Sizing for a Nose Ring

 Step 1 - CHOOSE YOUR NOSE RING SIZE

Measure from your piercing hole to the bottom of your nostril for a starting point.

Method 1 - A ruler: put a ruler up to your nose. Don't push hard and flatten your nostril. Use the tiny lines of a metric ruler (best) or do it in inches and convert it. 

Method 2 - A string: cut a piece of string a couple inches long. Use a pen or marker to put a little mark on it. Place the mark right at your piercing hole and let the string dangle down. Pinch where it touches the bottom of your nostril in the area where you want your ring to sit. Keep pinching it and lay it down and mark the spot where you're pinching. Then with the two marks, measure the distance between them. 

 

Consider the thickness of your nostril - do you have thinner or thicker nostrils? 

I measure in millimeters on the INSIDE of the ring – from the inside of one edge to the inside of the opposite edge

See the conversion chart below for millimeters to inches

I use 8mm = ‘fits most’ size, 6mm = really small, and 12mm = really large

For a real life example, here is Nicole wearing an 8mm nose ring in 20G. This one is wrapped in gold wire. You can see the silver ring, where it starts and the approximate thickness of her nostril. Consider your own nostril thickness and piercing placement. A higher piercing needs a larger ring. A piercing lower on the nostril needs a smaller ring. 

And here she is again, wearing an 8mm cuff nose ring. The gauge is hidden in her nose because the gauge is the thickness of the wire that goes into your piercing hole. The interior diameter of Nicole's cuff nose ring is 8mm. 

hammered silver nose ring

 CHOOSE YOUR NOSE RING GAUGE

Gauge means how thick the wire is.

22G is thinner & daintier, 20G is a standard (fits most), and 18G is a little thicker

Nose piercings are more frequently done in 18G, and sometimes in 20G.  22G piercings are more rare and usually the result of "gauging down" in size because of preferring a thinner ring.

Your piercer could advise you on what you're currently wearing so you can stay consistent.

CHOOSE YOUR NOSE RING MATERIAL

Are you a silver nose ring person? A gold nose ring person? Solid gold, or gold filled? Maybe niobium is just right for you.

Create different looks with different metals – the choice is all yours.

All of my nose rings are nickel free