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How to Change Your Piercing Jewelry (and why it's different from normal jewelry) 💫

A handy piddling guide all most piercing jewelry and how to modify out your flat back earrings and cartilage hoops 🥰

Now that your piercing has healed, it's time to play! You can alter out your starter earrings for new apartment back studs, cartilage hoops and huggies. #letsearparty

You've been asking united states of america all of the right questions - how exercise I modify out my piercing jewelry? What'south the difference between a clicker hoop and a seamless hoop? Do I want push pin apartment dorsum earrings or threaded flat back earrings? And what's the difference between piercing jewelry and the rest of the jewelry on the site? Happy to break it all downwards for you lot - here'due south what you need to know:

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What do I need to know about piercing jewelry?

Piercing jewelry is different from normal jewelry - it'southward designed to be implant form (so every bit to non irritate healing piercings), information technology'southward made of different materials, and it also is constructed differently and has different sizing. Here are the key things yous need to know:

✨ Good quality piercing jewelry is made of implant grade materials - solid 14k aureate, implant grade titanium, and special kinds of surgical steel. At Maison Miru, we have solid 14k gold and implant class titanium piercing jewelry - safe for your piercings and sensitive skin.

✨ Stud fashion earrings that are made for piercings don't have the traditional butterfly backing: instead, they have a flat back postal service that'southward called a labret.

✨ Labret backings come in different sizes and then they can fit your personal anatomy. The ii size dimensions you'll need to know are gauge (the thickness of the postal service) and length (exactly what it sounds like - the length of the post). Learn more most what size jewelry yous demand in our guide to jewelry sizing.

✨ There are ii types of labret backings: push pin (aka press fit) fashion and threaded (aka spiral) style. Push pin labret backings take a hollow tube where y'all tin can insert the front piece of your jewelry (which has a push pin type piece attached to it). Threaded or screw mode labret backings have a threading inside then that y'all can screw in the front end slice of your jewelry.

✨ There are two main types of cartilage hoops, which are designed to have smooth ends to not irritate your piercing. Seamless hoops are just that - hoops that you twist open up and closed (best for leaving in 24/seven). Clicker mode cartilage hoops have a subtle hinge and closure that clicks in and out.

✨ Thinking of getting another piercing? Learn more about all of your different cartilage piercing options - from the daith to the helix to the tragus - in our ultimate guide to cartilage piercings.

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Push button Pin apartment back earrings take a tiptop with a super thin, bendable post that you insert into the labret backing. The post should be bent - this is how the front piece secures into the backing. If the post is not bent, your stud earring volition fall out of its bankroll.

✨ To insert your push pin earring, starting time insert the labret backing from the back of your ear.

✨ Insert the pin halfway into the labret backing, so slightly curve the pivot by gently pushing information technology against the backing. The more y'all bend the pivot, the tighter the earring volition stay in.

✨ Fully push the pivot into the labret backing to secure it.

✨ To remove your push pin apartment back, gently pull both ends of the earring in reverse directions, twisting the front of the earring every bit you pull.

✨ Learn more almost push pin flat backs vs. threaded screw flat backs here.

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Threaded screw flat back earrings take a elevation with a spiral attached to the bottom. This spiral secures to the threaded labret backing for an extra secure fit. Make sure that your earrings are screwed in all the way, and know that they may loosen every bit y'all habiliment them (peculiarly while sleeping or if you lot touch your earrings). This is completely normal: simply tighten them every few days or so to make sure they stay in securely.

✨ First, remove the front slice from the back. Twist the front piece out gently to unscrew it while holding the back piece. These earrings are pocket-size - so it might be a footling tricky to unscrew, specially on tiny styles like the Tiny Trinity - that's normal.

✨ To insert your threaded screw earring, first insert the labret backing from the back of your ear.

✨ From the front of your ear, start to insert the forepart slice into the labret backing. Make sure that the threading is aligned to the post before you tighten - if it'south not, you may strip the threading.

✨ Rotate the front piece (while belongings the back piece) to tighten and secure your jewelry.

✨ To remove your threaded flat dorsum, hold both the forepart and back of the earring and unscrew the top by rotating it.

✨ Acquire more about push pin flat backs vs. threaded screw flat backs hither.

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Our clicker mode cartilage hoops feature a hinge and closure that clicks in and out. You might need to expect closely to find the hinge and closure.

✨ To open your clicker cartilage hoop, find the closure point, then gently click the hinged segment of the hoop out, away from the earring.

✨ Insert the cartilage hoop into your piercing, and then click the hinged portion closed.

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Our seamless hoops are designed to exist overnice, sleek and simple - and are perfect for leaving in 24/7. We make our seamless hoops in solid 14k golden for quality, and they're great in helix, tragus and other cartilage piercings. They tin as well be worn every bit nose rings and lip rings.

✨ To open your seamless hoop and insert it into your piercing, gently twist the ends away from each other instead of pulling them apart. When you open up the earring, it should look like a screw.

✨ Once you lot have your hoop inserted, twist the hoop back into identify to realign it.

✨ Information technology is very of import to non pull the ends autonomously in order to maintain the shape of your new seamless hoop. Pulling the ends apart will bend it out of shape, and once bent out of shape, it is very difficult to re-shape it.

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Need some help with sizing? We take a guide for sizing for all of your piercings. We also have recommendations for starter earrings for brand new piercings. If there'due south anything we can assist with, message the states anytime at hi@maisonmiru.com.

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