Face Piercing

Posted on October 11, 2007 in Types of Body Piercing

Traditionally, face piercings are generally related to noses and lips. However there are several types of facial piercings that are popular at present Facial piercings tend to have greater possibilities of rejection or developing scar tissue since a number of them affect areas of flat skin, in what is known as “surface” piercings.

Surface piercings are marked by extremely high rate of rejection as the skin doesn’t have adequate slack and the piercing jewelry exerts pressure on the tissue. Additionally, any infection to these face piercings is likely to affect vital parts and can easily spread to the blood; hence proper healing care after face piercing is needed.

Facial piercings can be done on the various areas like forehead, temple, bridge of nose, nostril, septum, cheeks, labrets/lips, lowbrets, scrumper, and mandible.

Techniques and methods of face piercings

The following are the most common facial piercing techniques and procedures

Piercing that are undertaken by experts involve the use of an exceedingly pointed hollow surgical needle similar to the ones employed for giving drips or blood.
This implies that for the majority of facial piercing the needle is pierced in an instant and the degree of uneasiness is minimal.
As has been observed people react to different body piercing in different ways.
Some are often extremely distressed with certain piercing and may lose consciousness in the process.
Others may throw up and there are others still who might not be affected at all by the seemingly painful procedure.

Risks of face piercings

There are certain risks associated with facial piercing and these shouldn’t be taken lightly. The common facial piercing risks are:

Infection: In the absence of adequate care, infection can result in scarring and even blood poisoning.

Allergic Reaction: Some people are allergic to particular metals and only realize this during piercing and have a serious reaction to the jewellery. The inflammation, coupled with problems in breathing can result in hospitalization.

Nerve Damage

If a piercing isn’t positioned cautiously, it can penetrate a nerve, detaching it and making the adjoining area devoid of any sensation.

Face piercing after care

You need to keep in mind the following face piercing after care pointers

You must at all times make it a point to keep your hands clean prior to touching your piercing.
You need to do this to ensure that your hands are not the source of contamination for the area that has been ierced.

The use of sterile cotton, cotton gauze or other disinfected material should be used for cleaning from the second night onwards. You should exercise caution while removing any trickle from the skin in the vicinity of the pierced area. If the piercing has become loose and can be twisted with relative ease, clean the different sections at a time, while rotating it through the pierced area. This has to be done to ensure that the entire surface of the piercing has been properly cleaned.

Healing after face piercing

The curing of an ordinary wound and the healing of a facial piercing is significantly dissimilar.
For a normal wound the body simply has to restore and rejoin the injured tissue, but with facial piercing, this process is made difficult by the presence of an unfamiliar substance, the jewellery.
A facial piercing can take a number of weeks or even months to heal. The healing process commences soon after the piercing is done, with the cells moving from the border of the wound together until they join.

Areas of Face Piercing:
Face piercing can be done at the ear, chin, cheek, brow, lip, nostril, septum, tongue, and mandible. Some of the styles of face piercings available are madonna, monroe, labret, medusa, bridge and jungle.

Selecting the Right Piercing Studio:
Before going for face piercing, selecting the right piercing studio is important. Select the studio only if you are completely satisfied. Following are the tips to find the best piercing studio:

If your friends who had a safe piercing, enquire about the piercing studio where they had the piercing. Make the list of studios available.
Visit the studios personally to get a good idea about them
The studio should have a clean appearance and should have up-to date health certificate
The needles used for face piercing should be disposable to minimize the risk of infection
Other equipment should be sterilized using an autoclave – which is a heat sterilization machine
The employees should be trained. They should be willing to answer your doubts

Certain jewelry such as nickel and brass can trigger allergies. Signs of allergies are redness, hives, itching and blistering. If you have allergies to any metal, choose hypoallergenic jewelry or metals such as stainless steel to have a safe piercing.

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2 Responses to “Face Piercing”

tootherL Says:
February 17th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
what about the risk of infection to others from your facial piercing?
Maddison Says:
June 29th, 2009 at 4:12 am
lol An infection is not necessarily a contagious illness. The type of infection that you may get in a piercing cannot be passed on to anyone..

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