What sizes are there for lip piercings

A trained eye can also identify the gauge of a bar with a glance and so it might be worth paying a visit to your studio. An example of a gauge measurement is 1. If you were to try and insert a bar with a gauge thicker than 1. On the other hand, if you were to wear a bar which had a thinner gauge than 1. This would be fine if you intended to keep wearing 1. It certainly wouldn't be impossible to do, but you would need to take your time and the use of some healing oil would soothe your piercing whilst aiding the slow insertion of the new, thicker bar.

The first two things to note are that the 'size' generally refers to the length of your piercing and that the size is a completely separate measurement to the 'gauge' described above.

Another way of describing the size is the 'distance between the two piercing holes'. To give you an example, let's say that the barbell in the above 'Barbell' illustration is 10mm remember, the measurement is calculated without including the balls. If you removed one of the balls from the barbell, inserted the barbell into your piercing and then screwed the ball back on, you would then be able to check whether you are wearing the correct size: if you found that there was 2mm of the bar section showing, you would probably consider swapping the barbell for an 8mm one to get a perfect fit.

However, you wouldn't want to wear a bar smaller than 8mm because it would pinch your piercing with the likelihood of soreness and related problems. We often get asked this and yes, we can certainly tell you the average size of a particular piece of piercing jewellery. However, it wouldn't really mean anything to you because we don't know and you likely don't know whether your piercing is of average size or not. All piercings vary in size from person to person and so we can only do the next best thing which is to provide you with as much help and information as possible.

Your piercing jewellery should never pinch your skin. If it does, you should change your bar to a larger size to avoid the possibility of soreness and infection. Many people, on the other hand, wear bars which are too large for their piercings. There is such a wide range of sizes available these days that there is usually no reason to have any part of the bar on display - unless that's the way you like it, of course, and there is nothing wrong with that.

If you are in any doubt as to which size of piercing jewellery you require, just measure your existing jewellery using the appropriate illustration above as a guide. If you wish to change to a different shape of bar ie, you want to wear a curved banana bar instead of a straight barbell bear in mind that you may experience a little discomfort at first, as your piercing will naturally try to stay in the shape of your previous piece of jewellery. With piercings located in softer areas of skin such as the ear lobe or nipple this usually isn't a problem, however some piercings located in harder areas such as ear cartilage may be affected by some discomfort whilst they are adapting to the shape of the new bar.

This is entirely normal and any problems encountered will normally settle down in time. Belly bars have two main sizing aspects for you to take into consideration: the gauge and the size both discussed above. The standard gauge for a belly bar is 1.

The 'size' refers to the distance between the top ball and the beginning point of the lower decorative part see the 'Banana' illustration above. Whilst you are likely to only find size 10mm in the high street shops, many of our own belly bars are available in 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 12mm, 14mm, 16mm and even longer, which means no more pinching or spare bits of bar showing. Simply choose your desired size by selecting from the 'Size' drop-down box.

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