Tips on Buying Safe and Sterile Body Piercing Jewelry
Nowadays, the trend of body modification seems to be at a peak. You can see teens and youngsters roaming around in the streets flaunting beautiful jewelries in their pierced lips, nose, chin or eyebrows, and stretched earlobes.
Piercing and stretching both are body modification.
Different sorts of accessories are used for body modification and attractive jewelries are used for the adornment of modified body parts.
As it is an extreme fashion, in which body parts are cut or infused, and metallic jewelries are worn, the pieces of equipment, used during the modification, and jewelry, both should be of high-quality material.
There are many points to think over when you are going for body modification and when purchasing body jewelries, described below –
Know which metals are safe. For piercing ideal metals are stainless and implantation steel, titanium, niobium, and solid 14k or higher k gold. You can also consider using jewelry made of acrylic, pyrex, plastics and wood.
However, you need to be extra careful when buying wooden piercing jewelries, as there are high chances that it can react with the wound and heighten the risk of allergies and reactions. The metals you should AVOID are: sterling silver, copper and nickel.
If going for earlobe stretching, you can consider buying cheap ear gauges from a dependable seller or supplier.
Though, you need to make sure that the wholesale ear gauges supplier has ear gauging kits made from kosher materials. Safe and acceptable materials for ear stretching kits are: stainless steel, titanium, acrylic, marble, etc.
Buy the real piercing jewelries only. The best way to avoid risks of hazards is to buy only real ornaments to garnish your modified body parts.
Never use piercing jewelry used by someone else. If you have to, sterilize it well the appropriate way.
Do not use un-suggested oils and solutions for lubrication when stretching ear lobes. It might cause serious infections and wounds during the operation. Further, learn details and care tips of from YouTube tutorials before stretching your earlobes.
Ask the piercer about the possible health risk. Piercing for some people could be risky. They cannot resist the pain that occurs during and post the operation. The ache of wound piercing and stretching increases just because of panic. And creating panic impacts your health a great deal. It also disrupts the operator, which can lead to severe mistakes. Additionally, due to heavy pain, you may suffer from fever for a couple of days.
Check if your piercer has a sterilization device available at his facility. When going for piercing, you must ask the operator whether there is available a sterilization device with them. If not, it will be better to visit some other piercing shop.
To evade the infection and accident, you should visit a professional and experienced piercer only. They will be doing it the expert way, lessening the chances of blunders.