Piercing Journey and Recovery Times
The piercing process is just the beginning of your journey to adornment. Understanding healing times is crucial, as each piercing type and location requires its own timeline for recovery. Patience and diligent aftercare ensure not only a successful healing process but also the longevity of your beautifully adorned piercings.
The piercing process is just the beginning of your journey to adornment. Understanding healing times is crucial, as each piercing type and location requires its own timeline for recovery. Patience and diligent aftercare ensure not only a successful healing process but also the longevity of your beautifully adorned piercings.
All body piercing will swell marginally when initially pierced so it is critical to use the correct jewellery gauge, size and length.
The downsizing process is also a critical process to maintain a healthy piercing site.
At the time of piercing most customers will receive antiseptic gel or spray to help speed up the healing process. Body Piercers sometimes use a saline solution instead of an antiseptic.
Healing Expectations for Different Piercing Spots
Sterilisation
Studex ear piercing studs and Medisept nose piercing studs are sterilised with ethylene oxide gas. This is performed in a vacuum chamber where the gas is forced through the Tyvek paper to kill all of the bacteria.
This is a large scale sterilisation process that will last approximately 7 years when the jewellery is stored in optimal conditions.
The body piercing stores sterilise their jewellery using an autoclave and pouches. A dry heat steriliser can also be used where the tools don’t have a pouch and need to be used directly after the sterilisation process.
Piercing Instruments
The majority of ear piercing is performed with a disposable cartridge ear piercing instrument. Only the outer perimeter of the ear and lobe can be pierced with an ear-piercing instrument. Other sites on the ear must be pierced with a sterilised needle.
Nose piercing is performed with a nose piercing instrument or an 18g to 20g needle and needle receiving tube.
The nostril is the only piercing site that can be pierced with a nose piercing instrument. The septum must not be pierced with a piercing instrument.
It is legislated that a piercer must use a separate and specific piercing instrument for ear piercing and nose piercing.
