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Variety is a Lip Piercing
January 24th, 2010 | 
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Behold the Lip Piercing
Lip Piercings are one of the simplest areas on your body to have pierced. This is in large part due to no major blood vessels and tissue. Lips get the medusa, Monroe or Madonna piercings. A piercing to the left is a Monroe. Put it on the right and it is now a Madonna. A nice looking Medusa piercing goes through the center of the upper lip. After you get one one you will likely want a labret.
A nice labret of 1.6 mm gauge and 6-10 mm long are used for these types of piercing. For faster healing you should choose the labret with the length 2-3 mm more then the thickness of your lip.
If you are more into getting into nonstandard types of lip piercing try a vertical piercing of the lower or upper lip and lip piercings on opposite sides of the mouth. For such operations you should better choose the rings of 10mm or 12 mm in diameter, or banana bells of 1.6x10 mm or 1.6x12 mm with the equal beads.
Worthy of particular mention are so-called smile piercings, when your piercing can be visible only in case you smile. This is a body piercing through the frenulum of either the upper or lower lip. For this type of piercing small jewelry 1.2x8 mm or 1.2x10 mm. Rings, mocrobarbells and microbananabells are appropriate. It is important for the jewelry not to bother you and not to hit on your teeth.
You should choose the length of the jewelry very carefully. If the length of the jewelry is not sufficient then it may lead to “skinning over” and “caving” of the jewelry, especially the heads of the labrets. Very often the clients want small, imperceptible jewelry in their lip and buy short labrets with small heads and beads. In healing process the lip tries to push out the jewelry or skin the jewelry over. In case of skinning over (caving, that is visible in the mornings) it is necessary to replace the jewelry by longer one or by one with larger head. Read the rest of this entry »
Originally posted 2009-03-18 02:48:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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