Piercing Aftercare Instructions
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Ear Piercings
Spray your piercing/piercings twice a day, front and back using sterile saline solution
Do not sleep on it or apply any pressure on it
Keep dry and hair dry your fresh piercings after showering or washing your hair
Do not touch or twist your fresh piercings
Make sure to downsize your jewellery 6-10 weeks after your piercing, this is essential during the healing process
Do not clean your piercing with dettol, betadine, or alcohol. These products will just irritate the piercings
Ear lobes take 3-5 months to heal
Cartilage piercings like Helix, Conch, Tragus, Forward Helix, Daith or Flat can take anywhere between 6-12 months to fully heal
Healing time depends entirely on how well you look after it
For faith and tragus piercings, please avoid wearing headphones that go inside your ears, if comfortable you can sometimes where beats. Once they are healed you can wear headphones again
Try and wear your hair up as much as you can during the healing process, to prevent hair becoming tangled or caught in fresh piercings
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Septum Piercings
Septum piercings are the fastest healing piercing and from my experience the easiest piercing to heal
They take about 6 weeks to fully heal
Do not touch it while it is healing
If you need to flip up your septum piercing for work, try and leave it flipped down whenever you’re not at work just so it doesn’t warp while healing
When you flip up your piercing, make sure your hands are clean, use your thumb and index finger to hold both ends of your curved barbell and flip back up into your nose while stretching your face/nose using the “mascara” facial expression (if these instructions do not make sense, feel free to email or message us)
Spray twice a day using sterile saline solution
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Navel Piercings
Navel piercings take 6-9 months to heal
While it is healing please make sure you’re not wearing high waisted pants as these will irritate the fresh piercing
Make sure to hair dry your fresh navel piercing while it healing. Moisture can become trapped in that area easily. Wounds need to stay dry so they can heal
Do not touch your fresh piercing
Avoid swimming for at least a month, if you’d like to swim sooner please choose the ocean over any chlorine pool
Avoid changing it until it has fully healed
We recommend starting with basic jewellery while it is healing to avoid any unnecessary irritation
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Nostril Piercings
Nostril piercings take roughly 6-9 months to heal
It is important to start with a stud and change it to a hoop after it is fully healed
If you change to a hoop prematurely, you may develop irritation bumps or an infection
Use sterile saline solution spray twice a day
No touching it
Be careful with any make up products or fake tan in that area. Avoid getting any product in or around the fresh piercing
Be careful if you have a flu, cold or runny nose. Gently wipe your nose or clear it in the shower
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Nipple Piercings
Nipple piercings can take 6-12 months to fully heal
Spray them twice a day with sterile saline solution
Be careful of towels, loofahs, lace or fish net clothing, these things can get caught on the barbells and snag/pull at them. This is extremely painful and can cause severe damage to the fresh piercings
It is not abnormal for nipples to swell after they have been pierced, we always pierce them with longer bars to accomodate for that swelling. So make sure to come back into the studio for them to be downsized 8-10 weeks post piercing
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Lip/Oral Piercings
Any piercing in or around the mouth will usually heal fairly quickly, in about 6 weeks
Do not smoke or vape during this healing period
We suggest avoiding spicy foods during the healing process
Oral piercings swell usually, we start off with a large bar and we downsize around the 1-2 week mark
If you use mouth wash currently you can keep using it, it is not recommended to start using it just because you have a fresh piercing as this could cause irritation
Spray it twice a day using sterile saline solution
It is important to be aware that any oral piercing can effect your teeth or gums