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| - When I went in a month and a half ago, I was excited to get two piercings done: I got a second ear piercing, and a septum piercing. The ear was obviously quick and painless, and I was really happy with it. My septum, however, was grueling. I later learned that instead of piercing the sweet spot, it was pierced too low and too far back, through the cartilage next to my upper lip. I couldn't smile for over two weeks after the piercing, it hurt just to move my face. Five weeks later and not only was it still sore, but I was also dealing with two bumps around the piercing. I was told that they were keloids, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I know it wasn't an infection... Maybe hypertrophic scarring? I don't know. Two days ago I went to another shop, and they told me it might just be best to take the jewelry out, wait for it to heal, and go somewhere else to get it redone in the right spot. So, I took it out, and now I'm playing the waiting game.
My ear piercing got infected for the first time about two weeks after the piercing. So, of course, I went from the usual morning / afternoon / night saline routine to four sea salt soaks a day. It was a bad infection, but easily reversible. Not a big deal. After a week of rigid care it finally calmed down and started to look normal and healthy again. However, not even a full week after it got better, it started to get infected again. So, I picked up the heavy cleaning routine all over again... I had no idea why it kept getting infected. I was taking care of it, cleaning it thoroughly, being gentle with it, I'd keep my hair up and away from it... And today, during my cleaning, I noticed a little blood on my q-tip. I took a hot shower, and when I got out of the shower I took out my starter jewelry. The earring itself was still clean and shiny, but the butterfly back to my starter earring looked like something out of a horror movie... I quickly washed the piercing, put in a brand new earring, left the back off of the new earring, did a long sea salt soak, now I'm just letting it breathe...
I am not going back to Diversity in the future, and I would never recommend that anybody should go there for piercings.
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