Content

• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings

Rejection - this is when your skin pushes a foreign object outward, killing tissue - this is a risk associated with any piercing. To reduce this risk, you must take good care of your piercing and plan it carefully. Good placement is just as important as good grooming.

Steps

1. 1 Find a piercing specialist who has experience with the exact type of piercing you want to get yourself. Check out his portfolio of already healed and fresh piercings. Find out about his experience and qualifications.
2. 2 Decide how high the risk of piercing rejection is. Eyebrows, navels, frenulum lips, genital piercings, superficial piercings all have the highest risk of rejection. Cartilage piercings are the least risky.
3. 3 Choose the appropriate decoration. A piercing that goes through a thick layer of flesh, like a rook or tragus, should be inserted with a straight or slightly curved stem. For superficial piercings, use surface strips. For navels and eyebrows, curved legs or surface trims are needed. Most experts agree that titanium or glass is less likely to be rejected than steel, because these materials are more easily perceived by our body.
4. 4 Make sure the puncture is large enough. Most professionals use a 14 or 16 gauge needle as a standard, a smaller gauge is more likely to cause problems. Choose the largest size that suits you. Many experts believe that piercings in specific places, like the tongues and inner labia, need a 12g or larger gauge.
5. 5 Ask the technician to check the puncture depth again.
6. 6 Gently care for your piercing, wash it every day with soap and water, use a sea salt solution, and never touch it with dirty hands. To prepare the salt solution, choose non-iodized salt, available at any pharmacy or grocery store. Use 1/4 - 1/8 teaspoon of salt in 200 ml warm distilled or bottled water. Too much salt can irritate the piercing. Do not pinch or pinch your piercing, and keep your hair accessories and tight clothing away from it.
7. 7 Check with your piercer if you feel the piercing is not perceptible to the skin, if there is redness around the hole, or if the piercing looks like it is swelling.
8. 8 If you think your body is rejecting the jewelry, do not remove the jewelry. Ask a qualified technician to do this. Removing jewelry from an infected piercing yourself can leave an infection inside the skin, resulting in a cyst.

Tips

• Surface bars are U, J, or L shaped and are significantly superior to straight or flexible surface piercing legs because they do not press on the hole like jewelry does.For neck, décolleté and other superficial piercings, superficial strips should be used. For highly mobile areas like the wrists, flat discs should also be used instead of balls.
• Parts of the body that have curves are very likely to have piercing rejection. You might want to reconsider your choice.
• You cannot influence the rejection / movement of the piercing in any way ... this is a myth. When your body perceives the piercing as a foreign object, it wants to "push" it, and there is nothing you can do to prevent it. More importantly, when the puncture is moved, you cannot redo it because the skin has a memory and after one transfer there will be a deeper and darker scar.
• For the frenulum of the lips, inner labia and other thin areas of the skin, larger calibers and a sufficiently deep puncture are needed to avoid rejection of the piercing by the body.

Warnings

• The piercing can move frequently, then lock in place over time. Watch the movement of the piercing carefully to check that it is being perceived by the skin.
• Remember that your body does not want foreign objects in it. It will push them out rather than waste energy on healing around the foreign body.
• Rejection leaves hideous scars. You should remove the jewelry to avoid this.