• Never touch your ears with unclean hands.

• Wash your newly pierced ears (on both sides) thoroughly twice a day. Do NOT remove the earrings when cleansing.

• When showering/washing your hair, use liquid soap and rinse thoroughly with clean running water. Dry with a Kleenex or Q-tip.

• Supplementary cleansing can be done with the Blomdahl swabs. Allow to air dry. Use a new swab for each ear.

• Do NOT use rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean the ears.

• Make sure the area around the holes is kept clean, dry and airy at all times.

• Cover your ears when applying makeup, hair spray, perfumes, hair dye, etc.

• Take extra care when you are putting on/pulling off clothing over your head, in order to prevent the earrings from getting caught.

• Bathing in a swimming pool, lake or sea: wait for as long as possible after the piercing and avoid keeping your head under water. When you come out of the water, cleanse with liquid soap or Blomdahl cleansing swabs.

• After approximately 6-8 weeks, remove the ear-piercing earrings permanently and change to new earrings. Wash your hands and ears thoroughly. With one hand, take hold of the jewelry part (front) of the ear piercing earring. With the other hand, wriggle the earring back, back and forth, until you feel it loosen. Carefully remove the earpiercing earrings and put in new, clean earrings.

• It takes UP TO A YEAR before the holes are completely healed. Hence, consider the following:

Always wear earrings. If you go without, the holes can shrink and/or close permanently.

• Take extra care when cleaning earrings. The skin that has grown within the holes is still thin and delicate and can easily tear, which may cause an infection. Therefore, always make sure to wash your earrings and your hands before the change, and make sure that the area around the holes is kept clean, dry and airy. If you use earrings with earring backs, these should not be pressed tightly against the back of the ear.

• The risk for developing a contact allergy is at its greatest during the first year. This is why it is extra important to wear safe earrings during this time.

• IMPORTANT: redness, swelling, pain and/or rashes are indicative of a possible infection. Remove the earring and cleanse. If there is no improvement the following day, please contact us.