Piercings

I've been dying to pierce my lip, but my parents aren't fond of any piercings that aren't on the ears. They even think cartilage makes me look like a whore. So I have to wait until I'm 18.

^ If you live in the US, a lot of states let you get ear piercings by yourself when you're 16. I don't know if you were waiting until you could get it yourself, or when you're out of the house, but thought I'd tell you.

Exquisite Corpse.:

Why not? They totally told me to use it for the lobe piercings at least.
I wouldn't have thought there's that much different between 'soft flesh' and cartilage ?

O_O They TOLD you to use it? Where ever you went, I would not go there anymore because that's a seriously unprofessional recommendation. Alcohol damages healthy cell tissue and prolongs healing time because it won't allow the wound to coagulate. Piercings aren't like a scrape or something you would get from falling down, you can't clean them the same way.

Spaztastic:

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If anything, it helped the cartilage heal faster.

No, it didn't. :shifty It did the total opposite.

http://www.thetattooexperience.com/p-care.htm#mouth
"Do not USE ALCOHOL, PEROXIDE, NEOSPORIN, OR ANY OTHER OINTMENTS TO HEAL PIERCING."

http://www.safepiercing.org/bodyAftercare.html
"Avoid the use of alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Betadine, Hibiclens or ointment."

http://www.tribalectic.com/Drupal/articles/ear-body-piercing-healing-and-aftercare-information
"Do not use petroleum-based ointments (e.g., Neosporin, Bacitracin, etc.), peroxide, alcohol, Betadine, iodine, and Hibaclense!! These substances can hinder and prolong the healing process."
The thought of piercers recommending alcohol is making me cringe. :shifty

Kurtni Monroe:

O_O They TOLD you to use it? Where ever you went, I would not go there anymore because that's a seriously unprofessional recommendation. Alcohol damages healthy cell tissue and prolongs healing time because it won't allow the wound to coagulate. Piercings aren't like a scrape or something you would get from falling down, you can't clean them the same way.

Spaztastic:

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If anything, it helped the cartilage heal faster.

No, it didn't. :shifty It did the total opposite.

http://www.thetattooexperience.com/p-care.htm#mouth
"Do not USE ALCOHOL, PEROXIDE, NEOSPORIN, OR ANY OTHER OINTMENTS TO HEAL PIERCING."

http://www.safepiercing.org/bodyAftercare.html
"Avoid the use of alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, Betadine, Hibiclens or ointment."

http://www.tribalectic.com/Drupal/articles/ear-body-piercing-healing-and-aftercare-information
"Do not use petroleum-based ointments (e.g., Neosporin, Bacitracin, etc.), peroxide, alcohol, Betadine, iodine, and Hibaclense!! These substances can hinder and prolong the healing process."
The thought of piercers recommending alcohol is making me cringe. :shifty

How the hell would you know what it did? You weren't around when I got it. You weren't around while it was healing. They said use rubbing alcohol on the ring, yes. Then put some creme/ointment - I forget the name, but I'll go find it.
I used peroxide when I ran out. Did I get an infection? No. I had to get my top one done twice since it heal over when I took it out. The first time, I didn't use what they told me to. Didn't heal the right way. When I used rubbing alcohol and whatever cream the guy cold me to the second time, it healed in only a month - not 6 weeks.
Hell, now when I clean it while it's in my ear I use peroxide and nothing happens except it fizzes up to clean the germs.
So, telling me what it didn't do when it did is very stupid of you since you weren't here.

If the place I and the other girl go to are so unprofessional, how come no one has ever had a problem? At least with the place I go to. It's the most popular in my town, if not the town's surrounding it, too. If you follow what they say, no one has had a problem.

Here's there aftercare:
Twice a day, wash ear with an antibacterial soap (ie: Liquid Soft Soap or Liquid Dial) use a soap that does not contain perfumes or fragrances.

Your shower should be your primary cleaning. In the shower, soak your ear very well and wash around the piercing, including the ring. DO NOT ROTATE THE RING IN THE SHOWER! After showering, apply ointment on the top half of the ring and turn it until the part of the ring that was inside you (while showering) is now exposed. Next, sterilize that part of the ring that used to be inside you with rubbing alcohol on a paper towel. DO NOT APPLY ANY ALCOHOL TO YOUR SKIN, only the ring. Do not use cotton balls or Q-Tips, for they contain loose fibers that can lead to problems with your new piercing. After thoroughly cleaning your ear and the ring, apply Bacitracin on the part of the ring that you just sterilized.

