Eyebrow ring jewelry

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Tuesday May 6th, 2008 @ 3:08 AM

Filed under: Eyebrow/Bridge

Hey guys!

I got my eyebrow pierced on my 15th birthday at the biggest, most reputable shop in our area. He did it with a (316L i think) 1/2inch, straight, externally threaded barbell. I cleaned it with H2Ocean & switched to a curved barbell after a couple of months to see if it would heal better. It never healed and just continually rejected until it was held on by a tiny flap of skin, at which point I retired it, being left with a funny looking scar.

Right before my 16th birthday I went to another smaller shop that my friends used and asked the piercer there why it didn’t work out. I told him that I had had stitches in the area about 7 years prior but he said that it was all healed and shouldn’t have made a difference. He said it was probably the jewelry used, the fact that it was not curved. He pierced me on the other eyebrow with a titanium CBR and I still have it 2 years later.

I know that the first shop is still using straight barbells because my friend got his eyebrow pierced there recently and they used the same jewelry as they did on me and his rejected as well.

In short my question is: do straight barbells increase the risk of rejection in an eyebrow piercing?

Thanks for all your help!

In short: Quite often yes.

In long: I will say I HAVE seen some individuals heal a straight barbell in their eyebrows, however its far and few between. Quite often it heals as a result of the actual brow ridge being of a specific shape. Most people I find don’t really have this type of brow ridge so a curved barbell is honestly the ideal jewelry option. As when we’re piercing we either elevate the brow area with our fingers (freehand) or use forceps. When we use these techniques and pass the needle through the tissue it makes a curved pathway. So when that’s done and when a straight bar is inserted pressure occurs as its a straight piece of metal through a curved pathway. This pressure often is chronically being applied until the pressure is released, which is often what we call migration and rejection.

Personally I wouldn’t even consider a CBR ideal for initial/fresh eyebrow piercing jewelry either. The only type of jewelry I’d say is the ideal type is a Implant Grade(Steel or Titanium) Internally Threaded Curved Barbell. Then after a good many months of the pathway being healed (everyone’s different but I usually say around 6 months or so) then you can most definitely switch it over to a CBR, Circular Barbell,etc.

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