History of Navel Piercing Cheap Belly Rings In ancient Egypt the Pharos and the royal families were the only people allowed to pierce their navels. They did this because it represented their supreme social standing. A peasant that broke this rule and pierced their navel was punished by death, unless their belly button was considered perfect. If it was considered pefect they could elevate their standing in society. Although the navel has long been recognized, as an erogenous zone, because of the difference between men's and women's stomachs. Women's stomachs are different from men's in that they are more rounded in the lower part. They are also longer than men's. That means women have greater distance between the navel and genitals. They are also more deeply recessed than men's. These features are often exaggerated by artists to make women appear more feminine in paintings.
ADVANTAGES: Other then adornment the navel piercing really has no other advantage or use. DISADVANTAGES: Due to the location of the piercing it is more prone to migration, becoming affected and/or infected. Due to a large part because of clothing that is worn. HEALING PROCESS: Q:How to Change/Remove a Navel Ring If a navel piercing is new - it should be left in until it is completely healed. It is important to the long- term health of a body piercing that it be allowed to heal completely before changing the jewelry. Once it has completely healed (usually around 2-6 months, depending on how well it is cared for), It is recommended that the original (professional) piercer remove the old ring and replace it with a new navel ring. After that first initial change, provided no swelling or soreness occurs soon after, the belly ring jewelry should be able to be removed/replaced at will. Changing a navel ring is quite simple. 1. Wash and sanitize hands, and the jewelry that will be inserted. 2. Unscrew the ball (which is at either the top or bottom of the belly ring, depending on style.) 3. Insert the belly ring/barbell into the piercing hole starting from the bottom (inside) of the navel (belly buttons) pushing the barbell up and out of the top hole. 4. Screw the ball on the barbell and re-wash the whole area
Care and Q & A Naval Rings
However there is no proof that this is the case. The piercing seems to be a modern invention that over the past 10 years has grown to be very popular and helped to bring Body Piercing out of the Underground and into popular culture.
The invention of the Bikini in 1953, caused a big stir because the navel. It was seen as being sexually provocative. This was because of it being similarity to the female genitals. The Bikini has revolutionized women's lives. Along with the liberation of their clothes. They also live their life more liberated. Madonna started the craze for showing of the midriff in the 1980's. The ability to flaunt their sexuality in public gave women more power and confidence in themselves.
It is easy to pinpoint the moment when body piercing became mainstream. Christy Turlinton came out at a London Fashion show, and in the middle of her navel was a ring! The next day Naomi Campbell showed the world that anything Christy could do, so could she. A gold naval ring with a small pearl pierced her navel. And then at Isaac Mizrahi's show the two came out together, navels bared and be ringed: body piercing as a Supermodel totem.
"I have the most perfect belly button - an inny. When I stick my finger in my belly button, I feel a nerve in the centre of my body shoot up my spine" Madonna,Time Magazine1985.
"I like it, I think it's fun!" Naomi Campbell. "I always thought it was a pretty feminine thing to do - and you can always take it out" Christy Turlington.
Not long after Naomi and Christy had their navels pierced itsurprised nobody when Madonna, Cher and Janet Jackson were seen wearing navel rings. Now anybody can join the ranks of Celebrities and Super models by having their navels pierced.
The navel is a depressed scar that tends to collect dirt, and if not dried properly after bathing can become subject to fungal infections i.e. Candida Albicans (Thrush) even if it’s not pierced. Once its pierced extra care must be taken with cleaning to prevent infections. One can not stress enough, how it must be looked after carefully!
Navels ring take a long time to heal because the navel is on your waist, which is like the hinge of your body. It’s subject to a lot of movement and your clothes constantly rub and irritate the piercing. It usually takes 3 – 4 months to heal, but it can take up to 12 months for some. The only difference between a healed and unhealed navel is a very small amount of redness just around the area where the ring pierces the body and it’s hardly visible. The healing time depends on a variety of factors: health, weight, diet, clothes, profession, and most importantly how carefully you care for it.
