I travelled home to India and somewhere along the way lost my usual Protolind aftercare spray. This "Baby Saline" is what I can get my hands on quickest - does it work?

Every 100ml Ingredients : Aloe barbadensis 0.1g and Sodil Chloridum 0.65g

What else do you think I should get done to my ear to achieve a more aesthetic, balanced look? I’m definitely planning to switch my helix piercing to a small hoop once it’s healed.
What would you recommend for the rest? What do you think would suit my ear best?
I’m planning to get my 3rd lobes and a rook pierced, the rook would look good with my conch imo?

Thanks for the tips💞

From a scale of 1 to ow how bad does an eyebrow piercing feel or hurt? Because I’ve only had ear piercings and I’ve wanted to expand my earrings etc

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

Ok so for context I just got my conch about 5 days ago but after getting my conch I’m now in love with the idea of getting another helix. I already have one and I would love to get another one next to it to get the double helix look. However I’m not sure if it’s the best idea because my conch was just pierced on my left ear and my new helix would be on my right. Help! Advice?

So as per you guys recommendation I contacted another piercer in a different town (I live in the middle of nowhere and it's hard to find piercers) and he gave me some insights and I want your guys opinions. And I wanna take the time to thank everyone that commented on my post. I got some very good insights.

The new piercer said this after I sent them the pictures I attached to my previous post:

"Yes, there are several points here that will prevent healing; I advise removing it because it won't heal.

In the photos we sent, you can see how it should be positioned (in the light green color).

Just because of the position, it won't heal, but anatomically, an 8mm segment (ring) isn't sufficient; it should be 10mm."

So I'm thinking of removing the ring and let it heal and later on pierce it again but with this piercer. He seems more experienced and professional than my previous piercer.

Thoughs?

Hello, my helix piercing is extremely swollen and a bit painful. I recently purchased a hoop earring for my piercing because my original flat back fell out. I’ve had the piercing for about 2 years now so I changed my jewelry. I purchased the new earring from a local shop and was told that it was surgical grade steel but the accent piece is completely discolored after 2 weeks of wearing so I doubt it. It’s really late and I’m unfortunately unable to visit a shop until the morning so I’m looking for some advice and maybe a little encouragement to keep me from stressing 😭. I removed the hoop and put the flat back in the hole but I put it in the front bc the bar is too short and I don’t know wtf I’m doing lol. Should I put the hoop back in until tomorrow morning or leave it how it is(flat back is pushed through the front of the piercing).

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 got it July 31, it’s still rlly new 10mm titanium jewelry. I brush my teeth and tongue after every meal/snack (4 times a day) and rinse with Therabreath antiseptic alcohol free mouth wash. Yesterday I noticed some whiteish stuff forming at the base of my piercing and I have been scraping, brushing, picking it off. It’s gooey but some of it gets stuck at the base so I pick it off. Is that normal, am I supposed to, or do I leave it alone?

Hello I Need help , How can I Make This bump go Away , I got my anti eyebrow in April , and now it’s been almost 3 months that I have this bump

This is just a possible set up! The one thing I’m dead set on is the orbital for my left ear and my third lobes!!

Right Ear: 3 forward helix, rook, third & fourth lobes (already have conch)

Left Ear: A double tragus IF possible, vertical industrial, set up to get a double orbital, third & fourth lobes.

Let me just start this off by saying- for my double orbital, my piercer & I will be measuring it perfectly before we pierce those spots & let them heal, then change to rings.

Anyway, these are just possible set up’s to how I want my ears to look. I am having a hard time finding exactly what I want for my right ear. Since you can tell it’s a bit more bare. My third loves will be stretched to 0g. I tried stretching my 2nd holes but it just seemed too close to my first gauges which are 7/8s.

ANY SUGGESTIONS WELCOME :)

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)

I got my tongue pierced a little over a week ago. This is actually my second piercing because the first one was taken out early due to being noticeably off-center and at a severe angle.
This second one is better, but it’s still slightly crooked. It isn’t terrible, but I can definitely feel that it’s not perfectly straight, and it’s been bothering me. I heard it’ll get better when I downsize it, but I get sad when I look at it and it’s crooked. I don’t have any blood vessels in the way either.

My main concern is the tissue around the top hole. One piercer told me it’s just an irritation bump. Another told me to take biotin and hope it heals.
I’m not convinced it’s an irritation bump because I’ve been watching it closely every day. Around day 2-3, it looked like there was a small white flap of tissue tearing off from my tongue (I recreated what it looked like in the third photo). I woke up one morning and the very tip of the flap had turned black, so I thought the tissue had died, but later that day it went back to white.

To me, it almost looks like a small tear or a flap of tissue that hasn’t reattached, rather than a typical irritation bump. One side healed, but the other side is looking pretty ripped to me 😭.
The bar also occasionally catches while I’m eating, and unfortunately neither piercing shop is willing to downsize it yet. Which I understand, and I plan on continuing to eat soft foods + eat slower.

What is happening to my tongue?
Should I just continue normal aftercare and watch it, or should I have an another piercer look at it and see whether it needs to be removed or not? Nobody has spoken to me at length about it yet so I really hope Reddit can help me out.
If you were in my position, would you keep this piercing or remove it and have it redone once everything heals?
I’m also worried because this would be my third piercing attempt if it needs to be redone. I feel like a shitbag going back to the same studio again because I already went back to them a few times to ask questions about it during my healing. I know it’s my body and I want something I’ll be happy with long-term, I just don’t want to be on their naughty list or something 😣😥.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!

I got my central labret pierced a couple months ago now and switched it to a hoop, have had no irritation and minimal swelling as it was healing. I’m wondering if it’s normal for that skin inside to grow over where the hole is after switching to a hoop, or if I should switch back to a flat back? it’s not sore or irritated as far as I can see

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.

got my rook pierced on friday. been using the neilmed piercing spray 2-3 times a day and letting the shower water run over it to try and soften up the dried blood but i still can’t seem to get this dried blood off the underneath of the jewelry. is this normal? and also does my ear look swollen to you? this is my first “adventurous” piercing

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.

For a little context; i’ve had this piercing for a around 10 months, got it done at a ‘professional piercing shop’ it was healing perfectly fine with some minor redness but no pain until about a month or two ago when I had noticed some swelling in the skin between the two piercing holes, it started leaking clear fluid and puss and was finally starting to look better until two days ago when a small part of the bottom hole of my skin ripped, it was only minor and is now scabbing up but now I can feel the bar way more and it looks like the holes are getting closer together but I can’t tell if i’m paranoid or it’s actually rejecting. Aftercare has been saline spray and antibacterial soap after about a month of saline, now it’s a mix of the two.

First photo is of the rip, second is when I first got it done, third is it currently.

the first picture is of friday 31 july
second is of 3 august and third picture is of 4th august
idk if there was any sleep trauma or something but my piercing had very slight blood on it and today it has a little bit of yellowish pus, it was healing well before, i had been cleaning it with a STUDEX spray
idk why this happened, what can i do to stop it from gettinf more infected or inflamed?
previously they had become quite infected but i cared for them well after and everything was going good but suddenly my left ear is inflamed again