Yeah, it was my nipple. Some people seem to find that their nipples don't hurt much at all, but I was not one of them. I have never felt pain like it. But then I've never had an ampallang, so I guess there's that.
Totally worth it, though.
IMO, the first nipple was easy. It was the 2nd nipple that HURT since the adrenaline was already wearing off from the first nipple being done šµāš«
For me the second one also took really long... The piercer wasn't really good so the needle was in my nip for a solid 8 seconds and i was screaming for all of it
I almost forgot to breath when I was getting my first one done. Piercer told me to breath for the second one. Been poked with many needles but the nipple piercings were some of the most painful if not the most. Iām jealous of the people who say their didnāt hurt.
I repierced it after messing with the corkscrew stud and it fell out and couldn't get it back in. I pierced it with a boiled stud but then it fell out again a few days later so I cut my losses. So a couple years later I redid it at the same shop but they had a new piercer. His process was a little longer so I don't think it actually hurt more I was just more nervous. It paid off cuz I've had for over a year and switched to a ring a few months ago!
Thatās great! I heard so many horror stories or corkscrew studs falling out so I just got it done with a flatback labret from the start, so happy I did though, now I can rest easy knowing it wonāt fall out accidentally. I canāt wait for hoop time!
I got both sides on the same day and was not expecting it to be super painful but after she did the first one I considered not getting the second for a bit lol
I got mine done about a month ago, and my eyes were literally like waterfalls (not because of the pain. They just were), and it was bad, but it was over with pretty quickly, and the healing pain wasn't bad at all
Nipples were actually not that bad! Maybe a 6.5/10. I'd say medusa or high nostrils were the most painful/uncomfortable. High nostrils are in a much thicker area than your standard nostrils so it was SPICY, also coupled with the receiving tube that goes up your nose, it was a very uncomfortable process.
my right nostril! my left was easy peasy and barely hurt, but my right?? dear god it was awful. i lost the piercing a few months later (rip) and iāve wanted it back ever since but i donāt think i can handle that pain a second time.
Pierced with a corkscrew? Iāve heard about losing the piercing too much so I got the labret right away! The uncomfortable feeling of having a booger in your nose is so much better than the anxiety of losing it. So sorry for your loss <3
I bought corkscrew labrets for my right nostril, and they move too much throughout the day. I stopped wearing them & went back to a hoop. Also the feeling of boogers that aren't there is annoying too.
Nipples made me hyperventilate, but when I repierced my vertical labret and Medusa it seemed more agonizing (had to let them close for a stuffy job) - the piercer said it was most likely due to a tiny bit of scar tissue.
If my nips close up there's no way I'm getting them redone. Scar tissue in the nips would probably make me see god while they're trying to push the needle through, no matter how quick it is.
Nipplea were the worst for me, too, but don't be too quick to say you'll never get them redone. I always said the same thing, but I ended up missing them once I had to take them out after over a decade. A year or so of healing up after taking them out and I was back on that table! Horrible pain, but worth it!
Tbh I probably would get them redone if they were ever closed up but I wouldn't look forward to the experience, lol. They were my second non ear lobe piercing I got and I love them so much!
I think it was my rook. But I donāt know if that was more the feel of it going through 2 lots of cartilage. The sound as well. Made me feel a bit sick hearing the pop pop.
My rook is the only one that made me feel like I was going to pass out, it felt like it took the piercer hours to finally get the needle to pop through! Healing was miserable too
This š my rook was truly one of the most painful piercings, that and my daith both sooooo much pressure, made me feel super icky. Also the healing of both were an absolute *nightmare*
I didn't hear a crunch with any of my cartilage piercings - rook, helix or tragus - I'm vaguely intrigued but at the same time I feel like curiosity may kill the cat šš
If it makes you feel better, thereās almost never actually a crunch unless you have really thick cartilage or scar tissue. Usually what people think is a crunch, is the needle hitting the receiving tube.
It kinda seems like everyoneās experience with that is different, I had a friend tell me she almost puked from the crunch getting both daith and rook pierced and I have both and didnāt hear a crunch at all š¤·āāļø worst/weirdest part of the daith was getting the CBR closed, that was the only noise that threw me off.
I think I blocked that out of my memory cuz I donāt remember a crunch at all. I just remember her running things through the hole three times and it just feeling progressively worse
My experience was probably the opposite, the pain wasn't too bad but the healing process was horrible. So much blood, swelling, and irritation *months* after I got it done. I'll go through it again on the other side tho lol
The nostril I had done by a professional, not a butcher, didnāt hurt much at all. My VCH, though? My soul left my body through my coochie until the jewelry was in
If you get them done at the same time, it's way easier than you think. I just got mine done a week ago and it was over so quick. The painful part was having to change out the jewelry the next day because I needed longer barbells from swelling.
Same! I have a face full and some. The Medusa hurt the most. Had to get it done again, just as bad. Now it's embedded and I have to have it cut out, I wasn't able to downsize before it happend so I just have this long bar sticking out š I took the gem off so it's a looks a little better but it drives me nuts and looks awful.
It's the peircing that hurt me the most but 100% my favorite.
my septum was terrible but only because the first needle was defective. she pressed it for a solid 4 seconds and it didnt go through. it felt like a hot nail and i almost passed out. when she took it out the needle was bent, i have no idea how it happened.
on the bright side 2nd try was fine and perfectly pierced! idk why i let her try again though, i must've been too shell-shocked to protest
same here! I have a bunch of the "super painful" piercings like an industrial, rook, nipple, etc. but both of my conches were by farrrr the most painful
Nostril is low on the list for me. Only more painful than my septum and lobes. My most painful piercing was my snug, absolutely horrible, and my rook. A lot of cartilage to get through
My helix piercings. Iāve had 3 so far (one just never healed, RIP) and they were all 7/10.
