While most nose piercings heal within a few months, it is not uncommon for a nose piercing to take up to a year to heal. However, if your nose piercing has not healed after a year, it is important to identify and address any potential issues that may be causing the delay in healing. Why is Your Nose Piercing Taking Forever to Heal? There are… Read More »Nose Piercing Not Healed After a Year?
Body piercing has been a popular form of self-expression for centuries. From earlobe piercings to genital piercings, there are many different types of body piercings that can be done on various parts of the body. However, it is important to be aware of the healing time and potential risks associated with body piercings, and to consider the appropriate interval between getting multiple piercings. The most… Read More »How Long Should You Wait Between Piercings
Aspirin paste can be used in a pinch to temporarily shrink a piercing bump. To understand when you should be using aspirin paste, you must first understand why piercing bumps form. Another word for piercing bump is “irritation bump“, and it gets this name because it appears when something is irritating your piercing. Aspirin paste works because it’s very drying, so it dries up the… Read More »Can You Use Aspirin Paste on Piercing Bumps?
While you shouldn’t flip your septum piercing while it’s healing, you can have it placed flipped up and heal completely while flipped. When you get your septum pierced, your piercer will likely ask if you want to heal with it flipped up or flipped down. If you will need to flip your septum piercing up daily for work, you should heal with it flipped up.… Read More »Can You Flip Your Septum Piercing Up When You First Get It?
Even though coconut oil is generally considered a safe and organic oil, it should still not be used on healing piercings. Coconut oil is a comedogenic, which means it can clog areas fairly easily. Aside from that, you don’t want to put anything on a healing piercing. It’s important to keep in mind that a piercing that is still healing is still an open wound.… Read More »Is it Safe to Put Coconut Oil on a Healing Piercing?
Nipple piercings are one of the more obnoxious piercing types that feel like they crust forever! Nipple piercings crust for a long time. With most piercings, the crusties generally stop when the piercing is healed. Nipple piercings however, may never stop crusting. Once your nipple piercings are fully healed (generally around a year old), the amount of crust that develops will reduce, but it may… Read More »Nipple Piercing Crust: How Much is Normal?
Bactine spray should never be used on piercings – especially healing piercings. It contains harsh chemicals that delay the healing process. Remember that your piercing was done in a sterile environment so there’s no need to clean it. It will heal fine on its own. Bactine will dry out your piercings, which could give you irritation bumps and cause your healing process to take even… Read More »Can You Use Bactine Spray on Piercings?
If you need to make your own sea salt solution, most table salt is perfectly safe. However, it is always recommended to purchase premade wound wash. At any step in mixing your own solution, you may use ingredients that aren’t sterile. Since you’re attempting to heal an open would – you should use the cleanest solution available, which is premade sterile wound wash. However, if… Read More »What Happens If You Use Table Salt On a Piercing?
If you have a new piercing, especially a helix or other ear cartilage piercing, you’ve probably experienced the pain of your hair pulling on it. Aside from sleeping on your piercing, hair wrapping around a piercing is the number one reason people get repetitive irritation bumps. As we all know, irritation bumps actually increase the healing time for your piercing! So if your hair is… Read More »How To Keep Your Hair Out of Healing Piercings
You may have heard that it’s always unsafe to be pierced with a hoop. While there are many pros and cons of being pierced with a stud vs a hoop, we disagree that a stud is always the better option. If it were completely unsafe, would piercings that can only accommodate hoops, such as the daith, be inherently unsafe? Of course not. And APP agrees… Read More »Pierced With a Hoop VS a Stud: Is it Safe?
