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.
Septum ring in regular nose piercing.
Other nose rings are attached through the side of the flare of your nose being rings or simple studs that adorn the crease.
Your septum is the wall made mostly of cartilage between your two nostrils.
Septum piercing after four years.
The septum is the division between nostrils so the piercing would resemble how a bull s nose ring would look.
It comes in various colors and is shaped almost like a horseshoe.
For those who really have to hide their piercing a lot there s also a septum retainer.
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.
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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.
Just because septum rings weren t all that popular for a long time in western culture that doesn t mean they haven t been common in other cultures before that.
Sorry for the comparison but it goes through the center skin or cartilage.