As someone who also struggles with self care motivation and loves getting piercings this was really what I needed to hear, I’ve been told so many times that it’s my fault because I’m lazy and to know that I’m not alone, that I’m understood and that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel it feels great. Thanks for being so open about it and shedding light on this topic ❤️✨

Within the last 2 yrs my 73 yr old mom got her helix, tragus, and 4 lobe piercings and every. single. one. healed perfectly without a single problem. I got one earlobe piercing 9 months ago and it has a bump and is irritated. I clean it and I don’t sleep on it at all. Thanks for this video 💗

When you said “be patient with my body” that gave me so much relief because you are totally right about that. Our body is freaking awesome and can do awesome things. Our body is our temple so to say, we have to be patient with our body. ❤️

This is so good to hear. My rook is healing decently but my second lobes are going on to 9 months... It made me feel humiliated but I won't give up!

i work at a piercing studio and i clean my piercings every day but they still have bumps on them and its a nightmare and i feel so ashamed talking to clients about healing when i cant even heal my own :( totally feel you with this

Appreciate this. I wear headphones, toss around when I sleep, forget to clean everything etc, and so I take a full year to properly heal even lobe piercings. Shit sucks but I love it and I take care of my piercings best I can, and they do heal eventually.

I have 30 healed piercings and I still sleep with a travel pillow. I am pretty careful with my piercings. But I have Chronic Lyme disease and GAD, so sometimes a piercing will act up (sore, but no bumps). I love my piercings. I am glad that your attitude about your struggles is so positive.

You just take the scenic route when healing 😁 this was very inspirational

Ugh I can relate to that lobe situation. I have sensitive skin and hard time to heal. If I want to add new piercing, I have to get a piece in a day only because I need to make sure how the new piercing adjust with my skin condition. To everyone who are struggling with healing piercings: hang in there! Stick to the proper cleaning & good quality jewelry and keep up the patience. You can do that 💕

I’m so glad you made a video talking about this. I’ve had so many piercings over the years, and my first piercing I was phenomenal with healing and overtime I’ve found myself getting worse and worse at it. I’ll do really well for the first two weeks and then I just get forgetful

I'm really glad to hear this. My second lobes have caused me so much trouble, I have had them pierced 3 times over the years and each time I have given up because they just never seem to heal. I have just had my helix done and I'm hoping for a miracle. I always clean religiously but it seems to make no difference :(

Thank you, Lynn!! I often have difficulty practicing self-care because of my depression and cleaning my piercings is one of those things. I feel so validated in my struggles. Seeing that you uploaded a video in my subscription tab always brightens my day!

This made me feel so much better about having a hard time healing piercings😭I’m also really stubborn with trying to get piercings to heal and end up having to take a longer time to heal them (but in the end, it’s worth it lol) but thank goodness I’m patient 😭

this is so relieving to hear! I have gone to piercers to follow up with any irritation and i've felt the judgement from them.... lol! I have titanium and solid gold high quality jewelry, do the proper follow up care, and yet still manage to get major bumps that take ages to heal away, no matter how careful i am. every piercing i've gotten has taken much, much longer to heal than other people i've known, and it always makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong. I'm trying to become a piercer myself, and one of the top tips i've seen is to have many well healed piercings of your own, because if your shop sees consistent bumps/irritation, they could think you're not too knowledgeable on healing piercings to start with. So thanks for opening up about this!

Thank you so much Lynn for this video! I needed to hear that it’s not just me.. as my philtrum continues to have a bump on it after it should be healed, and after I’ve taken out so many ear piercings because they wouldn’t heal. You are the best and I appreciate you sharing this with us all ❤️

I've been so embarrassed about my double helix ear piercing struggling to heal and this makes me feel so much better 🥲 it's been 10 months and the lower one is still tender and gets a bump on and off. I'm a vicious side sleeper so I've definitely been sleeping on it, so I felt like I was the one to blame for it not healing. However I have a history of skin allergies and skin irritations so it makes a lot of sense why it would take longer to heal. I've been really wanting an eyebrow piercing but have been avoiding getting it out of shame, but this is super encouraging!

