Are you considering getting your nipples pierced? Well, guess what? Here are five quick questions you always have on mind before getting your piercings done.
1. Can you see pierced nipples through a tank top or a sports bra?
No, they won’t. They only way for people to spot your pierced nipples is if you don’t wear a bra (bra free) and wet clothing of course, so watch out when choosing a swimsuit.
2. How long do I have to wait for them to heal?
These kind of piercings take about from 4 to 6 months to heal. After this period, you can stop cleaning them every day, and you can also start changing your jewelry to different ones. The advice for a fast and secure healing is wearing stainless or titanium jewelry, this way you will also avoid having any kind of issues with infections. When are they fully healed? That is a different story and they will take about a year, there are some cases on where they take less time to heal, around 8 months. After they are fully healed, you are ready to do whatever you want with them. This means, you can start trying jewelry with a larger gauge and also being free to choose whatever jewelry material you want.
3. One or both piercings?
This is something that is so often asked by anyone getting a nipple piercing, and the truth is that there is not right answer. This is something really much more personal. For some women and even men, having only one piercing is kind of awkward, because it gives a feeling that it is not symmetrical. But for other people, just one is more than enough. So this is up to you. Most of the times, what happens is that people get one piercing and then after a while they get the other one pierced, what means more time for healing and having to care about them. Our advice? If you are wondering about getting one or both, just get both.
4. Does it really hurt like they say or is it just a myth?
This is exactly the same as the question number 3. If you by any chance asked this to people, some of them will tell you it hurt like crazy while some other people will tell you they didn’t even feel it. So what is the truth behind this? The truth is what they have told you, for some people hurts and for some other don’t. But the main point here would be if it is going to hurt you. The only way to know that is by piercing them, but there are good news about it, the pain will only take about a second. You won’t die because of 1 second of pain, so don’t worry.
5. What are the risks overall? What about breastfeeding on a future?
The success of nipple piercing comes down to 2 things. First of all, the sterility of the needle is crucial and probably one of the most important factors. The second one would be the proper care while healing. So make sure that the place where you are going to get this done, is a safe place, taking all the precautions needed. About being unable to breastfeed on a future, this is kind of a myth. Why? Because although your nipple and areola are full of milk ducts, by piercing them, you won’t block anything. See it like putting a needle on a sponge, it won’t block the other holes. The problem is when you don’t take care on the healing process because you can get an infection, and that would be a problem.
Hope this helped clear your mind and also helping you decide on whether having the piercing or not. Just make sure that if you take the right precautions, everything will be alright.
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