All Piercings

•  Wash your hands thoroughly prior to cleaning or touching your piercing for any reason  
• SOAK with Sterile Saline Solution for five to ten minutes 3 times a day. Invert a cup of warm saline solution over the area to form a vacuum. For certain piercings it may be easier to apply the solution using clean gauze or paper towels saturated with saline solution. 
•   WASH with soap, gently lather around the piercing and rinse as needed. Avoid using harsh soaps with dyes, fragrances, or triclosan.
•  RINSE thoroughly to remove all traces of the soap from the piercing. It is not necessary to rotate the jewelry through the piercing.  
•   DRY by gently patting with clean, disposable paper products. Cloth towels can harbor bacteria and snag on jewelry, causing injury    
  •  Ear/ Cartilage and Facial 
•   try not to sleep on your new piercing as this will hurt and irritate it while healing. Use the t-shirt trick: Dress your pillow in a large clean t-shirt and turn it nightly. One clean T-shirt provides four clean surfaces for sleeping.
•   Maintain cleanliness of telephones, headphones, eyeglasses, helmets, hats and anything that contacts the pierced area.
•  Use caution when styling your hair 
  •  Mouth Piercings
•    Rinse mouth with H2Ocean Sea salt Oral care cleaning solution for 30   seconds after meals and at bedtime (4-5 times daily) during entire healing period. Cleaning too often or with too strong a rinse can cause discoloration and irritation of your mouth piercing. Do not use mouthwash with Alcohol     Swelling for all piercings   
• Allow small pieces of ice to dissolve in your mouth for mouth piercings
•  Take an over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen according to the [package instructions.
•    Don’t speak or move your jewelry more than necessary.
•  Sleep with you head elevated above your heart during the first few nights.
  •   Please AVOID
•  Do not play with your jewelry. Long term effects include permanent damage to teeth, gums and other oral structures
•  Avoid undue trauma; excessive talking or playing with the jewelry during healing can cause migration uncomfortable scar tissue and other complications. Keloids or Blood blisters can happen with trauma. 
•   Avoid oral sexual contact Avoid chewing tobacco, gum, fingernails, pencils, and other foreign object that can harbor bacteria Avoid smoking, it increases risks and lengthens healing time 
• Avoid aspirin, drinking alcohol, and large amount of caffeine if you are experiencing bleeding or swelling.  

Please feel free to stop back into the shop if you have any questions or concerns to speak to your piercer.