The lips look so attractive and adoring with a piercing. There are many types of piercings, and it is your responsibility to find a piercing that fits you best. You are only required to determine your piercing needs and why you want to get the lip piercing.
Piercing your lips can be sensitive; therefore, you need to pay so much attention to care and maintenance for it to turn out well. When deciding on the exact type of piercing to get, have an extensive list of the types of piercings to make comparison and selection easier. Here are some of the lip piercing ideas that you can check out.
- The Side Labret Piercing
Just like the name suggests, the piercing is single and off-centered, done on the lower lip using 14G or 16G needles. This piercing is widespread, and chances are that it is the first one that comes to mind when you think of lip piercing.
You will need hoop jewelry similar to the captive bead rings or the seamless hoops for the side labret piercing. This piercing takes around five to eight weeks to heal completely.
- The Madonna Piercing
This piercing appears on the left side of the upper lip. The only jewelry usable for Madonna piercing is the flat back lip studs. The Madonna piercing takes approximately three months to heal completely.
- The Monroe Piercing
It is the complete opposite of the Madonna piercing. It is one piercing that appears on the right side of the upper lip. The jewelry used is also the flat back stud, just like in Madonna piercing, and it also takes a maximum of three months to heal or less if your body type heals wholly and quickly.
- Medusa Piercing
It is referred to as the philtrum piercing sometimes. The artist positions the medusa piercing on the top of the upper lip at the center. This piercing requires a professional with enough experience because the positioning is very sensitive.
The medusa piercing only takes the flat back lip studs jewelry due to the nature of piercing. It takes around two to three months for the medusa piercing to heal.
- The Labret Piercing
This piercing is kind of the opposite of medusa piercing. The artist places the piercing at the center part below the lower lip. For the jewelry, the labret piercing allows a variety of options. You can try several hoop styles, like the seamless hoops and the captive bead rings. You can also use the circular barbells and the flat-back lip studs.
The labret piercing takes roughly eight weeks to heal completely. For those who have bodies that heal faster, this might take less.
- Vertical Labret Piercing
It may be confused to be similar to the labret piercing, but the two are slightly different. As the name suggests, the artist places the vertical labret piercing in a vertical direction.
This piercing features an entry hole that gets through the lower lip, and the only piece of jewelry you can wear is the curved barbell. The vertical labret piercing takes up to eight weeks to heal completely.
- Ashley Piercing
This adaptation of the vertical labret is usually made precisely on the bottom lip. For the Ashley piercing, the exit hole is on the inside rather than on the inside as it is with vertical labret piercing.
The only applicable piercing for the Ashley piercing is the flat-back labret stud, which takes around two months to heal completely.
- The Jestrum Piercing
The entry point is slightly above the center point of the upper lip, and the exit hole is in the middle of the upper lip. In other words, the jestrum piercing can be called the upside-down vertical labret.
Curved barbells are the most convenient jewelry for jestrum piercing. If you like exploring jewelry, you can try the different options on the ball ends type of jewelry. A jestrum piercing takes about eight weeks to heal completely from the inside and the outside.
- Dahlia Piercing
Your artist will place the dahlia piercing at the corners of the mouth. In most cases, the artist will do the dahlia piercing in pairs, but you can do it in a single piercing as a unique alternative. It is the perfect piercing if you want something to give you a stretched smile.
