Wednesday October 1st, 2008 @ 9:14 PM
I just lost the o-ring for my eyebrow retainer, what precautions can I take to make sure it doesnt fall out till I can get to a shop to buy another o-ring?
You could place a band-aid or medical tape over the other end of the bar to keep it from sliding out while you sleep or go about your day. This method actually works really well for lots of piercings if you lose a ball off of one end.
+3 / 3 votes 
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Wednesday October 1st, 2008 @ 9:12 PM
Can you get your eyebrow pierced with a cbr or is it easier to let it heal with a different ring and switch it when it heals?
Yes, eyebrow piercings can be done with CBR’s initially. However, the CBR is going to stick up/out more, from the side of your head. Therefore it will get knocked/bumped/snagged more often and will typically take longer (and be harder) to heal than a curved barbell. Once the piercing is healed having a CBR in it won’t be as much of an issue, but it’s still more likely get snagged on stuff.
+3 / 3 votes
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Sunday September 28th, 2008 @ 4:33 AM
I just recently (2 weeks ago) got my eyebrow re-pierced after the old hole had closed up a few months before (it fell out while I was sleeping). Unexpectedly, I have to go take care of my grandmother and the place she’s in won’t let me have any obvious facial piercings. Would I be able to put a retainer in now without screwing up the healing? If so, could I do it myself or should I go to a professional to do it for me? Also, if I went to a different place to change it to a retainer then the place I got it pierced would they do it? Thank you.
Find a studio that offers you a Quartz Glass Retainer and make sure they run it through an autoclave cycle before they insert it into your piercing. The quartz glass retainer is acceptable in a fresh body piercing and is a lot better than any of the other plastic type retainers that are out on the market.
+1 / 7 votes 
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Saturday September 20th, 2008 @ 12:08 PM
I had my eyebrow pieced a couple of months ago and it seems to be healing fairly well. However, the end of the barbell won’t come off… Probably because I failed to check the ball every day and some crust got into the screw and hardened or something.
Has anyone else had similar problems?
I’ve left it as it is because it wasn’t really a major problem, but I have a job interview in a few weeks and it would be really helpful if anyone could tell me a way to loosen the end and take it out. cheers.
I tend to really tighten balls on jewellery to prevent clients switching it out after only eight weeks!
If you have to remove it then try gripping the balls with a bit of tissue or buy a pair of latex or nitrile (although latex is grippier) gloves. I would advise you visit a piercer after your interview to have them reinsert the jewellery using an insertion pin so’s to avoid any additional trauma as I’m pretty certain that in this time the fistula will shrink some and you will damage it by forcing jewellery back in as it isn’t fully healed.
Ideally, you shouldn’t be removing and reinserting jewellery in an eyebrow piercing for a minimum of four months - preferably longer.
+6 / 6 votes
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Saturday September 13th, 2008 @ 9:03 AM
I got my eyebrow pierced 4 weeks ago, the shop where i got it done said i have to wait 6 months before i even think about changing it. I have had several piercings they all healed beautifully and fast. Every where else i asked says i can change it after 8 weeks. How long would you suggest i wait to at the very least?
I would also advise four to six months. It takes an average of around three months for initial healing (in tissue other than mucous membrane) and depending on whereabouts it is, it’s a good idea to allow time for the newly healed fistula to toughen up so you are less likely to damage it by changing the jewellery. Eyebrow piercings can be tempramental and prone to rejection if not cared for adequatley, so to reduce the risk of rejection, leaving the jewellery in situ for a minimum of four months is a good plan.
+20 / 20 votes
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Sunday August 17th, 2008 @ 6:09 AM
my piercing is healing beautifully, it’s 7.5 weeks old, but when i move it or touch it it seems like theres a bruise in it, but the bruising when away at 4 weeks. i think i hurt it but i’m not sure.
do you think this will be ok? or is this normal?
p.s i’m suppose to stop cleaning it this friday because it’ll have been 8weeks/2 months
Know that if you continue to poke and prod at your piercing, it will not heal beautifully. As the more you poke and prod at it, the more you are introducing potentially harmful bacteria into and around your piercing. I’m inclined to say that if you would stop touching your piercing, the discomfort you’re feeling, will go away.
Also know that the 8 week/2 month aftercare process is a generalized minimum time frame. Some people will be able to stop the aftercare protocol at 8 weeks time, however sometimes people will need longer. If you have been and continue to keep touching your healing piercing, I’d suggest to continue the aftercare protocols for more then the 8 week period. Even if you make sure you no longer touch your piercing, I’d suggest you continue the aftercare protocol for a few more weeks.
