Biggest Nostril Piercings in the World?
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Friday July 21st, 2006 @ 2:27 AM
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I’m going to make the claim that Pauly Unstoppable has not only the largest nostril piercings of anyone living in Indiana, but I’d say in Western culture as a whole, and I’m also going to claim that he has the largest nostril piercings of any living person.
What do you think? Know anyone bigger? Pauly’s are currently 1 1/8″ each, done in ebony with nice inlays, made to match the large plugs he wears in his ears.
I recently (BMEfest) got to see them in person and they look amazing. His nose is an entirely new shape, and it’s quite stunning… and whether you like the look or not I hope you agree that he deserves a lot of credit for the courage to go ahead and choose an aesthetic that’s radically outside the mainstream.
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82 Responses to “Biggest Nostril Piercings in the World?”
There are tribes in Nepal that stretch the nostils, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen them go this large… they generally hang out around 5/8″, from what I can tell. I’d really like to see these without jewelry in them!
Nicky Shivvers on July 21st, 2006 at 2:31 amAnd I just want to say Pauly is one of the friendliest people you will ever meet.
Vinyl on July 21st, 2006 at 2:52 amIt`s awesome but the only trouble i find that might happen…
how you gonna blow your nose ? ;)
love that nose seriously
madben on July 21st, 2006 at 2:54 amHis nostrils RULE
Mad respect.
total on July 21st, 2006 at 2:59 amAnd in Indiana. You rule.
Shichi on July 21st, 2006 at 3:27 amHis nostrils are impressive but I can’t get over those perfectly shaped ears.
Whitney on July 21st, 2006 at 3:37 amHe looks amazing. I am wondering however about how he stretched his labret into an oval. I can’t find any information about the process. Email adress is Fablepvp@Yahoo.com if pauly or anyone else wants to enlighten me
Nemetos on July 21st, 2006 at 3:49 amPauly’s nostrils are one of the most beautiful things I have seen on bme/iam. His mods are stunning in general. Keep showing/stretching those amazing nostrils foo!
shit.the.bed on July 21st, 2006 at 4:03 amWell done Pauly, very, very impressive.
fre_k on July 21st, 2006 at 4:17 amThat is an awesome nose! Actually I like his whole face/head. :)
heliophobe on July 21st, 2006 at 4:20 amYAY Paul. :D
kuroneko711 on July 21st, 2006 at 4:36 amVery impressive with the nostrils but also the ears and all of the piercings and ink !!! Well done - we await the continuing progression.
Bill on July 21st, 2006 at 5:02 amI think it is time for a Pauly Unstoppable interview.
ChopperMark on July 21st, 2006 at 5:29 amthose are badass.
eeks on July 21st, 2006 at 5:34 ami’d like to see them without plugs. that’d be super cool.
Paul’s nostrils are definately big !! Some friends of mine recently went to Northern India to a tribe called the Apatani. The women there have massive nostril piercings. My dear friend Derek (One of the 3 that went to Northern India) recently took a picture of himself with an elder Apatani lady with nostrils roughly about 1 1/2″ inches. If im not mistakened, I believe that the Apatani women & a tribe or two in New Guinea are pretty much the only living tribes that still display this type of nostril modification.
Keep up the great work Paul =)
Best Regards,
Christian Noni on July 21st, 2006 at 5:46 amChristian
I personally am a big fan of Pauly Unstoppable’s face.
SnaiLuv on July 21st, 2006 at 6:13 amdidnt mum tell ya to stop telling lies mate…
negative_chris on July 21st, 2006 at 6:31 amhahaahah i rule
negative_chris on July 21st, 2006 at 6:32 amHe posted pictures of his nose without all the jewelry in it.. AMAZING.
Lydia on July 21st, 2006 at 6:35 amNice! Damn, that must take a lotta time and patience :]
thedeadlyspork on July 21st, 2006 at 6:44 amThe plugs look stunning especially love how they compliment his lobe jewelry.
oh so FUNKY. no pun intended (okay, maybe a little) :)
undercoverbeach on July 21st, 2006 at 7:47 amThey are truly fucking awesome
i still think he should stretch his eptum to match though
Jonn t. NØTHING on July 21st, 2006 at 8:42 amWow! (: That’s some lovely jewellery too.
Poppie on July 21st, 2006 at 10:40 ammy boyfriend’s nose is amazing.
