Body Piercing Aftercare
Good Things To Do
1. Leave the piercing alone unless you are cleaning it. NO PLAYING!
2. Take a multi-vitamin with zinc and vitamin C for fasting healing time.
3. Make sure your bedding is clean and changed frequently while healing.
4. Leave jewelry in at all times. Even old and well-healed piercings can shrink in a mater minutes. If your jewelry must be removed temporarily (such as for a medical procedure) contact Lucky's for help.
5. If you suspect you have an infection DO NOT REMOVE YOUR JEWELRY. If the jewelry is removed you can trap the infection inside resulting in an abscess. Contact your piercing and we will advise you in what to do.
Don't Do This
1. Don't use Bacitracin, Neosporin, Rubbing Alcohol, peroxide, Hibiclens, or Betadine. These products will hinder healing and cause more harm than good.
2. Avoid submerging your piercing in dirty water such as pools, lakes, and Jacuzzis. If you have to go in water make sure you cover your piercing with a breathable, non water-permeable wound sealant such as Tegaderm or Clean Seals (found at your drugstore).
3. Avoid sleeping on your piercing during healing.
4. NO playing! NO rotating! No touching! NO licking or kissing!
5. Don't change out starter jewelry until the piercing is fully healed.
What Is Normal
Bleeding, bruising, discoloration, and swelling are not uncommon. Some tenderness or discomfort by the new piercing is not unusual. You make experience stinging, burning, aching, or other unpleasant sensations on and off for several days or longer. You may also have some itching, which indicated healing.
Secretion of a fluid which is whitish-yellow in color and makes crusties on the jewelry is perfectly normal. This is not a pus but a combination of dead cells and blood plasma and indicates a healing piercing.
Piercings have a series of "ups and downs" during healing by seeming healed and then regressing. Be patient, and clean through the entire healing time even if the pierce appears to be healed. Your piercer can answer any questions.
Cleaning Instructions
Body piercings should be cleaned twice daily, once in the morning and once at night. Cleaning more than twice can result in longer healing times.
1. Before cleaning wash hands thoroughly with an antimicrobial soap.
2. Soak the area with warm water and remove any crusties with a Q-tip.
3. Apply a liquid antimicrobial soap, we suggest Provon or Satin. Cleanse the area and the jewelry. DO NOT rotate the jewelry back and forth during cleaning.
4. Allow the soap to cleanse the piercing for a minute then rinse the area thoroughly with running water.
5. Pat the area dry with either gauze or a tissue. Do not use cloth towels because they harbor bacteria.
6. Follow with a salt-water soak.
Salt Water Soaks
Salt water soaks help to stimulate air and blood circulation, which facilitates faster healing. Two soaks per day should be done for at least 5-10 minutes each. Additional soaks can be shorter.
To make the solution, dissolve 1/4 teaspoon of Sea Salt into one-cup (8 oz.) of warm water in a clean cup (a stronger solution is not better as it can burn the piercing). Invert the cup over the area to form a seal and soak for desired amount of time. For certain pierces, a clean cotten ball or gauze pad soaked in the salt water and applied to the piercing may be easier. Follow the soak by a clean water rinse.
Chamomile Tea Soaks can be a good alternative to salt water soaks, especially in the case of an irritated piercing. Place the tea bag in boiling water as if you were making a cup of tea, take the tea bag out of the water once it has cooled to warm and place the teabag onto your piercing as a compress. Hold it on there until it cools.
Special Tips for Ears and Facial
1. Shield piercings from gel and hairspray.
2. Avoid getting makeup or lotion in a piercing.
3. Change your pillowcases frequently.
4. Clean your telephone receiver with alcohol.
Oral Cleaning Instructions
1. Rinse your mouth out with Biotine mouthwash for 30-60 seconds when you wake up and before bed.
2. Rinse with Biotine after major meals until pierce is fully healed.
3. Rinse with a seal salt water mixture after everything else you eat, drink, lick, touch or smoke with your mouth during the healing process.
(salt water can be made with 3 tblsp. sea salt to one gallon distilled water)
1 . Ice your piercing for the first 48 hours. Slushies, ice pops, anything cold... just remember to Biotine after.
