What is the smallest gauge for a nose piercing? Can you wear a normal ear stud in your nose piercing?
The smallest gauge jewelry isn't necessarily going to be the best option, especially for the initial piercing. There can be a "cheese slicing" effect if any body jewelry is too small and it is pulled or catches on anything. A fresh piercing is at a higher risk for this as the tissue surrounding it is very fragile until it has had a chance to heal completely from the outside of the site to the middle tissue of the piercing. Most nostril piercing are performed with an 18 ga (1.2 mm) or a 16 ga (1.4mm). They're very small. The smallest nostril jewelry I've seen available is a 20ga (~1 mm) but the jewelry is so small that it's prone to bending or becoming misshapen. The visible end to a nostril stud can be very small after the initial healing, being only slightly larger than the post. Starting jewelry normally has an end around 2mm to ensure it doesn't fall into the fresh piercing. As far as wearing an ear piercing post in your nostril, I would advise against it. Aside from it being incredibly uncomfortable, the only thing that would hold that jewelry in place would be a butterfly style backing. I cannot imagine that being an easy thing to keep clean. Also, you want to make sure that the jewelry you are using is high-quality and won't cause you any grief during healing. Even gold jewelry bought from a high-end jewelry store doesn't match up against gold body jewelry in terms of healing a piercing. Body piercing has come a long way in the past couple of decades and the top brands for body piercings take a lot of pride in what they do. They're always growing and always learning and always coming up with safer, healthier alternatives for their clients. Don't sell yourself short and stick an earring in there. Treat your body like the temple that it is. Put only quality jewelry in it.
Nose piercing?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 1. No, they do not. 2. Chain stores like that tend not to pierce noses. Smaller, locally owned quick-piercing places are more likely to offer the service. 3. You should never ever ever ever ever ever ever get anything pierced with a piercing gun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKCW76znI... http://www.namaii.com/suck/ Piercing guns are unsanitary, and dangerous, and they leave you with a much greater risk of infection, and scarring. Getting pierced with a needle is cleaner, safer, and less painful. 4. How your piercing closes up depends on how your piercing heals initially. If it got infected a lot, or has scar tissue around it, the healing will be less significant. Although, it will most likely be barely noticeable even if it was a troublesome piercing.
What are some local stores that sell piercing needles?
tattoo and piercing supply stores you're not going to find piercing needles in a chain store like wal mart or CVS
Want ears pierced,but afraid of needles?
1. Honestly, it won't sting after half an hour, or even earlier than that. The pinch's after-effects do not last long, and if you really do feel pain after an hour you are psyching yourself out or the person who pierced your ears botched the job. 2. The needle gun is the most instantaneous solution. The effects of the gun are no different to that of just using the needle. 3. Clean your ears with the solution they provide for you. People who get their ears infected really don't have maintain good hygiene for simple pierced ears on their lobes. Most people I know who get their lobes pierced don't have problems with infections. Also, when piercing, the earrings that you pierce with should either be stainless steel, silver, gold, or another precious metal to prevent infection (this is most important in preventing infection!) 4. It can range from 10-20-30 dollars, depending on the place. I would really recommend any of those chain jewelry stores such as Claire's or The Icing; they do it all the time, and their pricing is decent. Also, there are many general practioners/physicians who pierce ears.
After an ear piercing, how long until you can replace the stud with a loop?
Most tattoo/piercing shops have loops or hoops that you can choose for cartilage piercings. If you are getting it done at a chain store (like claires or etc.) they use a piercing gun that slows down healing for cartilage piercings. Go to a tattoo shop and get it done with a needle. You can choose the jewelry you wanted originally and won't risk infection from changing the jewelry too soon. By the way you shouldn't change jewelry until it is completely healed (about 2 months to a year)
Should i get my ears pierced at piercing pagoda or Claire's
well ive gotten my ears pierced at both places and theyre both good quality just go to whichever you feel more comforable at
Cartilage piercings at Claire's?
a lot of people are saying that claire's is cheaper than going to a tattoo shop & having it done right, but its not! it is only around $30 to get a cartilage piercing at a tattoo shop, which is about what you would pay at claire's. also; getting it pierced with a needle is A LOT safer, less painful, and less damaging to your ear, they also heal a lot quicker when done with a needle instead of a gun because the gun causes damage. if you want to see some interesting info on the Gun vs. Needle debate, check out this website; it has some really good information:http://www.tribalectic.com/Archives/Mar2... [scroll down to "why piercing guns are bad"]
Where in bradford can i get my nose pierced with a needle?
