Piercings - Almost Famous Body Piercing

10MarMarch 10, 2014

Phases of Wound Healing

The skin on your body does some really amazing things including protection, sensory reception, regulation of body temperature, and synthesis of vitamin D. Because your skin performs many functions to keep you healthy, it makes sense to know a little about the healing process our bodies need to go through when we need to heal a wound. When you get an injury to your skin, either by accident or design, the wound will go through four healing phases. The...

Stretching Your Ear Lobes

Stretching can be a permanent change to your body. Depending on each individual’s capacity to heal, and skin elasticity, once you pass a certain size stretch, it may be impossible for the skin to shrink back to a “normal” size piercing. Dead Stretching Never simply shove anything through your lobes. This is known as “dead stretching,” and can lead to tearing, or a nasty blow-out. A blow-out is when the skin on the inside of the pierced lobe gets pushed out. This...