There are many ways to express your individuality. Unusual hairstyle or original hair color, unusual clothing or tattoos, bright accessories and informal appearance. Lip piercing is one of the methods of individuality and uniqueness. Needless to say, that lip piercing occurs frequently in representatives of both sexes?
Types of lip piercings
The art of holes on the body came to the countries of Europe during the Middle Ages. Researchers first encountered such an unusual approach to decorating themselves while studying African countries.
There are the following types of lip piercings:
- Monroe
- Perhaps one of the most beautiful and stylish lip piercings. It is performed on the right side of the face, like Marilyn's mole. It is a kind of imitation of a mole of a diva of the 50s. In rarer variants, it is done on both sides, with full symmetry;
Monroe lip piercing
Monroe lip piercing
Monroe piercing - Madonna
. This piercing is similar to the Monroe piercing, but it is commonly done on the other side. In some sources, it is also called the Crawford. In theory, it can also be done on both sides of the mouth, but it is rarely done;
Madonna Lip Piercing
Madonna Piercing
Madonna Piercing - Smile
Also known as upper frenulum piercing. Virtually painless procedure when performed. But this is where its advantages end. The main disadvantages of this piercing are the discomfort in operation and mechanical damage to the teeth. Despite this, at home most often pierced tissue in this place;
Piercing smile
Piercing Smile - When piercing jellyfish
The center of the nasolabial depression is pierced. For the classic style, special earrings with a flat retainer are used. In the early 2000s, vertical and horizontal jellyfish have become widespread. In them, the piercing is made in a straight line of the chosen direction and a bar or banana earring is used as an earring;
Jellyfish piercing.
Jellyfish lip piercing
Jellyfish piercing - Lowbrett
- A piercing under the lip. It can be horizontal and vertical and belongs to the flat style. In contrast to the usual lowbrett, the earring is placed practically on the chin;
Lowbrett piercing
High lip Lowbrett piercing - Ashley
- A beautiful, but very painful and problematic type of body art to heal. It is done exactly in the middle of the lower lip. One of the rare types of piercings that can be performed on both the outside and the inside. Another peculiarity is that after the removal of the jewelry is left unsightly large scars;
Ashley Piercing
Ashley's lip piercing
Ashley Piercing - Estrum
is characterized by the horizontal positioning of the earring. Doing it is not only painful, but also dangerous. If the depth of the piercing is wrong, the jewelry is rejected by the body, or, on the contrary, it takes too long to heal and is removed on its own;
Estrum - Labrett
- lower lip piercing. For the safety of the oral cavity, it is made below the level of the gum, which minimizes the damage to the teeth. Bananas are recommended as decoration, although rings, half rings and brow spikes are also suitable.
Classic labrette
Medusa and lower labret.
But the names of female lip piercings do not end there. Masters of body art often compose compositions from individual piercings, creating so-called, bites. For example, a spider, dog, cyber, snake and shark bite is made. Micro bananas, rings and half rings are used as decoration.
The bite in lip piercings
One of the most interesting in the world of body art is considered a dahlia bite - here the earrings are located in the corners of the mouth. Particular importance is given to the shape of the bananas. They can be spherical, spiky and other
How to care for and the consequences of improper care
Regular and proper care is the key to successful and rapid healing of holes. Complete wound closure will occur in 2 to 4 months.
- In the first 3-4 hours after the visit of a master, you should not eat, smoke or drink.
- Do not eat spicy, hard, sour, sweet, bitter or spicy food until the skin has fully recovered.
- Regularly treat the punctures with an antiseptic. Rinse your mouth after eating to disinfect and remove food particles from under the earring.
- Chew food carefully, trying to move it to the lower part of your mouth.
- Do not touch or pierce the jewelry to avoid trauma to the canal.
When the piercing is completely healed, you can remove the earring, but not for more than 24 hours.
If soreness and swelling persist for a long time, contact the master or the attending physician. If the skin has acquired an unnatural appearance, yellowed, it means that the piercing has got an infection.
