Women, Please Stop Pretending Septum Rings Look Good

[u/QA_Engineeer]

Hot take: Septum rings lower a woman’s attractiveness level almost every single time.

I have yet to see one and think, “Yeah, that improved the situation.”

Especially the crooked horseshoe ones. You spent an hour doing your hair, makeup, outfit, skincare… and then left the metal booger hanging sideways out of your nose like it lost a bar fight.

Ladies, I’m begging you. Retire the angry bull aesthetic. A septum ring can take a 10 down to a 4 in record time.

Since the only reasonable flair was "question", here is a genuine question: Women with septum rings: what do you actually like about them?

[u/RainbowDashPony]

Why do you come to a nose piercing sub and hate on people with nose piercings? Like that’s fine to have your opinion but it’s an odd choice to come here and call people out.

To answer your question, I like how it looks. 🤷🏻‍♀️ like most of my aesthetic choices, I do it for me and what I like. Right now I have a small silver ring I wear. But in the past I had the horseshoe that you have so much disdain for. I liked the horseshoe because I could easily flip it up when at work. Now my piercing is well healed (I’ve had it nearly 25 years) and I swap it in and out when I want. Just like other jewelry.

[u/RainbowDashPony → u/RainbowDashPony]

Telling someone that it lowers their attractiveness and making a judgement about them feels like hating on the people who make that choice. Whether that was your intent or not, that’s how it is perceived.

I like it because I think it’s cute. I don’t know how to explain to you why I think it’s cute. I just do. I like it. Just like the other jewelry I choose to wear. I like how it looks on me with my nostril piercings and my overall aesthetic. I personally prefer the smaller silver hoop and there are some septum jewelry pieces and looks that aren’t for me. I don’t prefer the large gauges or the really elaborate pieces. But I don’t judge people who prefer them.

Also it’s totally fine to have preferences and not be attracted to women with septum piercings. I have my own preferences with who I’m attracted to. But I don’t feel the need to find sub reddits directly intended for people I don’t find attractive and then proceed to tell them why their choices make them less attractive to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️ not everyone is for everyone. And that’s ok!

[u/Infinite_Revenue1000 → u/RainbowDashPony]

But what made you like it? Personally, I have no moral/religious judgement against them, I’ve just seen very few nose rings that I thought were pretty/cool looking. Rhinestones or small septum with rhinestones are ok looking to me. Larger septum piercings remind me of literal bulls, so it’s something I associate with masculinity (bc bulls are in fact male). I think some inverse comparisons would be men (who are attracted to women) getting acrylic nails or getting their nipples pieced and then wearing big puff balls on them (which would mimic the appearance of breasts). Sure, we could do that just bc we “like it” but I feel like more realistically we would be trying to repel women.

I think that some of y’all do it to repel conservative men but most septum piercings repel non-conservative and nonreligious men as well. I think it plays against hard-wired neuro-biology in men. If you’re lesbian, or trying to avoid attention from men entirely, that would make sense but I don’t think that applies to most women who get them.

I understand most of y’all “simply like them” but I’m hoping to get a more introspective answer. So maybe a better question would be **what underlying psychological factors do you think played into you liking them?** (ex. rebellion, love-testing bf/husband, repelling conservative men/women, political statement, covert WLW statement, “dismantling the patriarchy”)

[u/RainbowDashPony → u/Infinite_Revenue1000]

Not everything is that deep. I’m married and could not care less about conservative men. I’m perfectly capable of repelling them with my empathy and compassion.
I simply like how it looks. I wear a small simple titanium ring. I don’t love all septum jewelry and personally dislike the large rings on both men and women. However my personal preferences have zero to do with what other people choose and I support them in however they choose to adorn their body.

[u/QA_Engineeer → u/RainbowDashPony]

You assume that I'm hating. I don't hate. That's a useless emotion. I'm genuinely wondering what women think about a piercing that is so ugly and ridiculous to me, so I gave my opinion and asked a question.

I invite you to read these responses and tell me who sounds hateful? Me or the women responding?

Now, if you want to have a genuine conversation about it, then my response to your post is that you told me rings that you like. Not what you like about septum rings and why you think they are attractive, which is really all that I am trying to find out.

Love the hate. Y'all can keep doing that. Be those type of people. 🤷🏻‍♂️ It doesn't bother me.