My Septum Piercing Experience & Clickers!

Wearing my everyday hinged sleeper 

I got my septum pierced a few months back, and it was a pretty scary prospect for me. I've got a few piercings, and they were all pretty painful. My conch ring was awful, took 16 months to heal and put me off cartilage forevermore, my nipple was sore as it was being done but it never bothers me much 8 months later. 

So I decided I was getting my septum pierced, and that it was going to be a solo adventure. In the past, I've always had somebody with me for moral support, and in the case of my nipple piercing, the person who came with me was getting the same thing done after me. So I was fine. But this time? I'd be alone... That was the scariest thought. So I took myself off to Dublin Ink and was seen by a lady piercer who made me feel so at ease from the minute I met her. 

When the needle went through, I was surprised, it pinched, but there was no outright pain like in past piercing experiences. She popped the barbell in and that was the piercing done! I healed it mostly flipped up and within a month it was fully healed. I was delighted. It cost me €25 as Dublin Ink do a special offer on all standard piercings. 

What I will say is that I have a tendency to wiggle my nose if it's itchy or I'm cold or anything, and doing that moved the piercing and that pain was horrific. That was the only pain I experienced with this piercing. 

Generally, I wear a hinged sleeper ring that I picked up in Wildcat North in it which is about 8mm in diameter, for a pretty unoffensive look. If I forget to put my retainer in when I go to work, this little hoop doesn't really get much negative feedback. 

Clickers are my loves though, I have a few, and I find them great for making a look more dramatic. I've picked up most of my clickers from Crazy Factory, which is a super cheap, good quality and reliable site for all things body mod related! My favorites are pictured below - silver with peridot, black with peridot, silver with aurora borealis stones, a mini moustache, my retainer for work, and some circular barbells with all kinds of balls for the ends. I picked up one crazy one in Wildcat South, a giant silver tribal style with clear stones. 

Clickers work on a hinge, so you pop it open, slide it though and then click it shut. They're cute and way less fiddly than ball closures or circular barbells. You can swap out a clicker without needing a mirror or endless patience the way you do when those little balls are involved!! 

Anyways, that my septum piercing experience and my favorite clickers for you. If you're thinking of getting a septum piercing, I say do it. They look great on everyone and they heal super fast with no awful pain. 

Amy 
xx

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A Single Spotlight: Woven Skull

A few months back on a trip to Cork, I made my way into my favorite record store down in the Triskel Arts Centre - Plug'd, and went flipping through vinyl for an hour or so. On my adventure there, I naturally got chatting to the owner of this incredible little independent store and eventually I walked out with close to ten new records. Today I want to shine a single spotlight on one band in particular, who you probably have never heard of - Woven Skull.

"Minimal repetitions made inside of haunted woods and burning bogs", is the incredibly succinct tagline on Tumblr. This band make the most wonderful ethereal music, the likes of which up until last March I had never experienced before... Now though, I'm the proud owner of Lair Of The Glowing Bantling, which was released on Penske Records.

Everything about this band is wonderful, the music, the way they become an organic, single entity when they play on stage, it's all just so natural and in some ways I am mystified by it because it's unlike anything I've ever experienced. Don't ask me to pigeon hole this group into a single genre or sub-genre, because they cant be. This trio just...are.

I took a risk on Woven Skull the first time I heard them, and now I'm dying to get back to Cork, to Plug'd records to see if I can't lay hands to more of their exquisite work.

Check them out on Facebook, Bandcamp and Tumblr. 

XO, 

A