7 Most Popular Nose Piercing Styles

Nose piercing has a rich history and dates back hundreds of years to different civilizations. With their intriguing aesthetics and varying roots, nose piercings require a tolerance for pain, dedication, and they have more significance than meets the eye.

If you're wondering how many varieties of nose piercings there are, here are seven major kinds of nose piercings, with some jewelry types that suit them.

High Nostril

The high nostril is a nostril piercing variation and exactly as the name implies. It's a more unique and great way to layer or combine nose piercings for more striking effects. The position of the piercing limits the jewelry selection. While high nostril piercing isn't well suited for hoops and rings, it's perfect for L-shaped pins, nostril screws, and studs.

Nostril

Nostril piercing is the most common and traditional nose piercing. Mostly situated above your crease where the nostril curves away from the cheek (although the position varies in individuals, depending on aesthetic appeal, nose structure, and nerve structure), nose piercing can be on either side of your nose.

Of all nose piercings, nostril piercing allows the widest variety of jewelry, as you will see at Wholesale Sparkle, and is the simplest. Due to its easily accessible location, nostril piercing allows you to insert nose rings, captive ball rings, L-shaped rings, nostril screws, or your favorite gold nose stud.

Septum

Septum piercing is kind of the VIP nose piercings, especially in the fashion world.

It's versatile, can be gauged, and can even be flipped out of view with ease (using a horseshoe). You can adorn septum piercings with captive bead rings, circular, and for dedicated people, gauges.

Vertical Tip

This nose piercing gives a rhino appearance. As the name implies, the vertical tip piercing runs vertically, from a point above the nose tip to just under the nose tip. The only recognized jewelry for this kind of piercing is a curved barbell due to the nose structure.

Bridge

Bridge piercings are technically categorized as surface piercings as they don't puncture your bone or cartilage. They also have higher chances of migration, a process that involves pushing a piercing closer to your skin's surface and healing it away.

You can adorn bridge piercings with beautiful jewelry, such as circular barbells and curved barbells. Straight barbells will increase the susceptibility of migration.

Nasallang

Nasallang piercings are pretty intense internally. It looks similar to two uniformly placed nose piercings. However, the nasallang piercing is tri-nasal, penetrating low on the two nostrils. In most cases, it's done at once with a needle. A straight barbell is the most suited jewelry for nasallang piercings.

Septril

Septril is a combination between half a vertical Tip and a gauged septum. While it appears to be delicate externally, the process requires years of commitment to achieve internally. Gauging a septum is time-intensive and can be very painful, depending on the structure and position of your septal cartilage.

 Feeling inspired? The nose piercing realm is clearly an interesting one. Imagine all the possible combinations when you begin to layer, Double, or triple the listed piercings. It's probably the reason why nose piercings are gradually becoming a global thing.