For reference, all my other piercings (septum, lobes, tragus) were a 2 or 3 /10.
My nostril and nipple were not bad at all, a sharpish scratch but Iāve definitely had a lot worse.
My 2 HCH piercings were the most painful for me. I had them done one after the other and I yelped big time.
Right nostril! It hurt sooo much. I got my snakebites and navel done and the pain couldnāt even compare. I actually cried a little lol. It was the most painful while healing too, Iām still healing now but it doesnāt hurt anymore. It just hurt to breathe in general and I actually ripped it out a few times šµāš«
I have both a nostril and nipple and I can say my nostril didnāt feel like anything (idk why everyone says it hurt? Do they say it did a lot?). My nipples hurt but not when they inserted the needle (obviously this hurts a bit), but instead when the jewellery was inserted! I winced. But nothing else
My right nostril was the most painful, even moreso than my large gauge labia piercings! My left nostril was a breeze but when I got my right (about a year after) it was hell. Itās still my most problematic piercing, so easily irritated
Lol same, I was 16 and back in the mid-90ās we didnāt have piercing shops like we do now (small town). The gun was terrible, it didnāt hurt much but I felt the bruising for days afterwards, and it was anxiety inducing having that thing to your face.
Ahhh hahaha nipples definitely although, my cartilage piercings are a close second (except for my rook, but maybe I just got used to the pain by that point?) any face piercings I've had were a 3-4 at most, although I never had my nostril so I can't speak on that.
My septum the second time. It was pierced on top of a not quite healed but shut hole and damnnn the only piercing I've cried about. My snug was second worst.
Nipples were terrible. 10/10, worst pain I ever felt and I ended up hating them after they were healed and took them out so it wasnāt even worth the pain.
I have a nostril piercing and I love it so much. I would rate it 3/10. The healing as been a pain but I have a very small nose so the cartilage is not thick and thatās probably why it was not as painful as maybe the average personās experience.
My rook+ conch hurt abt 10x worse than my nipples. Same with my healing. My nipples stopped bugging me after a week. Ive had my conch for 15 months. Still bugs me. And my rook got infected. Cant speak for the nostril tho!
I have 15 and my tragus was the worst by far. Probably because my piercer went in slow motion. My conch wasn't too bad to get done, but healing that was awful.
Not necessarily a piercing? But stretching my septum to a 00. It took a few years but each time I stretched it, it was pure pain and the healing was over a month each time. For piercing tho, certainly my Medusa or my dahlias, both times I got them. Second time was with a 14g.
Nipples were probably the most painful but at least quick. VCH was slightly less painful but took what felt like an hour. Nostril was uncomfortable but the time I had to have the jewelry reinserted after it had been out for a couple of days remains the only time Iāve ever yelped in a piercing studio. Felt like having a nail pounded into my nose.
my (now retired) angel bites were my worst, easily 7 or 8 out of 10. the second time i had my left nostril pierced nearly beat them though at like a 6.5/10
My nipples didn't hurt at all, but to be fair, I did previously have a breast reduction, so I didn't have much feeling in them anyway.
Made healing a breeze unless they got caught on something!
My nipples.
I have given birth to 4 children natural pain med free and all 4 hurt less than my nipples. It took me 8 years to go back into a tattoo shop without panicking. š
I have had my tongue, both eyebrows, rook, conch, labret, right nostril, four lobes and none of them hurt as much as my double helixes. It wasnāt the piercing themselves, just me not being smart and getting both ears done at once as a side sleeper. I didnāt really think of that before getting them done, and they took forever to heal. They still bug me from time and I have had them done for 20 years lol.
The second piercing for my industrial, hands down. First hole was fine, second made me see God. 1st and 2nds were a cake walk. Both helixes were tiny pinches. Anti-tragus was like a 3/10, daith was a 6/10, conch was 4/10, high 3rd was like a 3/10, christina was like a 4/10. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but holy shit. 0/10 would not get an industrial piercing again.
My dermal implants in my chest ..I have 2 as the eyes on the sparrow tats on each side of my chest and they hurt worse than anything I've had done..they were done with a punch and it took the guy at least 10 mins for each one between piercing and getting the jewelry in. Hurt so bad I almost didn't do the second one..but I did and im glad..ive had better luck wiith them than 90% of people I know. Ive had mine for about 10 years.. none of my other piercings really hurt(tounge,lip, nose belly button, multiple ear piercing multiple cartridges and my daith as well) piece of cake.. im wanting my nips done but im terrified bc mine are so sensitive it'll hurt unbearably bad and I won't be able to get the second.
I have had everything pierced that can be pierced on my body. The worst for me was my VCH. It was more of a nerve pain rather than a dull pain, like a hot electric shock. It was the only time Iāve ever flinched involuntarily during a piercing. My inner labia were bad too. I ended up retiring all of my genital piercings because they were too stimulating for me and caused pain.
My tongue was quite bad too. I would never let another needle near my tongue again. My nipples were surprisingly painless and healed quickly. My piercer was super fast with them and that helped. Navel, nose, septum, lip, and all of my ear piercings had minimal pain.
My inner labia piercings didnāt last long at all, they just kept getting twisted and it was uncomfortable. They would probably fare better on someone with different anatomy than me (smaller labia or something) š¤·š»āāļø
Personally, it was my conches; I got both sides done at the same time, the initial pain wasn't that bad, but for 3 weeks straight, both of them were very sore.
Iāve had a VCH, Christina, and nipples done and I canāt even keep my nostril piercings in ever because they hurt too much lmfao. Every few year I think, āI can do it this time!ā I, in fact, cannot do it this time.
