For approximate healing times for different piercings, check out our aftercare pamphlet. A healed piercing is one where discharge or secretions are minimal and where your body has grown a solid channel of skin from the entrance to the exit of the piercing, creating a path for jewelry to be inserted. If you are not sure if your piercing is fully healed, wait. It is better to be safe than piercing-less and sorry. Wash your hands with soap and water before handling your piercing or your jewelry.
Once your hands are clean you will want to clean your new jewelry. While jewelry purchased from us or any other high-quality source is relatively clean, it will need a gentle cleansing before putting it in. All jewelry is cleaned before shipment, but once it leaves the studio we cannnot guarantee that it will remain that way.
Metal jewelry can usually be rinsed with a soap-and-water solution. For more porous organic jewelry—such as wood, horn, or bone—be careful of what you're using, as anything used can get trapped in the material and leach into your skin. For these, a light oiling is all you need; grapeseed or jojoba oil will usually do the job. Putting jewelry in dry is extremely difficult, and can easily damage your piercing.
Slippery jewelry may be a bit more difficult to handle, but makes for an easier jewelry change. Water-based sex lube is ideal, so get yourself a trial-size tube of K-Y Jelly or something similar. Soap and water will also work, but stay away from petroleum-based products. While it may seem like a good idea to insert jewelry while looking into your bathroom mirror, or in the shower while the skin is loose and warm, small pieces can be hard to hold and ends and balls are often lost down the drain.
Be sure to clean the front and back of the piercing as thoroughly as possible. Unscrew one ball from the circular barbell and set the ball aside somewhere safe, where you will not lose it. Slide the end of the circular barbell, from which you removed the ball, into your open piercing; continue to slide it in until the circular barbell is hanging evenly from your piercing.
Screw the ball tightly onto the end of the circular barbell, holding it in place in your piercing. Ensure that the other ball is screwed tightly on as well. Serena Styles is a Colorado-based writer who specializes in health, fitness and food.
Also make sure you have cleaned the jewellery and the area around your piercing too. Missing these important steps can increase the chances of painful and visually unpleasant infections after changing jewellery.
So here it is, the piece of life changing information ……. Balls are screwed tight to the right and to loosen you need to screw to the left. Seems easier enough to remember, right? If you have room on the bar, squeeze the bar between your index finger and thumb. If only the balls are visible hold one ball firmly. To open with the other hand grip the ball in the same way and apply pressure slightly to get a better grip before slowly turning the ball to the left Anti-clockwise towards yourself.
To close a Barbell, do the opposite. Line up the hole with the threaded bar carefully to prevent cross-threading and slowing twist the ball to the right Clockwise away from yourself. Try thinking that you are standing beside yourself looking at the piercing and twist the ball towards the left. Sometimes this will mess with your mind, as your eyes will want to go one way and you will have to force yourself to go the other. Another way to do it is to line up your fingers on the ball and bar and then close your eyes.
Take away the confusion of what you see in the mirror and turn it the correct way. One more thing about Barbells… The bars and balls are very smooth, and the metal tends to buff and become extremely slippery.
Add to this that even the smallest amount of moisture or micro-sweat from you stressing under the pressure will leave your fingers unable to hold onto the balls. Sometimes the problem is not that the balls are screwed on too tight, but that you just can get a good enough grip on them.
If you find your fingers are slipping and just spinning around the ball, some suggest to try putting on a pair of rubber gloves. The grip will help increase the friction and you will be able to increase the pressure to unscrew the ball.
If you are trying to remove a smaller micro-barbell or the idea of kitchen gloves, ecks you out like me, try Latex gloves. They are a much better fit plus putting them on will make you feel very official and help your CAN-DO mentality. Some piercings are always going to be tricky by their very nature. Cartilage ear piercings are notorious for being hard to remove. They are usually very small, in tight positions and are difficult to see. You end up looking like a dog chasing its tail as you keep turning, trying to get a better look at your own ear.
Some choose a larger barbell that will stick out a little more, or you can choose a shorter barbell that makes the ball ends sit flush with your skin. You can also find curved barbells with ball ends made from pearls, diamonds, opals, and more.
Depending on your ear anatomy, you might be able to make a straight barbell or circular barbell work. These will offer a similar style to the curved barbell, but with more or less of a curvature.
Your anti-helix needs to be able to accommodate a snug piercing. The rook piercing offers a similar aesthetic toward the forward helix area of the ear, while the auricle piercing pierces the area right next to the snug piercing. Instead, you can pierce the upper lobe, which will be in a similar location, but the fleshier skin will heal more easily.
Since this piercing tends to be more painful than other piercing types, it would behoove you to choose a piercer who has experience with the snug piercing. Never choose a piercer who uses a piercing gun ; it uses blunt force trauma to shove the jewelry through the cartilage, which can cause serious complications like cauliflower ear. That being said, if your anti-helix can accommodate it, you can get multiple snug piercings.
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