r/piercing

Hi I have wanted to get new piercing for a while but have been undecided for a while so I’m looking for recommendations that would suit me!

I have 3 on my left side and 2 on my right side!

what other piercings should i add?

I got my conch (and rook) done six days ago, I’m pretty sure the conch jewellery is a titanium internally threaded stud. Is it ok to change the little ball at the end to something more decorative, or do I need to wait? I know no hoops are allowed for at least a year, but I’d be leaving the bar in and just screwing a different piece of metal to the end of it. I’ve put a picture of the jewellery I want to add on the second slide, I’d be screwing the leaf end into the labret that’s already in my ear.

I am so happy to announce that my almost 1yo industrial is healed and I love it so much 😮‍💨 The bar could be shorter but since it’s super flexible I don’t really mind, maybe I will let it shorten on my conch appointment. Can’t wait for conch too 😮‍💨

so basically I got this piercing more than two years ago and I think I kind of irritated the piercing as I was touching it a lot when I got it and it delayed healing and now this is what it has become for a very long time now, I want to get rid of it. It sometimes reduces its size but this is the max size it goes to. it doesn’t pain at all but just feels weird and it’s not even a puss which got fluid or something, it’s just skin.

This is a 4mm bar, so I can’t downsize.

My piercer said I should wait and see over the next couple of weeks, and that it’s likely migrating, but might settle where it is.

It spins around when I brush my teeth and sometimes flips all the way backward.

I don’t really play with it except when I’m stressed and am doing it subconsciously.

I’m trying to decide sooner rather than later so a) I can stop stressing b) I can get it re-pierced before moving in mid September.

I’m genuinely heartbroken at the idea of taking it out lol. Truly my biggest confidence booster

I just got my conch but I feel like it looks empty, I’m not sure what else I should get

Hi all. So I come from an African family and today is my graduation for dual enrollment as I graduate from college and high school simultaneously. I promised myself since I was 18 that I was going to get an ear piercing(stud) to complete my look since I had cut my hair and wanted to round up my features. My graduation is today and yesterday I went to the shop to get it pierced before I picked up my cousins from the airport. I thought it looked nice and all, and my friend and I bryan got ours pierced together. As soon as I got back home they noticed and isolated me in the room and told me to remove it and I tried to explain to them how it’s a new trend for young guys and how it’s stylish and would look good for my graduation. They didn’t want me to “embarrass the family” and emasculated me and said I was gonna be a disappointment and all that other stuff. It stings because I really liked it. Now I’m stuck because I just got it ripped, I’m assuming it’s going to close but I just want to make sure my ear is safe. What do I do? Should I try for it back in August before college? I’m just lost.

TLDR: African parents made me forcibly remove earrings the day of, and now I’m scared for infection.

I’m so confused!! I’ve just changed my second earrings for the second or third time since I’ve had them pierced and it hurt, again. It’s putting me off of changing them. I have beautiful £300 earrings I’d love to wear but when I take any earrings out or try and put any in, it nips like it was just pierced and I’ve just had them pushed through the fresh hole. I followed all after care for all of them and didn’t swap them out at all until 6 months had gone by. I was hoping today (it’s got to have been 6 months in general since I last tried to change them) that they wouldn’t hurt but they hurt just as bad and I’ve somehow made one bleed 😒 I’m just wondering if anyone has experienced similar? Shouldn’t the nerves in the ear have healed now? Are they always meant to nip?! Am I doing something wrong? 😭

I love my piercings so much and I’m genuinely unable to enjoy them because of this. It’s so frustrating when others say they feel nothing when changing them!

Got my septum done today! What do we think of the jewellery? I’m not sure if it’s a bit big/flashy or if I just need to get used to it

I’ve had my rook pierced for over two years at this point, and it kinda just looks like this… always. I’ve tried LITHA, cleaning daily, piercing pillow, jewelry changes by the piercer… and it’s gotten better but never all the way. It doesn’t bother me, I just wonder if it will just forever be 95% healed 🥲 anybody else have this experience?

title. i got my nipples pierced by a HIGHLY regarded piercing shop about 3 months ago. he did regular free consults to make sure the piercing was healing well and every time said they looked great. i kept bringing up that i felt they might be too deep, but he said they aren’t. i wasn’t sure, and when they’re hard they don’t look deep to me (last photo).

