How do i pierce my lip? then get the earign through?
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Fortunately for you, my sister is right here. She has been a professional body piercer for over four years. Her advice is:\n\nGo to a qualified professional. This is the only thing that she wants you to do. Lip piercing is a "blind piercing" and should not be attempted at home. The risks of doing it yourself include: going through the musculature, infection, scarring, and keloiding.\n\nDon't do it yourself.
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before you go to bed, smear on a whole bunch of vaseline. it will absorb into your lips more than if you put it on during the day. you won't lick it off and it will all stay on your lips. oh also put some vaseline on before you take a reeeeally hot shower. the steam will cause the vaseline to absorb into your lips faster.
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Never 'force' a piercing. Use a body lubricant such as KY Jelly and GENTLY press the new gauge in, over a LONG period of time.\n\nUsing a taper is another method - it allows more gradual transition.\n\nOr alternatively - see if your piercing studio will do it for you!
576025
Ask them to apply some numb spray before you get pierced. That makes it painless.
657943
Try Abreva and if can get a prescription of  Mupirocin Calcium 2%, combine them and in no time it'll heal. I use both every ten minutes and in 2 days and half it's better. Plus don't bite your lip it'll swell like a balloon. Drink lots of fluids and avoid salty foods ans snacks!
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Ice is good.  Also take some asprin or advil.  that will help swelling go down.  It really depends on how hard a hit and how big it is swollen.  but it should start to go down in a day or two, and after that may feel worse than it looks\n\nUse the asprin or advil rather than tylenol.  Tylenol is a anti fever and anti pain drug, but is does nothing to actually reduce swelling.  It will make you not FEEL the lip, but the asprin or advil will actually reduce swelling as well as pain.
443568
Well first of all, careful when you're playing with it. I got mine pierced and immediately started playing with it. I ended up ripping the pierce causing me immense pain for the week it took to heal. You can't really fix the hole unless you get a smaller gauge and then stop yourself from playing with it. The other person is right though. A metal barbell can leave miniscule cracks in your teeth causing them to rot. I have actually chipped one of my teeth with my tongue ring. For that reason I would recommend at least get a barbell with plastic capture beads. They also have ones with plastic barbells, but i found myself playing with that more than my metal one. My dentist even told me that the plastic ones are better, they do less damage to your teeth. Your other option is get a bigger gauge. Say you have a 14, see if you can use a 12. You should wait for a while before you try to do that, but it will make the bigger hole less noticeable. Of course, if you play with it and stretch it out....well I'm sure you know where I'm going with that. Hope this helps!
263196
first of this is lesson don't pierce any part of body\n\n\nsecond go to doctor
336954
As with any kind of swelling, drink a lot of water. It will help your body to process the matter that have gathered under your lip to heal the injury.\n\nYou drink more water, the body can flush the damaged/unneeded cells and fluids back into the body where they can be reabsorbed and eliminated.\n\nAnd as you know, keep up the ice.
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Don't panic\nHere's what I suggest you do.\n Grasp the trap's wooden base firmly. Have that grasp the whole of the wooden bottom from the underside. Now use your other hand (dominant hand), grasp the wire firmly and across a substantial length of it. \nGently but firmly pull the wire away from the wooden bottom. A little movement of the wire should be enough to free your lip.\nPut the trap down and now attend to your lip. Is it cut and bleeding? If it is the bleeding should be stopped first. Keep your head in a upward-looking attitude (you look toward the ceiling). Having the cut facing upward slows down blood flow, because the body uses more energy to pump uphill.\nDo not touch the cut. Allow the clotting sequence to start. After about five minutes or after bleeding has stopped get a tissue and wet it very thoroughly with water and a little fresh hydrogen pyroxide. (old peroxide loses its antiseptic activity).\nPat the cut area very gently to get some of the disinfecting liquid on the cut. It only needs a little, applied several times. Do not apply any pressure on the cut, or the clot will break and bleeding will recomence.\nMore likely, the skin has not been cut (breached). If that is the case, you should attend to swelling. Get An ice cube, place it into a small plastic bag and usae a twist tie.Wrap a thin handkercjief around the ice. Apply it to the lip trauma area. Cooling the area will reduce the swelling or inhibit some of the swelling from happening.\nIf the area gets uncomfortably cold remove the ice and allow the area to warm up. You may reapply the ice \nAlso, take a painkiller (analgesic), like aspirin. It will help you to avoid a tension headache. Also, an antihistamine will help to reduce some of the swelling.\nPlease ignore the cruel comments that have been posted. Most people care about others. Many more than those that are callous and cruel.\nAll of us have done some silly things in our lives. Some people are afraid to admit it.\nBest of luck,\nDan the Answers-Man.
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as a body piercer, I can tell you that it wont heal fast, because you pierced it yourself.Sewing needles are made of bad quality metals that usuially cause more irritation to the piercing.\nOnce the swelling goes down it wont rub on your gums as much.\nBut I dont quite understand what you did. Please answer some of the following questions, and I'll change my answer to help you out more.\n1) What type of jewlery do you have in now? What gauge and size is it? Is it a hoop? labet post? earring stud? What material or typer of metal is it made out of?\n2)did you clean anything before you pierced it?\n3)How have you been cleaning it?
465807
why would you even want a tattoo there?  Seems like a strange place to me.\n\nUnless you're talking permanent make-up, but then it would be the outside of your lip.\n\nMy advice...think this over REALLY well before you make up your mind.
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it helps...kinda like when you have a canker (sp?) sore on your gums. i pierced my own tongue...ice cubes and slurpies will be very soothing if you have swelling. if it's still painful after a day or two, use some sore throat spray...it will really help, and it's anti-septic. careful not to chomp down on any teeth!!! i've broken a porcelain crown and chipped another tooth, and my tongue has been pierced for 5 years. hope this was helpful...i hope you don't have much swelling or pain.
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1. Touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue, right where the roof curves up behind your teeth.\n2. Leave it arched in that direction, but take it off of the roof. (So it isnt touching)\n3. Then strongly exhale through your mouth.\n\nKeep practicing!
626105
well I'm not sure why you would want to, my upper lip is darker than my lower lip but that's just what makes me me.  You can conceal the extra darkness thought with lipstick.  Apply lipstick, blott, apply powder, then apply lipstick again.  Or you can put a concealer on your upper lip before you put on lipstick
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DON'T USE ALCOHOL TO CLEAN IT!!  Don't use soap, bactine, or anything for cuts & scrapes.  Soak it in epsom salts (NOT regular salt!! - go to your piercer, they usually sell it for around $2) for 5 - 10 mins. once in the morning & once before bed.  Don't clean it too often because that is bad for it.  Twice a day is usually good.  Maybe once more if you work out or something.  Don't touch the piercing after you cleaned it.  Make sure you wash off all the salt after cleaning it & dry it with something disposable like a kleenex or q-tip.  Make sure not to bump it or irritate it.  Don't change the jewelry for 3 months.  Your piercer should be able to give you this information.  If not, GET A NEW PIERCER!!
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initial pain and healing time aside, I would go tongue - you can show it off when you want to, but it's not a problem if you need to hide it for any reason (like work) because you can put a clear bar in and voila!  Also, if you are not 100% sure, at least if you change your mind then you won't have a little scar leftover where everyone can see :P\nI have never heard of any higher incidence of cancer in people with certain piercings.  Remember, it is not an open wound, the skin completely heals so the smoke wouldn't be getting into your bloodstream at all from the actual piercing...