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Facial Piercings

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Facial piercings have been very popular throughout the years. To include both primitive and modern cultures. Tribes once used body modifications as a rite of passage. They preformed various brandings, scarrings, and piercings. Tribes pierced the lips of women before marrage, adn stretched the piercing to mark the times. They piercings the cheeks of tribemembers, and wore bars connecting the piercings. Nose piercings began 4,000 years ago in Middle East as they were thought to make childbirth easier due to the placement of the female reproductive organs.

Today, we still see these piercings amongst our culture, as well as many other facial piercings. For the most part our facial piercings do not have anything to do with Genesis (as Rebekah was given the gift of a nose ring) or even high standings in our society. For the most part, out facial piercings as well as other body piercings are just for aesthetic purposes.

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Healing Facial Piercings

Healing facial piercings is similar to healing other body piercings. You should use a saline solution or a mild sea salt solution, which consists of 1 teaspoon of sea salt and 6 ounces of water.

Clean the piercing and around it with the saline or sea salt solution at least twice a day, to start. Soak a cotton ball or Q-Tip to clean the piercing.

You should, also, clean the piercing daily when in the shower. Gently, rub a mild soap on and around the piercing. Push the jewelry through the piercing, letting the soap clean the inside as well. Rinse the piercing thoroughly, as you do NOT want to have soap left on the piercing to dry.

Do NOT fiddle with the piercing any other time than when cleaning it. Playing with the jewelry will cause irritation and possible migration.

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Lip Piercing

Lip and labret piercings are easier to heal when a labret stud is used in the initial piercing.
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Labret

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Lip

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Septum

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Monroe Piercings

Monroe Piercing
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Mouth Piercings

Piercings of the mouth can be considered facial piercings. These piercings include the tongue tongue web. Mouth piercings are, actually, a very old piercing, dating back to the Aztec and Mayan cultures. Although, there has been not evidence of permanent rings through the holes, the pictures show priests piercing tongues and drawing blodd from it.

Mouth piercings are easy to heal as the saliva in our mouths carry strong bacteria that heal wounds quickly.

To heal a mouth piercing, you can gurgle with an alcohol free antiseptic mouthwash. Healing time it usually 4-6 weeks.

Tongue Piercing

Tongue piercing
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Facial Piercing Tips:

  • Ted Nov 8, 2011 @ 8:30 pm | delete
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    Interesting and OUCH is all I can say! ha! I could be talked into it, after a long night at the pub! haha!
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    Hi,
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