I’m having a rough time with healing my vertical labret, and I just recently finally gave up on my helix piercings after six years, so this video is really comforting. Thank you

I think what you said at the end was very important; a piercing is a deliberate wound, ofc it´s gonna be difficult to heal. By putting in the jewelry the healing process is interupted. The body wants to close the hole and can´t! So it´s really not that weird to have some complications I think :P (not a piercer or medical professional)

This is the video I needed to watch. I've wanted to look into the industry for years but was worried my terrible healing patterns and skin condition(s) (I also have psoriasis) would actually stop me. thank you Lynn!!!! You've in many ways given me the confidence to finally look into possibly finding a place in this industry and community :)

you never stop making insanely relatable content. sending lots of love lynn !!!

This video makes me feel so much better. All my piercings take forever to heal. I've been battling my bridge for what feels like forever. I felt embarrassed and like I was bad at piercings, I struggle with mental health issues and it makes me mad at myself that I can't just do the simple thing if cleaning my piercings so this takes away some of that knowing I'm not alone

Thank you Lynn for this video, and sharing your journey! I was so close to taking out my daith, but I’m determined to give it the tender love and care it needs! You are so appreciated. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I’m grateful to know I’m not alone, and it will get better! 🖤

Thank you for your Confident message and uplifting message. Thanks so much as someone with multiple piercings and very sensitive skin and my piercings always take extra long to heal and they’re always a fight. It is really uplifting.

The bridge piercing is hard to heal in general don’t beat yourself up about it you’re doing a great job

I have a lot of trouble healing piercings for some reason. And I do clean them twice a day, try not to snag them. I am an active sleeper though... But man, I rarely have an easy time healing a piercing. The one exception was my septum, which I ended up taking out for other reasons. Boo. My inverse navel took a solid 4 years to actually feel healed. It never migrated, never got infected, just off and on constantly irritated, crusty, bled occasionally, sore etc. Turns out the problem was that I wore yoga pants to sleep and they were rubbing it at night. Changed that up and, like magic, it was fine within a month It's almost never irritated now at 10 years. I'm glad I was so stubborn with it (it was a post breakup/reclaim my body piercing), because it is hands down one of my favorite parts of my body now. And then I had to retire a rook because it migrated, swelled up and refused to go down for 9 months. And I just deal with it couldn't anymore. I loved it though, and I want to try again, but I'm gun-shy on cartilage piercings now.. Also had to retire a lobe piercing that refused to cooperate. Thank you for putting this out there. I think a lot of us need permission to retire unhealed/problematic piercings sometimes. And it helps to know that a pro can struggle with healing too.

I’m chronically ill and disabled but my body weirdly heals like a dream every time (as does my mom) and i have a bunch of related skin issues, extreme dryness,bleeding, cracking, bruise like a overripe peach, all the fun stuff. But that kinda forces me to take care of my skin really well. I also think my OCD helps as I’m too scared of something going wrong and me getting a flesh eating bacteria or staph or something, and it just gets compulsive for me. I sleep completely still like sleeping beauty or a vampire, and generally just don’t develop bumps. But my scar tissue is very like cigaret scars, so thin and concave. I still have my navel piercing going on 18 years. But I relate hard to the missing spoons because I definitely have days where I’m just way too sick to get cleaned as usual, and that sucks.

This is incredibly reassuring. I have hEDS and healing piercings is an absolute nightmare process. I gave up on my industrial after 2 years of bleeding daily and huge swelling and bumps, I probably would've pushed it a bit longer if the piercer hadn't moved away. I've just finished healing one of my nostril piercings (only took 8 months...), the other side rejected really badly and I had it repierced a couple of months ago and it's just hit it's bumpy stage. It's unpleasant when it's in the middle of your face, but knowing that it should heal like the other side and that other people have similar issues is enough to push through it. I've found a piercer who is as patient with my piercings as I am, which is definitely half the battle. I might try the industrial again when my nose is healed.

