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.
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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Body piercing has been a form of art for thousands of years, and although the exact history of nipple piercing is disputed, a 2003 article in "The Lancet" notes that it goes back at least as far as Victorian times.
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