Nikita on July 21st, 2006 at 10:53 am:)
i love you paul.
in person his nose looks even better.
its gorgeous
Awesome…
But he looks so angry! Haha.
Salinger on July 21st, 2006 at 11:17 amha. pauly. congrats. you made it. you look amazing.
fakeflowersxfakefuneral on July 21st, 2006 at 2:58 pmHe’s cute when he pouts :D
Jets on July 21st, 2006 at 5:34 pmI love his face tattoos! They’re splendid.
His ear and nose jewelry is nifty too.
Cool guy, I’d guess from the comments and the looks of ‘im!
modifiedcanadian on July 21st, 2006 at 6:08 pm:D
Between the facial tats and the fantastic stretched nostrils; I find the total modifcations just awesome!
Bruce Potts on July 21st, 2006 at 6:21 pmthat’s awesome! i personally wouldn’t do such a thing-i hate my nose-but on him it looks nice…i want his ears!
Sade on July 21st, 2006 at 6:37 pmdamn, those are real big nostrils
talo on July 21st, 2006 at 7:12 pmThat is absolutely beutiful! My favorite part is the tip of his nose. It looks like it’s starting to invert!
pyro lizard on July 21st, 2006 at 8:37 pmhis nose looks kindof like a bum, maybe it’s just me.
13 on July 21st, 2006 at 9:37 pmAll his mods are Amazing!!!
kenky on July 21st, 2006 at 9:41 pmi 2nd the vote for the paul interview!
total on July 22nd, 2006 at 1:41 amoff topic, but you and rachel looked awesome in the movie. I yelled, “holy shit, it’s shannon!” and i got goofy looks.
that is all.
frzamonkey on July 22nd, 2006 at 3:01 amyay paul!!! too bad he’s not wearing tunnels, it’s fun to look straight through.
Riona on July 22nd, 2006 at 3:14 am…how does he blow his nose? Oddly gorgeous.
Anna on July 22nd, 2006 at 6:42 amthats my good friend pauly…we talk a lot about your straches every day i believe im your best friend from Brazil hahahha…wait to you come here soon …
raldy paschoarelli on July 22nd, 2006 at 7:29 amyour nose is really amazing!!!
hugs
i agree with the Pauly interview!
but I love all his mods, nostrils certainly included! Are they stretched from the beginning or are there scalpels/dermal punches involved?
Raevyn on July 22nd, 2006 at 2:27 pmThat looks totally rad, but I imagine his nose might look a bit scary without the jewelry in it O_o
Saturnia on July 22nd, 2006 at 3:16 pmWe want intervew with Pauly!!! :))
Amazing mods mate :))
Kosa on July 22nd, 2006 at 3:32 pmThats cool, i like the look :)
Wilburt on July 22nd, 2006 at 5:34 pmwow thats absolutely gorgeous…id love to see the front view so i could really see how altered his nose it…looks great though. simply beautiful.
woah! on July 22nd, 2006 at 11:16 pmI think his nose is one of the most amazing modifications I have ever seen - just gorgeous.
I haven’t been looking at modblog comments for a while because I’ve been so disheartened by all the pointless bitchy remarks. It’s truly lovely to see that there are only nice comments here about this man :)
Sassie_L on July 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 amYes thank you all for the wonderfull and encourageing comments you left me…..it really does mean alot honestly.
Pauly Unstoppable on July 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 ami love how the size of the plugs has completely reshaped the shape of his nose!
leebee on July 23rd, 2006 at 4:04 amdefinitely an awesome way of transforming the human body!
i give mad props:)
Based on the comments above, I checked for images of Apatani…some of those women definitely rival this modder:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Apatani&sa=N&tab=wi
Greg on July 23rd, 2006 at 8:58 pmyeah, id cum on that bloke. haha.
chadam on July 23rd, 2006 at 10:07 pmAll his mods look amazing. He’s beautiful!
milquetoast on July 23rd, 2006 at 10:51 pmA fellow A.L.F supporter and owner of killer modifications to boot! Can’t get more perfect than that. Love the contrast on the plugs.
Rock on brotha :D
Helena on July 24th, 2006 at 12:39 amactually greg if you look closely known of this women appear to have nostrils past an inch……..i am totally aware of this tribe and have been for some time……they were what inspired me as well
sadly the practice is dying out were the younger generation is no longer practicing it….the influence of baptist missionaries in the area
not that it matters anyway……its not a contest
Pauly Unstoppable on July 24th, 2006 at 3:47 am[...] Via ModBlog: [...]
