bioplast vs. stainless steel

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Thursday August 14th, 2008 @ 1:33 AM

Filed under: Navel

I will be going to get an industrial navel piercing and i am wondering weather i should get a bioplast or stainless steel barbell. I’ve done some research and have heard pros and cons of both types of jewlery. I have a somewhat active lifestyle and I would like to know which will be more comfortable.

thanks for your help:]

Realistically neither would be “more comfortable” with someone who has an active lifestyle.

Also have you visited a reputable piercer to inspect the navel area and make sure what you’re looking for, is even capable of being done? As more often then not, peoples navels are not suited for the type of piercing you’re referring to.

If you are suitable to get both your Standard Navel and Inverse Navel pierced. You could technically heal the each piercing with separate jewelry. Then once healed place a Tygon piece of jewelry through the pathways and leave it in until it becomes firmer/harder. From there remove it and the piercer can either order a custom bent Barbell or if they have proper non-damaging (ie: won’t gouge the hell out of the surface of the jewelry) bending pliers they can attempt to make the shape themselves.

If you want you can do a search on AskBME involving BioPlast and it will explain why BioPlast is not a suitable jewelry material to be used in fresh/initial piercings.

But realistically if a client came to me looking for this and mentioned they lead a very active lifestyle, I would have tried to really make them understand that a very active lifestyle is not conductive to the healing of this specific piercing. If they were still interested in going through with it, then I would stress to the client to consider it a “project” and encourage it be done the way I mentioned above. Where its pierced with two pieces and then later figure out the pathway shapes and create/order a custom barbell shaped specifically for what your navel requires.

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