I want to get my nose pierced and my mum and sister got theirs done with a gun. My mums turned out perfectly fine but my sister had problems with hers. I dont know which is safer, needle or gun? I have seen a lot of negativity towards guns but i dont know if i should risk it with a gun.
I have an upper ear cartilage piercing. What type of earrings are best for that type of piercing?
I'll add to this that whether you choose studs, huggies, or simple hoops, I strongly recommend getting earrings made with hypoallergenic metals. Mainly, that means no nickel. If you don't have an allergy to nickel, you're in the clear, but I still always recommend taking that extra step, to avoid irritation and preserve the piercing. Randomly, people will have no reaction to nickle in a necklace, or even a lobe piercing, but react at the cartilage, or vice versa. If you're okay with being exposed to nickel, stainless steel is a good choice, and a lot of earrings are made with it. It's also cheaper than many other metals.Surgical steel is a great jewellery metal. It's quite safe. While I never recommend getting pierced by the gun, I love the Studex piercing earrings because they are surgical steel. You can buy them online fairly cheap. If you're like me, and have tons of ear piercings, it's an easy, economical way to get enough matching earrings for your ears. Piercing jewellery sites also sell a lot of items in surgical steel.I also like to recommend sterling silver. It does tarnish, so you do need to clean them once in awhile (but then, you should be cleaning your jewellery anyway), but it's a pretty metal, and only a worry if you're allergic to silver. Sterling silver earrings aren't very expensive, either. All my earrings, minus the daith and tragus, are sterling silver (those two are surgical steel), and I don't have to clean them in silver cleaner very often.Gold is also a popular, safe metal, barring allergies. If you're like me and don't like the colour, there's always white gold. The only issue is the price, which means that for many people, myself included, it's only for special jewellery.Whenever you put new jewellery in, check in it a few times the first week, several times the first day. Like I said before, sometimes people have reactions to metals they've used before. New or old metal, you want to catch if you're having a reaction, or if your skin is turning green (some pieces can be labeled for any of the above metals, but the seller can be a liar, liar, pants on fire) before it gets bad.As for the earring itself, I'm a huge proponent of studs. They look nice, and you're far less likely to get your hairbrush caught on them. They're also generally cheaper than hoop styles with stones in them.Happy shopping!
Is it safe to get your ears pierced at Claire's?
I had honestly thought so until recently. I just got my second piercings there, and I kind of regret going to Claire's instead of being patient and finding a better piercer for a number of reasons.It turns out, piercing guns are unsanitary and apply too much force to the ear. Every Claire's I've ever gone to uses one. You want to use a sterile needle which has been put through intense heat for cleaning purposes. If you were to put a piercing gun through such heat, it would melt. You don't know what kind of pathogens you could be getting from the use of one.You want a professional piercer to pierce your ears. The workers at Claire's are not considered professional because the training they receive is the equivalent of watching a few amateur videos on YouTube and then going right for the task. The girl who pierced my doubles was kind, but tugged down on my left ear with the piercing gun, making it more tender than it should be. Piercings are a big deal as far as your health goes, and there's always risk of infection. You want them done right by someone who knows what they're doing.Claire's came out with a new cleansing agent for piercings back in 2016, citing it as having “rapid 3 week healing” benefits. That is exactly what they gave me for my latest piercings. It's a tiny, $20 bottle of watered down bleach. The ingredients are: Water, Phosphoric acid, and Sodium Hypochlorite - which is a basic chemical compound found in household bleach. It smells like bleach, it aggravates my skin like bleach, and it's discolored one of my shirts like bleach. My friend freaked out when I told her and is rushing over with a better cleanser. Wound wash you can buy at the local drug store and a non-iodine sea salt water solution have been recommended to me. Bottom line is, they're marketing harmful chemicals as a beneficiary wash. If you don't want to take my word for it, check out the horrendously negative reviews for it on Amazon. About 64% of them are one star reviews.All in all, don't go to Claire's. Please. Learn from my mistake.