Lip Piercing Aftercare: A Comprehensive Guide to Healing & Prevention

Although lip piercing may be a tempting art to attempt, one has to remember the aftermath of the seductive smile. Most lip piercings have the potential to damage both teeth and gums if proper jewelry is not worn, or if the placement of the individual piercing is poor. To forgo all the cons of this body piercing here are the must follow tips on how to self pierce lips, how to keep the pierced area and piercing jewelry clean.

How to self pierce lips?
It is always better to take the help of a professional while piercing any part of your body, but if you would like to try it on your own you can do it at your own risk with these tips. Always remember that a lip piercing isn't something that you can just remove after you have grown tired of it. So, if you're still up to getting a lip piercing, get set go, flash the latest trend.

Things you will need: Needle (get a hallow needle), gloves of latex, steriles, ice, alcohol, distilled water, sea salt, a lip ring, cotton ball, and most importantly the confidence to do it right

Lock yourself in a room with a mirror. Avoid any kind of disturbance until the whole procedure is completed.

Place smashed ice over the area you want to make the hole and keep the ice there until your lip is numb. Do it repeatedly until the whole area gets numb.

After your lip is totally numb, quickly rub some alcohol against your lip and also all around your chin.

Grab the lip ring, and measure just the way you're going to make the hole.

Slowly stick the needle inside. When you feel you're getting to the end, get it inside and then out as fast as possible. Make sure lip rings do not touch the gums.

Put on the lip ring and flash it in style.