How To Take Off My Lip Piercing

So, it’s time to change your body piercing jewellery, only one problem – how do I get it out? It can be tricky to change your own jewellery, especially in hard to reach areas like the conch or daith. The good news is, if you purchase jewellery from Essential Beauty online or in salon, we will change it over for you for free.

If you’re changing your body jewellery yourself, here are our best tips on how to remove the most common pieces of jewellery. It is also important to remember that when changing jewellery you should not leave your piercings without jewellery for long periods of time as your piercing can start to shrink and may even close, even if you got the piercing a long time ago! Your safest bet, is to visit a body piercing in one of our salons.

How

To remove externally or internally threaded jewellery, hold the flat back disc with one hand, hold the front with your other hand and rotate the ball/ or front part of the jewellery to the left (righty tighty – lefty loosy!) and unscrew until it comes apart. Make sure you’ve got a good grip on both pieces, doing this with a tissue or disposable gloves can help you grip the jewellery.

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To remove your threadless style jewellery yourself, hold the flat back disc with one hand, hold the front with your other hand and pull the two pieces apart. Make sure you’ve got a good grip on both pieces, doing this with a tissue or disposable gloves can help you grip the jewellery.

BCRs have little indentations on either side of the ball and held in securely by the tension of the ring itself. This means that the ball will not “unscrew” it will just spin in place as its not being held in by a threaded bar. Bend/ open the ring slightly until the ball pops out of the ring.

Hold the hinged segment ring with both hands. One hand should hold the segment piece of the hoop, the other, the hoop itself. Carefully pull in opposite directions with each hand. The segment should open up and you will be able to remove the jewellery.

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To remove a barbell pierce of jewellery, hold one side of the jewellery with one hand, hold the front with your other hand and rotate the ball part of the jewellery to the left (righty tighty – lefty loosy!) and unscrew until it comes apart. Make sure you’ve got a good grip on both pieces, doing this with a tissue or disposable gloves can help you grip the jewellery.If you have a piercing in your upper or lower lip and you're not wearing a captive bead ring, you're probably wearing a piece of jewelry called a labret stud. The outside of a labret stud looks like a ball, gem or spike, while the inside looks like a small, flat disc. The ball, gem, or spike, and the disc, unscrew from the bar that goes through your lip. Take a few precautions and you'll have no problem removing your lip stud.

Wash your hands with antibacterial soap and rinse them with warm water. Lather your fingertips again and use the lather to wash the skin around your piercing on both sides of your lip. Rinse your skin with warm water and dry your hands and face with a fresh paper towel.

Grasp the bar of your labret stud gently with your front teeth. Do not bite down hard -- only apply enough pressure to hold the bar in place. Keep the disc behind your teeth.

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Hold the bead, gem or spike -- that is on the outside of the piercing -- between your thumb and index finger. Twist it to the left until it begins to loosen, unscrewing it until it comes off entirely. Release the bar from between your teeth.

Reach inside your mouth with your thumb and index finger and pull on the disc to remove the bar from the piercing hole.

Rinse your mouth with antiseptic mouthwash to clean out the hole. Wash your jewelry with antibacterial soap and warm water, dry it with a paper towel and store it in a small, plastic, ziplock bag until you are ready to wear it again.

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S.R. Becker is a certified yoga teacher based in Queens, N.Y. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and has worked as a writer and editor for more than 15 years. Becker often writes for Yoga in Astoria, a newsletter about studios throughout New York City.Getting a lip piercing can be an exciting experience, but if it rejects or migrates, you may need to let it go. Removing the labret leaves a not-so-desirable hole that most people want to eliminate.

If you’re wondering what to do about a lip-piercing hole, we’ll show you how to close up a lip piercing hole and what you can expect afterwards.

When you remove a lip piercing, the hole naturally starts to shrink. Gradually, it closes up and leaves a scar. While facial piercings may not close up because of the thick facial membranes, lip piercings will close up because the lips have a thinner membrane (two or three layers).

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New piercings (less than five months old) will close up quickly — as quickly as a few hours after removing the piercing jewelry. And that’s why you must slot in the replacement jewelry immediately when changing a lip piercing. However, older piercings (a year or more) will take about three months to close.

The higher the jewelry gauge, the bigger the piercing hole. Bigger holes take a longer time to close and also have higher chances of scarring. Tiny piercing holes, on the other hand, tend to close faster.

How

If you’ve removed a lip piercing because of a complication like rejection or embedding, it will close quickly — possibly in a few days. But a completely healed and healthy piercing will take the expected time range of three months to close. Taking out a lip piercing because it’s rejecting or embedding can be upsetting, and it’s best to prevent it by reading a trusty guide before getting a lip piercing.

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If your piercing hole is taking a long time to close and you want to fill it temporarily, you can use makeup to work the trick. Apply concealer, foundation, or scar fillers on the piercing hole to fill it.

If you choose the makeup that matches your lip color, your piercing hole will become nearly invisible. Lip piercings leave a scar even after closing, but you can also use this tip to hide a lip piercing scar. Apart from using makeup, there are other expert tips to hide piercings.

What if you’ve removed your piercing for a long time, and it feels like it’s taking forever to close naturally? You can take things into your hands by stitching the piercing hole. Schedule a session with a cosmetic surgeon who will stitch the hole within 20 minutes or less.

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💡 Warning: Once you stitch a piercing hole, re-piercing that spot might cause complications. Visit a professional piercer or doctor for advice.

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First, you must remove the piercing jewelry and wait for your piercing hole to shrink and close up within three months or less.

If you need to hide a lip ring hole, you can wear a retainer. It’s a small piece of jewelry that matches most skin colors, so it looks like there’s nothing on your lip. You can also apply makeup to hide your piercing hole.

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If your piercing experiences complications like embedding or rejection, a professional piercer may decide it’s best to close it. You may also need to close your piercing for personal reasons like getting a new job, moving to a new environment, or having a new outlook toward lip piercings.

If you need to take out your lip piercing and the only thing holding you back is the fear of what happens with the hole, you don’t have to worry. It may take some time, but most lip piercings will naturally close up. In the meantime, you can fill up your lip piercing using makeup. And if you want to close up a piercing hole permanently, a simple cosmetic surgery can get it done.

You should know: We use affiliate links throughout our site. This means we may earn a cent or two when you make a purchase on our site. Thanks for adding to our shine.Changing your lip piercing for the first time can be satisfying, but things can go wrong quickly if you change your lip piercing prematurely or wrongly. To avoid any mishaps when you change your lip piercing, you’ll need to learn how to change your lip piercing the right way.

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In this article, we’ll take you through how to do it right the first time, when to change your new lip piercing, and how to help your piercing heal faster.

Your piercing has to heal before you can change the jewelry. It could take anywhere from two weeks to six months to heal fully, depending on your body’s healing time, the kind of jewelry