Eyebrow Piercings, 3rd Eye Piercings, Anti-Eyebrow Piercings, and Eyelid Piercings.
Your eyes are among the most expressive areas on your body, and your eyes are completely unique. Naturally, a way to emphasise your eyes is with body piercings! While facial piercings on the entire are becoming ever more popular and sufficient, piercings in the eye area are truly pioneering new styles and techniques in the body piercing and body alteration world. While I don’t need to deter you from getting a piercing in the eye area ( in truth, I believe eye area piercings are a stunning way to improve features ), I do need you to be informed.
I shall first explain eyebrow piercings, which are rather common now, and then I will dive into the rarer - and RISKIER- piercings that may be done close to the eyes. Eyebrow Piercings are common piercings in our culture.
The eyebrow piercing can be placed anywhere on the eyebrow, though only an exceedingly skilled piercer should think about piercing close to the inner corners ( nearest to the nose ) of the eyebrow, for 3 major nerves are found in this area ( because of this, this is not a favored placement ). Most piercings are pierced at a 40 degree angle, in order to decrease risks of ripping the jewellery out. Most primary jewellery consists of either curved barbells or captive rings, depending on your facial structure. Some folk get multiple eyebrow piercings on either or both eyebrows - your creativeness is truly the limit.
Once pierced, these piercings take anywhere from 5 to 8 weeks to fix, but irritations like makeup or sweat can irritate the piercing and lengthen healing. While the eyebrow is one of the least infected piercings, the chance is indeed there - so be certain to soak using warm saline solution, don’t touch the jewellery with unclean hands, and follow all aftercare instructions given to you by your pro piercer. Talking of pro piercers, some folk may try and tell you that you can pierce your own eyebrow with a safety pin ( or something of that sort ) with no difficulty. This isn’t totally true.
While it isn’t tough to push sharp things thru the eyebrow ( there’s not a great deal of tissue or muscle beneath, in comparison to other piercing locations ), the chances of your body rejecting the jewellery is way higher when you do it yourself. Because there’s not a great deal of tissue to hold the jewellery in effect infrequently it can “migrate” ( a pleasant term for pushing itself out of your skin - not fun ). Besides, heating a sharpened metal object over a flame doesn’t represent as disinfecting! Many bacteria are only wiped out at temperatures much higher than what a flame can provide! Alluring though it could be - don’t pierce your own eyebrow ; it’ll potentially get infected, it may become rejected, and if your placement is wrong it’ll look clumsy.
Spending a pair $ for an approved pro to do it is easily worth your money. An especially unique and rare piercing is the 3rd Eye Piercings. Very like a bridge piercing ( see my nose piercing article for more info ), the 3rd Eye Piercings are pierced using surface bars or curved barbells. These piercings are found between your eyebrows ( perhaps even a bit higher that between the eyebrows, relying on face shape ) and are technically considered a surface piercing. As a consequence 3rd Eye Piercings can migrate or become confounded if not sorted correctly. Though these piercings look extraordinary, these piercings are susceptible to reoccurring infections even if you stringently stick to the proper aftercare.
Sweat, makeup, face wash, are all irritants ; this area of the face is extremely expressive ( try and imagine scowling, acting stunned, squinting, etc ) so the skin around this piercing will move often and delaying the healing time. Not everybody can keep this piercing, but if you like how it’s, it just could be worth a try.
Talk to your piercer and decide what’s best for you!
The Anti-Eyebrow is still extraordinarily rare but when healed correctly can look awfully interesting. Usually pierced below the eye, on the orbital bone / higher cheek area, the Anti-Eyebrow is also called a “teardrop piercing”. This is a surface piercing, so the chance of migration and refusal is possible though due to the skin, tissue, and muscle density in this area, this piercing can go on for a considerable time if maintained correctly. The chance of infection is quite low if you do not sweat, touch the jewellery, or wear makeup. Be certain to clean the area comprehensively and carefully in the healing period ( roughly six weeks ). And eventually, the last piercing in the eye area isn’t one I can really suggest to anybody, but since it is out there, I feel compelled to chat about it. The eyelid piercing is one of the most rare piercing in the world - and for excellent reasons. To my understanding, only a few folk have this piercing, and not everybody’s eyelids are conducive to the piercing. The eyelid is a delicate layer of skin is meant to protect, nourish, and moisturize the eyes and corneas.
Piercing the eyelid is terribly perilous, and 99.99% of all pro piercers will refuse to try this process. Blindness can occur if the piercing goes awry. It is very troublesome from the piercer’s viewpoint to complete this process, for organizing the forceps and needle to miss the eyeball is no straightforward attainment. Ophthalmology surgeons spend the best part of ten years learning particularly how to try this and get paid extremely well to miss eyeballs, solely to put it into perspective. Even if you somehow convince a piercer to chance their reputation and pierce your eyelid for you, cleaning the eyelid is tough. Captive rings are used, and the eyelid will swell, there’ll be crust and puss, and the only possible way you can hope to keep the piercing clean is with your own tears and saline solution ( which closely matches your tears ). If you wear contacts, a misplaced piercing will scratch them ; heck, a misplaced eye piercing will scratch your corneas - which can be excruciating.
Many of these piercings don’t last long because there are just too many irritants in our world to stop a total and infection-free healing. While last footage of the few brave folks who have this process look totally cool, it could cause irrevocable and heavy damage.
I cannot counsel this to anybody, though I’m absolutely for pushing the limits of self expression, but I might feel horrible if somebody tried this piercing and failed.
If considering an eyelid piercing - find a piercer who has performed it before ( who might not be ready to do it anyhow ), be fully aware and prepared for the worst, good luck, and send me a picture!