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Navel Piercings- Aftercare, Jewelry, and Tips

June 15th 2008 20:58
Belly button piercings are probably one of the more common piercings that you see in today's society. They're easy to hide, and typically easy to heal. The one thing that I'm tired of hearing is the all-mighty question asked by 12 and 13 year old girls- "how do I convince my mom to let me get my belly button pierced?" What's sad is that most of these girls don't understand or won't actually care for the piercing once they get it.

by ButterflySha



When you get any piercing you need to be able to properly care for it in order to prevent infection, migration, and rejection. Although, there's not much that you can do to prevent rejection, you can prevent infection.

Before you actually get a navel piercing, you want to make sure that you understand proper healing techniques. You want to be able to plan out when you'll be able to clean the piercing, which should be at least twice a day for 10 minutes for hte first 2 weeks with saline solution only, and then at least once a day for 10 minutes thereafter, until fully healed.

You want to avoid going swimming until the piercing is healed. I realized that most females, especially the younger crowd, want to get their navel pierced during the summer so that they can show it off in their two piece bathing suit, which is fine, as long as they avoid going swimming. That means no swimming pools, lakes, oceans, ponds, whatever... Just don't do it. The bacteria levels in any body of water is just not the risk of infecting your new piercing. Before you go swimming, make sure that the piercing is 110% healed. The risk isn't worth it.


Also, avoid tanning beds until the piercing is healed.

You want to make sure that you know the common signs of belly button infection so that you can potentially stop the infection before it becomes severe. Common signs of navel infection include redness, swelling, warmth/fever in the area surrounding the piercing, pan, and pus.

by whodunit74
Tri- Belly Button Piercing


For the few days or so, don't start to stress out because the are around your new piercing is red, swollen, and painful. Give the piercing at least one week before you start to stres out, as by then the area around the piercing should be substantially less swollen and painful. As for the redness, now that will depend on your body, and is pretty much person-to-person as to how fast the redness fades.

When you're picking out jewelry for your belly button piercing, make sure that you stick with steel or another high-grade metal. You want to avoid wearing dangle belly button jewelry and other large navel rings for long periods of time because the weight can severely irritate the piercing.

If you’re pregnant and you’re worried about losing your navel ring, don’t worry. You can find pregnancy belly button rings that are typically banana barbells that are much longer to accommodate your growing abdomen area.

You still want to keep watch on the barbell to how large your abdomen grows. Some women will quickly grow out of the steel pregnancy barbell. In this case, you’ll want to find tygon that you can have sized for your navel piercing. A body piercer is the best place to find tygon; plus the piercer will be able to help you with your piercing.

by sean dreilinger
piercing extension for pregnant bellybutton


And, lastly, stretched belly button piercings... It's possible. It's actually more common for males to stretch their navels, but it's not uncommon to see a female stretch her belly button piercing. As with stretching an ear piercing, you want to stretch one gauge at a time, and remember that slow and steady wins the race. You never want to race a stretching.

As you increase the gauge, you want to watch out what jewelry you use in the piercing. You don't want to snag or potentially cause a tear to the skin. If you want to stretch your navel piercing, I'd definitely suggest that you go to a reputable body piercer to ask for jewelry tips.

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Comment by Tri attack

July 15th 2008 05:09
I just got my tri finished off about 3 days ago and now its bruised in between the bottom 2 piercings...I'm trying to figure out if this is bad or ok lol

Comment by Anonymous

September 22nd 2008 23:17
I just got my navel pierced and it didnt hurt at all. my friend said that people say that the clamp hurts but i didnt think it did. i felt a pinch for a second.

Comment by Anonymous

August 5th 2009 04:10
i had my navel pierced for about 2 years when it started to migrate so i decided to take it out...
it's now been over a year since i took it out and there is still a small hole there
i would like to get it pierced again but i'm still waiting for the whole to heal completely
is this normal?

Comment by Whitney

August 5th 2009 20:34
The hole is probably healed. There will be a mark there always.

Comment by Anonymous

October 3rd 2009 22:11
i got my belly button pierced a couple weeks ago. Is it normal for me to feel the bar underneath my skin? it's not thin enough for me to see the bar though. it is only a little pink but it's not tender or swollen. could this be a sign of migration? or am i just freaking out?

Comment by Whitney

October 5th 2009 12:09
Depends on how well you can feel it. If you got it a few weeks ago, it shouldn't be tender any more. Being able to feel the bar could be because it was pierced too shallow. You usually won't have signs of migration this early on, but it is possible I suppose.You should be able to feel the bar unless it was pierced too deep. It you can see the bar or see the bump where the bar is, then it is definitely too shallow.

