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.

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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How to Heal a Nipple Piercing

Nipple piercings vie with navel piercings as the most popular below-the-neck body adornment. They can take a long time to heal completely--from three to four months for men and six to nine months for women.

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Male Nipple Piercing Information

Men's nipple piercings are a common body modification choice. Celebrities such as Tommy Lee and Lenny Kravitz may have helped popularize the phenomenon. Men's nipples are easy to pierce, provided they are not flat or inverted, and even these conditions can be accommodated by an experienced piercer.

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10 Reasons to Get a Nose Ring

There are two types of nose piercings: the nostril, on the side, and the septum, through the center. Nostril piercings are very popular, perhaps second only to the ear as a site for body jewelry. Septum piercings are less common but still well known.

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What Is the Bump Next to My Nose Ring?

Nostril piercings are one of the most common facial piercings available, possibly second only to the earlobe in terms of popularity. Healing is relatively easy, if sometimes slow--about three to four months on average. But all piercings, even well-cared-for piercings, can develop complications as they heal.

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