Violation of hygiene rules and improper care can cause infection, inflammation, suppuration, and as a result, unaesthetic scars will remain in place of holes.
How to make a lip piercing in steps
Lip piercing can be done in two ways - with a gun or a needle. All masters recommend using a needle. This is due to the fact that when the gun works, skin particles get under the working plates, thereby contributing to blood poisoning during further procedures. Reviews, however, claim that even a professional needle can replace a simple drugstore catheter. With what to work you - decide for yourself.
Piercing Smile
How to make a frenulum piercing upper lip or smiley:
- During a belly button, ear, nose or other body part piercing, these manipulations are not necessary. But when piercing this area, the most important thing is to reduce salivation. To do this, large glands (they are under the tongue and near the jaw) must be covered with absorbent cotton before the procedure. In dental surgeries, special tampons are used for this purpose - they can be purchased at the drugstore;
- The place of the future puncture must be washed with hydrogen peroxide or "Chlorhexidine". After that, the upper lip is pulled up, so you can get to the thin places;
- This piercing is very easy to do at home due to its painlessness. To pierce the smiley face, you need to find a white area on the frenulum and point the needle there. If the frenulum is large enough, you can experiment with the height of the earring placement. With a lower installation it will be visible when talking, with a higher one it will be almost invisible;
- After simply removing the tampons from the glands and rinsing the mouth with "Miramistin". There is no blood, so further use of cotton balls is not appropriate.
To puncture any other area of the lip or perioral space, you will need special clamps. They are needed not only for fixation, but also to ensure that a beautiful piercing is not moved aside, disturbing the symmetry. Buy them in any specialized stores.
The process of lip piercing
If getting a real lip piercing is scary, you can temporarily get a fake piercing. This is a fake or fake "piercing". Such artificial décor will decorate the image for a while and can show the hidden "informal" side of the personality without external damage.
There are things to think about
Yes, a pierced lip looks quite unusual. However, before you dare to take this step, you should pay attention to some nuances, which, quite possibly, will make you change your mind or postpone a trip to the salon for an indefinite time:
- Medical indicators. Even an elementary rash during a seasonal exacerbation of acute respiratory infections can be the No. 1 reason for not getting a lip piercing. Eczema, diabetes, epilepsy, pregnancy and lactation, and allergies to metals are all serious medical contraindications that prevent you from getting a piercing. Girls who are menstruating should also refrain from going to the salon for a while.
- Appropriate dress code. Do not forget that piercings are a striking manifestation of informal style. If a girl or a guy works in a reputable company, where there is a need for frequent business negotiations, the piercing will produce a negative impression on the interlocutor.
- Competent choice of a master and a salon. Here is where it is serious - this question should be approached with great care. The absence of a license and certificate is a sign that this place should be avoided.
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Many are timid at the door of the salon, fearing that the procedure will be painful. In fact, the piercing of the upper lip or lower lip is not so terrible as it seems at first glance. If we evaluate the painful sensations in the process of creating a piercing, we can give it a score of 6 out of a possible 10.
In addition, lip piercing heals very quickly - the tissue in the mouth area is soft and thin, devoid of blood vessels and capillaries. This means that the experience of a professional craftsman will allow you to perform the procedure quickly and efficiently.
Earrings and jewelry for piercings
Various types of jewelry are used to design lip piercings:
- Microbananas .
. These are small, curved bars, traditionally decorated with colored balls. Monroe, Madonna and some other piercings are decorated with them; - Segmented rings .
. Suitable exclusively for decorating piercings in the oral area, they are not used for planar piercings, because they are uncomfortable to use. Are the usual rings, which can be divided into parts (segments); - Circulars
. Earrings similar to rings, but instead of segments have threaded connections on the edges. The earrings come in different shapes (snakes in particular). Made of titanium, steel alloy or gold;
Jewelry for lip piercings - Labrets
. Decorations characteristic of lip piercings. They consist of a flat surface that is placed on the mucosal side, a bar, and a decorative top. At the top of the earrings are decorated with diamonds or rhinestones.
