In very simple terms, this is a hematoma, also known as a bruise. Such a hematoma can occur with any piercing after piercing. It usually occurs with piercings that have bled heavily. During the bleeding, blood gets under the skin and remains there. The hematoma can also start to move a little and therefore does not always stay in place or is not directly around the piercing. around the pierced area because the blood is drawn downwards by gravity.

The hematoma then disappears by itself after some time, as is the case with an ordinary bruise.

Unfortunately, this question cannot be answered with a yes or no. Only you can really answer this question yourself, because everyone feels pain differently and deals with it differently. However, you can say that with every piercing, a small hole is pierced through your skin and you can feel it. The piercing itself only lasts a second and then it’s all over. After that, you already have the piercing you wanted. And you always imagine the pain of a piercing to be worse than it actually is in the end.

We do not anesthetize piercings before piercing. The simple reason for this is that it is not necessary. With no piercing are you exposed to such severe or long-lasting pain that would justify anesthesia and the associated risks.

All our piercings are done with a needle, so the question arises as to why we don’t shoot piercings with a gun. The answer is quite simple, because we are professional piercers and it is our job to pierce holes. In addition, we always work 100% sterile with every piercing, which is unfortunately never possible when shooting piercings. The jewelry may be sterile, but the guns themselves are never sterile and so germs, bacteria and pathogens can be transmitted from person to person.

Aiming with such a gun is much more difficult than with a needle. This Unfortunately, this can usually be seen in the positions of piercings that have been shot.

Piercing needles are precise and razor-sharp tools, with which you can glide through the skin and tissue without any effort. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of the plugs used for shooting. This also has an effect on the pain during the whole procedure and therefore the blunter plug also injures the tissue considerably more, which leads to a delay in the healing time. So always think carefully about whether the lower price for shooting is really worth it or not.

We always say that we pierce our piercings 100% sterile. But what’s the point? It’s enough to disinfect everything well, isn’t it?

Simply put, sterile means that everything is germ-free and disinfected only means low-germ. This means that when disinfecting, a small proportion of germs and bacteria can always survive and thus also get into your piercing during piercing or, in the worst case, be transferred from person to person.
A sterile workflow is only sterile if it is adhered to and followed through from start to finish. Simply using a sterile needle, sterilized jewelry and sterilized tools is not enough. Without sterile-packed gloves, sterile piercing is also not possible, and this is precisely the sticking point for most studios. They spare themselves the correct, expensive and sterile gloves and pierce with normal gloves from the pack of 100.

But if someone touches sterile jewelry for insertion with non-sterile gloves, it is logically no longer sterile. Unfortunately, our health authorities do not pay attention to this very important issue.

We only use sterile gloves, sterile disposable pins and sterile disposable needles for piercing!

Imagine someone getting an intimate piercing and then immediately afterward getting a tongue piercing with the same pen. This is not only highly unhygienic, but also simply disgusting.

When is a piercing inflamed or is it perhaps another problem? Inflammation is very easy to determine. If your piercing is red, swollen, warm, painful and festering, it is probably inflamed. However, this is no reason to worry, as it can always happen that a wound becomes inflamed. As a first step, you should make sure that you disinfect the piercing well. Preferably even a little more than usual, 4-5 times a day is a good direction to work in.

In the second step, you should come and see us as soon as possible. Then we can take a look at the whole thing and tell you whether the piercing is really infected or whether it could be something else.

Inflammation is by no means a sign that the piercing should be taken out immediately. Come by the studio and we’ll take a look at what the problem is and what you can do.

You can also watch our explanatory video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khY_plDnzrM

If a piercing becomes inflamed, it is also normal that the piercing

piercing starts to fester. Pus is a yellowish liquid that forms during an inflammation. You can find out how best to deal with an inflammation in the section: Is your piercing inflamed?

However, if your piercing is not inflamed, but a white fluid is coming out of your canal, this is not pus, but sebum. Sebum is not a bad thing, but something completely natural. Your body always produces sebum to lubricate your skin and make it supple. This also means in your canal where the piercing is located. And at some point, this sebum has to drain away and come out of your canal. There is nothing you can or need to do about this. Your body regulates this for you.

