Is this even right?
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Thursday March 5th, 2009 @ 9:07 PM
Filed under: Piercing
Good morning ASKBME,
Well í’ve seen to have a stupid question, i know the answer already but would love to hear your view about.
I currently own and run my own Piercing Studio in a small town. With 2 other places that do piercings. I’m somewhat of the person people will go to for a top service, repair or actually information about what to do with the piercing.
So yesterday morning had a young lady come in. She wanted her horizontal nipple pierced, already having a vertical one there. Nothing hard, proceeded to prep the skin and all that other fun stuff. And notice the bar in her nipple was only a very small 16g curved barbell. So changed it for nothing to a bit longer and recommended to stretch it to 14g. As i was place the new jewellery into the piercing, notice something wierd(and that takes alot) There was a thin whitish flesh coloured tube of “what i thought was dead skin” I ask her if it hurt she said nope. So grab a pair of tweezers and slowly pulled on it.. And to my jaw dropping amazement it was the remains of the Catheter Tube, from the piercing. Which was done about 4months earlier.
So the thing is. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT. lol. Wouldn’t it be just easier to remove the entire tube from the nipple when inserting jewellery?
And is actually safe for the client to have bits of tubes in there body? ie is it bio degradable?
Cheers
Dion
ps.. Thank you for your advice earlier, it really paided off. The studio is starting to move along nice ^^
WAS it actually the remains of the catheter tubing? The previous piercer would’ve had to trim that down to fit and it doesn’t make any logical sense as to why.
Are you certain that during the stretching of the piercing you didn’t disrupt the fistula and pull it out?
(It’s thin, whitish, flesh coloured and tube shaped)
The fistula could very well have been torn out… Nipple piercings do not stretch with ease.
If you’re not using internally threaded jewelry that could cause the fistula to tear out as well.
If it WERE a piece of tubing, depending on what it was made of, it likely wouldn’t be in the client’s best interest to wear it as body jewelry, no. (And as the go-to piercer for problem piercings please consider we, as piercers, don’t want our jewelry being “Biodegradable”. We want it to be “biocompatible“.)
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5 Responses to “Is this even right?”
god that’s disgusting.
Clara on March 6th, 2009 at 5:09 amI hope nobody seriously mistakes a ripped off fistula (skin tissue, soft, flexible thin) with a rather solid (especially at small length) and also not too thin plastic tube. Now these kind of tubes are used as peripheral venous catheters in medicine, sometimes ofer prolonged times. The material could be PTFE, or PUR, both are indeed biocompatible. So indeed you could even use it as “jewellry”, but still it is a strange idea to use a narrow cut part of the catheder as coating of the real piercing. So either the first piercer did something really strange, or the second one fails to distinguish between PTFE and skin. Both ideas are not really inspiring confidence?!
Stormchaser on March 7th, 2009 at 8:46 pmHi just to clean up a few things about this issue. I am the one who found the problem. While I wish i had taken a photo of this to send to BME. To explain better. When I changed the jewellery the lady decided not to stretch at that time. So the same gauge jewellery was replace, just longer. Using a lubicate to help assist the jewellery though. As the new jewellery pasted half way, the “tube” slowly came out. It was very solid cyclinder. Which held its own shape til it was disposed off.
Hope this helps with ppl responses.
The other piercings in question are our local tattooist who have had very very bad piercings for a long time..
Any comments are welcome
Dion
Dion on March 11th, 2009 at 3:00 amThanks a lot… I’d really like to know, what the piercer thought, when he did it. You light use it as jewellry, but then it should well protrude from the piercing, beein secured with something like an O-ring. But - cut off par in par with the skin, so sharp edges always at risc to scratch and disturb the healing: thats weird. Wrse, the tiny space between jewelry and plastic ais a wonderful breeding place for bacteria, well secured from the action of the immuns system.
Maybe the jewellry was of that inferior material, that he feard direct contact to livng tissue would cause problems?
I can’t believe that it was a single mistake, the whole thing is too strange. So… what if he often does that “trick”, and there are a lot of people around outside with tubings inside? sounds like troubles….
Stormchaser on March 12th, 2009 at 8:56 pmStormchaser.. If i had the time to write the mistakes that i’ve had from that “studio” i would be here for a very long time.
The piercing in question is a female tattooist at a bikey owned palour. She is usually drunk or stoned or both.. Can’t do anything about it coz the bikeys aren’t very nice here.
This isn’t the worst i’ve seen by far. I had a lady come in about 6months ago, with a problematic navel piercing she got there. A month earlier. As i was checking it out the balls had nearly grown into her skin. I measure the bar, the bar was 12mm 14g. Took the bar out. And measured the distance between the entry and exit it was a lovely 20mm. Joys
I wish i could just slap her to make her do things right, but i would probably have broken knuckles afterwards.
I have even offered to do there piercings for them.
But they said nope.
Cheers
Dion
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