Nose Piercing Aftercare Tips & Tricks
Well, you just got your new nose piercing. Congratulations!
However, before you can carelessly enjoy your fresh nose piercing, you have to follow some simple nose piercing aftercare tips to avoid anything unpleasant to happen.
Most likely you’ll be given aftercare guidelines at the piercing studio. Anyway, here I’ll give you a few universal nose piercing aftercare recommendations and you can be sure they’re not going to be in contradiction with any of the piercing studio rules.
So, what’s going to happen right after the nose piercing is done? The fresh nose piercing will swell up a little bit. But don’t worry, it’s natural. You can’t expect a wound to pass unnoticed for the body, can you? The swelling is going to disappear within the next few days, and the pain will subside as well, if there’s any.
As there are a few of the general nose piercing types – like nostril piercing, septum piercing, bridge piercing etc., pain during the piercing and the healing periods will differ. However, the piercing cleaning guidelines are more or less the same.
So the first nose piercing aftercare recommendation – never touch your fresh nose piercing with dirty hands. Use the common sense and wash your hands before touching, cleaning or moving your fresh nose ring, stud or barbell.
Secondly – cleaning, this is pretty simple as well. You just have to get a saline solution and clean the nose piercing 2 – 3 times daily. If you can’t get one in a drugstore, you can make the saline solution yourself as well. Just dilute about 4 teaspoons of non iodized sea salt to 1 gallon of boiled water and the cleansing liquid is ready for you.
For the fresh nose piercing cleaning you can use simple cotton buds. Just don’t forget to change them when cleaning the inside and the outside of the piercing to avoid cross-contamination. At the end, when you’ve cleaned the fresh nose piercing, just wipe the excess moisture off using a new dry cotton wool bud and that’s it!
Another nose piercing aftercare tip – when applying make-up, avoid covering your fresh nose piercing with it. This one is obviously more relevant to girls. And if you’ve just got a septum piercing, you can’t really get your make-up inside of the nose, can you? But for other types of nose piercing – nostril piercing and bridge piercing – please keep in mind not to apply make-up on the area.
The last nose piercing aftercare tip – don’t try to insert a new nose ring before the piercing has healed well. The new skin that forms inside the fresh nose piercing is very tender, and you can damage it very easily. So better please wait until the piercing is well healed, it’s not tender to touch and not swollen or in red color.
The approximate healing times for the nose piercings are following – nostril piercing 4 – 6 weeks. Septum piercing – 1 – 3 months. And bridge piercing – up to a year. So as you can see, the easiest to heal is the simple nostril piercing, but the most difficult – the bridge piercing which is essentially a surface piercing.
Well, that’s it about nose piercing aftercare – everything is simple and you just have to use common sense. Wash hands before touching the nose ring, clean it a few times a day with saline solution, and keep the nose ring, stud or barbell in until the piercing is well healed.
And, of course, if you notice any discharge from the fresh nose piercing, go back to the piercing studio or visit your doctor. Especially – if the piercing is swollen and it’s oozing yellow or green stuff.
