It started as bordum one night in my room. I had been wanting a piercing for awhile now and I had started look on the internet, when I saw some septums and I was hooked I had to have one. Now I am only 17 so I couldnt get it profesionly done. I was sitting there one night with a sewing needle and an old 18 gauge Circular barbell. I was wondering how bad it would hurt, so I found my "sweetspot" or whatever and I poked at it, not really all that painfull so I just started pushing harder, never really hurt just like a pich I didnt evan know I was through till I hit the taper on the sewing needle,LOL. I followed with the ring and there was my first piercing.. I have since gauged it to a 6 and am going to at least a 00.. its is a crooked piercing but I just cant give up my first mod.. it not horriable just a little further back on one side than the other, but then agian my nose has been broken 3 times, once since i have had the septum and never set back straight. So my actually nose is no straighter than the piercing,lol.. Very worth while piercing, only midly painfull to stretch if you wait long enough between stretches :]