AFTERCARE:

1. Treat your piercing like an OPEN WOUND. Bleeding, swelling, bruising and tenderness in the beginning are all normal.
2. At least twice a day use ONLY saline solution to clean your piercing. Spray it on and use a clean q tip to clean around it. Do not ever use ALCOHOL, PEROXIDE or cream on or around your piercing.
3. Wash your hands with liquid antibacterial soap before you touch your piercing. Only time you may touch your piercing is to check the tightness of the balls or gems on those piercings with balls or gems that screw in.
4. Avoid the lake, hot tub, swimming pool, or ocean for at least 2 weeks.
   After 8 weeks for healing it is safe to change the jewelry. If the piercing is infected or irritated after 8 weeks wait until it heals completely to change the jewelry.
5. For the first two weeks for oral or genital piercings avoid any type of activity that can make your piercing come in contact with bacteria. Such as kissing, drinking alcohol, smoking, vaping, or any kind of sexual activity.
6. For ear cartilage piercing expect a lot of tenderness and longer healing times. Ear cartilage piercing may take up to a year to completely heal.
7. If you need help changing the jewelry please contact the piercer at MAKER TATTOOS LLC. There is a $25 dollar fee to change 1 piece of jewelry or many pieces of jewelry at one time.
8. Seek medical attention if a piercing starts doing one or all of the following Very Painful throbbing with a warm feeling accompanied with a fever.
9. DO NOT EVER play, twist, rotate the jewelry or touch with dirty hands.

INFECTION OR ISSUES WITH HEALING?

If you notice that your piercing is taking longer to heal, or see a bump that won’t go away, then start doing WARM SEA SALT SOAKS. Make a solution by mixing sea salt and distilled water. Use pure sea salt (non-iodized) and not table salt, which contains extra chemicals that can irritate your piercing and dextrose (sugar) that can cause yeast infections. When buying salt, read the label: it should contain only salt (sodium chloride) and possibly an anti-caking agent (often calcium phosphate, calcium silicate, or prussiate of soda). Do not use Epsom salts, as this is a completely different chemical compound. Make sure your salt-to- water ratio is correct. A stronger or weaker solution is not better and may actually harm your piercing.

It’s often easiest to mix it up by the gallon of distilled water and keep it in the fridge. Cold soaks can be soothing for the first few days; after, heat as needed to make a warm salt-water soak.

Mix according to the table below (use measuring spoons and cups for accuracy).

To use: Fill a small container with the solution and warm it in the microwave. Soak up the solution with a clean cotton ball and hold the cotton ball against your piercing. Hold it in place for 5 minutes or until the solution is cold. Repeat this process 3 to 5 times a day, for 2 weeks or until the issue goes away. Another method involves pouring the solution in a small shot glass and warming it in the microwave. Then press the glass against your skin to form a seal, and hold it over your piercing for five minutes or until the water cools. For piercings like nostrils, ears, nipples, and some penis piercings, the entire body part should be submerged in the solution.

SEA SALT SOLUTION RECIPE:

SEA SALT DISTILLED WATER

1/4 Teaspoon. 1 Cup (8 oz.)

1 Teaspoon. 1 Quart (32 oz.)

4 Teaspoons. 1 Gallon

1/4 Cup (Approx.). 1 Bathtub