Comment by Anonymous

November 13th 2009 17:10
Well i got my bellly pierced the first time and i had to take it out b/c it became infected so i let it heal for about 6mos and pierced it again, this time my body healed over it and pushed the ring out, so yes it tore my skin, but since it was so thin the tear i barely felt it. I have a small scar with a line going vertically (from the tear) now. and the skin is healed but tight (could be a small keloid?) I really would want to pierce it again, but is it worth it to pierce the top or would my body do the same thing?Should the piercer try to pierce under my scar? I would like to do the tri-belly one...

Comment by Whitney

November 16th 2009 21:59
You aren't supposed to take out the jewelry when you have an infection. The hole can heal over the infection and push the infection elsewhere in the body.

A keloid, is scar tissue, not tight skin. It's generally going to be seen as a bump. A line is not going to be a keloid that I've ever heard of anyway.

It shouldn't get infected so easily, unless you're not following proper aftercare.

Hopefully, you're having a piercer do it, and you're not doing it yourself, as that can definitely increase risk of infection and rejection, as you've seen so far.

Doesn't sound like your body is going to heal a belly button piercing ever. Not everyone can heal them.

Comment by Anonymous

November 20th 2009 19:56
Whitney: All of my piercings are done at Parlors, i dont do that myself (im diabetic I dont take any chances) But I went back to my piercer and he did tell me it was scar tissue, pierced it again for me (he was nice enough not to charge me) and to really take care of it. Use anti bacterial soap and if I should want to, soak it in salt (sea salt or epsom) once a day. I have done that for my industrial, lets see if it'll work for my navel. do you have any suggestions for a solution that might work better than those?

If so please respond. Thank you!

Comment by Whitney

December 1st 2009 20:33
soak in saline and not use soap.

Comment by Lydia Sofia

February 20th 2010 11:17
I'm on 2/3 of my tri-navel piercing, and it's beauitful and has had no problems yet! But never get them all done at once, it's not even a good idea to get two done at once because it's too much stress on the body, and if one gets infected they all probably will.
There is also a higher chance of rejected with the 2 lower piercings as they're surface piercings, but i'll let you know how that goes with my experience! Gotta wait a few months till i get the last one now

Comment by Anonymous

April 27th 2010 23:10
I got my belly button pierced 3 years ago and within the first year I accidently put in a smaller gauge barbell because it was shorter (and I'm a tiny person, so it looks nicer) than what I was pierced with and so the hole got smaller. I want to say I had an 18 gauge and put in a 16? I tried to take it out and let it heal but the hole won't close so I put the smaller one back in. Can I get it repierced for it to be bigger or not worry about it?

Comment by Whitney

May 4th 2010 16:14
Lydia, lower navel piercings aren't surface piercings if they're still on the navel. Surface piercings, though, have a 99% rejection rate not just a little higher.


Anonymous, You should be able to just put the larger gauge in the piercing. Typically, navel piercings are pierced with 14 gauge needles and use 14 gauge jewelry. If you're at an 18g, that's really small. 16g is also fairly small for a belly button piercing. You can find proper 14g jewelry in smaller barbell lengths if that's what you wanted initially. If you're at a 16, try pushing a 14g barbell into the piercing while in the shower. You may want to use a little neosporin ointment to help it slide in. Unless, you went to an inexperienced person, I highly doubt you got it done initially at 16 gauge, unless you requested it.

Comment by Anonymous

May 4th 2010 16:18
ooops! well whatever they are, there's a high chance of rejection with them, but hopefully they won't grow out for a while. Have them all done now and i love them

Comment by Whitney

May 4th 2010 16:37
It's just a regular navel piercing on the bottom. Nothing special or really that different. They design is quite popular. There is a slightly higher rejection rate as they are lower than the normal navel piercing, making them more susceptible to hitting them and rubbing them on clothing, but they're not too bad. You may see more migration than rejection.

Comment by Anonymous

May 5th 2010 13:31
i love them, special or not, i was just saying as it's a site about them! but yeah, we'll see how long they last! x

Comment by Jaimie leyyten<3333

May 29th 2010 01:15
ksoo i like... peirced i myself. that being the top of my belly button. like i duno 3 days ago? lol soo its like scaryy like all aroun te ring and i can see sum of the barbelle in me? is thi like tottaly bad right niw, and shoud i take it out, or should i like wait till it heals a but more and see if it changes?
right back thanks XX

Comment by Whitney

June 7th 2010 15:29
It's not ideal to pierce yourself especially without experience. I'd try to take it out, unless it's infected then you want to treat the infection first before taking out the jewelry.

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