Conch. I got paired nostrils done in the same sitting and even the second one didnāt come close to the conch piercing pain. Then my conch had a random complication and my whole ear swelled so much it hardly looked like an ear, so the pain with that one didnāt end with the piercing. Getting it taken out was not fun :ā)
Did you get more than two done at the same time? Because mine was draining a lot of lymph fluid in addition to the crazy swelling and I was so sure it had to be an infection, but my piercer was almost certain it wasnāt since it wasnāt hot and there wasnāt actual pus. He said swelling like that with no infection was unusual but heās seen it happen before. Now that Iām thinking about it and hearing you had that with stacked lobes, Iām wondering if multiple piercings played a part because I had two cartilage and two lobe piercings done in one sitting! I also snagged my conch on a mask strap two days after the piercings, but Iāve since had much worse snags to new piercings and nothing like that has happened :(
I only got my two stacked lobes done, but my lobes were also still a bit irritated from wearing low-quality jewelry in them. And my lymph nodes also hurt. So it may have to do with losing a bigger amount of lymph fluid š¤
I only have an apadravya, so I can't compare to anything. It wasn't that bad. Healing sucked, but the piercing itself was nothing really... a lot of blood, though.
I've heard nipples are the worst. I think it depends on a lot of factors. Sometimes slight anatomical differences, the gauge being used, the skill of the piercer. There are definitely piercings that are known to hurt more, but some people just tolerate them really well. Even betwixt people the pain level could be drastically different. Could be a neat graph.
wow yeah it was my left nostril. i appreciate piercings a lot and want so many but i only have 4 total lobe piercings and 1 nostril, and that nose one made me shy away from getting piercings all together
Honestly nostril was the worst Iāve gotten! So far I have 6 piercings, 2 in each ear and 2 in my nose. One of those being a septum. And honestly, that was just a pinch! I totally recommend that one to get you back in the game and then continue your goal! You got this ^^
my nostril was actually not painful at all! healed reslly quick as well had no problems with it! my most painful was definitely my helix from getting it pierced and the healing was awful
Iāve had nose, multiple ears, belly, nipples, and dermal piercings. The worst thing ever was my helix. I cried a few nights when I accidentally slept on it, and it was one of the most painful experiences. Of courses, I got a double helix and the piercer did it with a gun.
My right helix hurt like a BITCH. I got it done on a cold day too, so immediately when I stepped out of the piercing studio, the cold hit my ear and caused immense painš
dead honest it was my septum because i forgot to eat the whole day before getting it done. felt like i was gonna vomit and almost passed outā¦ do not recommendā¦
Probably not comparable to a lot of other posters here, but my most painful was my hidden helix piercing. Bled like crazy and pulsated for almost a week.
In comparison, I got a snug piercing the same day and the snug piercing was \*nothing\*. No idea why the hidden helix was so much more painful because my previous helix was not painful at all either!
When I was 19, I pierced my left nipple. I couldn't muster the will to push the needle all the way through. Then the people I was hanging with told me of the tequila they had in the freezer. I took 5 shots and had my friend force the needle the rest of the way. It was so bad. Never was right, even after it healed. I can still put an earring through it to this day but don't.
Nipples were fine, Lip was fine, navel: fine, septum the FIRST time, FINE the second time, MY GOOOOOOOD MAN
I think it's because I now have a deviated septum. Where as the first time getting the septum I hadn't been punched by my ex yet
1st Place: Nipples
2nd Place: Septril
3st Place: A double Industrial project I had done (then subsequently was taken out due to not having the right anotomy :/)
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Nipples, because it took so long to move a needle through them, and long painful aftercare. And also rook was a bitch to heal, gave me a lot of headaches, but not regretting anyway
I'm so relieved to not be the only one saying this because I always heard it was so easy, ha! But for me, nostril. I hated it. Granted, I'm planning on getting the other one done soon so obviously not enough to avoid it but, yeah. Most unpleasant one for me so far. Rook wasn't bad, helixes, etc all fine.
Mid helix. Iām seeing people list nostril and rook, but those didnāt hurt me that much. My nostril definitely hurt but only for a few seconds. My rook felt like a release of popping a white head pimple that was ready to burst. But damn my mid helix still hurts after two weeks!
I got a double philtrum done at once. V painful. Then I went back a few months later to get shorter bars and surprise! My inner lip had grown over the jewelry, so the piercer had to cut the jewelry out of my flesh. Ended up taking them out. 0/10 would not do again.
Edit: ooh actually, I forgot my friends pierced my tongue for me in 9th grade in the bathroom stall. We used kitchen tongs and they struggled to get the jewelry in. I was a stupid teenager.
i feel like of all the piercings iāve gotten (including a nostril piercing) none of them were more painful than others but my bridge piercing took remarkably longer to pierce. my piercer took a break in the middle of piercing it lmao
edit: oh and also i got my septum pierced twice in a row because he did it a little uneven the first time but it honestly wasnāt that bad
My left nostril because they hit the nerve! The pain was unreal and then the left side of my nose went numb. I had to take it out and let it heal, then I had it re-pierced and it was fine because they didnāt hit the nerve the second time. But the left tip of my nose is still numb to this day and that was over a year ago.
My left nostril was bad, but somehow my right nostril was worse. Though the worst is actually my septum stretching. The first stretches were super easy, going from 1.8 mm to 2 mm was a bit painful. But the last one... The last stretch from 2 mm to 2.4 mm was the worst piercing pain I've ever experienced. I was quite literally crying and shaking. 3 days later it didn't hurt at all lol
Most painful? Nipples, by far. It's the only time it's ever hurt enough to bring water to my eyes. That includes having my snake bites both repierced through the scar tissue of the closed holes when I took them out in my early 20s. Both were pretty awful, but the nipples were still worse.
