How To Change Belly Ring
September 11, 2008 by admin
Follow these simple steps and you’ll do it as quickly as my wife!
Having been waiting for nearly five months(!) my wife finally inserted her new gold belly button ring. Yes – navel piercing takes some time to heal. However, it depends on the person – others’ navels heal quickly, like ear piercings. Other piercings take longer to heal, like surface piercings. The amount of skin that the piercing goes through, counts too.
Read on and see how to change belly ring!
First you have to assess if your belly piercing is well healed. Look at my wife’s navel about two months ago:
The piercing was a bit inflamed – you can see the red crusty edge around the inner hole. At this stage it wouldn’t be wise to change belly button ring. You have to wait till it looks like this:
The skin is well healed, no puss comes out and the piercing isn’t tender to touch.
Remember: you shouldn’t be experiencing any discomfort while touching, rolling or sliding your belly ring along the new hole in you navel skin!
Prepare the new piercing – screw off the ball, wipe it well with saline solution and put it aside for a while. Now screw off the little ball of your old belly button ring and pull it out gently. Here’s the piercing without the belly ring:
You can see it looks well and shows no sign of irritation or infection.
Now you’re ready to insert your new belly button ring. Take it and insert into the right hole slowly and push it through. If the piercing is well healed, the belly ring will slide through normally and find its way.
This belly ring is a reverse gold belly button ring – it is to be inserted from the top to the bottom. When my wife did it first, she put it the wrong way. It’s not a big deal, however, you should do as little damage to your navel piercing as possible and not irritate it with unnecessary actions.
In the case you can’t get it in and it starts to hurt, stop doing it immediately and go back to the piercing studio where you got your navel pierced. The piercer will help you insert the belly ring without damaging the half-healed wound.
So – when you’ve successfully inserted the belly ring, screw the small ball on and – it’s ready! From the front my wife’s navel with the new belly button ring looks like this:
Looks gorgeous, doesn’t it:-)?
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Thanks for that!! I first took mine out like 3 months after getting it and I wasn’t sure when it was to heal,so it hurt like green blazes taking it out. Then a month later I changed it and put an acrylic one in with no problems at that moment, but the next few days it got slightly red and irritated. I guess I’ve got another month or two before its completely healed.Thanks a lot though!!
thanks very much. i’m gonna get my piercing next month. wish me luck
thants so much
I just turned 15 and getting my belly button pierced is my main present
Im a little scared and i wouldn’t know when to do what so this is very helpful.
Thank you
Brittnie
which way do turn the ball to take off your belly bar?
Thanks!!! i have had my peircing for almost six months and i needed some help on changing the pictures and descriptions were really helpful
thanks i have ad mine belly piereced for 8 months and they told me to keep it in for 6 months so that it can properly heal well i kept it in longer than hat to make sure i kept it in for 7 and a half months to make sure its properly ealed then i went sopping and saw a realy nice belly bar i wanted so i bought it went home took my old belly bar out and then i couldnt get my new one in i tried loads of times and i still wouldnt go in so i went to the shop to see if anyone could do it for me but the pierecer wasn in so tey suggested that i ad a bath for ages and then try and soothe it in so i did i was in te bath for a hour and i tried to get it in 3 times but it still wouldnt go in te then i text my mate who as got her belly button done to come around to try and get it in so she ame and te first time she didnt get it in but then she put some vasaline at the end of te belly bar and i finally went in but now its really pain ful and i dont know if i want to change i again incse this appens again
Wow that ring looks amazing! I just got mine done so atleast now I know how to take mine out when its healed..
Jasmine, I suspect that you got a ring that was too big for your piercing. Most piercers make the piercing 14ga. You may have gotten something slightly larger and not have known it. I suggest going back up to the place you got it pierced at and have them look at it and see if you caused any major damage in doing so.
