My 3 month experiment with a nose ring (my second attempt at a nose piercing). It didn’t work out well, at all. I got this huge bump on top of the hole, it was disgusting. Even switching to a stud didn’t help and then I was absentmindedly touching my face and the stud got caught on my shirt and yanked it halfway out. It wouldn’t go back in so I pulled it out. Nothing made the bump go down except for salicylic acid in Neutrogena’s “Fight & Fade” gel. Never. Again. So incredibly painful. Anyone who says getting their nose pierced doesn’t hurt is lying.
Quite often the bump seems to appear when people wear foundation near a healing piercing. I’m not saying that’s what you did, but that is a very common cause of it. other times it ends up being like a pimple on the skin inside the piercing, which due to jewelry being there has difficulty draining. A hoop allows for easier drainage, so switching to a stud would exacerbate the problem…
Along with the foundation issue, we (people) use many products that have very small particles that can become trapped in a nostril piercing, leading to that bump as well.
Sucks that you had bad luck twice w/ nose piercing…