Then, rotate the ring so the bead is half-way between the piercing (or in between the two holes) and leave it alone until the next day.

12 hours opposite from your shower, soak your ear with a hot wash cloth for 5 to 10 minutes. After soaking, wash with antibacterial soap, thoroughly rinse all soap OFF and reapply Bacitracin.

DO NOT ROTATE DURING THE SECOND WASHING!!!

Any questions or problems, DO NOT hesitate to contact us.

Listening to someone else’s aftercare can or will lead to serious infection or complication of your piercing

So, I trust these guys. Even though you've put websites, I don't trust them because I don't know them. I've done what these guys told me to do and I healed perfectly fine.

Spaztastic:

How the hell would you know what it did?

Because it's a proven medical fact? Alcohol damages healthy cell tissue, thus slowing down healing.

Spaztastic:

It's the most popular in my town

Oh, well as long as it's popular, thats all that matters. :mrgreen:

Really? Than prove to me my ear took longer to heal because of what I did. How does it damage cells when it's not on the skin? Didn't you read what I put there? It said on the ring. To my knowledge, there is know skin tissue on the ring because it's not apart of the body.

It's the most popular because it's the most...efficient I don't think is the word. Could be, I'm just not good with words this morning. They're just the best at what they do. The other places do some weird things.

On the website it even says no advice from friends. You may or may not be a friend, but I won't take your advice.
=]

Spaztastic:

To my knowledge, there is know skin tissue on the ring because it's not apart of the body. They're just the best at what they do. The other places do some weird things.

The ring goes back in your ear, doesn't it? You don't even take it out when you clean it (I hope) so alcohol does get in your piercing and damages the tissue.

It's your piercing though, do whatever you feel is best. :shifty

Spaztastic:

On the website it even says no advice from friends. You may or may not be a friend, but I won't take your advice.
=]

Yeah but remember...

Spaztastic:

ven though you've put websites, I don't trust them because I don't know them

It's been healed for a half year now, to bottom one. Top one for over a year and a half. I take it out and put it in peroxide when I'm not wearing it.

And if it was killing cells, wouldn't I have felt something? I didn't when I turned it back in. Only time it hurt was the first few times turning it.

I was talkikng about the Parlor's website that I go to. I know the guy who made the page. He's done all my brother's tattoos and his piercings. Told my brother the same thing and he told me. My brother's healed perfectly fine. Did both my piercings, too. And same with friends'.

Spaztastic:

It's been healed for a half year now, to bottom one. Top one for over a year and a half. I take it out and put it in peroxide when I'm not wearing it.

And if it was killing cells, wouldn't I have felt something? I didn't when I turned it back in. Only time it hurt was the first few times turning it.

I was talkikng about the Parlor's website that I go to. I know the guy who made the page. He's done all my brother's tattoos and both my piercings.

Kurtni:

It's your piercing though, do whatever you feel is best.

:con:

I have, didn't? I just said it's been healed for a long time.
I even forget it's there sometimes.

But I should go clean it now. Has hairspray on the rings. =/ Makes it hard to turn.

Spaztastic:

But I should go clean it now. Has hairspray on the rings. =/ Makes it hard to turn.

Hairspray is a bitch with piercings. I was fixing my hair a few days after I got my monroe and somehow I managed to spray it in my face and it got in my piercing and burned for 20 minutes straight.

I was brushing the hair spray out about a week or so after I got my second cartilage done. I wasn't aware some hair was stuck the to ring so I yanked really hard and it pulled the ring with it. I kept going, "ow, ow, ow" for a long time.

Getting you hair cut is a bitch, too if the stylist isn't aware you have them in. When the comb gets stuck they just yank. >.>

^ I had that problem. Luckily a friend of the family is my hairdresser, so she was fully aware I had just got a new piercing. Unfortunately, she was working so hard on avoiding my new one, she caught my old ones and really yanked at it. My eyes started watering it was so painful. XD

I have both ears pierced twice and my cartlidge done once on my right side. I wanna get my ears pierced again and I think my mom might let me, hopefully really soon :] I also wanna get my lip pierced on the right side with one of those small hoops, they're so cool! Only thing is is that my parents are like no. My mom has said you can pierce your ears as many times as you want, you can pierce your belly button, you can get tattoos any piercing in the face and I'll rip it out. I wouldn't put it past her either. So I've been trying to convince her that they're not that bad. Maybe I'll just get it done when I'm 18. She said I could pierce my belly button when I'm 16 if it's ok with my dad though.

