Healing time for the ear is around 6-8 weeks. The helix takes longer to heal than the love and is bettter pierced with a needle than an ear piercing gun. The ear lobe can be pierced with an ear piercing gun using a shed or pierced with a needle for a ring. Anaesthetics can be used for piercings around the ear. 

Nostrils should not be pierced with a gun ever! This is because of risks of cross contamination, guns can not be autoclaved or kept sterile, therefore there is a risk. The studs are also not long enough to accommodate the tissue of a nostril and even without the butterfly they can scratch and tear newly forming tissue, aside from this they are unsightly. The nostril is best pierced with anaesthetic and a needle using a ball closure ring or an L-shaped stud. Healing time is around 6 weeks, but they can shrink very quickly so change jewellery immediately and never leave jewellery out for any length of time for 6-12 months. 

This is placed through the triangular fossa of tissue just beneath the nasal bone (cartilage.) Various jewellery can be used in the septum and it can also be disguised with retainers. Healing time is around 4-6 weeks. 

This is pierced anywhere through the lips and can accommodate a ring or a stud which has a flat plate. The healing takes approximately 4 to 5 weeks. Swelling will occur for 2-3 weeks. Various jewellery can be worn. 

 Increasingly popular!! This is pierced with a barbell long enough to accommodate swelling and will need to be changed down to a shorter barbell after 2 weeks. Healing time takes 3 to 4 weeks but is always prone to shrinking so keep jewellery in at all times. Limited jewellery can be worn. 

Generally work their way up to the surface although we have had very good results with the bridge using PTFE plastic barbells. Healing is variable and rejection rates are high. Lightweight jewellery advised. 

 These piercings have greater individuality than the Pinna or the earlobe, the Tragus being the most popular of the three. Because of the placement of the piercings in the ear, these piercings can not be performed by a gun, but must be pierced by a needle. Anaesthetics can sometimes be used, although it is preferable not to on the rook and conch. The rook and conch and tragus can all be pierced with rings of 1mm curved barbells. Other options are available. Healing times are similar to the rest of the ear around 6 weeks. 

 The navel piercing is one of the most aesthetically pleasing of all piercings and its popularity continues to grow. Its purpose is purely visual and because of this there is a wide range of jewellery available with which to decorate it after it has healed. We offer a free jewelery, sterilising and changing service when the navel has healed. Healing times are around 2-3 months, and care attention must be paid to the navel through out this time. Navels can initially be pierced with a ring or navel bananabell. 

 In Roman times nipple rings were worn as a sign of virility and courage, now the piercing is seen as a sexual and visually attractive piercing. The nipple can only be pierced with a needle, anaesthetics are preferable as this piercing is very uncomfortable without. It is usually pierced at the base of the nipple where it joins the avreola. Nipples can be pierced horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Female nipples take longer to heal than male because of hormonal changes. We have found that piercing inverted nipples causes more trouble than its worth, so we strongly advise not to pierce them. Various jewellery available.