If you’re worried about having difficulty getting the piercing to heal then you should consider getting pierced with a barbell like style. They get knocked around less than rings and therefore heal a lot easier. You are also able to change them yourself, where as you need pliers to change rings and this is difficult to do by yourself.
The first 4-5 days your navel will look fine, then you will start to get a very small amount of redness where the ring pierces the body. Next you will start to get crusting around the ring. This is just dead white blood cells from the healing process. The piercing will discharge small amounts of milky fluid. This is not a sign of infection, it’s just the result of your body trying o heal a wound with a foreign object in it. If the discharge becomes thick and yellow, or you develop any pain or excessive redness, this is a sign of possible infection. See your piercer or doctor right away.
After 6 – 8 weeks the discharge and crusting should lessen and there should only be a small amount of redness around the piercing. The piercing is not fully healed until all redness disappears. If you stop cleaning it before it is fully healed you may develop an infection. Some good word of advice: Never assume it is ever fully healed. It is always best to regularly clean your piercing.
Q: Why can't I get my navel pierced?
A: In order for a navel to be pierced and to heal properly, it must have two things: a good lip of skin to pierce, and space behind and below the lip for the jewelry to sit without pressure. The lip of skin should be a flap (like an earlobe), with an obvious front and back to it, and a defined edge between the two. If the top side of your navel is more like a rounded slope than a two-sided flap, it is probably not able to be pierced. Likewise, if your navel is totally flat, with no inside and outside, it is not able to be pierced. (For details on piercing outies, see below.) If there is no flap, your piercing will usually either grow out or scar, or both.
Q: Can you pierce my outie?
A: An "outie" should never be pierced. A normal navel piercing goes only through surface skin at the edge of the navel. An outie is residual scarring from the umbilical cord, and as such is a direct blood link to internal organs. In other words, it is more complex tissue than simple surface skin. An infection in a surface piercing is seldom serious; an infection in an outie could quickly become very dangerous. If anyone offers to pierce your outie, please leave that place. Some people with outies also have regular lips of surface skin above or below them, sort of a combination "innie" navel with a little outie inside. Depending on the individual shape of the navel, this surface skin may be pierced. Check with your piercer to see if it is possible. But again, the piercing will not go through the ball of scar tissue, but through the loose lip of surface skin.
Q: Why do navels take so long to heal?
A: First of all, the navel is not a very vascular area. That means that there is very little blood flow to the area. The less blood flow, the more slowly cells in the area will grow, repair and replace. (Compare the skin in color to the blood-rich and fast-healing oral and genital tissue.) Also the navel is subjected to constant bending, stretching and folding, as well as friction from clothing. An earlobe, say, doesn¹t do anything. It just sits there. Navels move. Again, compare the annoyance of healing a cut on your knuckle to one on the back of your hand. And since it takes so long to heal, the navel has a long window of opportunity for infections to take hold. A properly treated piercing may never get infected, but if a wound is open for a year, as opposed to a month, it has a much greater chance of germs getting in it. So it is even more important to keep hands, mouths and body fluids off it.
Q: Can I go swimming?
A: We generally recommend that you avoid swimming for the first month or so of a new piercing, although you should use caution during the entire healing process. While salt water and chlorine may be okay for piercings, all the other bacteria in the water may cause you trouble and you can never be sure how balanced the chemical levels are in anyone else's pool, or what else may be in the water. More than anything, you will want to make sure that you clean your piercing afterwards. If you can't get to some antibacterial soap and water, try keeping a bottle of Ear Care, Bactine or saline with you to squirt it off afterwards. Definitely think twice before going in any hot tubs, oceans, quarries or lakes, where the water quality may be even more questionable.
Q: What about tanning?
A: Provided you don't get tanning lotions or other chemicals in the piercing, tanning itself should not be a problem. In fact, ultra-violet rays can help promote healing.
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