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Hi I'm Tristan McCauley from Lucky Seven Tatoo and I'm here to show you how to pierce a naval.
First and foremost you want to make sure that you have this done by a professional. Doing
it at home or having your buddy do it in his bedroom is not a safe way to do it. It is
risky and it can lead to infections and all kind of other problems. It can be crooked,
ugly, make sure you go to a place that is reputable. Make sure it is maintained and
monitored by a local health department or some other authority in that area. The first
thing you want to do is when you go in is make sure that all their utensils and their
jewelry come prepackaged and presterilized and this will avoid any kind of risk of infection.
The first step in actually doing the piercing is to clean it and I am using some Technicare
which is basically what doctors use to clean their hands before surgery. You want to later
up the top really well and inside as well, just go around it a few times and wipe off
the excess. Your next step is to make a mark of where you are going to go with the piercing
and I'm using some genteen violet to make the mark as well as a single use marker. Now
when you are doing this you want to have the person stand completely straight, hands by
their sides and look straight ahead.
Then mark the top and the bottom and then eye it and make sure it is completely straight
and then have the person lay back. Some people choose to free hand their navel piercings.
I use a clamp just because I think it avoids any kind of error. You know that you've got
it dead on, you know that the thing is going through straight and it's fine. You take and
remove your clamps from your packaging as well as the jewelry and the needle. Make sure
that you are ready to put the jewelry in before you even start unscrew the the top of it and
then you want to take the guard off of the needle. You want to use a little bit of surgical
lubrication. Dry piercing is dangerous, it hurts, it is not good so make sure you use
a little bit of the surgical lub and get it on the needle really well. Take your clamp
and clamp off the area making sure it is centered on the top and on the bottom so you know that
you have the right amount of skin in the clamps. Take the needle, take a deep breath in, and
exhale, remove the clamps, push the needle through a little ways. You want to take the
butt of the jewelry, put it to the bottom of the needle and take a deep breath in, exhale.
Make sure you keep contact all the way through. If you lose contact you have to fish around
for the jewelry and that is not fun for you or them. Make sure to keep your thumb and
forefinger on the jewelry before you put the bead on, screw it on slowly and then you want to use the saline Q-tips
to clean it off, clean around the top first, switch it up and then go around the bottom
making sure to get all the way around the jewelry so to help clean up all the blood
that's on there and it will help it close up on the outside so it will heal properly
and that is how you pierce a navel.