Nipple-Piercing Risks
If you plan on getting your nipple pierced, you should know some of the risks involved beforehand as well as know what to look for in a reputable shop that keeps your healthy and safety as the top priority.
Read more →Tattoo & Piercing Care: Healing, Keloids & Rules
Proper aftercare is crucial for healing tattoos and belly button rings without complications like keloids. Learn how to drain piercing bumps, understand ear gauging rules, and identify the signs of a rejected body piercing.
The Scale of Pain for Piercings
You can schedule a consultation with a professional body piercer to discuss your interest in receiving a piercing. The pain involved with the piercing procedure may be a concern or deciding factor when considering a piercing.
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How to Prevent Infection in Pierced Ears
Choose a clean and reputable shop, or check with your physician to see if he performs piercings. Once the ear piercing has been done, follow all after-care instructions to prevent infection.
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What Are the Dangers of Pierced Ears?
Ear piercings are one of the most common types of body piercings. However, just like any other piercing, they come with risks.
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How to Remove Starter Earrings for First-Time Piercings
You might be excited to remove your starter studs and replace them with fun, new earrings. But make sure you follow these steps closely to prevent infection.
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How Soon Can I Change My Belly Button Ring?
There will come a time after you have your belly button pierced that you will want to change the jewelry. In order to avoid health risks such as infection, you must ensure that your piercing is fully healed before trying to change your belly button ring.
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How Long Should I Wait to Change My Nose Ring?
Wait two to four months for a nostril piercing and 6 to 8 weeks for a septum piercing before changing jewelry.
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The Unexpected Way Tattoos May Be Affecting Your Workout
New research claims that tattoos may be affecting your workout by altering the way your body sweats.
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What Type of Rings Can You Get When You First Get Your Belly Button Pierced?
Belly button piercings, also known as navel piercings, are one of the most common body piercings performed, especially among women.
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Why Do Tattoos Itch?
When you get a tattoo, you might be surprised to discover that your skin on and around the tattoo will itch for days while your body heals itself. When you compare the process of dermatological healing to the process of tattooing, it is easy to see why a new tattoo itches.
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How to Know When Your Belly Button Ring Is Healed
Changing your belly button ring before your piercing heals can damage your piercing by causing unnecessary irritation, ripping or tearing. A navel piercing can take up to one year to fully heal and may mimic the look and feel of a healed piercing while in a good stage during the healing period.
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How to Clean Nose Rings
A nose piercing can make a subtle statement about the wearer's nonconformity without creating an image that is too brash or noticeable. Nose rings, like all piercings, require sufficient care and cleaning during the weeks following the piercing. If not kept clean, they can easily become infected.
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The Healing Process of a Nose Ring
Nose piercing isn’t something new. Nostril piercings are common in traditional New Guinea and African societies, according to the Children, Youth and Women’s Health Service of South Australia.
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How to Clean Ear Gauges
If your ears are stretched and you wear plugs or hanging jewelry in your ear piercings, daily cleaning of your earrings is a necessity, according to Infinite Body Piercing. Stretched ears with earrings, commonly called "ear gauges," do not allow for dead skin cells inside the earlobe to fall off the earlobe.
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Foods to Avoid With Tongue Piercings
Having a newly pierced tongue can make eating a challenge. During those initial weeks, eating certain foods may intensify your discomfort level and increase your risk of developing an infection. Once the swelling subsides and the healing process is complete, you should be able to eat any food you usually eat.
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How to Sterilize Body Jewelry
Body jewelry adorns not only your earlobes and navel, but sometimes some other, very private areas of your body. Thus, they must be kept clean to keep you healthy and free of infection. Rubbing alcohol is a common household sterilizing agent, but it might irritate the skin and discolor your jewelry.
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What Is the Meaning of Men Piercing Tongues?
Piercing the tongue has ancient antecedents, but it wasn't until the 1990s and the rise of body-modification culture that tongue piercing became widespread. Piercer Elayne Angel is often credited with popularizing this particular piercing among both men and women.
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What to Do When a Nose Ring Falls Out
Having a nose ring fall out is a fairly common problem associated with that type of body jewelry. Depending on the type of nose ring you have, it can be fairly easy for the ring to unclasp, bend or twist its way out of the hole.
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What If They Make a Mistake When Piercing Your Ears?
Ear piercing is a common procedure, and complications are rare. However, piercers are human, and mistakes can occur. Minimize your risks by shopping around. Select a professional piercer with a clean, efficient shop and sterile equipment.
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How to Stop Pierced Ears From Seeping
Your pierced ears might ooze or seep light-colored fluids during the healing process. Fluids draining from your ear piercings is normal during the healing period, but if the seeping and oozing are constant or continue after the healing period of six to eight weeks, your pierced ears might need additional care.
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