Can you freeze you nose before you get it pierced?

Generally all Professional Body Piercers in North American (Canada & U.S.) will not freeze anything before piercing it. As a matter of fact Professional Body Piercers can use injection freezing at all, we are not health care providers and are not allowed to use injection anestetic. Topical freezing caused the tissue to swell, because it has to be absorbed into the tissue from the outside in, in doing this it causes the tissue to distort and actually makes the piercing more difficult. Bottom line is a nostril piercing is quick and almost painless, small poke, very fast, your eye might water and then its done.