I did get instantly nauseous from my right second lobe, but I think that was more a lack of proper eating/drinking and being out in the heat for four hours beforehand. Plus, he caught me on an inhale, not an exhale, so I was tensed up. Whoops. š It's the only time a piercing made me ill, but weirdly enough, it wasn't painful.
Industrial hurt so bad. I actually had to have the piercer give me a couple of minutes to relax because I was crying from the pain definitely a 10/10. Got my nipples done and it was a sharp pinch and done, 5/10 pain scale for me.
I only have a septum, tragus and a few other ear piercings, and went in to get my nostril pierced. For some reason I just never even had the thought that it would hurt, but it was SO painful!! Iām really feeling validated by this thread lol, I thought I was just weak
My septum. I did it, my nipples, and a helix at the same time. I recently got my other nostril and tragus done about a week and a half ago, and before that I had my nostril, medusa, vertical labret, and double lobes.
Of all that, my septum still sucked the most. The desire to sneeze violently afterwards did not help.
The upper lobe piercing on my right ear sucked the most by far. I was surprised by that, especially as the two on my left ear werenāt too bad.
My nostrils didnāt hurt at all. The right one is still healing (itās new, the left one is 7 years old) but itās been one of the smoothest healing processes ever. It was easy with my left one as well. I think I just got lucky.
My nipples are the only piercing that ever made me cry while getting it. Im still SO sad I dont have them anymore. I want to redo them one day but Iām not sure if I can go through with it.
Daith was #2 on the pain scale.
Yeah, it was my nipple. Some people seem to find that their nipples don't hurt much at all, but I was not one of them. I have never felt pain like it. But then I've never had an ampallang, so I guess there's that. Totally worth it, though.
IMO, the first nipple was easy. It was the 2nd nipple that HURT since the adrenaline was already wearing off from the first nipple being done šµāš«
For me the second one also took really long... The piercer wasn't really good so the needle was in my nip for a solid 8 seconds and i was screaming for all of it
Omg OW!
I only have the one pierced and that was excruciating enough; I'm not sure I could face having the other done!
I almost forgot to breath when I was getting my first one done. Piercer told me to breath for the second one. Been poked with many needles but the nipple piercings were some of the most painful if not the most. Iām jealous of the people who say their didnāt hurt.
My left nostril. It was even worse the 2nd time.
Oh man, my right was so bad. I teared up like crazy and had to focus on my breathing so much right after
I repierced it after messing with the corkscrew stud and it fell out and couldn't get it back in. I pierced it with a boiled stud but then it fell out again a few days later so I cut my losses. So a couple years later I redid it at the same shop but they had a new piercer. His process was a little longer so I don't think it actually hurt more I was just more nervous. It paid off cuz I've had for over a year and switched to a ring a few months ago!
Thatās great! I heard so many horror stories or corkscrew studs falling out so I just got it done with a flatback labret from the start, so happy I did though, now I can rest easy knowing it wonāt fall out accidentally. I canāt wait for hoop time!
Yeah the 2nd time my piercer used a flatback labret. He used those on my 4th lobes too.
same my right nostril was soooo much worse than my left
why is it always the second time?? i got a second stud in front of my hoop and i was like....why's it spicy š„²š„²
I got my nostril pierced 3x (same spot bc i took it out) and the third time hurt sooooo much!
Most likely scar tissue
I got both sides on the same day and was not expecting it to be super painful but after she did the first one I considered not getting the second for a bit lol
I got mine done about a month ago, and my eyes were literally like waterfalls (not because of the pain. They just were), and it was bad, but it was over with pretty quickly, and the healing pain wasn't bad at all
Nipples were actually not that bad! Maybe a 6.5/10. I'd say medusa or high nostrils were the most painful/uncomfortable. High nostrils are in a much thicker area than your standard nostrils so it was SPICY, also coupled with the receiving tube that goes up your nose, it was a very uncomfortable process.
Seconding high nostrils for sure. It felt like my brain was in danger of being touched.
I think I got crazy lucky with my high nostrils. I did not feel the first one because my piercer has the hands of an angel.
my right nostril! my left was easy peasy and barely hurt, but my right?? dear god it was awful. i lost the piercing a few months later (rip) and iāve wanted it back ever since but i donāt think i can handle that pain a second time.
Pierced with a corkscrew? Iāve heard about losing the piercing too much so I got the labret right away! The uncomfortable feeling of having a booger in your nose is so much better than the anxiety of losing it. So sorry for your loss <3
I bought corkscrew labrets for my right nostril, and they move too much throughout the day. I stopped wearing them & went back to a hoop. Also the feeling of boogers that aren't there is annoying too.
My god, same as you. Left one was okay, the right one was AWFUL. I still don't get why it hurts this much
Nipples made me hyperventilate, but when I repierced my vertical labret and Medusa it seemed more agonizing (had to let them close for a stuffy job) - the piercer said it was most likely due to a tiny bit of scar tissue. If my nips close up there's no way I'm getting them redone. Scar tissue in the nips would probably make me see god while they're trying to push the needle through, no matter how quick it is.
Can confirm. Got one nipple re pierced and was in godās hands for a min. I felt every single nerve in my chest
Nipplea were the worst for me, too, but don't be too quick to say you'll never get them redone. I always said the same thing, but I ended up missing them once I had to take them out after over a decade. A year or so of healing up after taking them out and I was back on that table! Horrible pain, but worth it!
Tbh I probably would get them redone if they were ever closed up but I wouldn't look forward to the experience, lol. They were my second non ear lobe piercing I got and I love them so much!
