What a tongue piercing looks like
I found a great set of three photos that show the forceps used for tongue piercing and a special piercing needle.
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Body piercing needles and jewelry
Piercing needles are not for sewing, they're big and scary. Don't let their appearance frighten you. Piercing needles were designed specifically to pierce the flesh while causing the least amount of pain possible. Their design also helps the 'wound' heal faster than it would with an ordinary needle.
Maybe you've heard of this guage
and that guage needle. If you didn't know allready the term guage
refers to size, small number equals a big needle, big number small
needle. For instance, if you're get a nipple pierced you don't want to
use a needle lower than a 12 gauge. Lips and nostril can be pierced
with a thin 14 or 16 gauge.
Piercing needles are made from surgical steel, at least they should be. Surgical steel is hypoallergenic and capable of extreme sharpness. If you've ever handled a surgical scalpel you know what I mean. Because they're so sharp they slice cleanly through the skin without tearing or pulling. Being sliced through doesn't sound too attractive but it's alot less painful then being pierced then stretched as the rest of the needle goes in. The bizare feature of piercing needles is that they are hollow. They actually cut a tiny hole through the skin being pierced.
Hollow needles leave a clean-edged, precision hole in your flesh. Don't cringe, a hole with clean edges heals quickly. Regular needles, that push their way through the skin, tear and bruise the skin causing more pain and leave wounds that take longer to heal.
If
having a good clean hole punched through a part of your body with a
hollow bit of surgical steel with laser cut percision doesn't appeal to
you, yet you still want to get pierced, maybe it's better if you just
don't look at the needles.
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