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Eyebrow Piercing
One
of the newest and most modern body piercing is the eyebrow
piercing. Coming from the “if it protrudes, pierce it”
philosophy of the 1990s, the eyebrow has become rather
popular, despite being a notoriously problematic piercing.
This is actually a surface piercing, and a placement of
permanent jewelry in a part of the body that does not really
have a skin fold.
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An
eyebrow that has a heavier “ridge” or thickness of tissue
under the brow line is better suited to support the
successful healing of this type of piercing. A very flat
brow creates tension across the pierced area and will lend
the healing piercing the natural tendency to rejection.
Sometimes called “healing out,” this is when the body pushes
the jewelry towards the surface of the body, as though it
were attempting to push away the new jewelry. Most often, in
cases of rejection, the piercing is highly irritated and
painful, and some rejecting piercing show extreme and sudden
reversal of negative symptoms immediately upon the removal
of the jewelry. The basic idea response to this situation
is, if you think your body is telling you that you should
not have a certain piercing, your body is probably right and
you should take it out.
Eyebrow piercing should be performed “freehand” with a
proper piercing needle by a trained body piercing
professional, and should NEVER be pierced with ear piercing
guns. Placement along the brow line varies highly from
person to person and varies with brow anatomy and aesthetic
preferences. How far into the facial tissue the piercing is
made also varies individually, and your piercing
professional should be consulted as to what they suggest. If
you wear eye glasses or sun glasses regularly, make sure you
check the placement and size of your jewelry so that it
doesn’t conflict physically or visually. If you are a woman
who plucks or waxes her brows, be sure and have your brows
done before getting a new eyebrow piercing. You do not want
to be plucking stray hairs from around your fresh, tender
brow ring for as long as you can after it is first pierced.
Jewelry options include tiny barbells or rings. Whichever
jewelry seems to stress skin surface and angle of the new
piercing less is best to start. There are small, subtle
nylon “keepers” made for wearers of eyebrow piercing who
have to hide their facial piercing for jobs, families and
other public situations. People who like to sleep on their
faces should consider if they can change their sleep habits
to facilitate healing this piercing. Eyebrow piercing can
take 9 to 12 weeks to heal: consider the impact that healing
this piercing will have on the next three months of your
life. During the initial healing period, you will want to
avoid wearing makeup or other facial products that might
contaminate or irritate the fresh piercing.
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