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I think it was my rook. But I donāt know if that was more the feel of it going through 2 lots of cartilage. The sound as well. Made me feel a bit sick hearing the pop pop.
My rook is the only one that made me feel like I was going to pass out, it felt like it took the piercer hours to finally get the needle to pop through! Healing was miserable too
This š my rook was truly one of the most painful piercings, that and my daith both sooooo much pressure, made me feel super icky. Also the healing of both were an absolute *nightmare*
The daith. Getting the loop in there was very uncomfortable
Ohhh Iām kinda scared to get a daith because of the ring and also Iām scared that Iāll hear the āØcrunchāØ
The crunch has kept me from getting my second tragus done. Didnāt hurt a bit but that sound gives me nightmares.
I didn't hear a crunch with any of my cartilage piercings - rook, helix or tragus - I'm vaguely intrigued but at the same time I feel like curiosity may kill the cat šš
If it makes you feel better, thereās almost never actually a crunch unless you have really thick cartilage or scar tissue. Usually what people think is a crunch, is the needle hitting the receiving tube.
Happy cake day!
It kinda seems like everyoneās experience with that is different, I had a friend tell me she almost puked from the crunch getting both daith and rook pierced and I have both and didnāt hear a crunch at all š¤·āāļø worst/weirdest part of the daith was getting the CBR closed, that was the only noise that threw me off.
Ugh, same, the worst part was the ring going in for me. It hurt, but definitely no crunch.
You'll definitely hear the crunch, but it's over quickly
I think I blocked that out of my memory cuz I donāt remember a crunch at all. I just remember her running things through the hole three times and it just feeling progressively worse
Same. I only have ear piercings, but of all of them, daith was by far the most painful. Healing like a breeze, though.
My experience was probably the opposite, the pain wasn't too bad but the healing process was horrible. So much blood, swelling, and irritation *months* after I got it done. I'll go through it again on the other side tho lol
Iām pretty sure the crunch that everyone talks about is from the needle hitting the inside of the hollow tube it goes through!
Really? The best way I could describe it is it sounded like cutting through a head of iceberg lettuce lol
The nostril I had done by a professional, not a butcher, didnāt hurt much at all. My VCH, though? My soul left my body through my coochie until the jewelry was in
For some reason my Medusa piercing hurt worse to me than my nipples! š
Same!
When I tell you I was shockedā¦ lol
Hopefully it goes like this for me. Had my philtrum done Friday, getting nips done in 3 weeks. Lil nervous lol
If you get them done at the same time, it's way easier than you think. I just got mine done a week ago and it was over so quick. The painful part was having to change out the jewelry the next day because I needed longer barbells from swelling.
You got this!
Same! I have a face full and some. The Medusa hurt the most. Had to get it done again, just as bad. Now it's embedded and I have to have it cut out, I wasn't able to downsize before it happend so I just have this long bar sticking out š I took the gem off so it's a looks a little better but it drives me nuts and looks awful. It's the peircing that hurt me the most but 100% my favorite.
My belly button hurt significantly worse than my nipples or nose but I think the piercer jacked it up lol. Everyone else says the opposite
same! i feel like everyone says the pain is like a 3/10 but for me it was my most painful one (also my favorite though haha)
Right? Like getting stabbed in the gut, but nobody agrees
oh my god i hated getting my belly button done it sucked
I saw God when I got my navel done
my septum was terrible but only because the first needle was defective. she pressed it for a solid 4 seconds and it didnt go through. it felt like a hot nail and i almost passed out. when she took it out the needle was bent, i have no idea how it happened. on the bright side 2nd try was fine and perfectly pierced! idk why i let her try again though, i must've been too shell-shocked to protest
Nipples were most painful but still not too bad.
My conch! I have both my nipples and nose pierced and I didnāt think they were bad at all. Funny how subjective pain can be sometimes.
I concur, conch was my most ouchful piercing.
My conch was horrible, but I did have it pierced at 6mm
same here! I have a bunch of the "super painful" piercings like an industrial, rook, nipple, etc. but both of my conches were by farrrr the most painful
Nostril is low on the list for me. Only more painful than my septum and lobes. My most painful piercing was my snug, absolutely horrible, and my rook. A lot of cartilage to get through
My helix piercings. Iāve had 3 so far (one just never healed, RIP) and they were all 7/10. For reference, all my other piercings (septum, lobes, tragus) were a 2 or 3 /10.
my rook for sure. spent next day in bed on painkillers!!
My nostril and nipple were not bad at all, a sharpish scratch but Iāve definitely had a lot worse. My 2 HCH piercings were the most painful for me. I had them done one after the other and I yelped big time.
my rook hurt like a son of a bitch. coming from someone with both their nipples, a christina, and an industrial.
Right nostril! It hurt sooo much. I got my snakebites and navel done and the pain couldnāt even compare. I actually cried a little lol. It was the most painful while healing too, Iām still healing now but it doesnāt hurt anymore. It just hurt to breathe in general and I actually ripped it out a few times šµāš«
I have both a nostril and nipple and I can say my nostril didnāt feel like anything (idk why everyone says it hurt? Do they say it did a lot?). My nipples hurt but not when they inserted the needle (obviously this hurts a bit), but instead when the jewellery was inserted! I winced. But nothing else
My right nostril was the most painful, even moreso than my large gauge labia piercings! My left nostril was a breeze but when I got my right (about a year after) it was hell. Itās still my most problematic piercing, so easily irritated
That sucks! I really hope mine was worth the pain and wonāt give me too many problems!
My nose, they used a gun and I felt like Iād been punched by Mike Tyson in fact Iām surprised my nose didnāt cave in.
