![]() If you find it necessary to touch your piercing, make sure your hands are washed, cleaned and dried.Ī piercing heals in stages so diligence is required to during the first few stagesįor the inside of your mouth a cold bottled or distilled water should be used to rinse your mouth after you eat or drink anything and can also be used to help to reduce swelling. Also avoid heavy kissing, oral sex, biting on the jewelry, for these could cause some problems during the healing process. Personal hygiene must be kept to a very high standard. The lip can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to be fully healed “every buddy’s body is different”. The philtrum is the anatomically correct term for the midline groove of the upper lip which is located between the nose and the top of the lip.Ĭaring for your medusa piercing is very easy but does take a degree of patience. What’s interesting about the medusa-philtrum piercing is that this is one of the few cases - others include the daith and rook - where a decorative name has trumped a proper anatomical name. It just didn’t have a name that had stuck. The piercing was performed by Tom Brazda of Stainless Studios, although it was certainly not unheard of at that point. The medusa-philtrum piercing was named in the mid 1990s by Kerrick, a hairdresser and model from Toronto, Canada. However, because of natural mechanical attributes of human skin, it seems that the plate’s size often just depends on the stage of stretching of the lip and the wishes of the wearer. ![]() In many older sources it is reported that the plate’s size is a sign of social or economical importance in some tribes. Other tribes, such as the Makonde, used to wear a plate in the upper lip only. Among the Sara people and Lobi a plate is also inserted into the upper lip. In Africa, a lower lip plate is usually combined with the excision of the two lower front teeth, sometimes all four. Jewelry not made of surgical stainless steel and can cause micro tears in the tissue that can harbor bacteria that may lead to a infection. Never be pierced with “externally threaded” jewelry. This means the end ball threads into the post. All jewelry inserted in a healing piercing should be made out of either 316-LVM ASTM f-138 implant grade Surgical Stainless Steel or ASTM F-136 6AI-4V ELI Titanium. a medusa piercing is placed right over the center of the upper lip where it dips in right under the septum part of your nose. Usually for young females that choose to get their medusa pierced they would go with a small gem on the end of the stud and a smaller size to look cute on their face as for guys would usually go for a ball but doesn’t mean a guy can’t get a gem as well and support it just as good as a female. The jewelry most common for a medusa piercing is called a “labret stud” however just like people stretched out their lower labret people are now stretching out their medusa and putting a small plug in them. The piercing of the medusa is getting to be just as popular as the labret-lip piercings. ![]() This piercing is also known as the PHILTRUM piercing. Today’s blog is about the MEDUSA piercing.
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