Lip Piercing

Lip piercing is considered to be the simplest and the safest type of piercing, because there are no large-vessels and complex ganglia in our lips.

Monroe piercings, medusa piercings or madonna piercings are the types of lip piercing. A left piercing is a monroe and a right is a madonna. Medusa piercings go through the center of the upper lip (directly under the nose). As usual, labrets of 1.6 mm gauge and 6-10 mm long are used for these types of piercing. For faster healing you should choose the labret with the length 2-3 mm more then the thickness of your lip.

Worthy of particular mention are so-called smile piercing, when your piercing can be visible only in case you smile. This is a body piercing through the frenulum of either the upper or lower lip. For this type of piercing small jewelry 1.2x8 mm or 1.2x10 mm. Rings, mocrobarbells and microbananabells are appropriate. It is important for the jewelry not to bother you and not to hit on your teeth.

You should choose the length of the jewelry very carefully. If the length of the jewelry is not sufficient then it may lead to "skinning over" and "caving" of the jewelry, especially the heads of the labrets. In healing process the lip tries to push out the jewelry or skin the jewelry over. In case of skinning over (caving, that is visible in the mornings - author's note) it is necessary to replace the jewelry by longer one or by one with larger head.

The piercing procedure is standard and doesn't need anesthesia, curved piercing is difficult to do due to the marks and the whole procedure passes faster and less painfully than tongue piercing. But it is recommended for piercer to make sure that there are no veins in the place of piercing by holding the pierced part of the lip up to the light.

Lip piercing aftercare is the same as for tongue piercing: to rinse with the antiseptic three to four times daily and soak the outside of the piercing using topical anticeptic, and don't play with the jewelry until full healing (one week to 20 days).

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