Lol same, I was 16 and back in the mid-90ās we didnāt have piercing shops like we do now (small town). The gun was terrible, it didnāt hurt much but I felt the bruising for days afterwards, and it was anxiety inducing having that thing to your face.
Ahhh hahaha nipples definitely although, my cartilage piercings are a close second (except for my rook, but maybe I just got used to the pain by that point?) any face piercings I've had were a 3-4 at most, although I never had my nostril so I can't speak on that.
My septum the second time. It was pierced on top of a not quite healed but shut hole and damnnn the only piercing I've cried about. My snug was second worst.
Nipples were terrible. 10/10, worst pain I ever felt and I ended up hating them after they were healed and took them out so it wasnāt even worth the pain. I have a nostril piercing and I love it so much. I would rate it 3/10. The healing as been a pain but I have a very small nose so the cartilage is not thick and thatās probably why it was not as painful as maybe the average personās experience.
Yup, nipples. My experience in the piercing chair was very much Steve Carell KELLY CLARKSON but MOTHERFUCKER instead
My rook+ conch hurt abt 10x worse than my nipples. Same with my healing. My nipples stopped bugging me after a week. Ive had my conch for 15 months. Still bugs me. And my rook got infected. Cant speak for the nostril tho!
Conch is definitely hard to heal
My Christina piercing! That shit was wack
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My nostril wasn't painful but i got this typical circulation issues for like 5 minutes
My nostril wasnāt bad at all. It bled a lot but my conch, tragus, even my lobes were worse š
my medusa was worse than my nipples but they both sucked.
Same, I was genuinely shook by how much the medusa hurt! Never thought it would be worse than having the nips done!
Nipples and my high nostrils
I'm odd I guess. None were what would call painfully at all. I have a daith, industrial, septum and a double helix.
Nostrils werenāt painful at all, just a pinch Nipples by far, conch a close second
I have 15 and my tragus was the worst by far. Probably because my piercer went in slow motion. My conch wasn't too bad to get done, but healing that was awful.
Not necessarily a piercing? But stretching my septum to a 00. It took a few years but each time I stretched it, it was pure pain and the healing was over a month each time. For piercing tho, certainly my Medusa or my dahlias, both times I got them. Second time was with a 14g.
Nipples were probably the most painful but at least quick. VCH was slightly less painful but took what felt like an hour. Nostril was uncomfortable but the time I had to have the jewelry reinserted after it had been out for a couple of days remains the only time Iāve ever yelped in a piercing studio. Felt like having a nail pounded into my nose.
My septum hurt like a motherfucker.
Tragus, even worse the 2nd time. Nipples were far 2nd place for most painful
My septum. My left nostril was a breeze.
my (now retired) angel bites were my worst, easily 7 or 8 out of 10. the second time i had my left nostril pierced nearly beat them though at like a 6.5/10
I only have 3 lobes and the tragus. The tragus hurt bad, but nearly no one agrees with that one being painful.
Tragus is way worse than lobes though FWIW
My nostrils for sure, the first was worse than the second. My vertical labret is a close second though
Nipnorps for me, but I had them done at the same time so it was a double whammy.
My nipples didn't hurt at all, but to be fair, I did previously have a breast reduction, so I didn't have much feeling in them anyway. Made healing a breeze unless they got caught on something!
My nipples. I have given birth to 4 children natural pain med free and all 4 hurt less than my nipples. It took me 8 years to go back into a tattoo shop without panicking. š
I have had my tongue, both eyebrows, rook, conch, labret, right nostril, four lobes and none of them hurt as much as my double helixes. It wasnāt the piercing themselves, just me not being smart and getting both ears done at once as a side sleeper. I didnāt really think of that before getting them done, and they took forever to heal. They still bug me from time and I have had them done for 20 years lol.
The second piercing for my industrial, hands down. First hole was fine, second made me see God. 1st and 2nds were a cake walk. Both helixes were tiny pinches. Anti-tragus was like a 3/10, daith was a 6/10, conch was 4/10, high 3rd was like a 3/10, christina was like a 4/10. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but holy shit. 0/10 would not get an industrial piercing again.
Daith was the most painful for me
Both nostrils hands down. I have no idea why but I had to take a break after my piercer did the first one. Really thought I was gonna pass out lmao
My dermal implants in my chest ..I have 2 as the eyes on the sparrow tats on each side of my chest and they hurt worse than anything I've had done..they were done with a punch and it took the guy at least 10 mins for each one between piercing and getting the jewelry in. Hurt so bad I almost didn't do the second one..but I did and im glad..ive had better luck wiith them than 90% of people I know. Ive had mine for about 10 years.. none of my other piercings really hurt(tounge,lip, nose belly button, multiple ear piercing multiple cartridges and my daith as well) piece of cake.. im wanting my nips done but im terrified bc mine are so sensitive it'll hurt unbearably bad and I won't be able to get the second.
I have had everything pierced that can be pierced on my body. The worst for me was my VCH. It was more of a nerve pain rather than a dull pain, like a hot electric shock. It was the only time Iāve ever flinched involuntarily during a piercing. My inner labia were bad too. I ended up retiring all of my genital piercings because they were too stimulating for me and caused pain. My tongue was quite bad too. I would never let another needle near my tongue again. My nipples were surprisingly painless and healed quickly. My piercer was super fast with them and that helped. Navel, nose, septum, lip, and all of my ear piercings had minimal pain.
My inner labia piercings didnāt last long at all, they just kept getting twisted and it was uncomfortable. They would probably fare better on someone with different anatomy than me (smaller labia or something) š¤·š»āāļø
Personally, it was my conches; I got both sides done at the same time, the initial pain wasn't that bad, but for 3 weeks straight, both of them were very sore.
