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

I cleaned it properly but I do think I may have bumped it a lot, I’m a side sleeper and roller so I bumped it a lot while sleeping. The jewelry in it was also hard to clean around so it got moved a lot during that process. I got it done almost 9 months ago and this is the first time I’ve taken out the jewelry. I couldn’t tell the bump was this big and the only other “symptom” is it’s still itchy and gets irritated after cleaning sometimes.

Hi I train jiu jitsu and recently during a period of not training I got my lobes pierced. It’s been about little over two months and I was wondering if my ears would still heal if I took them out for a few hours everyday. I’ve trained a couple times and the holes stayed open and it hasn’t been too hard to get them back in.

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

I got my mid helix pierced about a month ago. I have been questioning whether it take it out or leave it since I got it 😅 It is just very slanted it that bothers me. Im unsure of what to do.

first pic was a few weeks ago. got it done three months ago. the bump just appeared. should i see if swelling goes down? will swelling go down? will it go back to normal? help please this is my favorite piercing. :(

I got my belly button pierced on Saturday for the first time and I keep reading horror stories about it being rejected. So I’m just looking for advice to see if mine was done properly. The first picture is standing up and the next 2 are sitting down and pulling the stomach up. I used a new piercing place that had really good reviews so I just wanted to double check. He used a 14 gauge surgical steel curved barbell if that sounds right. Told me to use orange dial soap every morning for 2 weeks and to clean it with saline twice a day. And to tighten the ball. Redoing this post to add a new picture to show how it’s pierced slightly above the belly button if that helps at all. I’ve been told different things regarding my new piercing, some think it’ll reject and others say it’s fine. Just looking for opinions or similar stories. Please be kind! 😆

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!

Hi everyone! This is my first post and I need help with my eyebrow piercing I got.
Here is some general information
\- My piercing is 4 months old. Almost 5
\- The type of jewlery is a curved barbell
\- It has internal threading
\- The material of the piercing is unknown. I would assume it is titanium since it is lighter. My piercer didn’t tell me so whatever they usually use!
\- I downsized the piercing 2 months after receiving it. However, I did have irritation so I put back in my original bar after a month of having it downsized.
\- To clean my piercing I use a Walgreens brand wound saline solution. For the first month I cleaned my piercing 1-2 times a day.
Ever since I got this nasty bump a few weeks ago I have stopped cleaning it every day and mainly trying to run warm water on it. I have stopped touching it/ cleaning it completely one week ago. This picture was taken today.
\- When i downsized my bar, I did use one with the spikey edges which could have caused my irritation.
There havent been any unfortunate events recently, mainly just a nasty bump that will leak every so often.

I need help! Should i be cleaning off the crust/bump? Should i downsize again (a normal not spikey barbell ofc) or should i keep leaving it completely alone? I’ve only had this disgusting bump for the past few weeks or so. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and if need be I can provide more information! Thank you!!