 Nose piercing also has a long history. c . 1500 BCE , the Vedas refer to Lakshmi 's nose piercings , but modern practice in India is believed to have spread from the Middle Eastern nomadic tribes by route of the Mughal emperors in the 16th century . It remains customary for Indian Hindu women of childbearing age to wear a nose stud , usually in the left nostril , due to the nostril 's association with the female reproductive organs in Ayurvedic medicine . This piercing is sometimes done the night before the woman marries . 