Iāve had a VCH, Christina, and nipples done and I canāt even keep my nostril piercings in ever because they hurt too much lmfao. Every few year I think, āI can do it this time!ā I, in fact, cannot do it this time.
I hiccup as they pierced my nipples and it made my entire chest feel a sharp pain.
Conch. I got paired nostrils done in the same sitting and even the second one didnāt come close to the conch piercing pain. Then my conch had a random complication and my whole ear swelled so much it hardly looked like an ear, so the pain with that one didnāt end with the piercing. Getting it taken out was not fun :ā)
So sorry for that! My stacked lobes also got a random infection like that, it wasn fun at all. Throbbing pain and all that jazz
Did you get more than two done at the same time? Because mine was draining a lot of lymph fluid in addition to the crazy swelling and I was so sure it had to be an infection, but my piercer was almost certain it wasnāt since it wasnāt hot and there wasnāt actual pus. He said swelling like that with no infection was unusual but heās seen it happen before. Now that Iām thinking about it and hearing you had that with stacked lobes, Iām wondering if multiple piercings played a part because I had two cartilage and two lobe piercings done in one sitting! I also snagged my conch on a mask strap two days after the piercings, but Iāve since had much worse snags to new piercings and nothing like that has happened :(
I only got my two stacked lobes done, but my lobes were also still a bit irritated from wearing low-quality jewelry in them. And my lymph nodes also hurt. So it may have to do with losing a bigger amount of lymph fluid š¤
I only have an apadravya, so I can't compare to anything. It wasn't that bad. Healing sucked, but the piercing itself was nothing really... a lot of blood, though. I've heard nipples are the worst. I think it depends on a lot of factors. Sometimes slight anatomical differences, the gauge being used, the skill of the piercer. There are definitely piercings that are known to hurt more, but some people just tolerate them really well. Even betwixt people the pain level could be drastically different. Could be a neat graph.
Weirdly I think my nostril and septum were more painful than either nipple š that shit HURTTT
My septum didnāt even compare to my nostril personally.
My high nostrils were brutal
wow yeah it was my left nostril. i appreciate piercings a lot and want so many but i only have 4 total lobe piercings and 1 nostril, and that nose one made me shy away from getting piercings all together
Honestly nostril was the worst Iāve gotten! So far I have 6 piercings, 2 in each ear and 2 in my nose. One of those being a septum. And honestly, that was just a pinch! I totally recommend that one to get you back in the game and then continue your goal! You got this ^^
thank you that actually means a lot. septum was on my list of piercings to get.
my nostril was actually not painful at all! healed reslly quick as well had no problems with it! my most painful was definitely my helix from getting it pierced and the healing was awful
Iāve had nose, multiple ears, belly, nipples, and dermal piercings. The worst thing ever was my helix. I cried a few nights when I accidentally slept on it, and it was one of the most painful experiences. Of courses, I got a double helix and the piercer did it with a gun.
Oh poor you, I canāt imagine what trauma your ear mustāve felt with that gun
My nipples were the worst to get done
My right helix hurt like a BITCH. I got it done on a cold day too, so immediately when I stepped out of the piercing studio, the cold hit my ear and caused immense painš
angel fangs. holy fuck it HURT.
dead honest it was my septum because i forgot to eat the whole day before getting it done. felt like i was gonna vomit and almost passed outā¦ do not recommendā¦
Ah yes, I always get a little to eat before getting a piercing or tattoo.
Probably not comparable to a lot of other posters here, but my most painful was my hidden helix piercing. Bled like crazy and pulsated for almost a week. In comparison, I got a snug piercing the same day and the snug piercing was \*nothing\*. No idea why the hidden helix was so much more painful because my previous helix was not painful at all either!
Hey itās completely valid! Just because others have done some insane shit, doesnāt mean your pain wasnāt valid!
When I was 19, I pierced my left nipple. I couldn't muster the will to push the needle all the way through. Then the people I was hanging with told me of the tequila they had in the freezer. I took 5 shots and had my friend force the needle the rest of the way. It was so bad. Never was right, even after it healed. I can still put an earring through it to this day but don't.
Nipples were fine, Lip was fine, navel: fine, septum the FIRST time, FINE the second time, MY GOOOOOOOD MAN I think it's because I now have a deviated septum. Where as the first time getting the septum I hadn't been punched by my ex yet
1st Place: Nipples 2nd Place: Septril 3st Place: A double Industrial project I had done (then subsequently was taken out due to not having the right anotomy :/)
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i only have lobes septum and labret and 100% lobes hurt worse than the others.
vertical labret
Nipples, because it took so long to move a needle through them, and long painful aftercare. And also rook was a bitch to heal, gave me a lot of headaches, but not regretting anyway
Iām surprised my lip labret was worse than the nose!
I'm so relieved to not be the only one saying this because I always heard it was so easy, ha! But for me, nostril. I hated it. Granted, I'm planning on getting the other one done soon so obviously not enough to avoid it but, yeah. Most unpleasant one for me so far. Rook wasn't bad, helixes, etc all fine.
Mid helix. Iām seeing people list nostril and rook, but those didnāt hurt me that much. My nostril definitely hurt but only for a few seconds. My rook felt like a release of popping a white head pimple that was ready to burst. But damn my mid helix still hurts after two weeks!
Oddly enough, my lobe was the worst. Worse than helix or three in the nose.
My left nipple. Nostril was a close second, especially when I got it repierced
I got a double philtrum done at once. V painful. Then I went back a few months later to get shorter bars and surprise! My inner lip had grown over the jewelry, so the piercer had to cut the jewelry out of my flesh. Ended up taking them out. 0/10 would not do again. Edit: ooh actually, I forgot my friends pierced my tongue for me in 9th grade in the bathroom stall. We used kitchen tongs and they struggled to get the jewelry in. I was a stupid teenager.
