How to Safely Pierce your Lip/Labret/Monroe/Medusa

How to pierce your Lip / Labret / MONROE / Medusa (Thanks for the help, Bleed Obscene)



SIZE:


16gauge, 10mm-12mm


INFO:


Horse Shoe Barbell Labret Bar or type of jewelery.

Labret Bar is the best for healing.

Preference is with a piercing needle.


HOW TO:


Firstly ash your hands with an anti-bacterial hand wash, dry with paper towelling and put on a pair of surgical gloves ..

Piercing AREA / SETTING:


* Sterilised jewelery and needle should be place on a double layered sheet of Paper towelling.


* Along with medical pen, alcohol Swabs, lubricate and water based hand sanitiser.

* A Small round open ended forceps (aka a Sponge Forceps)

* A Laser Light touch will be needed for viewing the veins and oral area.

* Use Hand Sanitiser on gloves to clean them before touching any of your tools.


* Disinfect the area to be pierced using a new isopropyl alcohol swab.


* In the normal sitting position, mark the placement of the piercing using the pen. Just remembering that the placement might change depending on where your veins run.


* Clamp the area and hold the clamp so it's straight down in the mouth. You'll ant the mark to be centred in the clamp. Pull the lip down and shine the light touch on the outside of the skin. The Light will shine through and show you where veins run. You'll have dark black shads is the major veins and you'll have small pinky red light which are the spider veins. Most of the time you can pierce through spider veins. Do NOT pierce through the Black Shads!


* One you've checked the Veins and all is in the clear it's ready to pierce.

* Lubricate the needle.


* Position the Forceps so you clamp the area, hold the clamp so it's straight down in the mouth line the mark up.


* Push the needle swiftly and firmly but not with excessive pressure, through the entry side until appox 5-6mm of the blunt end of the needle is showing.


* Place the thread of the jewelery in the needle and slowly push through.


* Put ball on jewelery and you're done.

CLEANING:


All tools must be cleaned. Needle and disposed of. Its easy to Clean your arena by making sore all paper etc is all on paper towelling, picked up and thrown away.

** Do NOT clean newly pierced area with alcohol swab. **

Big thanks to Bleed obscene