This is such a relief My septum is taking more than 6 months

This is what I needed to hear today 🙏🏻 I was really down today because my vertical labret has started growing a little bump a couple days ago and I just got so frustrated because I'd just healed a bump on the other side of it. I try to tell myself that other people have those struggles too but hearing it from you really helped me so much ❤️

my average heal time is a year for anything lol. though shout out to recent discoveries: donut pillows for sleeping and NoPull Piercing Discs for bumps! check em out

Yes!!!! I feel like I always take waaay longer to heal than the predicted time. I struggle but I keep going because I love my piercings and I know in the end it'll be worth it. Thank you so much for the video!!

I really needed to hear this, have absolutly felt shame when my nipple piercings wouldnt heal and would flare up after 3 years of trying. Number 1 thing i should have done was consult my piercer more and ditch the home remedies, forgetting to clean isnt good over doing it and drying it out also not good.

Thanks so much for this, my lobes were such a pita, plus i did all the old school bad ideas to fix it. Ive personally put off doing more piercings untill my boat is finished, so i can take better care of them by not being in dust and grime constantly. Sometimes just waiting is good. Im always healing something, and yeah sometimes its nice to not be!

I have a connective tissue disorder, and I got a helix piercing in January of 2020 at a popular but (as I figured out after getting 4 of my first piercings there) not particularly high quality shop. It was done with a ring, which I thought was wrong but went along with. Nearly 3 years later and I've found my holy grail piercer, he's pierced me several times and I've always had issues but they heal in the end. My helix is still an issue but we keep an eye on it and it's slowly getting better. Finding the right piercer makes all the difference.

Thank youuuu, I got some lobe piercings months ago which I thought would be easy but they are just not settling down. Historically though I've had issues healing other piercings too so not sure why I am surprised!

I face the same issues omg! None of my piercings heal the first time so i have to get them redone everytime! Even after applying hell lot of aftercare tips and after watching this, I'll just say "patience"

I’ve been getting pierced since I was 16 I first got my nostril pierced & I’m terrible at healing piercings. I’m super clumsy and bump my ears on everythinggggg, I accidentally sleep on them, so I always get irritation bumps. But I’m super patient with my piercings and I don’t give up on them! The only piercings I’ve had that healed successfully were my lobes and my oral piercings (standard tongue, philtrum, dahlia bites, and snake bites). I’m super patient and consistent with healing my piercings especially my ear piercings cause they suuuuuck to heal due to me being clumsy. (I have 10-11 different piercings in each ear).

I definitely feel like my lip hates me. I don't remember my belly button giving me issues for too long and I just got my septum a few weeks ago and it seems to be fine.. but my lip piercing was done 6 months ago and it still gets super swollen. There is a constant bump on the inside of my lip. Shoot, the other day it was bumping up on the outside and it had blood coming out...not fun. Been pretty painful. I rinse my mouth after I eat and use a saline spray to clean it up on the outside. I really want it, but damn it is getting on my nerves.

Gosh I felt this a lot. Cause my left nostril will not heal. And I understand why it's not. I have lupus, so I take forever to heal anyway.

My tattoos heal wonderfully, my piercings don’t (doesn’t stop me and I usually have to take longer to heal them but ya). I do have an autoimmune condition. I just think it’s interesting.

I love this video so much!

Ugh sooo helpful, thank you!

First of all thank you for being so honest and real about this! I want to share my experience with healing piercings, I am actually really responsible with the process and I like cleaning my piercings so I never forget to do that hahah but... If my ear gets hit even so slightly my flat automatically gets a bump. I've been wondering for a while if it has to do with my oily prone to acne skin, what do you think?

