NocturnalLady
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thank you, and lucky ALL of you I swell up and turn beet red from everything that would be let's see, tongue, belly button, 4 in each ear, and 2 tattoos*. I was swollen and miserable for weeks with all of 'em.
*which are being lasered off at present and I....yes, you guessed, swell up and go beet red with that, too.
eta: when you pierced other people, they never got any swelling later on? that really surprises me. now when I got any/all of mine done, the artist wouldnt have known as it didnt happen for a few hours...?
I usually had people come back the next day for me to check on the piercing if it was in a "sensitive" area. Other than that I had them come back in a week and I asked them about the healing process. So I can really only report on what I was told, what I saw shortly after doing the piercings and what I saw personally with my own piercings and other people's that I saw everyday throughout the healing process. I would expect swelling the most from belly button (hard to keep that area of skin from moving around and irritating the piercing), tongue (same), and possibly much milder swelling with lip and eyebrow and very little swelling with nose and ear.
Also I used very sharp needles that were specially made for piercing so they helped keep swelling down because they cut through skin like it was butter. (Gross I know.)
But everyone is different so I wouldn't be shocked if some people are more sensitive than others.