Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Body Piercing Places

Have you ever thought of going to one of those Body Piercing Places? Over the last twenty years, the popularity of body piercing has been renewed. A word of caution if your checking out Body Piercing Places and while their explaining how they perform body piercing, they tell you they will be using a piercing gun, You are not in a professional Body Piercing Place and you need to stay away from that shop because piercing guns can't be sterilized and your chances of developing an infection are statistically much greater.

Pierced ears or the most common, and usually the first piercing someone will get. However, trying to find the traditional one piercing per ear can be difficult. There are many other kinds of body piercing such as naval piercing, tongue piercing or the labret.

The labret is a piercing that is in the lower lip, but over the course of time, there have been many alterations to this form of piercing. The labret derives it's name from the type of jewelry worn, which is usually some kind of bead type jewelry. A couple of variations are the Vertical labret which is down through the top of the lip and out the bottom, The Lowbret is having the piercing done low on the chin, While the Medusa is placed in the upper lip between the center ridges.

When you start seriously considering Body Piercing Places, there are a couple things you want to keep in mind. Don't ever try to pierce yourself or even let a friend use one of the body piercing kits, your risk of infection is very high. The professional piercer puts their reputation on the line by doing body piercing and knows well the power of word of mouth advertising and will not risk their reputation with poor sanitary conditions.

If your unaccustomed with a Body Piercing Places watch how they interact with their customers and how they handle their equipment, the freshly sterilized tools should be kept in separate tray from the used and contaminated ones waiting to be sterilized. The use of contaminated piercing supplies has been known to cause HIV, Hepatitis are any number of serious infections.

While visiting different body piercing places look at their selection of jewelry. With a new piercing, you need to wear good quality jewelry applicable to the location of the piercing, body jewelry is intended to be worn in specific areas of the body for your comfort and ease. When you choose your jewelry pay close attention to the type of material it is made of particularly for new piercings.

Your new piercings will require some extra care in order to properly heal so if your on a budget, are just not sure which piece of body jewelry you really want, at least make sure to look for Implant grade stainless steel in your jewelry which is least likely to cause some kind of infection.

Labret piercing

Tongue piercing

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Ear Piercing

Ear piercing is one of the oldest practices. Ear Piercing is a technique of making a very small opening in your ears so that any thing, which is of length equal to needle's front, can be easily inserted in that part. Ear piercing is one of the oldest practices. Ear Piercing is a technique of making a very small opening in your ears so that any thing, which is of length equal to needle's front, can be easily inserted in that part.

Common areas of piercing

Common locations for piercing include the rook, tragus, and across the helix .The simple term "ear piercing" usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercing in the upper part of the external ear are often referred to as "cartilage piercing." Cartilage piercing is more complex to perform than earlobe piercing and take longer to heal.

Caring for pierced ears

You don't want germs with your newly pierced ears, so it's very important to keep your ears clean. For several days after the piercing, you need to clean your ears and put antibiotic ointment on them. Whoever is doing the cleaning should follow these steps twice a day: Wash your hands. Use a cotton ball or swab to apply rubbing alcohol to the earlobe or lobes. Gently rotate the earring in the ear.

Equipments

Only an ear piercing gun or a needle should be used to pierce an ear. The gun is recommended for use on the lobe of the ear only. The reusable ear-piercing gun should not come in contact with the ear. All equipment and jewelry used to penetrate the skin must be sterilized. The jewelry should not be handled when loading it into the gun or inserting it into the opening when using a needle. Disposable cartridges, which sit in the gun, are used to hold the jewelry in place for the piercing. Most jewelry comes in pre-sterilized packaging and should be intact prior to the piercing.

navel piercing jewlery

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Saturday, December 5, 2009