trying to figure it out and wondering of maybe my nose was simply just too big. I was stumped, because people always tell me I have a small nose. I then became frustrated after the hour of pain and misery that I went online and found your website… I am truly grateful….
on July 6, 2006 at 10:45 am
Jess said:
i got my nose pierced 2 days ago and it fell out this mornings and i honesty can’t get it in i’ve tried everything. it just refuses to go in, and my nose is really starting to hurt. i don’t know what to do
on July 18, 2006 at 5:05 am
Marty said:
I got my nose pierced about 3 weeks ago- and i pulled my nose stud out and like you said Jess- it just refused to go back in, and it started to bleed, and i was aware anyway that your not meant to try and push it it as is damages the piercing. So i simply called my piercer and they said to come in and they will pop it straight back in for me- i was worried that they wouldn’t be able to beacause i pulled it out in the evening and had to wait till the next morning to go and have it re-inserted, but all they did was streach the piecing (coz it shrinks without the stud in) a bit stingy but in about 5 seconds i had the stud back in, so really i think the best thing to do in the healing period is just to have your stud put back in by a piercer!
on August 6, 2006 at 3:27 am
Margie said:
Just got my nose pierced today. I wanted to put in a prettier stud. So there I am at my mirror for about 45 minutes trying to put the new one in with no results but much pain and a little blood.
I run to Google for help and your site popped up. I followed your instructions and I got my new nose screw in in about 30 seconds!
Thank you!! Glad to know I am not the only one that has problems..I thought it was just me!
on September 2, 2006 at 10:03 am
Andrea said:
Well I got my nose pierced in January and I waited for like 6 months to change it because i couldn’t get the screw out and it was still red. I changed it into a bone stud because they looked easier but I kept buying the ones that have the jewel just glued on and it keeps coming out. So yesterday I finally bought nice nose studs (bone) so the jewel won’t fall out and when I tried changing it I saw that the shaft was thicker than the last one. So after an hour of pain and bleeding the new one wouldn’t go in and I had to put the old one back in (which of course took forever too….)
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to put this new one in since it’s thicker? I really almost passed out yesterday trying to do it. thanks!
on September 2, 2006 at 10:41 pm
n. mallory said:
Andrea - I would really go back to your piercer and ask for advice. Plus, he/she should be able to show you how to put the new one.
on January 28, 2007 at 2:38 pm
jameelagh said:
Damn I thought you were gonna tell me!
on July 7, 2007 at 6:20 pm
iveragh said:
omg ahh this is such a living nightmare!!i got my nose pierced like a week ago and i was having a bath and afterwords i cudnt help myself taking it out because it just slipped right off but i didnt know it was going to be hell trying 2 get it back in!!!i think ill just wait till 2moro 2 go 2 the peircer but i hope it doesnt close up!!!and i tryed all of your advice but it still wont go back in!!HELP!