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Naval Piercing
Naval
Piercing dates back in history to the Egyptian royal
family, they had pierced belly buttons and wore gold rings
in their navels, and that this was easily facilitated by the
fact that they all had deep navels due to inbreeding. If
that is true, then Naval
Piercing has been around for a very
long time.
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Even
if it isn't true, there haven't been many occurrences of
navel piercing in history, and it's clearly more of a modern
body piercing than ear, nose or lip rings. Although highly
aesthetic on many navels, this is a very difficult piercing
to heal due to placement on the body.
The major physical qualification to getting your navel
pierced is to have some sort of edge of extra tissue around
your navel that can be clamped and pierced through. Nearly
any form of any "inny" belly button will work, but some
people with "outies" have enough of an edge too. You should
not pierce through tissue that is protruding from inside the
navel formation, only skin tissue that is around the bowl of
the navel. Placement is most commonly somewhere between 11
o'clock and 1 o'clock but really any part will work if there
is that definite flap of skin to go through. Comfort is best
facilitated by placing the jewelry to work with the maximum
depth of your belly button and how it sits as part of your
overall abdomen. Trust you’re piercing professional, it's
their job.
Healing is easily six to nine months with at least half of
the people finally healing after a full year or slightly
longer. The midsection is highly active in overall body
movement, the tissue is very muscular and the blood supply
to the surface skin is much less than other pierced areas on
the body. Clothing can easily irritate this piercing, and
many people dress more loosely or have to make sure the
waistbands of their clothing don't rub the jewelry. Freshly
pierced belly buttons are sensitive to many kinds of soaps
and even antibiotic ointments and washes. With navels, less
is more for cleansing and healing. Try to clean the piercing
once in the morning and once at night, and don't play with
it in between.
Once healed, there are a wide variety of captured bead
rings, curved barbells, dangles and belly chains to wear.
Navels are happy wearing surgical steel, gold, titanium and
niobium. If you do sports or any kind of highly vigorous
physical activity and your jewelry is in the way, you have a
few options. One is to tape the ring down with a piece of
first aid tape. Or you can take out the jewelry and
temporarily replace it with a loop of nylon mono filament
line of the appropriate thickness.
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