Changing Your Belly Button Ring

It takes a few months (3 t o6!) for your belly button to heal c completely but it can take up to a year if you face some problems during your healing process. You must not at all attempt to change your jewelry during the healing process or before your jewelry has healed totally even if you face some kind of infection or other problems during the process. You must visit your piercer in that case and get your jewelry changed. Even after your piercing has completely healed, you might wanna ask your piercing if they can help you replace the old jewelry with a new one since it can be a bit hard and complicated for you to do it.

When you try to do it yourself, however, you must try and change your navel piercing with a threaded tape to help you re-insert the new belly button. You must try to stick to a barbell that should have the same gauge as the previous one so you do not face any issue while putting it inside. Even if you do not use the taper, you must consider the replacement with an internally threaded navel piercing so that you do not have to care about the protruding thread which will then irritate your piercing.

Even still when you have troubles getting your piercing in, you might wanna add a few drops of water to lubricate your piercing to your taper or your jewelry so that it slides easily inside your belly button. Do not overdo either because otherwise it will lead to a lot of slippages and hence you will taper with your piercing and it will become unmanageable.

The thing about having a navel piercing is that it takes a huge amount of time for it to heal and in most cases, it would take more than 6 months because the belly buttons move a lot! Hence, the movement does not allow it to heal completely causing the healing process to take a longer time. However, here’s the whole process of changing a belly button: