Surface Piercing (nape)
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Wednesday July 29th, 2009 @ 4:24 PM
Filed under: Surface/Unusual
Hey I was wondering how i would put a surface bar into my nape piercing that I got 3 weeks ago. The piercer put a straight bar.. and it is healing fine but i really want a surface bar because it will be better in the long run. I purchased a 1 1/8th ” surface bar online (which is the length of the piercing) but cant figure out how to put it in with the sides coming up at a 90 degree angle… can anyone help?!?!
Surface bars are intended to be placed in initial piercings that were pierced for a specifically sized bar. Trying to change a straight bar into a surface bar would most likely be counter productive. You could try replacing the straight bar with a flexible bar such as PTFE or tygon. That would give you a far better chance of healing than a straight bar, but nowhere near as good as removing the piercing and having it pierced with a surface bar.
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3 Responses to “Surface Piercing (nape)”
I definitely do not agree. Changing the piercing jewellry to a correct one works well, as long as the original piercing is not already completely busted. It is clear wrong advice, when you tell, not to change…
Stormchaser on August 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pmStormchaser, you’re way off base here - Sean’s absolutely correct! Putting a surface bar into a piercing that was not placed for correct jewellery is pretty fail-tastic at the best of times.
Lori St.Leone on August 4th, 2009 at 11:45 amI bet against. Ok, you may have to do something (e.g.: Taping to push the piericng into correct position) but definitely it 1.) works, and 2.) a lot of people do it.
Stormchaser on August 6th, 2009 at 8:40 pmLeave a Comment