Piercing: How to Wash Your Face Properly

Series Summary

Body piercing is a form of body modification that dates back to ancient times. Today, ear piercing is the most widely accepted body modification for both men and women, and some parents opt to pierce their children's ears at quite an early age, sometimes as young as a few months old. The alternative lifestyle, however, takes body piercings to the extreme, punching holes in such body parts as the nose, eyebrows, navel, nipples, tongue, genitalia and even random areas of the skin like the back of the neck or the forearm. In this free video series on body modification, a licensed piercer offers body piercing tips and advice. Learn to wash a pierced face with the right kind of soap to prevent infection, and find out how to treat keloids, an overgrowth of tissue around a pierced area. Get tips on choosing the right nose ring and navel ring, and learn the basics of using a piercing needle. Whether considering a first body modification or adding to a piercing collection, consult a professional for from-the-source piercing advice.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tristan McCauley from Lucky Seven Tattoo and I'm here to talk to you a little bit about washing your face properly, with a piercing, and before a piercing. Before a piercing you want to wash it really well around the area that's going to be pierced. Your artist should have something similar to this, Techni-Care, is what we use here. There's a couple of other options like Hiba-Cleanse and a couple of other things. What you do is you just squirt it on a paper towel, move it around and lather it around the area. Say for instance, if you're doing your lip, you just want to clean all the way around that area, top lip and bottom, just to make sure that whole area is clean. If you're cleaning after a piercing, what you want to use is something like this, either Dial soap, which is an antibacterial or you want to use something like Doctor Bronner's soap, which is a totally organic soap. A lot of people use it because it helps heal faster, it's cleaner, its just all around better. Before you do a piercing you want to wash your hands really well. Washing hands is key to keeping everything clean. You want to use a nail brush just go right around the fingertips, on the top and the sides and just keep it real clean. These are just a few things you can do to help keep clean around your face and your hands, while doing piercings."