My tattoos heal within 5SECONDS. In a 4-6 day span. Piercings are the biggest annoyance of fashion. U don't need to extreme baby tats and take few days hence why ill ALWAYS perfer tattoos over piercings no struggles with them where as if u slightly nick hit ur piercing or miss a day oh! Bump central there frustrating. Sad truth is u CAN do things right and ur body just don't want to heal. Genetics can go unfairly against ya. It hurts. My lobes healed like nothing but my stupid nostril piercing is just NOW starting to heal up and it been over a year same with my vertical industrial. I've had longer running time with bumps then without it's annoying AF. It is. And despite being sleeping opposite side of the things, and eating well, and cleaning them. Which I do but it don't matter. Sometimes it's just a body genetics issue not always you. Remember that :)

I weirdly heal anything in cartilage FAST and perfectly. 4-6 months for most. Daith, two helixes, faux rook, conch, and flat. Septum healed up within two months also. But LOBES?! Those hate me. I see a highly accredited, well respected APP shop (they even have their own signature end from Junipurr). I follow aftercare to a T. I have had to retire 3 lobes for issues and have one currently that’s three years old and still not fully healed. Seriously, I thought it was but went to swap the top today and it started bleeding. I am still freshly salty. My initial first lobes took 4 years to heal when I was 7. My body just hates lobes. It’s bizarre. Idk how I can easily heal things that should be hard to heal, but the simplicity of lobes just hate me.

i also have (a few) autoimmune disorders so i assume that's the main issue ? but jfc man i j want cute piercings life's so hard

I have Ehler-Danlos syndrome and piercings are hard for me too.

I am SO glad I found this video. I needed this. I get so discouraged with my nipple rings. I've had them forever but they've never fully healed.. It has taken me so long to figure out that the bras I was wearing seemed to anger the piercing. What are your thoughts on salt water? My piercer suggested that I use that to clean them, but it really irritates the piercing and skin around it.

I feel the same way you do. I do not have a great or easy time to heal piercings but let me tell you, my body loves piercing on my face. The piercings on my face are great, I do not know why but give me 3 months and i'm perfectly fine. But do not tell my body to heal a helix and he'll refuse.

I have ADHD and as funny as this seems. After the pain and the swelling goes away. I tend to forget I have piercings. it benefited my conch piercing, and that thing healed great, but i'm still having with my ear lobe

piercing is my special interest and i wouldnt stop getting them for the world,, but dear lord it is a mission!! especially with ear cartilage peircings. i have 18 total piercings currently and i have to contantly restrain myself from only getting facial piercings because its infinitely easier for me. I healed both my paired labrets and paired vertical labrets in a perfectly reasonable amount of time with no major issues, but ive had my conch for probably a year now and it's still sore most days (not today though thank god). it and my daith flare up all the time and every single one of my helixes has a bump. finally starting to see the tide turn on those though!! healing them is such an arduous journey i wish i could skip it lol

I take forever to heal helix piercings. The newest one is two and a half years old… still has a bump 🙃

This is my problem so much. I am so prone to getting irritation bumps because my skin and just irritating the piercing myself. (Newest bump is on my 2 week old vertical labret because I kept pulling off my dead skin..) I was only able to successfully heal 1 ear cartilage piercing which was my conch. I wish I had your patience. I stopped getting piercings for a while and recently started back up and have promised myself to have the patience to heal my piercings so I can have all the piercings I want.

im so jealous of my friends because they dont treat their piercings very well, yet they still always manage to heal easily! i have had to take out 3 lobe piercings because they refused to heal and out of my current 4 piercings only 1 is completely healed. feels good to feel im not alone though!

I felt this one so hard. I have skin issues as well, and had to say goodbye to my nipple piercings after they refused to heal during 3 whole years

I took my bridge piercing out 10 months after getting it pierced. It was my dream piercing and I'd been thinking about it for YEARS... I have the perfect anatomy for it, went to the most reputable piercer in all of Montreal and got the highest-quality jewelry possible for it. It was super fucking expensive. It developed irritation bumps after 7 months of being completely fine, and they simply WOULD NOT go away. I got discouraged after three months, and figured I should probably take it out to avoid horrendous scarring. Now I'm not sure if I made the right choice... And I don't know if getting it repierced would be a good idea, because if it couldn't heal properly the first time around through fresh skin, it would probably be worse through scarred skin and leave me with EVEN WORSE scarring if it were to reject again. I'm fucking heartbroken.

Industrials are tough because your hair gets wrapped up in them. Mine got a bump and I took it out. Cool looking piercing tho.

