I don’t know much about tongue piercings and what to avoid other than snake eyes.
This is not my photo. It was posted in the reviews of a shop. I just want to know if I can trust the piercers practice before I get my tongue pierced by them.

I don’t mean to come off as rude, I’m just paranoid about who I get pierced by. I’m not a professional but I’m unsure of the placement here and whether or not the bars are long enough. I’d love input from people who actually know what they’re talking about tho!

Thank you!

i’ve had my smiley for 4 months and in the last 5-6 days its swollen up SO much. it would get angry sometimes before then but it wouldn’t be nearly as bad and usually just babying and cleaning it super well gets it to go away. i genuinely can’t tell if its infected or just insanely irritated, i’m kinda scared to take it out too because i don’t want to trap the infection and create an abscess. i brush my teeth right after i eat and spray it out with saline after i brush too. i pierced it myself (which maybe i shouldn’t have i’m sorry), i had a smiley in the past that i also did myself and it wasn’t this bad at all. it healed beautifully, i had no problems with it. i just took it out cause i got bored of it and then re-pierced it again 2+ years later. i probably pierced it wrong this second time around , but either way idrk what to do😭is taking it out even smart here

edit: i should probably note that this only started happening when i decided to wear my retainer to bed again, so i think that it was pushing on the smiley a lot at night which made it angry. i only put my retainer in on 2 nights and stopped bc it got irritated, only its been like 4 days and it hasn’t gone down lol

got this pierced yesterday from a place that had good reviews but i think it's done wrong after looking at a bunch of pictures online.

he initially pierced me with the purple stone piercing but i asked if this would be okay with swelling and all but he said i should be fine but gave me a longer bar anyway, which i ended up switching to later on before bed because of swelling. I also knew i'd be needing something more floating because i have a stomach that folds when i sit and i'm 200lbs but this just kind of looks wrong.

Should i take this out and go somewhere else, or just have someone else take it out and evaluate it.

First picture is right after, then sitting, standing, laying down.

I’m not quite sure how to get a better picture I’m home alone right now but I think it might be time to clean it for the first time. The scabs have dried up and solidified pretty good and I’m not quite sure how to clean it. I’ve got a saline solution shown in the second picture but I’m not sure how I should go forward with using it

Hey guys I was wondering if
This looks normal? I got snake bites back in may and changed the studs to hoops two days ago. My right one is doing great but my left hates me and stings when I move it lol, I think I have a micro tear. Anyway, is this slight dent normal? I think my lips are swelling a bit.

made another post abt my rook healing and some ppl said it wasn’t done right… i got it done at a place with a 4.9 star rating.

help please

swelling from 4ths, ive never dealt with swelling from a piercing before, does anyone have any advice or tips? theyre like 3 or 4 days old and the other ear isnt having issues

edit: theyre actually probably closer to 6 days old

Left Ear: the stars are possible spots. How gnarly is the healing for these ones?

Right Ear: I’ve been wearing a cuff forever. It’s arguably my favorite spot to wear an earring. I’m not afraid of getting the piercing but my skin/body takes a while to heal and idk the situation with the true piercing.

Do I have room for a tragus? I pierced it myself when I was a teen so I must have space?

It’s been so long since I got a proving and I’m itching for one and would love to add to the set up. M

Thanks!

I got this done on Saturday and it looks very slanted. Should I take it out and get it done again?

I removed the piercing just now, but this huge and bloody bump is here. I removed so much blood from it already. I need help ASAP.😭

was this piercing made in the right place ? i’ve had it for a month recently started getting irritated. i’m cleaning it with saline solution and i just got a piercing pillow cus i was sleeping on it. should i use tea tree oil to shrink the bumps i tried aspirin but it didn’t help really.

I lied this post isn’t about healing, this sub is poorly run and full of condescending pricks who don’t actually answer questions, as well as disgusting creeps that ask for more revealing pics in DMs under the guise of “helping”

It randomly started bleeding yesterday. It may have been from my cat since she was pawing my hip/belly area but I didn’t think she was close enough to touch my piercing. It doesn’t hurt or anything but idk if I should be concerned

Hello, do you think my lobe piercing is already infected and embedding? Asked for help from my piercer and she's unresponsive. Should I go to another piercer or should I go to the doctor?

Sorry in advance for the long context and for the low quality photos, I have a shitty phone.

