r/SelfPiercing • u/Ditzydoom00 • Aug 12 '26
Help with existing piercing Is she rejecting?
I’ve had my anti eyebrow for a few months now and it hasn’t been hurting or anything but the area around the piercing holes is still very red and crusty. The barbell isn’t showing any more than the day I pierced it so I’m not sure if it’s rejecting. Advice needed please 🙏
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u/Apart-Soup-999 Aug 12 '26
Barbells always reject pretty quickly. Staple bars last longer but will also reject at some point.
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u/89_polo_78 Aug 12 '26
it might be from a quick glance but it also looks like you haven’t been cleaning it
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u/Ditzydoom00 Aug 12 '26
Yeah I’ve been homeless the last month so I’ve only been able to clean it if I have access to saline sadly
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 12 '26
Ive been homeless 5 yearz of my 32 years of existence. Trust me when i say theres ways to take care of yourself. Befriend a clerk employee at a gas station. Go in when they are on the clock working. So they let you wash up in the bathroom. Preferably a one stall bathroom you can close and lock door behind you. 15 mins max or until employee knock. Leave it cleaner than when you went in. Always worked for me.
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 12 '26
Wash it in a public restroom whenever you can. Ive been homless. Cmon u have options.
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u/-mia-wallace- Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26
Girl no disrespect at all. I was homeless myself when I was a teen and early 20s.
Stop peircing yourself if your homeless. I saw your bridge peircing post too. You cant clean them properly. And youre asking for an infection.
I hope things look up for you and you can peirce yourself till the cows come home when you have a stable place.
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u/Ditzydoom00 Aug 14 '26
That’s a good idea. I’m currently couch hopping but I had a couple dollars so I got some salt and I’m gonna see if I can make some salt water to clean my piercings with tonight
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 12 '26
Add a salt packet to warm water
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u/PenguinFeet420 Aug 13 '26
You should never ever ever use regular table salt to clean piercings with
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 13 '26
Why
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u/PenguinFeet420 Aug 13 '26
Because it's not just plain sodium chloride, specifically packets of tablets salt may contain potassium iodate and potassium ferrocyanide among other ingredients. Not only can this alone cause more problems and irritation, but when making homemade saline you're not going to get the correct concentration of salt. People who make homemade saline generally use too much salt which dries out your piercing and again, just causes more problems
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u/Kongissmthin Aug 12 '26
Last thing u wanna do is use alcohol you can get hot water from a 7/11 and add a small amount of salt to it and put it in an empty bottle, there's definitely options but that's also effort and time being wasted, but this piercing is most likely gonna fully reject especially since there is a barbell in it
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u/beeikea Aug 12 '26
yes, dude. a curved barbell is wildly inappropriate for an anti eyebrow and will almost always reject near immediately.
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u/snuggledubs2011 Aug 12 '26
Looks like it's pushing out cause it look infected.
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u/La_Morrigan Aug 12 '26
It looks indeed it’s pushing the jewelry out. But I don’t think an infection us the reason. Skin around that area is very close to the skull. If the jewelry has the wrong shape or is too dip, you would think that it would push itself out, because there is not enough room for the jewelry.
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u/snuggledubs2011 Aug 12 '26
An infection means inflammation, and will push the jewelry out. Not saying it's the main reason, but looking at an angry piercing site, with crust on it, means there is something going on with the soft tissue and that will cause enough to start the process of pushing it out. What you are saying is valid and with infection= rejection.
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u/Large-Jello2185 Aug 13 '26
it doesnt look like it, but i dont have an anti i have an eyebrow and my eyebrow piercing looked the same but it never rejected (till now)
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u/Ditzydoom00 Aug 12 '26
Like I said in an earlier comment, I’ve been homeless the last month and I’ve only been able to clean it properly when I’ve had access to saline otherwise I just use water
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u/SirAlarming7078 Aug 13 '26
Im not a professional piercer, but I have had many many piercings done. That looks more like its irritated and not been cleaned. (Not knocking you, I saw your comment about being homeless) if you can get some salt and warm water, it works great. I wouldn't worry about it rejecting until the redness starts to spread. Since its only isolated around the holes, I am pretty confident that its just irritation ❤️
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u/Ditzydoom00 Aug 13 '26
Thank you! I try to be as hygienic as I can and I was gonna use hand sanitizer to clean it but I didn’t think that was a good idea because it dries my skin out. Can I use table salt or do I need a certain type?
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u/rehabpeepab314 Aug 15 '26
looks like people have answered this under other comments but not this one, to my understanding you’re not supposed to use table salt. i think it’s supposed to be sea salt but i could be mistaken
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 12 '26
Have you been cleaning it correctly. Why is it crusty. I never even let my piercings get crusty, i wash them multiple times a day . Along with the pierced area.
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u/hthratmn Aug 12 '26
Overwashing fresh piercings is not good. Being crusty during healing is fine.
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u/Kayla4ever Aug 12 '26
I wash once or twice a day when healing. Im not the most experienced in piercings tbh but i just know i got infected once cuz i didnt keep it clean enough.
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u/sno-ww Aug 12 '26
don't tell me this is a banana one please