I got my third lobes done at the same time. I sleep on my left side constantly. That ear healed no problem. But my right ear? Does not heal well at all. Hate it but I won’t give up

thank you

I've had my second lobes pierced 3 times and I just had to take them out for the third time because they were so infected. I wish I watched this video before I did.

i have my double central eyebrows done, a septum piercing, and a belly piercing, they've healed fine! but ive had my normal lobes pierced 3 times!! (with years in between each time) and they just don't like me! ive gotten them with a needle each time, implant grade titanium flatback and cleaning them with neilmed. the 3rd time was only a week ago, and it seems promising (...it tricked me the same last time) but heres hoping

I ❤️all your piercings on top of it your gorgeous 😉

Im 1 and a half years into healing my rook and there still a small bump and crust and gets swollen pretty easily so you taking about yours made me feel so much better

I currently have a lip, rook, and conch that are so much trouble. All done in the last year. My medusa, other rook, and other conch healed perfectly. My piercer wanted me to come back in two weeks to downsize. I went in today, a month and a half later. And honestly I’m wondering if he should have downsized it for me because it’s really sitting deep in the pocket. But it doesn’t help that I keep messing with it… I earned recently that I probably have hyper mobile EDS and I guess that makes you heal poorly? Seems like my healing has gotten much worse in the last year or two. But tattoos, aside from one little spot, I heal just fine! Guess I’ll stick to that 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks for this! Got second lobe piercings in may of 2021 and they suck so bad and I'm trying to wait them out. I'm not the best at cleaning them, was better in the first 3 months but slacked off more after😅 but getting close to a year and a half of healing lobe piercings is getting frustrating

I absolutely adore piercings but I'm not sure If I'll get to my piercing goals. I've been trying to heal a conch for almost 3 and a half years now and it's still not completely healed. I dream of getting 1 or 2 more conches, 1 rook, at least 2 helix and a vertical labret and fuck... I have no idea if I'll be able to do that before I turn 50. But this video is a relief.

My rook and tragus are 1 year and 9 months old and still haven’t healed yet. It’s so annoying. At this point I don’t think they’ll be healed until the three year mark. At which point, I’m finally going to change the jewelry. It’s interesting because my lobe piercings and septum healed up just fine. Daith is doing well, as is the forward helix so I dunno 🤷🏾‍♀️

Can you use table salt and water and if you cannot find saline anywhere? In the past when using sea salt on my second lobes, they took forever to heal even with proper care. Constant puss and crustys, but quite excessive

I do have a question, how were you able to successfully heal your cheek piercings?

no fr I've had my first lobes for 13 months and my seconds for 5 and the firsts r not only worse but both r always crusty painful and irritated. they're good quality and i try not to sleep on em and clean em often but i can't change my earrings !! they swell and ooze !! it's so frustrating. my eyebrow rejected and my best healed piercing is my conch lmfao

I try to do everything right but my body just hates healing lol Rn I have a massive bump on my rook and one on the inside of my nose (got them done at the same time) It do be like that ig

One thing I wonder but idk if you answered it. Why are you a traveling piercer? Why don’t you own your own shop or work in one full time? I‘m sure business wil be booming

Oh, God, I have five your little piercings on one ear and three on the other end all of them talk no fucking joke I’m not even kidding you I’m not shitting you, my earlobe piercings, all of which have taken a year to heal. The reason being is because of my overly sensitive skin. I’m so prone to infection just because they are like I’m so I’m so prone to infection even if I don’t touch them don’t play with them. Don’t nothing if there is a crusty if there is a piece of dirt that goes near it. If there is something that gets on around or near my piercing, my piercing is so unhappy and it just gets mad. And even after they’re healed sometimes like in this case, my third lobes, they’re a year old but I can’t put anything else but my gold hoops in it you know why because they’re so sensitive and anything else goes in them. It pisses them off and it makes them upset and I have to put my gold hoops back so you know it’s just what it is and I accept it and I love them anyways regardless

how awful was your cheek healing process? lol

my 5 months old ear lobe piercing just because I used coconut oil on my skin