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Posted on January 20, 2008 in Body Art
Body Piercing has become very stylish, fashionable and trendy these days. It refers to the piercing of different body parts for the purpose of wearing jewelry. Body piercing can be done on different body parts like around and inside the ear, eyebrow, nostril, lips, tongue, nipple, and on the navel point. Body Piercing is a very ancient body art. Nose piercing is very popular among women. But with the growing craze for piercing, people are piercing almost anywhere in their body. Piercing the unusual body parts has become the obsession. They do this just to express their attitude, passion, craziness and some times their sexual preferences.
Some people do piercing for some religious or other cultural reasons, but these days body piercing has become one of the most favorite styling accessories and fashion statements for the teens. Piercing of the body parts have reached this height of popularity because of the western rappers, hard rock band and heavy metal band members who adopted this form of style. Before this it was also famous with the hippie community.
The whole procedure of piercing body part is very painful but the youngsters are least bothered about the pain and can compromise anything for style. There are mainly three basic points for piercing. They are as follows:
Soft Tissues: These are the most common tissues where the body piercing is mainly done. The part like ear lobe has soft tissues. This type of area is quite easy to pierce.
Cartilage: This includes the body parts like nose and the ear above the lobe. Septum piercing is not exactly located on the cartilage, but it happens through the small area of the skin between the front and the back cartilage part. You cannot get longer cartilage piercing.
Surface-to-Surface: This type of body piercing is generally placed on the same plane, like on the throat, navel point etc. You can use a ring or bar in this type of piercing. This type of piercing requires extra care, especially the throat.
While piercing your body, you should follow a few certain guidelines. Like always pierce your body with the help of a trained professional. Always use metals like gold and silver to pierce your skin, a low quality metal could affect your skin and may cause infection on the pierced part of your body. After piercing, always keep those parts away from alcohol and petroleum products as this could also cause infection in the pierced part. You should not try to change the ring at least for the first month, as this could hurt your pierced part.
Clean your pierced body part regularly, at least for 3 times a day. Never ever use mouthwash for oral piercing, as it could turn very dangerous if the mouthwash reacts with the metal. Do not use soap or other antibacterial agents immediately after body piercing. A normal healthy person should not need antiseptics to care for their piercing. The body’s immune system is perfectly capable of preventing infection for a body piercing.
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January 30th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Ok so i have a nose piercing. i wear a stud not a ring. and i have this bump on my nose, and it also leaks white stuff if i take out my stud. so i dont know what to do…at all… help?
Chloe
March 25th, 2008 at 6:12 am
hi…i pierced my upper ear…before 8 months…with gold…where i did it he didnot disinfected it…& i got so much pain…& till now i have pain…some kind of waters r coming out of my ear…i have taken a lot ot med. i used boroline…neosprin…coconut oil…mustard oil…but no effect…pls could u help me…
May 27th, 2010 at 7:59 am
I had a bump on mine too!! I’ve only had it for 3 weeks and tried to change it! Like an idiot.. But it’s goin away I’ve just forced myself not to touch it or take it out. N I’ve been cleanin it with saline solution. Mine tends to pop out sometimes or it gets pulled out I thinkthats y I got the bump. But it’s healing again now.