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
Each dentist has their own preferences for their patients’ piercings while performing dental work. If you have any oral (lip, tongue, cheek, etc.) piercings or nostril piercings, you may want to ask the dentist before your appointment if you’ll need to remove them. Some dentists request that you remove all oral/nasal piercings while work is being performed. Some dentists request that you remove only a… Read More »Do You Have to Take Out Piercings At the Dentist?
Bridge piercings are a striking piercing, but people with glasses generally have concerns of how the piercing will affect them. Luckily, most people have no issues with a bridge piercing while wearing glasses and if you do, you can always swap your jewelry and frames until they no longer come into contact with one another. You may have considered the “magnetic frameless bridge piercing glasses”,… Read More »Bridge Piercings and Glasses: Everything You Need to Know
A seamless ring is a type of jewelry where the ends don’t connect fully. It’s opened and closed by twisting the ring. Many people have a hard time identifying what type of ring jewelry they have. Often, seamless rings can be confused with segment rings, which have a small segment that can be completely removed from the ring. Your ring may also be a clicker,… Read More »How To Insert a Seamless Ring Into a Septum Piercing
It’s pretty universally agreed that the snug is the piercing with the worst healing process. Some piercers even refuse to give snug piercings unless you’ve already healed multiple piercings. Many people with snug piercings give up after two years of attempting to heal them. Cartilage in general is pretty difficult to heal. Snugs go through a particularly thick piece of cartilage. To make matters worse,… Read More »What Piercing Has the Worst Healing Process
A double helix piercing is actually two helix piercings that are typically performed at the same time. Like a constellation piercing, double helix piercings are individual piercings designed to look good together. They are typically worn with two separate pieces of jewelry but some people have custom jewelry made that intertwines both piercings. A double helix done on the forward helix are called double forward… Read More »Double Helix Piercing: Pain, Healing, and More
Constellation piercings are made up of several different types of piercings that take different amounts of time to heal. Like a large tattoo, constellation piercings may need to be broken down into smaller chunks of piercings that can heal before the whole “look” is complete. To get a good estimation of how long it will take your entire constellation piercing to fully heal, you’ll need… Read More »How Long Does a Constellation Piercing Take to Heal?
Septum jewelry can be either a horseshoe barbell or a ring. Smiley jewelry is also curved and can be either a horseshoe barbell or a ring. The problem with sharing jewelry between different piercings is you also have to make sure the jewelry is the same size. You’ll need to make sure both the gauge and the length (or diameter) is the same for both… Read More »Can You Use Septum Jewelry in a Smiley Piercing
Nesting is common for piercings in soft tissue such as in the tongue or mouth. It’s not dangerous as long as it doesn’t begin to embed. Nesting is when your jewelry settles into your tissue. It may create a dent or “crater” under the jewelry. Piercings nesting into lips isn’t as common as nesting into lips – but it’s also not very unusual. If you… Read More »Lip Piercing Nesting: Is it Normal?
