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Hi, I'm Kerri at Zebra in Berkeley and I'm here to talk about why piercings close up.
Some people get kind of confused about the time that it takes for their piercings to
close up because most people are used to having their eyes pierced and they're used to having
them pierced for a long time and those most of the time don't close up. So they get very
confused or upset when their brand new piercing of three of four months, after the initial
healing period, they're not cleaning it anymore and it should be healed enough, but they take
it out overnight and it's gone. This could be an eyebrow piercing, a nose piercing, a
navel piercing. The reason why some piercings heal up faster than others is directly related
to blood flow. If there's more blood flow to the area, it will close up faster because
that tissue regenerates itself a lot more quickly. The highest blood flow areas in your
body are your mouth, and your genitals. So if your lip piercing closes up because you
left it out overnight, even though you've had it a year, don't be surprised. High blood
flow.