Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elora Shehabuddin '91, a social studies concentrator from Leverett House, had the left nostril of her "roundish" nose pierced by a gun this past summer in a Bangladesh beauty parlor. "I think it's a very personal decision. Not everyone can carry it off," she said. "I just do it because it's the thing to do in Bangladesh...
Back in the United States, nose-piercers often operate out of less distinguished venues. Just ask Taylor, who last spring break had her nose pierced by a man with a piercing gun who was working out of the back of a van in Los Angeles...
...nasal infections are more than just a pain. According to Dr. Daniel H. Vogel, an Arlington ear nose and throat practitioner, infections can pose a serious medical risk...
...When people pierce their earlobes, it's basically skin and fat, and there's very little risk," Vogel said. "But when people start piercing the upper ear and the nose, that's cartilege, and there's a risk of a cartilege infection...
...There's a sharp pinch, then pain for the first 30 seconds or so," Gammons says. "It was sore for a little bit. You don't realize how much you move your nose in normal conversation until it's sore...