All the deets on healing, tips & tricks, and where I am located.
Healing
- ALWAYS wash your hands before touching your piercings
- Clean your piercing front and back TWICE a day until healed, but can continue for as long as wanted.
- Each piercing and person will have a different healing time.
- Use healing solution and a microswab. I do not recommend using a q-tip because cotton material can come off and we want to keep those piercings as clean as possible.
- Try to keep hair, makeup, and soap off your piercings as best as you can.
- Avoid sleeping on or bumping your piercing as much as possible.
- Wear the studs you were pierced with until fully healed.
- Wear earrings 24/7 for at least 6-8 months to prevent holes from closing.
- If swelling occurs, apply a clean warm/damp compress to ear and take ibuprofen.
- If pain and swelling persist consult your physician.
Tips & Tricks
Do not use alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean your piercing. Both slow the healing of pierced areas by dring and killing new, healthy cells.
When changing your earrings for the first time, irritation and redness may occur. Make sure the backs of your earrings are not too snug (they should have some wiggle room).
I recommend high quality earrings that will not irritate your piercings. Any stud I pierce you with will be high quality material (surgical stainless steel or karat gold).