As in this stage of the healing its still not fully healed, its simply at a point where you no longer have to actively follow an aftercare protocol. As your body will, at this point, have healed enough in order to continue the healing process on its own. However like I said the more you do not follow the aftercare protocols, the more complications you introduce to your body and your piercing, the longer its going to be sore/take to heal,etc.
+2 / 4 votes 
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Thursday August 14th, 2008 @ 1:40 AM
I am interested in piercing my own eyebrow, and I was just wondering if I should use any specific needle, or if any needle would do? (Like, would a sewing needle that was big enough be alright or suicidal?) Thanks.
Not “Suicidal” but “Stupid” quite possibly.
If you cannot comprehend the definitions of “Sterile” vs “Non-Sterile” and/or “Clean/De-Contaminated” vs “Dirty/Contaminated” then I most honestly would suggest you are not a potential candidate to try a DIY piercing alone.
You’re best choice is to visit a reputable piercing artist and bring up that you want to do the piercing yourself, but want to make sure you have the best possible chance. An easy-going/reputable artist should be willing to help/guide you through this by offering you their guidance/assistance and help you prep, mark,etc the eyebrow. But then when it came time to pierce the flesh with the needle, then that’s your queue to pick the needle up and do the piercing. The piercer would only be on standby in case you are unable to do it or lost the transfer and can’t get it in,etc.
+11 / 31 votes
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Tuesday August 12th, 2008 @ 4:13 PM
I was just wondering if a retainer would be okay as initial jewelry for a bridge piercing. I would love to have this piercing and my job doesn’t mind wearing retainers, but they won’t let me have any metal jewelry in it. Thanks!
I prefer to use straight jewellery such as barbells in bridge piercings (and I do not place them as surface piercings, like some piercers seem to do), so if a client came to me with this request I’d be happy to do the piercing with a quartz glass tongue-style retainer. If your piercer uses glass retainers as initial jewellery for piercings (and honestly, we’ve done lots of them at my shop and never had any problems other than the occasional client losing their jewellery - retainers are NEVER as secure as threaded jewellery!), I can’t imagine why they would mind doing this for you.
+3 / 5 votes
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Posted by Lori St.Leone | Permalink | 2 Comments
Saturday July 5th, 2008 @ 12:22 AM
To make a long story short, I’m going to be a bridesmaid in my brothers wedding and his fiancee wants me to take out my eyebrow ring (barbell). By that time I will have had it for about 2.5 years. Aside from personal issues about trying to control what someone else does to their body for the sake of pictures, I’m wondering what the odds of it closing up over the course of the day are? Thanks!
Damn brides and their Bridezilla ways…Hence why when I get married it’s going to be in Vegas, with Elvis as the “priest” and only with a small select group of people…But that’s probably why I’ll never get married…Oh well…
One thing you can do is take the eyebrow piercing out right before you have to do your wedding obligations,etc. Or another option is finding a quartz retainer to wear which virtually makes it impossible to notice if you have a piercing in or not,etc.
Perhaps you can talk the bride into going for the quartz retainer. If not just take the piercing out right before the wedding obligations and during the reception,etc (post-wedding ceremony) maybe you can just try to slide the jewelry in for some time to make sure the pathway hasn’t tightened up,etc. If it doesn’t fit, don’t force it, and simply visit a professional studio and have them taper the pathway back open to the size of your jewelry.
+9 / 15 votes
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Posted by Warren Hiller | Permalink | 7 Comments
Saturday July 5th, 2008 @ 12:12 AM
Alright so i recently decided to get my bridge pierced after already having snakebites, my septum, the side of my nose and i have gauged my ears.
I use to have a tounge web piercing byt it was regected, thts the only problem ive had with a regecting piercing and i was wondering how common it is for a bridge piercing to regect???
And is there a certain ammount of skin that HAS to be between your eyes or is it pretty much the same for everyone
There is no set amount of skin between our eyes because everyone’s bridge width will vary since we’re all unique special snowflakes.
Some piercers will use grids to line everything up, others will just keep putting dots on and wiping them off until they get to an ideal placement…I tend to do a mixture of the two where I’ll draw a single line down the mid-line of the bridge, then draw two dots where I think they look level and straight,etc. From there I’ll measure the width to determine the length I need.
I wouldn’t say a bridge piercing is overly common to reject, any piercer can reject if the body does not want it there and views it as foreign matter in the body. I do advise my clients though that quite often you will need to downsize after roughly 3-4 weeks and even then sometimes in another 3-4 weeks need to downsize once more.
Quite often the major issues with bridges is scar tissue build up, as well as Boil or furuncle. Thus requiring hot sea salt water compresses the occasional time,etc.
But as I said Bridge piercings aren’t a common piercing to reject, but depending on the person and everything, its not unheard of that they can reject.
+5 / 7 votes
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