You shouldn't touch, move, or replace a nose piercing until it's fully healed. It's recommended to wait at least six months, no matter the piercing, but the longer you give a piercing to heal, the more you can be sure it's safe.
Don't touch your piercing when your hands are dirty. Don't play or fiddle with your jewelry, as this can lead to irritation. Don't share your jewelry with other people.
Don't get in any water that could be dirty until your nose heals. Avoid swimming pools, lakes, rivers, and hot tubs. Don't put antibacterial ointments on the site. Don't move your nose jewelry until it's healed.
Changing or taking out jewelry too soon can cause irritation, as well as prolong the healing. Unless your jewelry is uncomfortable or ill-fitting, you should leave it in for the entire length of the healing. Even after a piercing is healed, it still has a chance of closing up if you take out the jewelry.
It is very important to keep your nose piercing clean, otherwise healing could be delayed or you might develop an infection.
Avoid getting the piercing wet for at least one to two weeks. So, when you shower, try to avoid putting your face directly under the shower head. You might want to consider taking a bath instead.
She also recommends not sleeping on your nose piercing or touching it. Basically: be smart about aftercare and you should heal up with minimal nose bumps.
Daily Cleaning and Care Instructions
Wash your new nose piercing on the outside of the nose twice a day. Do not remove the piercing stud when cleaning. When showering and washing your hair, use liquid soap on your nose and rinse thoroughly and gently with running water. Dry gently with a facial tissue or a cotton swab.
Pain Scale: 5 on a scale of 1-10. The pain scale is 100% subjective and based on clients' feedback. Nostril piercings are said to be a bit more painful than lip or ear lobe piercings, but not as painful as septum piercings. Aftercare: Keep the area clean to avoid infection.
Unless the nose piercing is administered by a professional, it is extremely easy to cause permanent damage during a nose piercing procedure. Complications include: Nerve damage: The piercer can inappropriately puncture the nose and hit a nerve in the process, causing permanent nerve damage.
Avoid touching or playing with the piercing, since your hands carry bacteria and can result in an infection.
As per the studies, nose piercing regulates the wavelength of the brain that results in easier handling of mental health and stability. Also having a left nose piercing is said to bring more confidence and concentration to the wearer.
Being too rough on the skin around your piercings can cause irritation. Washing your face with a gentle cleanser, like the La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Facial Cleanser, is a great way to ensure that the skin around your piercing is clean after using a micellar water.
Skip sticky foods, chewing gum, spicy, salty, acidic or hot foods as they can irritate the new piercing. To keep swelling down sip cold water, eat ice cream or other cold and frozen foods.
Your piercing is an open wound, so you must avoid other people's bodily fluids. So, no French kissing or no oral sex.
After the first 4 weeks, you are allowed to change your piercing and wear a ring or a different stud, but make sure that once you have taken out the old one, you put the new one in asap! At least for the first year the hole is going to start closing up super fast, in a couple of minutes it will already be smaller.
Wash the area with a mild soap and water 2 times a day. Don't use hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, which can slow healing. You may cover the area with a thin layer of antibacterial ointment and a non-stick bandage. Replace the bandage as needed.
DO NOT pick the crusties off—that's just introducing your dirty hands to a healing piercing and can increase your risk of infection. The best way to clean them is to soak the piercing in warm saline solution, softening the crusties which then come off easily.
There is no right or wrong side of the nose to get a piercing, it is up to you. A good idea is to pick your best 'selfie side' of your face whether that be the left or right side!
Most of our clients tell us there is little, to no pain and or that it feels like a little pinch or flick. Common piercing areas, like ear lobes, are low pain because there is no cartilage present. Areas with tougher cartilage like the nose can be a little more painful, but it's over in seconds!
The most attractive spot for a piercing is the belly button. The least attractive is a tie between the nose and the nether regions.
Uncommon piercings may be more costly due to the fragile nature of the procedures. A few more uncommon piercings are eyeball piercings, dermal piercings (pictured to the left), corset piercings, some genital piercings, uvula piercings, bridge piercings, and anti-eyebrow piercings (the latter two are pictured above).
Along with the nostrils and belly button, the earlobes are the safest and most common body part to be pierced. The flesh of the earlobe heals well when the area is cleaned regularly and the piercing is done at the proper angle.