Warrenellis.com » And Yet, Strangely, He Looks Unhappy on July 26th, 2006 at 3:07 pm[...] Pauly Unstoppable (who I’ve featured here before) is now up to 1 1/4″ with his immense stretched nostril piercings (jewelry by tattooedheart). I seriously can’t say enough how much I like the appearance that he’s building up. I think it’s wizardly (like really amazing and not-quite-real at the same time) or something. [...]
ModBlog - Body modification and ritual blog sponsored by BMEzine.com on August 2nd, 2006 at 12:26 amif you look at pauls nose with the current 1 1/4″ plugs ,youll see that the plugs are a little bigger than half the distance from his bridge to the tip of his nose. look at pictures of apatani women and i doubt youll see one where the plug is as big a percentage of nose size as that,and most of them seem to be about 1/3 of the height.just on proportion of nose height id say pauls plugs are larger than any apatani pictures i can find .i think its unlikely that apatanui exceed 1″ with their nosttrils.and when you add in that these are very small women ,well below the height of a western man(paul), their plugs look deceptively large to us .
karl on August 2nd, 2006 at 3:50 ambut as paul says ,this snt a competition ,and im certainly not minimising the glory of the apatani ladies.
simply amazing and wonderful.
Lilee on August 20th, 2006 at 7:28 amany one of these mods on their own would be amazing, but to have all of them together and how they compliment each other is mind blowing, it really looks great. On another note picking crusties and boogs out of your nose must be alot easier now
J on August 28th, 2006 at 1:48 amPauly, I’m a BIG fan of yours. All your mods are truly tribal.
As far as the biggest nostrils in the world… I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as you have seen in other posts, the Apatani tribe in Arunchal Pradesh, Northern India, still possess the largest nostril plugs on the planet. Some of their plugs measure two to three inches in diameter as evidenced by this photo:
http://www.aborcountry.com/gallery/images/locals_11.jpg
That said, the Apatani tradition of nose plugs is dying out and given time, Pauly, you will be king!
Pauly, have you considered a larger lip plug… or maybe two? You would look awesome with an upper and lower lip disk. You could start with Lobi sized plugs (a tribe in Africa, which wore 1 to 2 inch plugs in both lips) and then move up to Sara Kaba sized plates (my favorite tribe in Africa, whose lip plate measure up to 1 foot or more). All of these tribes can be found in the following Yahoo Groups:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tribalnose/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/omolp/ (Lip plates group)
Even more tribal body mod groups can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tribalgroups/ in the LINKS section under: “TRIBAL BODY MODIFICATION & ADORNMENT�
It’s always nice to see where some of these traditions started.
Thanks Pauly for keeping them alive!
Eric Stevens
Eric Stevens on August 29th, 2006 at 4:08 pmTribal Groups Owner
like i have said many times
i know of this tribe
and are very much what made me want to start stretching my nostrils
i still have yet to see photo evidence of nostrils past about an inch
your link isnt working
though i dont care anyway…..i am doing it for me not for a contest or glory or whatever
on another note i am currently at 1 3/8 and am working for 1 1/2 now
eric if you have some photos of the tribe with nostrils that big if you could send them to me at PaulyUnstoppable@yahoo.com i would apprecitate it…..and it you or anyone has any questions or whatever they can be directed there as well
Pauly Unstoppable on August 31st, 2006 at 11:03 pmthat posted sounded sort of short haha and wasnt suppose to
i would like to see the photos though
i know that in the modern world mine would be the largest
and just like with bear and his ears his are the largest in the modern world but its hard to account for the tribal world
Pauly Unstoppable on August 31st, 2006 at 11:16 pmdude. it is so fucking wierd how pauly gets praised for his huge nostrils(which by the way are FUCKIN’ AWESONE) and freakboy got alot of shit for his temp. wolverine claws(also awesome). i think the mindless should be taken into a field and shot. but hey thats just me
Kaos on September 13th, 2006 at 5:31 amI hate to think this is all I can think of but.. If pauly did do drugs, imagine all the ways he could sniff them. He could make a straw design that looks like the water slide in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Korpi on September 13th, 2006 at 8:02 pmWhat I would give to nibble on those ears… but yeah, the nostrils are pretty fuckin righteous. This is my favorit pic of him mainly because of the jewelry and I really like his hair.