2. An over the counter, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory such as Ibuprofen, Aleve, or Advil can be taken to reduce discomfort and diminish swelling the first few days.
3. Replace your old toothbrush with a fresh clean one so you don't introduce bacteria into your piercing.
4. Try to sleep with your head propped up for the first few nights to minimize nighttime swelling.
5. Try to go slowly when you eat and take small bites when you are getting used to new jewelry.
6. Leave your jewelry in at all times. Even an old and well-healed piercing can close in a matter or minutes.
1. No oral sexual contact including French kissing for the entire healing period. Besides mouths and other parts being dirty, you have an open wound STD's can be passed that way (so don't lick things you shouldn't)!
2. Avoid all alcoholic beverages. These can cause additional swelling, bleeding and discomfort.
3. Reduicing smoking or quitting is recommended for a faster healing.
4. Do not play with jewelry for the initial healing time beyond normal talking and eating. Playing can result in migration or the formation of scar tissue.
5. Do not use Listerine or other mouthwash that contains alcohol. They do more harm than good.
What is Normal
Swelling of the area is perfectly normal and usually lasts around 7 days. Some tenderness or discomfort is also common. You may feel aching, pinching, tightness or other unpleasant sensations on and off for several days or longer. You may experience bleeding or bruising on and off. This is perfectly normal and not indicative or any complication.
A whitish-yellow secretion may come from your piercing. This is normal. It is a combination of blood plasma and dead skin cells. On non-oral piercings it forms crusties, but in the mouth it doesn't get to dry out so it remains moist. This is not pus, and it indicates a healing piercing.
Chamomile tea can also be used to help reduce inflammation in oral piercings. Make the tea, cool, and then freeze in ice cube trays to suck on.
Special Tips for Genitals
1. Sexual activity isn't prohibited, but it must be hygienic. Use condoms (without Nonoxynol 9) and dental dams for all sexual contact to avoid sharing of body fluids. Even in a monogamous relationship it is important for your piercings health.
2. Use water based lubricants such as KY Jelly.
3. Pleasure Plus condoms have extra room for jewelry.
Tattoo Aftercare
1. Gently remove the bandage after 3 hours.
2. Wash your hands then wash your tattoo lightly by lathering it up with a mild antibacterial or antimicrobial soap and then rinse under running warm water.
3. Pat dry using a clean paper towel or let it air dry.
4. Rub a small amount of A&D ointment into your tattoo. Make sure to blot all excess ointment off of your tattoo using a clean paper towel. It should never look wet, moist, or goopy. Do this 2 times a day for 3 days.
5. On the 4th day, switch to a good quality lotion. Apply 2 to 3 times a day or anytime it dries out. We recommend Burts Bees, Cocoa Butter, Lubriderm, or Aquaphor.
DO NOT! I repeat DO NOT!
Pick, scratch, sun, soak, hot tub, bathtub or swim for 4 to 6 weeks. Doing so mant result in loss of color and/or scarring.
If the tattoo starts to itch, and it will, I find a little more lotion does the trick.
Piercing Prices
Ear/Body- $25*
Industrials/Spirals - $25 for first hole and $20 for every one after that*
Single Point - $33*
Male/Female Genital - $40*
Jewelry Change - $6
Stretch - $10
Genital Change - $10
Genital Stretch - $15
* these prices do not include jewelry
Tattoo Pricing
To get an estimate on a tattoo, your best bet is to come in and talk to an artist. Bring as much reference as possible to be able to get a good estimate.
We have a $60 shop minimum and it is $100 per hour. We require a $60 deposit to schedule an appointment. The $60 comes off the final price of your tattoo.
Age/Identification Requirement
Piercings:
13 years old and under - earlobe piercings only
13 years old and up - nostrils and ear cartlidge
14 years old and up - navel, facial piercings
16 years old and up - tongue
18 years old and up - nipples and genitals
Tattoos:
Must be 18 years or older!
Identification:
School ID's do not work! You must have a state issued ID with a birthday on it such as: liscence, permit, passport, state ID, military ID or birth certificate. Parent and child must both have ID's for piercings. For parent, any of the above work or guardianship papers. No step parents (without guardianship papers), sibllings or friends parents!
