subject: Soft Piercing Tips For The Tongue And Cartilage [print this page] Soft piercing locations can be sensitive areas, and as such, they require the utmost tender care. If you are bent on getting a piercing, then there are a few things that you have to come to terms with. First of all, if it's your first piercing, it could potentially be painful, and so you have to prepare yourself for that mentally. Secondly, you need to take care to pick someone to do the actual procedure, who knows what he or she is doing. Someone who can perform the results as quickly and painlessly as possible. Any time you are getting a piercing, you are inflicting some trauma, however small, to an area of your body that can be sensitive, so take especially good care with your choice of location, and then keep the following tips in mind:
1) Paying more is worth it for experience.
Many piercing enthusiasts make one of two mistakes when deciding on tongue piercing or cartilage piercing. They either try to do it themselves, or they have a friend, who is untrained in the art of sterilization and best piercing practices, do it. Either way the results can lead to infection and a great deal of pain. Meanwhile, if you go to a qualified piercing professional, you will experience little to no pain, and you won't have to fight off nasty bacteria that could set in when cleanliness is not adequately practiced. You get what you pay for, often times, and you don't want your skin to be the recipient of shoddy work.
2) Keep it clean.
It isn't just the piercing professionals job to practice cleanliness. It's yours as well. If you don't, then you could find yourself with a horrible infection that won't heal quickly. In some cases, it could lead to scarring or other forms of major skin damage. This is especially frustrating since it is so avoidable. Just make sure that you realize how you treat your piercing immediately following the procedure is as important, if not more important, than how the actual piercing is made. Also, watch out for getting food buildup on tongue piercing, and make sure that you don't work in an environment where a cartilage piercing could catch and tear the skin.
3) Be mindful of others.
While no one has the right to tell you how you look or what you should wear or do with your body, keep in mind that some cartilage piercing and tongue piercing is still perceived in a negative manner, however unfair it may be. Keep your surroundings in mind at all times, and don't do anything, for instance, that could jeopardize your employment. In other words, stay true to any work codes that are in place.
