Okay, quick question. I dropped into a couple of piercing studios yesterday to inquire about getting a scaffold done. Both places informed me that it's not a good idea to have it pierced with a bar straight off, as the pressure from the jewellery combined with the swelling when first pierced can seriously slow down the healing rate. Is this true? The second place said they will pierce both holes with rings, and these can be changed to a bar after around 6 to 8 weeks.Is this the best option? Thanks for any replies.
yeah that is a better idea. it prevents the bar from getting ripped out, rejecting, and generally makes it less likely to get caught up in your hair while it's still sore.
Scaffold Piercing Jewellery
That is true, but it's an even worse idea to have an industrial done with rings. This is because your body can move your piercings slightly, to accommodate the angle that works best for your body. In general, that's not a bad thing, but with industrials, it's a problem. You may find that an industrial healed with rings may not accommodate a bar well; the piercing may heal unaligned, and wearing a bar could be painful or impossible. Plus any shop that thinks changing from rings to a bar at 6 to 8 weeks will make any difference from getting a bar initially, you shouldn't trust to poke needles in you. Industrials take 6 months to a year or more to heal. At 8 weeks, the piercings are still very much healing. So if you have your jewelry switched at that point, you'll be irritating the piercing, setting back healing, and you'll have to deal with all of the pressure and hypertrophic scarring problems anyway. It basically comes down to this, industrials suck to heal. Bars are hard to heal. But rings will often result in bad industrial placement and alignment. Just get pierced with a bar and deal with the problems as they come. It's still very much possible to heal an industrial, it just takes time, patience, and a really good piercer (and like I said find a better shop, whoever told you it'd work to change the jewelry from rings to a bar at 8 weeks is an idiot).
Having one bar can definitely put a lot of pressure on the piercing but it's the best way to go about getting an industrial piercing. It can be a difficult piercing to heal is all. If you get two rings it is very likely that one will slightly migrate in angle and that is going to make it impossible to properly fit a bar through the two holes. Plus, 6-8 weeks would be WAY way way too early to change a cartilage piercing. Try 6-12 months. And an industrial will never reject simply because of the bar, it will reject if it was pierced incorrectly or on someone's ear that is not anatomically correct for the piercing. And I promise, from someone who has had helix piercings done with rings and with straight barbells as well as having one single barbell through my industrial your hair can get caught on them all. If the bar fits properly the balls should fit pretty snugly against your ear.