I'm not gonna quote the whole alcohol-thing again; but seriously; I went to three different jewelry && piercing shops to get my three bottom lobe piercings shot.
Shot, not pierced.

They all told me to use Sterelon; which is an alcohol-based product for sure.
It strikes me as really odd that three different professional earringshooters would tell me to do so. I even got a bottle of Sterelon for free at the Claire's; with their name on it.

They didn't tell me to use it on my cartilage piercing when I had that pierced in the piercing shop. They told me to use green desinfectional soap. For my other piercing, they told me to also use the same green soap; plus soaking it in salt water for about ten minutes or something. I got the soap && the salt when I had it done.

Anyway, I can't imagine these professionally trained people are so ignorant / stupid that they would give me the wrong advice and sell / give me the wrong product. That's weird.

Exquisite Corpse.:

. I even got a bottle of Sterelon for free at the Claire's; with their name on it.

That answers that question. :shifty

Also, what antisepetic are you talking about from Claires, this one is the only one I have ever seen, and the active ingredient in the clarie's stuff is Benzalkonium Chloride, that's not alcohol. Your claire's must have something different than mine.

At any rate, ear piercings are probably not as sensitive as other piercings since you guys didn't seem to have problems with alcohol. I know when I got my monroe done with my friend, I bought the stuff at the shop the piercer recommended, and she didn't and just used alcohol. Mine healed way faster then hers because whenever her tissue would start to heal, the alcohol would just damage it again. I ended up just giving her some of my stuff. Tech 2000 saves the day! :con:

Exquisite Corpse.:

Anyway, I can't imagine these professionally trained

That's the thing, not all of them are. If you look at the laws about what one has to do to be a piercer, there isn't much if anything about training, it's simply about getting licenses and permits and health conditions. That's what makes it so important to find a good piercer who has had internships or taken classes.

Kurtni Monroe:

At any rate, ear piercings are probably not as sensitive as other piercings since you guys didn't seem to have problems with alcohol. I know when I got my monroe done with my friend, I bought the stuff at the shop the piercer recommended, and she didn't and just used alcohol. Mine healed way faster then hers because whenever her tissue would start to heal, the alcohol would just damage it again. I ended up just giving her some of my stuff. Tech 2000 saves the day! :con:

Where monroes are and ear piercings are have different tissue. Ears are mainly cartilage. Therefore, alcohol would have a different effect on cartilage than it would skin, wouldn't you think?
So when you said earlier about alcohol being bad, maybe for non-ear piercings.

& wouldn't salt water hurt? :cheese:
I couldn't imagine soaking it in salt water.

But, you know, obviously there's different ways for piercings to be taken care of. I know the way that worked for mine, my brother's and friends' works great.

& what is ear shooting? I have no clue what that is. =/ Lol.

Spaztastic:

Where monroes are and ear piercings are have different tissue. Ears are mainly cartilage. Therefore, alcohol would have a different effect on cartilage than it would skin, wouldn't you think?

Well, alcohol kills tissue no matter where it is, but ear piercings heal so fast anyways I guess it doesn't make much of a difference there, but it does in other places.

I never did salt water soaks, I'm a wuss, but I do here they help :shifty

Actually I take that back, I did do one on my bellybutton and it wasn't that bad, but it was about 2 weeks after I got it.

Spaztastic:

what is ear shooting? I have no clue what that is. =/ Lol.

Maybe she meant like, with the piercing gun instead of a needle. If not, I'm not sure I want to know :lmfao

It wasn't the bottle like in the picture; it's just the same as Sterelon; only with a Claire's sticker on it.
&& not only did I put it on my earlobes, but also on my cartilage earpiercing & my boob piercing. && the piercers were trained; not just anyone in the shop could do the job; there was only one lady who has a certificate to pierce people.
But okay, I guess many different piercers have like a different theory on that kind of shit or something, so I'll stop being a smartass and leave it. :tehe:

&& with ear shooting, I mean what's said above ^^ with a gun instead of a needle.
Supposedly it's way dangerous to have things shot and way better to have things pierced. I didn't wanna take a risk with my cartilage && the other piercing so I had those pierced, but the rest shot. If that makes sense.
I do still have got like.. both my ears though. :tehe:

&& also; I really want a monroe piercing- badly. :weird

Exquisite Corpse.:

&& also; I really want a monroe piercing- badly. :weird

They're pretty awesome.