A bit of history
Due to the fact that the skin is pierced over the mouth, slightly away from the upper lip, the jewelry simulates a fly. Back in the 18th century, noble beauties, for the lack of a natural mole above the upper lip, used flies, made of velvet and other suitable materials. The 20th century made significant adjustments to the traditional understanding of both female and male attractiveness, and today, many men in the world of show business (mostly rock musicians), adorn themselves in this way.
And yet, the first person through whom Monroe piercings gained widespread popularity was a woman - the bassist of the popular mid-90's rock band "Coal Chambers" Rayna Foz-Rose.
Lip piercing site care
Depending on the piercing site chosen, special care is required. Any piercing can fester if you only wash the outside of it. Special attention should be paid to rinsing the mouth with various antiseptic and regenerating solutions.
How a lip piercing is treated:
- The mucosa is necessarily wiped with "Miramistin". To accelerate healing, you should also rinse the mouth with medical antiseptics, such as. "Stomatitis."
- Debris will constantly collect under the decoration. In the first few weeks it should be cleaned regularly. It is most convenient to do this with a cotton swab soaked in "Chlorhexidine";
Treatment of lip piercings - The first day it is forbidden to wet the hole. If there is no way to avoid it, the earring is covered with a thick layer of greasy ointment;
- In the first few days there may be some redness in the area of the lip piercing, also when pierced soft tissue swelling may appear. If the area is swollen, you should briefly put a compress with "Miramistin";
- Naturally, you can not paint the punctured tissue and you need to avoid possible mechanical trauma.
What is the harm to the teeth
If I have a tongue piercing, does it damage my teeth? Yes, the premature destruction of enamel and dentin is more than real, because the earring, which is in the mouth, constantly has a mechanical impact on the surrounding tissue. Owners of fashionable accessories often have the following problems:
- the appearance of cracks and chips on the enamel: the front units of the row suffer the most, because it is on them that the main "blow" occurs,
- Increased sensitivity and abrasion of hard tissues,
- the risk of cavities and other dental pathologies increases.
Opinion of the expert
Dzagurova Elina Ruslanovna
Specialties: Dentist-therapist
Experience: 10+
"If there are piercings in the mouth, various restorations made in the smile area to improve aesthetics serve less. Especially those with ceramic, composite or plastic coating. The decoration damages their surface and leaves scratches and cracks just as easily as on the surface of natural teeth."
Contraindications
Any body art carries some health risks. There are some contraindications to body piercing. First of all, it is herpes and other skin diseases. It is not recommended to pierce the skin during colds.
Inflammation of lip piercings
Other contraindications to piercing:
- Pregnancy. It is not a categorical requirement, but during lactation and during the "interesting" position, body interventions are not recommended;
- Blood diseases. If the piercing must heal - the reason lies in the composition of the blood. In case of small platelet formation time or other diseases, it is recommended to remove the ornament;
- It should not be done with any reduced immunity.
The main consequences faced by owners of lip piercings are swelling, festering or infection. If a girl's piercing has festered - it is necessary to remove the jewelry, apply an antiseptic compress to the wound and take better care of the hole.
But, sometimes, inflammatory processes begin not because of improper care, but because of the wrong material of the piercing jewelry or the weight of the earring. For example, if the labret is too heavy, it can pull back the skin and interfere with normal healing. In this case, you need to change the decor to gold or silver, but thinner and lighter.
What will happen to the gums
People with tongue or lip piercings constantly have a factor in their mouths that leads to an increased accumulation of plaque and bacteria - and this, in turn, provokes inflammation of the mucous membranes and can cause stomatitis, gingivitis and periodontitis. It is also important to emphasize that the habit of "playing" with fashionable jewelry and driving it back and forth in the mouth can cause not only injury to the teeth and their roots (especially on the lower jaw), but also a lot of rubbing of tissues, cause damage to the mucosa, lead to bleeding, ulcers, erosions and aphthae.
Tip! According to studies, the wearing of piercings in the mouth - one of the factors that can lead to recession of the gums, exposing the roots of teeth, as well as the displacement, loosening and premature loss of the latter.
