requesting a larger gauge piercing and following aftercare instructions may help. When you get a new piercing, you’re welcoming a foreign object into your body. Sometimes, your body isn’t as ...

The body may reject ... a person having a new piercing in the same location after it heals. Ask the piercer about using a different piece of jewelry. Thicker-gauge jewelry or a different shape ...

Gauging can be as small as a ¼ inch (00 gauge ... This piercing can accommodate either a captive bead or curved barbell. Circular captive bead hardware extends beyond the body surface and ...

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have practiced piercing other body parts ... Then, a 12- to 16-gauge hollow needle is passed through the skin. Your piercer then inserts a ...

This could explain why you tend to see them on seasoned piercing aficionados. Intrigued? To get the lowdown, we reached out to DaVo, piercer and owner of Axiom Body ... with a 14 gauge or 16 ...

Ear stretching is the process of expanding an earlobe piercing hole over several months. This is a type of aesthetic body modification ... stretch your ears above 2 gauge (6mm) size, you will ...

It's popular to get piercings on the nipple, ears, tongue, eyebrows, belly button, and other body parts, but sometimes a complication called piercing rejection can occur. Nearly 35% of people have ...