What can I use to clean my smiley piercing?

As part of a sea salt rinse

Piercers recommend sea salt rinses for piercings located inside of the mouth. Adding a couple of drops of tea tree oil to your sea salt solution may boost its healing effects. Swish the rinse around the mouth and spit.

Do smiley piercings get infected easily?

Getting a smiley piercing comes with even more risks than your typical piercing simply because of the location. Aside from the potential for infection, Healthline notes that gum and enamel damage are also potential risks as the jewelry could cause friction against your gums or teeth.

How long do you have to clean a smiley piercing?

A smiley piercing or tongue web piercing should heal in about four weeks if you’re healthy and do proper aftercare. However, healing times can vary widely per person.

How do you remove plaque from a smiley piercing?

To avoid or remove plaque (yes, the same as what gets on your teeth) from your tongue piercing jewelry, simply brush it a bit when you brush your teeth. It’s easiest when using an electrical toothbrush. For this you don’t even need to remove your jewellery.

How do you brush your teeth with a smiley piercing?

Can you kiss with a smiley piercing?

During the initial healing, you cannot kiss with a smiley piercing. Once your piercing has healed you can kiss as much as you like. All types of kissing could potentially cause your smiley piercing to have issues while healing. The pressure from the lips may knock the piercing which shouldn’t be moved during healing.

What is the Ashley piercing?

“An Ashley piercing is a single piercing that goes directly through the center of the bottom lip, exiting through the back of the lip,” says Kynzi Gamble, a professional piercer at Ink’d Up Tattoo Parlor in Boaz, AL. An Ashley piercing is a bit more involved, as they’re pierced according to your anatomy.

Is saline good for piercings?

Cleaning Solutions

Packaged sterile saline (with no additives, read the label) is a gentle choice for piercing aftercare. This is often labeled as “wound wash saline” and is available on most first aid aisles. Contact lens saline, eye drops, and other saline products should never be used on a body piercing.

Why is smiley piercing crooked?

A new piercing shouldn’t look crooked when you leave the piercing shop. But over the coming week, swelling can make the piercing look askew. Swelling is a natural response to piercings as your body begins to heal. As the swelling fades, the piercing should return to normal.

What is an angel kiss piercing?

The angel kiss piercing is a surface piercing that goes through the middle of the bottom lip and out the bottom of the lip.

What is a Libra piercing?

Labret Lip Piercing Location:

The term “labret lip piercing” refers to a piercing located on the bottom lip. This piercing’s placed right above the chin and directly under the lower lip. Sometimes you can add multiple piercings to this area if the groove on the bottom lip is big enough.

What is the Cupid’s bow piercing called?

philtrum piercing
It’s a piercing that sits in the philtrum, also called the Cupid’s bow. It’s the little divot just above the lip. In the industry, this type of piercing is called a philtrum piercing.

What is a scoop piercing?

This is a piercing done on the surface of the tongue, across or lengthwise along the tongue. The term scoop piercing is often used for this specific type of horizontal surface piercing of the tongue. It is not performed vertical trough the tongue like a normal tongue piercing or horizontally like a snake eyes piercing.

What is a rhino piercing?

The rhino is a cartilage piercing done vertically through the tip of the nose. Sometimes also referred to as a vertical nose tip piercing, the name “rhino” comes from the piercing’s resemblance (particularly when tipped with a spike) to the nose of a rhinoceros.

What is a venom piercing?

A venom piercing is a double tongue piercing — one on each side of the tongue. Though not quite as tough-sounding, it’s sometimes called a frog eye piercing because the balls on the jewelry resemble frog eyes when you open your mouth.

What’s the tongue piercing called?

A tongue frenulum piercing is a piercing through the frenulum underneath the tongue, known as the frenulum linguae, and commonly the tongue web piercing.

What are snake bite piercings?

A snake bites piercing is a double lip piercing that sits near the outer corners of the lower lip’s edge. As the name suggests, the placement of the piercing resembles a snake bite.

What is a helix piercing?

“A helix piercing is any piercing along the upper and outside cartilage ridge of the ear,” says Studs piercer Shannon Freed. “Anatomically, the term helix describes that area of the ear.” However, there are names for different placements along that curve.

What gauge is a smiley piercing?

The smiley piercing is performed using a 16 or 18 gauge needle AFTER your mouth has been properly disinfected through the sanitation procedures of your chosen piercer. As far as aftercare goes, it’s going to be pretty much the same as any other type of oral piercing such as the tongue or lip.

Are nose piercings oral?

Oral piercings may also include the perioral area such as cheeks, nose and eyebrows.

Does a smiley piercing hurt?

While any piercing usually hurts some because you have a sharp needle passing through sensitive tissue, a smiley piercing isn’t nearly as painful as some other piercings. Smiley piercings are in a sensitive area, but you also have to remember the frenulum is a very thin strip of skin.

Can a smiley piercing be 14 gauge?

Yes!!! i did my smiley using these. used a 14g needle and a 16g jewelry. went perfectly !