2 weeks ago i went in for my last consult and he downsized from 18mm to 16mm. for a week i was having no issues, but recently i’d noticed on the left nipple specifically that the right ball was sinking into the skin and the hole looked a lot better. i messaged him and he said to go back to the 18mm. went to a different piercing shop just yesterday as i am on vacation to have them change back, and he mentioned they look pierced too deep. he didn’t say i should take them out and he changed the jewelry.

i can’t stop looking at them and thinking they’re too deep and wondering if i should take them out. you can see on the first photos that the right side is swollen and i think that’s just from the downsizing issue. should i take them out? i can’t get to a piercer i trust for another 2ish weeks. is it worth waiting or getting out immediately?

TIA!

Thinking of removing both anti eyebrow piercings and getting a dermal under my eyes or 2 more above the one between my eyebrows ((:

They were swelling so much so we put in 26mm barbells rather than 22mm flat back labrets! So much more comfortable now and they’re healing in great!

One week in. Most amazing piercings i’ve ever ever had

Sharp art piercing, langport, UK

I got pierced about 9months almost 10 ago and got changed to a hoop yesterday by a professional piercing place. And it looks like i got a bump this morning, I iced it for about 20mins. I got my nose pierced only cause I really wanted to wear a nose ring but for some reason my nose just does not take it well at all all

Edit: piecer told me to put a pimple patch on it for tonight and if it doesn’t get better then she’ll switch it back to a stud

Hi I got my nostril pierced back on February 6th around February 22nd I snagged it a couple times and it developed a piercing bump...

I have flat back jewlery its titanium I believe.

I went back to my piercer early April because the bump still hadn't gone away they changed my jewlery top to a flatter top that covered the bump but they didn't downsize. They said there was a little room but decided not to do it. I was told to come back early June and that the piercing bump should be gone by mid May it's mid May and it almost looks worse after I had visited.

I have a bump on the inside and outside of my nose. The aftercare i was recommended originally was Nelimed piercing aftercare spray. I was told to spray it in the cap and use a qtip to clean the piercing then push it up and down and not twist it. When I went back in April they gave me tea tree oil to mix in with the saline to help the bump go away.

What can I do to make it go away. I tried leaving it alone for awhile ex not cleaning not touching ignoring it... I was told by my piercer it looks like a moisture bump (I have decently oily skin so maybe that contributes to it). I was for a bit just leaving droplets of saline on the piercing to clean it so I wasn't touching it but im not doing that anymore.

I can't get any decent photos so hopefully these work 😥 The tiny gem photo is from February 25th The picture of the inside of my nose is from today and same with the flatter jewlery. it definitely looks like it got bigger...

Please help!!

hello! this is going to be a bit of a ramble. sorry. seeking advice!

i got my helix pierced (3rd photo has jewelry in & it’s the jewelry i was pierced with) about 4-5 months ago (from rowan… because i figured “nurses piercing? hell yeah!” … hell NO! i know i know my bad) and i planned to keep it in until i got a second opinion from a piercer i trust while i was getting my conch downsized. she told me it was pierced at an angle and that she recommended taking it out to let it heal and then get it pierced again properly once fully healed.

i will not lie, any sort of cartilage piercing has given me problems in the past (my conch previously had a bump and my ear did eat the back once but it’s totally fine now—almost completely healed), but i’ve never had a bump this bad. i’ve also never taken jewelry out with a bump so i’m kind of unclear on what to do. does anyone have any recommendations on how i should go about healing this piercing/shrinking the bump? is it the same process as treating a bump with the jewelry in?

for the bot:
age: 4-5 months (well… 0 now?)
jewelry shape: helix stud curved dangle (?), threadless
downsized: yes, once
routine: hyperchlorous spray, saline spray, & occasionally tea tree oil or pure castile magic soap for bumps
events: none. i am occasionally rolling in my sleep though, so possible side sleeping