Wow, first of all her new belly ring is absolutely gorgeous, I want a silver 1 now just like that lolsz. Anywho I just got my navel pierced a month ago on my bday, now the place I went to said to wait about 3 weeks b4 changing it, Im thynking I’ll need another month or so before changing it. But, I’ve been a little anxious so these last two days I’ve been trying to take it out…err I haven’t succeeded lolsz, im not sure which ball to turn or which way to turn it. This was way helpful though because im definitely going to wait longer before I change it.
i got mine pierced three days ago and they made me get an actual ring to get it pierced with…i did not like the ring at all. i wanted a bar. so the day after i got it done, i changed it to a stainless steel bar with purple balls on the ends. i let a professional look at it and she said it did not look infected or inflamed at all. so i guess it all just depends on how sensitive your skin is and how your body reacts to it. =]
I got mine pierced about 5 weeks ago. The guy that did it told me to wait 8 weeks to get it changed, but I really can’t stand the ring I got it done with. How do you change it from the ring to the barbell like thing? Do you have to bend the ring to get it out or what?
I GOT MINE DONE ITS BEEN 6 MONTHS & SME WEEKS THE PERSON I WNT TO SAID WAIT 6 MONTHS TO MAKE MINE OUT SO IT DOESNT HURT OR NOTHING I THINK ITS HEALED BUT THANKS 4 THAT I DONT KNOW WHICH BALL TO TWIST OFF 2 CHANGE IT IM STILL WAITIN TO BUY ME ANOTHER BELLTY PIERCIN SO UNTIL I GET IT THATS WHEN IM GOING TO CHANGE IT..
hi i got my belly button pierced 5 days ago i cant stand the ring and just wondering how i can change it ive tried twisting it but it wont come off i really cant stand it please help thank you.
I’m 15 and i’ve gotten my belly pierced in NewYork while on vacation. I’m back in Florida now and I’m ready to change my belly piercing. Unfortunately I cannot get it off lol I don’t even know which ball is the one that unscrews. So i’m very confused and frustrated. I’ve tried twisting it both ways and it won’t come loose. I know most people would go back to the piercer and get help but thing is, I got mine done in Ny and I’m in Florida lol Please helppppp (:
Hi Nikky,
You must wait two months minimum to change a belly piercing. In this time, keep the piercing clean and dont try to remove the piercing. You should then contact a local piercing studio (even if you dont want to!) and they will advise you on removing and replacing your piercing
Hey i got mine pierced a month ago(july 18) and i couldnt stand the plain bar i got it pierced with so i waited untill about 2 weeks before the 1 month mark and i changed mine. As long as you keep it clean,be careful of it and take care of it, it shouldnt get infected.
Thank you soooo much . I was so scared about changing mine and i just went to change it now after reading this article. and thanks jasmine astin i did the vaseline thing 1st time round lol .. everything went pretty well .
The piercer put a hoop ring in and its healed now so how so I change it?
Hey guys…. I got my belly pierced last night
and i have heard stories from alottt of people and everyones answer is different… which is the best time to take your piercing out?
if you got yours pierced with a ring you are going to need assistance to get the ball off…. you have to expand the ring because the ball is squished between the two. I just got mine done not too long ago and am waiting to change it because the ring is uncomfortable. so just get siscors or pliers and spread it apart a little and it should be just fine.
well i got mine done a month ago and it still has pulse coming out of it and it still is red around it and i’m not so sure what to dr it with… can anyone help me PLEASE????? it still kind of hurts and sor!!!!! thank you just email me at candice_loves_cameron1@yahoo.com with the best answers u can give me please thank you i really need answers and help about this
Candice,
i have had my belly pierced twice. The first time me and two of my friends went together and got it done at a shop that we later found out was not so good. Mine was the first to go bad. It was red and pusing out yellow and green pus and the skin in the middle was peeling away. I went to another shop after about a month because it was still bad. The guy there told me to take it out immediately because it was going to reject and pop out. I took it out and it healed fine. Then my other friends did pop out, and my other friends almost did, it was literally hanging by a tiny bit of skin. We discovered that it was because the piercer did not pierce it deep enough. After about a month I went and got mine re-pierced. It hurt a little more due to the scare tissue, but it is much better. It has been about three months now. Mine is still red, but the piercer just looked at it not two weeks ago and said it was fine. The only thing you need to worry about is if the skin starts to peel away or you have yellow or green pus, whit is normal. Good luck to you. I clean mine with Kroger brand triple anti-biotic. I did use bactine the first time and it didn’t help, and then i tried salt water to take out the infection and that also didn’t work. Triple antibiotic rocks! Twice a day, or more if it looks really bad, but not more than four times. There is a such thing as too much moisture. If there is too much moisture it will not heal very fast, it will, but just way slow! Good luck!!!!!!!!!!