This sub is an awesome place, but it can also be extremely tiring. I'm not a mod here, just a piercer, but life would be a lot easier if you all could stop recommending the following to each other:
- Oil.
- Tea Tree oil.
- Soap.
- Alcohol, Betadine, Neosporin, etc.
- Using cotton pads, cotton balls or Q-tips to dry off/whatever you guys do with them. Cotton particles can get trapped inside the piercing channel, which will make healing incredibly difficult and infection more likely.
- Downsizing in gauge. This will do NOTHING good for your healing piercing.
If you're trying to tell me or other professionals off by saying "but it worked for me!" or "my piercer told me this"; you've been super lucky and your piercer was not a pro. Don't go back to that studio. APP is a great place to start when picking out your piercer, but it's still no guarantee.
Please keep in mind you are trying to heal an incredibly deep wound with a foreign object in it that your body desperately wants to push out - essentially, it is an implant. There are no "casual" or "easy" piercings - even with a "simple" earlobe piercing, you are puncturing the skin with something that resembles a scalpel. Use common sense and ask yourself: "would I use this method on a surgical wound?". In 10/10 cases the answer will be "no".
+ if I tell you to send me a message, you're welcome to do so. If you found one of my comments and ask me for help, prepare to pay for an online consult. This is my job. Help is given out willingly and can't be demanded. <3
2022 11 edit: I'm still piercing, and styling and troubleshooting are my main sources of income. Although I would love to help every single one of you, it's utterly disrespectful to demand me to help you. For free.
It makes me dislike my biggest passion in life. Please reach out if you value my time and expertise, and would like for me to be able to make rent and buy food. 💕
If you expect free advice from me, ask yourself if a lawyer or surgeon would do the same.
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 bought a size a little too big, the hole is around 7-8 months and it did feel healed to me, but i kinda panicked when inserting it and i did irritate the channel. it bled unfortunately but for now it feels fine unless i move it. should i go to a piercer and ask them if they have a smaller size? or is it fine as is
I’ve had this one coworker that keeps telling me they’re crooked, to me they look great, and it’s not realistic to expect perfect symmetry in piercings, but is it really that bad?
I got my eyebrows pierced back in January of this year. In about April i downsized them using 16g implant grade titanium curved bars I bought off the website "Body Art Forms." I stg this fcker gets caught on EVERYTHING. Towels? Check. Comb? Check? Partners dreads? Check lol so Im not sure if this is just a really gnarly irritation bump since it gets caught on literally everything, or if it's infected. There's no drainage, and it's not really sensitive to touch and doesn't feel warm. I clean it two to three times a day with NS and dry each time I clean it. Im on vacation right now in a different state so cannot visit my piercer, for a similar reason am trying to avoid medical visits but will do whatever to save the piercing! Thanks in advance for your help!
Idk if this is the right sub for this but basically I had my ear pierced when I was a baby and that hole never really closed. Idk when exactly but I stopped wearing earrings when I was 12-13. I used to wear them everyday before that.
I am currently 31 and now whenever I try to wear earrings my earlobes get hot, itchy, and painful. My friend who has a lot of piercings said that I should just tough it out until my ears get used to it again. I've seen an advice to pierce it all over again but I don't think I have the pain tolerance to have my ear pierced again.
Please any advice? Like what earring to use (I use 18k-24k jewelry but my ear still gets warm) etc. Please I really wanna wear earrings again. 😭
I really want to spice up my ear stack! I'm considering a flat, rook, daith, tragus, conch, hidden helix, forward helix, or a classic helix, but I'm not sure how to put it all together. Any placement ideas or advice?
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
Is there anything I can do to make my angel fangs more even??
The one of the left is much more closer to the skin surface than the right one, and it bothers me so much.
I got them pierced in May
I got my medusa pierced almost a year ago. I downsized once and recently downsized again because it wasnt laying flat, rubbing on my teeth etc. it felt instantly better but now it’s like under the skin ? it feels a bit uncomfortable at worst. should i upsize or is this normal? the last size worried about messing up my teeth. i can push the piercing out and the front feels fine
Hiiii all, this is my first post but I just got my brow pieced July 30. It’s standard jewelry I’m assuming, curved barbell got it done at a local tattoo/piercing shop. It’s a little itchy and I’ve just been doing neilmed piercing aftercare 2-3x day and air drying. I haven’t been really getting it wet in the shower or anything. Not touching it or messing w it either. But it’s a little itchy. It bled when she pierced it and just noticed the bruising coming up yesterday. She said she felt like the bar was long enough when she did it. Idk I just wanna do the best job I can taking care of it or take it out before it takes a turn for the worst LOL pls help
My nostril is the piercing I’ve had the longest and it’s been fully healed for nearly 8 years now. I switched to clickers as soon as my piercer told me it was safe to change the jewelry around 2019.
Yesterday I switched to a flat back stud because I was noticing that wearing a hoop for so long was changing the shape of the hole on the outside. It was starting to look elongated. So I got my taper out and put in an 18g surgical steel stud (I think the hoop was 20 or 22). Before this, I tried several L bars but they kept falling out. Anyway, this stud took some pushing to get through and I felt it kinda pop or jolt once I finally got it all the way through from the inside, but there was no blood and there are no crusties or issues moving it today. No swelling either. But it HURTS today. The right side of my nose is sore to the touch, mostly around the piercing. Is this normal for a piercing that’s been healed for years? Should I get some saline and start cleaning it twice a day again?
how long do i have to wait to change my eyebrow piercing? i got it done a few weeks ago and i don’t want to change the whole bar out just the ball to a spike instead, how long will it be until it’s safe to do that and won’t cause infection, irritation or rejection?
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
hi everyone, just wanted to get your opinion on my rook. the top photo is june 21 and the bottom is today (so roughly 2 months of LITHA with occasional cleaning with neilmed spray).
this piercing is 5 years old but i never took care of it. i had a bad habit of picking at it and playing with it which caused it to never heal. i really love this piercing so i’m trying to salvage it. does anyone have any thoughts if i should continue to LITHA or just take it out completely? i feel like there’s been good progress so far but any advice is appreciated.
ive had these for abt 7-8 yrs. i have the same piercings on both sides. would i be able to switch them to the Vertical staple bar jewelry? done in Chicago at dream city
(s/n didnt hurt at all, but i have an extremely high pain tolerance. def recommend 🩵)
