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^AH! Biotine! That is what I used last time!!!
I couldn't remember!
Last time my lip was bad (head space no good and my activities caused issue and had to remove it)
I will go on the search for Biotine at the drug store.
 
Should I pierce my nose?

Just stuck a safety pin all the way throught but i couldnt figure out how to get it closed, also stuck one through my arm lol. Should I try again and just leave it there?
 
Well I took the safety pin out today and swabbed my nose inside and out with alcohol. Tried to put a stud earring back in the hole but I couldn't get it to go in the first time. The second time I'm pretty sure it wasn't lined up right because it made a crunchy noise and hurt like hell lol. I almost gave up but I got it in the third time after putting a wadded up cotton swab in my nostril and just pushing no matter what lol. Thankfully it must have been lined up better since it went through the same hole on the inside. Does anyone know how long I should leave the earring in so it can heal? I don't want to go through trying to repierce it like I did earlier when I take it out lol. Also any other advice, because this is my first piercing and obviously wasn't professionally done. lol
 
^ My nose, done professionally, took about six weeks to heal to the point where I could take the jewelry out for a couple hours without an issue getting it back in.

Do not use alcohol to clean the piercing as that will dry it out and delay the healing. Use unscented hand-soap on a cotton swab, lather up, rinse off. Do that at least twice a day. Do not pick any crusties that form--Use soap and water to gently wash them away, but no more than twice a day.
 
i knowcked it out tonight drunk and i shit u not it scabbed over in like 20 mins max before i could get home. oh well was fun while it lasted.
 
Yep, the inside of the nose is a mucous membrane and therefore heals extraordinarily fast. After I had my nose pierced (professionally ;)) I wanted to change the jewellery 6 weeks after I'd had it done. I took the jewellery out, fumbled around with cleaning the new jewellery for about 5 minutes, then attempted to put it back in and the hole had already healed over. I had to go back to my piercer the next day and get it re-pierced. Crazy!


nutty, the moral of the story is: Do not attempt any piercings yourself unless you are trained in piercing, or at very least nursing or something similar.

Keep an eye on it for the next week or so for infection. If your nose or cheeks get hot, red, swollen and sore, please go and see a doctor immediately.
 
cartilage piercings NEED to be done by a cartilage piercing professional with proper, sterile equipment. never EVER do them yourself and NEVER allow anyone to perform them with a piercing gun. done improperly they are susceptible to serious infections and keloids. although keloids are more typical in those with dark skin, they are possible with all skin tones.

if you don't know what a keloid looks like:

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I'm glad he took the lush kick and had that fucker knocked off of him.

Keloiding sucks but Sceptic Shock sounds scarier. Serious infections happen with unsterilized needles.

A quick google search would have taught him a bit about DIY piercings. Weird how some people still don't research things in this "age of information," but to each his own.
 
^ I think it's mostly due to the fact that somebody sees Joe Shmoe did it himself and thinks that they're smarter than him, so if he can do it without any negative ramifications, they most certainly can.

The first piercing I got (aside from ears--don't get me started on the issues I had with piercing guns) was my nose, done at a regular piercing shop. Done on a whim, as we were walking by the place. It BLED. Nose piercings are NOT supposed to bleed. Since then, I have researched piercing places before going there, and I now will drive 40+ minutes to go to one I used to be fifteen minutes from, because they are consistently rated #1 in Buffalo and because of what I saw/experienced there. The only issue I had with a piercing from there (and I had five holes put in my body from there) was because I failed to take proper care of it while it was healing.

To those of you in the WNY area, I cannot recommend the Cow Pok (in Buffalo, on Elmwood near North) highly enough. :)
 
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There's the second one I did to my arm lol. You can see where the first one was, I put it in too deep tho and couldn't get the safety pin closed lol.
 
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The time has come for me to part with my clitoris/hood piercing. :( I have had this for 12 years!!! I am ok with it though, time to move on. When the time is right ill replace the loss with a new tattoo (not on my hood of course!) :D
 
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Once upon a teenage time, I had a friend pierce my lip at home........
It got nasty and I removed it soon after......I still have a little scar from it :\
I am so glad I went about my new lip piercing the right way this time around :D
I love it!!!
 
How unheard of it is for a nose piercing to just close up?

I've had my nose pierced since '07. Took it out on Saturday night to use a neti pot... Forgot to put it back in until Sunday night. (I've taken it out for days before, though not while using the neti pot--Could this have impacted it?) Can get it in but not past the turn in the L-shaped stud. It's perplexing and annoying but maybe this is my body's way of saying it is done with the ugly thing? :P I mean, I did say that once I lose all the studs I just bought (typically takes a year or so for me to lose all six of 'em, or for their jewels to come out 8)) that I will be done with this piercing since if I want it back, I can always get it redone... Still kind of sucks that it's being forced upon me to be done with it... :-/
 
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