Your piercing needs the right care and the right disinfectant to heal. We would always recommend the Stechwerk Care Spray for this because we have had the best experiences with it over the years.

Basically, however, you need a piercing disinfectant for your piercing or, in other words, a disinfectant that is made for long-term use. According to the package leaflet, you can use most wound disinfectants for a maximum of 10-14 days at a time, this is because a normal wound heals in this time and these disinfectants are designed for this.

However, a piercing can easily take 6 months or even longer to heal properly and during this time you have to disinfect it several times a day. That’s why a proper disinfectant is essential for the healing of a piercing.

No, by no means! Your piercing must always stay in during the entire healing period and it is not necessary to remove a piercing for cleaning afterwards either. It is sufficient to clean the piercing normally in the shower or under the tap. Taking it out and putting it back in is just an unnecessary irritation of the piercing canal and can therefore also lead to unnecessary and unwanted problems.

Nothing can grow into your piercing if you don’t turn it. This rumor comes from the shot piercings. Because the jewelry is usually not too long when it is shot and therefore does not offer enough space for swelling. But unfortunately, in such a case, it can also grow in if you turn the piercing regularly.

In addition, a wound heals better the less movement it has. You should therefore never turn your piercing while it is healing. If a piercing swells so much that the bar becomes too short, you should always come to us so that we can lengthen it.

With every piercing, you should always avoid bathing for half of the healing time. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in the bathtub, in the lake or in the sea. Any water in which you can bathe contains bacteria that should not get into an open wound.

The approximate healing time of your piercing can be found on your care instructions, which you received from us after the piercing.

However, you can shower normally and there is no risk. However, you should never shower for too long, as the wound should not soften. This is the second problem with bathing: the wound is exposed to water for too long and can soften.

There is no “THE” right answer to this question. Basically, the longer the piercing is at rest and not exposed to unnecessary movement, the better. However, we recommend that you avoid sport for the first 2 weeks if possible. And if you do exercise during this time, cover the piercing with a plaster, because if your blood pressure rises, the wound may start to bleed again.

A piercing should always be shortened only after it has healed completely. The approximate healing time of your piercing can be found on your care instructions, which you received from us after the piercing. If the piercing is changed too soon, the process of changing it may cause the piercing canal to be injured again. This can then again lead to a higher risk of infection, as well as swelling. And then the new matching jewelry to which you changed would be too small again and you would have to change back to the too large jewelry from the piercing.

With piercings, it is important that after healing, either the rod is shortened or a new matching jewelry is inserted. The point here is that with a shorter rod, you’ll have less unnecessary movement on your piercing and you’ll also be less likely to get caught on it. In addition, some piercings also run the risk of becoming crooked over time should they be subjected to too much pressure and pushed to the side with the jewelry that is too long. The approximate healing time of your piercing can be found on your care instructions, which you received from us after the piercing. After this time, you are welcome to come by our studio and we will see if your piercing can or should be shortened.

To be able to answer this question correctly, you always have to come to our studio so that we can have a proper look at it.
This is not a cause for concern, but should still be treated properly.It is common for piercings to develop hypertrophic scars or irritation bumps. This is nothing to worry about, but should still be treated properly.

If you come by our office, we can look at what you’re dealing with and how we can best treat it.

As soon as a child is capable of judgment, he or she can exercise rights closely related to personality, such as interventions on his or her own body.

The law does not define the age at which a child is capable of judgement. In most cases, one speaks of a capacity for judgment from the age of 14.

At the age of 16, someone can certainly decide for themselves whether to have a hole pierced somewhere and have jewelry inserted there. Also by the fact that you can remove a piercing at any time.

It is important for us that a child can tell us himself that he wants to pierce ears. We do not pierce babies or children who do not want their ears pierced or seem very insecure. But there is no specific age for us. However, one can roughly say, so from 4-5 years. As long as a child can specifically tell us, yes I want to pierce the ears and a parent is present.