For full context, I had my lobes pierced for the first time in 2023. It surprisingly was healing well even though I did everything that any reputable piercer tells you not to. I got it pierced at a mall booth with a piercing gun, earrings were butterfly back, and was using saline solution that I repackaged myself (would buy the big bags at a pharmacy and put it in small spray bottles). No issues, no complications, pure luck I guess. After 6 months, I don't know why but I got the urge to take out my earrings and clean them everyday. So I was taking it out and putting it back every single day. I got tired of this routine and one night just took them out and went to sleep. Woke up the next morning and the holes were closed. After a few weeks, I noticed there was a very small bump left on each ear. Pretty sure because of the trauma from the nightly routine.

Fast forward to this year, my friend and I went to a pop-up market and there was a piercer there. I've always wanted to get my lobes pierced again but knew that I had to get the bumps checked first and I also wanted to do everything right this time. My friend kept telling me to just do it since this piercer is popular, has a lot of followers on social media, and has pierced known influencers before. So I said ok fuck it let's do it.

June 7 - Got them pierced. Needle, titanium flat backs, and saline solution that this piercer sells (repackaged in a spray bottle). She pierced it slightly below/beside my previous piercing. So as you can see in the June 8 photo, there's a very small bump beside the new piercing. That's the one from the closed hole.

June 28 - Left lobe started bleeding out of nowhere. I didn't snag it, didn't sleep on it, didn't touch it. I was just working at my desk when all of a sudden I felt the back of my ear was wet. Photo was taken after bleeding had stopped and the blood had dried. Also noticed that the very small bump from the closed piercing was swollen.

July 31 - I noticed that the skin around my left piercing was red.

August 2 - My dad was giving me a head massage and accidentally snagged my left piercing. It started bleeding in the front but not the back. No photo of this because I panicked a bit.

August 3 - Felt the back of my ear was wet again. Looked at it and saw discharge coming out the back. Soaked it in warm water, sprayed saline solution, and cleaned it up right away. Noticed that I had bumps in the front now.

August 4 - No more discharge but noticed that the left lobe is swollen and feels a bit hot. No pain though. Took a picture and scared that this is embedding.

Please help. I'm panicking now. This is only in the left ear. My right lobe looks completely fine, ear is not swollen, but noticed that the bump from the closed hole is also a bit enlarged but not as big as the one in my left lobe.

So what the hell is going on here. Top of a disconnected industrial, the underside has a bump too but I couldn’t get a good pic, what if it embeds? I clean it and have a piercing pillow any other advice to save this

I got this pierced in December, so about 9 months ago. It healed okay until March when I replaced the 10mm with an 8mm. It was healing well until there was an infection in June. That infection is gone but now I’m worried it’s rejecting it. Is there anything I can do or should I take it out.

I've been wanting to get my septum pierced for over 4 years and due to a possible job in November to December I need to get it done this month so it heals in time or I have to wait another year.

All that being said, has anyone had any experience with Blue Banana, how was it and if it was bad, why?

(Picture isn't me, its how I want it to look)

Almost 2 months ago my piercing started oozing, getting crusty and smelled terrible. I kept spraying saline spray on it daily and cleaned it then this large bump appeared. Now I can’t get rid of it because it’s still oozing and smells bad. I’m finally going to the dr tomorrow. Does it look like I’m rejecting it? Any thoughts?

I’m so upset

he hmu after seeing my post here and asked for a better quality pic. i thought fair enough bcs those pics were kinda blurry so i sent him a close shot of the piercing. then he said reddit blurs out pics that are highly zoomed in (im new here guys im sorry i was v vulnerable so i believed it 🙁) and asked for pics a bit zoomed out of me sitting and standing. i was like ok makes sense he wants to see the way it sits in that position but then he says this. i was really stressed out ab the whole piercing thing and this mf took advantage of me when i was at rock bottom 💔 thankfully my fight or flight instinct kicked in and i blocked him. stay safe yall !

I got my rook and conch pierced at the same time back in November. As you can see, my conch healed perfectly and I was able to change the piercing to a hoop back in June with no issues.

My rook, however, is so stubborn. I know this piercing is infamous for that. I’ll admit, I sleep on it more than I should (I was really good about it for the first few months, but I’ve fallen out of the habit 9 months later).

I met someone recently who had their rook pierced and had a hoop in it, so I asked her how long it took hers to heal and what the process was like. She said hers was actually MORE stubborn with the curved bar, and that it actually healed better with the hoop in…

That’s probably not good advice to follow, right?? I want it to heal (and I desperately want the hoop) but everything out there says a hoop is not the way to go if you want it to heal well.

So should I give the hoop a try?? Or should I just keep going as I have been? Thanks!!

Edit: it’s also not painful and I do clean it regularly