Neilsuarez on October 3rd, 2006 at 9:36 pmWow, and to think I spent a fortune for a nose job. Beauty comes in many forms!
Matt on October 4th, 2006 at 2:28 amI absolutely love the ears and the nostrils. The only problem I have with his scalpeled labret - or any scalpeled labret for that matter - is that it forces the mouth into a somewhat permanent “sad” look, and I would like to think that anyone who has the courage - and the willpower - to stretch their ears and nostrils to greater and greater sizes should have a look of satisfaction about themselves . . . a look of pride and confidence.
Michael on October 4th, 2006 at 6:19 pmOther than that, I like everything else he’s done, and I hope he continues stretching his ears and nostrils. It’ll be interesting to see if there is a limit to just how large the human earlobe and nostril will stretch. I hope there isn’t.
maybe we will just have to redefine what a look of pride and confidence is like,because i think that thats exactly what paul has.
as he should
and speaking of labrets ,its immaterial whether its stretched from a piercing or scalpeled,the “sad mouth ” comes from the height of the plug.as lips get bigger in the next couple of years ,we will just have to stop associating the mouth shape with sadness
karl on October 13th, 2006 at 2:32 amyour nose so amazing !!
Darkest Night on November 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pmYou’re all idiots
Karl Sturman on December 23rd, 2006 at 6:51 pmcool nois tunils rad or whot ithink boday modifications look cool
bob fox on December 26th, 2006 at 12:58 pmThem’s great holes, but what’s even CUTER is the way his nose looks like a little bum-bum!
Did he foresee this occurring, or was it a “happy accident”?
BIG props to permanent facial mutilation!
THAT takes gorilla balls!
:¬D
SinCityDave on January 5th, 2007 at 9:26 pmYOU FUCKING WEIRDO…OU LOOK LIKE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO SIT OUTSIDE NURSERY AND WATCH SCHOOL CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!
armylad on January 9th, 2007 at 9:52 pmFREAK
armylad…what the hell are you doing on this website? this is supposed to be a website to help bring people together, not criticize people for following their beliefs and reams in the world of modification
SleevedScenester on January 10th, 2007 at 3:57 amArmylad your the kid of person that is so insecure about themselfs that you have to judge other people to give you a false sense of supperiority, its people like you that are the racists, killers, and rapists of this wolrd (i dont only mean that in a litteral sense). People like you are destroying this world, i know for a fact that paully would have nothing bad to say about you and would act kindly towards you, even though you would only show ignorance in return. Please try directing your comments toward yourself next time.
JevonMastrangelo on January 12th, 2007 at 11:51 pmPaully keep doing your thing, this world would be so much better if it were full of kind, caring, unselfconcious people like you. I have nothing but respect and admiration for you paully!
haha man-o-man his nose is the size of my ears
ianxkiller on February 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 ambut really i love it and i admire you for it
ianxkiller on February 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 amdo you reckon you could take ALL your plugs an piercings out then take a pic for us to see?!
xo
SAM on April 10th, 2007 at 6:40 pmHi,
Its fantastic. I have been wanting to do that thing you have done with your sack for years. What do you reckon is the best way to start? I was wondering about plugs in the cheeks as no one else seems to have done it.
Cheers
english guy on July 29th, 2007 at 10:17 pmHi again,
Other thing I mean’t to say was do you see a limit on what sizes you’ll take things to? personally I want to get thing as large as possible….
english guy on July 29th, 2007 at 10:19 pmIs it actually possible to stretch your nose or does it have to be punched,
Meldrum on November 3rd, 2007 at 8:29 pmim currently trying to stick a 3mm taper through my nose and it hurts :(
but ive been told that if i try to stretch it ill collapse my nose
Could some one PLEASE gimmie a link so i can learn morea bout this “Bear Big Ears” dude. I’ve found next to nothing on the net anywhere!! thanks =]
Buddy on November 7th, 2007 at 9:26 amBuddy - Are you talking about Pauly?
RooRaaah Crumbs on November 7th, 2007 at 11:59 amVery different. How’s he going to feel when he is 50? Just curious. I don’t relly care one way or the other about this. If he is looking for attention in public , he will get it.
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