When I started piercing in 1994, the eyebrow was just coming into it's own as a popular piercing. In fact, up until a few years ago it was a great deal more popular than even the nostril piercing. There has a been a rather steep decline in it's popularity recently but it's at no way the fault of the piercing. On a piercee with the correct anatomy, the piercing can heal quickly with little problems and though it got a bad reputation for migration, it isn't anymore prone to migration than a majority of other piercings.

I was writing the first blog in my new series Each Piercing Beating to Death on Lip and Labret piercings and realized that I seemed to be focusing a great deal on marketing. As important as the subject is, it isn't something that is often discussed or gets lost in all the talk about placement. So I felt that maybe I should spend a little time talking about the importance and in and outs of marking a piercing.

In the first installment of my piercing blog series Each Piercing Beat to Death, I will be covering Labret and Lip Piercings. In this blog I will be covering the History and Background, the difference between a lip and a labret, the different placements and groupings, jewelry types, hassles, healing and the risks.

History and Background:

In my every going need to expand on the subject of piercing and increase the focus on a style or type of piercing. I decided to do a new series of blogs called, Each Body Piercing Beat to Death. In these blogs I will take a piercing type and basically beat the subject to death. There is a section of the site that covers each of the piercing that I offer with some basic information and these will be kind of an addition to them. 

I have been updating and changing my aftercare instructions and the new versions can be found at the Aftercare Index Page. As I was writing the new oral aftercare instructions, it dawned on me that a long time ago, I had planned on adding information about Thrush and had never gotten around to it. So for this installment of my Piercings Blog I thought it was about time to cover Thrush and Oral Piercings.