Best jewelry for a permanent corset?
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Monday March 24th, 2008 @ 5:24 AM
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I’m planning on getting a corset piercing in a month’s time, but due to the rarity of them in South Africa, I’m struggling to find info on them. I’ve Googled but keep getting conflicting advice regarding the best jewelry to use for the piercing. I know that corsets have a high rate of rejection, but I’m hoping to try heal it up and keep it permanently.
Microdermal anchors are out of the question. They’re just too expensive to import and there aren’t any piercists nearby that have experience with them.
I was considering rings, but they will hook and I’m not wanting to lace my piercing while its fresh. It seems pointless because the lacing will just agrivate an already difficult piercing.
Would surface bars be an option? I was thinking of getting them put in, then, if and when the piercing heals enough, change over to rings for lacing. If this is a viable option, what type of bar would you recommend and what size?
My piercist has done corsets before, but they were all temporary, so I’m looking for the best option to get it to last longer.
Lastly, what sort of aftercare regime would you recommend?
Thanks in advance.
They should definitely be treated as any other surface piercing project. The jewelry options should either be: A) Internally Threaded ASTM F-136 Titanium Surface Bars or B) Proper ISO spec’ed Tygon material, depending on what method your piercer prefers, those are the two ways that should be considered. My personal view is that it should be done with the Titanium surface bars, but others have had success with Tygon.
So ideally what you should do is sit down and discuss all this with your piercer. If they do not have a lot of experience with this concept, permanent corset piercings,etc…Definitely just keep it in the mindset that the longevity of keeping these could be reduced as a result…So long as you keep that in mind and you’re willing to let your piercer give it a try, then hey there’s nothing wrong with letting them have a try….But yeah definitely make sure either implant grade Titanium internally threaded surface bars are used, ideally with flat discs…Or use Tygon….
Also the reason why I suggest the flat discs is because it would most definitely reduce the amount of snagging/catching that would occur if you used regular beads.
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5 Responses to “Best jewelry for a permanent corset?”
This is my q above that I sent in.
I finally found the site for our biggest piercing studio in the area, and guess what: they do microdermal anchors. So they are, in fact, back on the table as an option.
Would they be a better choice than surface bars?
Jackalhead on March 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pmwith permanent corsets like stated there’s no sure fire “better choice”, its mostly a lot of hope and prayers towards making them succeed.
You could give it a shot with microdermals, or you could give it a shot with surface piercings….Due to potential movement I’d say give microdermals a go, however the success rate with them will most likely be the exact same rate as if you did them with a surface bar.
Warren Hiller on March 28th, 2008 at 1:56 amJackalhead, I have four titanium surface bars on my back like a corset, and I have had them almost two years. Mine have regular balls on the end and I have a set of ’slave’ rings for ribbons. I haven’t found the balls very problematic, but discs would have a ‘neater’ look.
I also have four microdermals under my collarbones. When I first had my microdermals done, I felt like they were so fragile and kept worrying I would knock them either out, or enough to cause some damage. I feel that surface bars are more ’sturdy’ compared to microdermals.
Holly on April 10th, 2008 at 9:44 amThanks Holly. I’m a horse-rider and need to be flexible through my back, so I think the MA’s will be the better option.
Jackalhead on April 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pmI’ve had my surface bar corset for over a year and I personally preferred the balls over the disks.
Michelle the robot on May 1st, 2008 at 11:45 pmAlso, if you are a horseback rider, the microdermals might be pulled out really easily.
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