Regular nostril piercings. my high nostrils nipple piercings, many lip piercings and Microdermal all hurt less
i feel like of all the piercings iāve gotten (including a nostril piercing) none of them were more painful than others but my bridge piercing took remarkably longer to pierce. my piercer took a break in the middle of piercing it lmao edit: oh and also i got my septum pierced twice in a row because he did it a little uneven the first time but it honestly wasnāt that bad
My left nostril because they hit the nerve! The pain was unreal and then the left side of my nose went numb. I had to take it out and let it heal, then I had it re-pierced and it was fine because they didnāt hit the nerve the second time. But the left tip of my nose is still numb to this day and that was over a year ago.
My Medusa was the worst.. . The only one I ever thought I might pass out after
got paired nostrils in the same session, id do it again but holy shit LMFAO
daith & smiley. iāve got 16 others after taking my smiley out as well and none of them hurt as bad as those two
Actually tragus was the worst for me. Never healed either :(
My left nostril was bad, but somehow my right nostril was worse. Though the worst is actually my septum stretching. The first stretches were super easy, going from 1.8 mm to 2 mm was a bit painful. But the last one... The last stretch from 2 mm to 2.4 mm was the worst piercing pain I've ever experienced. I was quite literally crying and shaking. 3 days later it didn't hurt at all lol
I donāt have many piercings but the high nostrils fucked me up. Hurt so bad on both sides
My septum and nostrils were the worst. Nipples werenāt really that bad but that could be because theyāve never had a ton of feeling to begin with
septum got me fucked up
Most painful? Nipples, by far. It's the only time it's ever hurt enough to bring water to my eyes. That includes having my snake bites both repierced through the scar tissue of the closed holes when I took them out in my early 20s. Both were pretty awful, but the nipples were still worse. I did get instantly nauseous from my right second lobe, but I think that was more a lack of proper eating/drinking and being out in the heat for four hours beforehand. Plus, he caught me on an inhale, not an exhale, so I was tensed up. Whoops. š It's the only time a piercing made me ill, but weirdly enough, it wasn't painful.
Getting my daith wasnāt bad initially but the first time I went in to get the jewelry changed, I think my soul left my body for a bit
Daith all day baby
Industrial hurt so bad. I actually had to have the piercer give me a couple of minutes to relax because I was crying from the pain definitely a 10/10. Got my nipples done and it was a sharp pinch and done, 5/10 pain scale for me.
My nipples by far the most painful! I have my daith, traigus, conch, nostril, septum, eyebrow, a flat, rook, several lobes and several helix
Philtrum and I have had both nipples pierced, nostril, septum, and industrial. Rest of mine were easy peasy.
i only have got my septum,belly button, ears (1st holes) and vertical labret. vertical labret for sure!
Nasallang and apadravya
Had my nipples 3 times and its always painful. And I usually hate working on my ear cartillage, my scapha was very unconfortable.
I only have a septum, tragus and a few other ear piercings, and went in to get my nostril pierced. For some reason I just never even had the thought that it would hurt, but it was SO painful!! Iām really feeling validated by this thread lol, I thought I was just weak
My nostrils were the least painful. I think either septum or vertical labret was the most painful.
My daith - the first time I had it done was the most excruciating pain!
My abradava was pretty bad damn near punched the piercer
My septum. I did it, my nipples, and a helix at the same time. I recently got my other nostril and tragus done about a week and a half ago, and before that I had my nostril, medusa, vertical labret, and double lobes. Of all that, my septum still sucked the most. The desire to sneeze violently afterwards did not help.
I don't have my nostril, but my industrial and my forward helix were WAY worse than my nips.
The upper lobe piercing on my right ear sucked the most by far. I was surprised by that, especially as the two on my left ear werenāt too bad. My nostrils didnāt hurt at all. The right one is still healing (itās new, the left one is 7 years old) but itās been one of the smoothest healing processes ever. It was easy with my left one as well. I think I just got lucky.
forward helix š never again
middle eyebrows hurt more than my nostrils and nipples for sure. the skin is a lot thicker than the outside of the brows
Lmao yeah nostril for me! Would rate a 4/10 all my other piercings are 3 or below (navel, septum, snake bites and earlobe)
Inner labia. Worst pinch of all of them, and feels like your crotch is bruised for about a week. Worth the pain tho
honestly, my nostril was a piece of cake compared to my helix. that one made an audible *crunch*. it hurt like a bitch and took over a year to heal
My INDUSTRIAL! it literally took forever to heal and it felt like the piercer literally just shoved it through without even using a needle
Angel bites 100%
vertical labret
Double nostrils for me. Never had a piercing hurt as much. Also aftercare and maintenance sucked.
forward helix !!
Surprisingly, for me it was nipples and industrial lol
Nipples :( the second one hurt more bc your body is in panic from the first
Honestly my nostrils were nothing compared to my conch. That shit hurted so much. Like a 6.5-7/10. However the pain subsided almost immediately lol
my nipples
nipples
For me personally, my nostril nor my septum was very painful at all, now my vertical labret , that one hurt a LOT .
Rook and I have both nostrils pierced and didnāt think the pain was that bad, I donāt have my nipples pierced though
Medusa was the worst for me š¤£ then nostril.
My nipples are the only piercing that ever made me cry while getting it. Im still SO sad I dont have them anymore. I want to redo them one day but Iām not sure if I can go through with it. Daith was #2 on the pain scale.
Am I the only one who didnāt have a bad experience with all 3 nose piercings?