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Hit 15 homemade piercings on myself and learned something wild about healing times
I've been doing my own piercings for about two years now, mostly ears and a couple nostrils. Last week I finally hit 15 total after doing a second helix on my right ear. What surprised me was reading on a piercing forum that cartilage piercings actually heal from the outside in, not the inside out like I always assumed. I found this fact in a comment from a retired piercer who broke down the whole healing process. It explained why my ear kept getting crusty on the surface even when it felt fine underneath. I used a 16g titanium flatback labret from a shop online, and it went in smooth with hardly any pain. Has anyone else run into healing info that completely changed how you care for your mods?
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kim_ramirez39d ago
Yeah the crusty stuff threw me off too at first. I had a conch that kept getting that weird crust and I thought it was rejecting or something. Saline spray and LITHA method really changed the game for me.
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jamesf298d ago
Nah, crust is totally normal. Just part of the healing.
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