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The barbell used is scaled to the tongue being pierced to ensure there is room for swelling and discharge. The professional body piercer will ensure that the right size bar is used and every tongue is different, there is no specific size (only a ball park guess nothing more). To find out how long your current jewellery is would involve you removing the barbell and measuring it with a ruler to know what size is in the piercing right now. If you do this be sure to use care in handling the jewellery and ensure the piercing is not contaminated by inserting dirty jewellery into the piercing.
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How Big should the bar be for a Tongue ring?
14 g
How do you stop my tongue ring from splitting it looks like my tongue is splitting from the bar outwards?
You better take it out and do some research about what is going on.
It is your first tongue ring and you want to know if you should get a plastic bar?
Stick with the metal bar you were pierced with for the first couple of months.
What is a UV reactive tongue piercing?
A uv reactive tongue piercing is a bar or ring that reacts to special uv light, uv lights are usually found at party's disco's and nightclubs so you could stick your tongue out and have it glow ! A uv reactive tongue piercing is a bar or ring that reacts to special uv light, uv lights are usually found at party's disco's and nightclubs so you could stick your tongue out and have it glow !
Do you get to pick a bar or is it a certain one?
Depends on the piercing. For tongues, it's usually a metal bar of a small-medium size, though it also depends on the size of your tongue.
Is a tongue ring supposed to be straight?
usually they will peirce it off centre at the bottom of the tongue this is to prevent speech impediment and also if the bar was centred the tongue would split down the middle and u would end up with a snake tongue
What size barbell is put in your tongue once the starter ring is taken out?
That depends on your anatomy. Once the swelling goes down (usually 2 weeks) go to your piercer and they measure your tongue and fit you with the proper bar. Sometimes, the place will fit you for free if you got the piercing from them. Call and ask
What size tongue bar do you use to pierce?
the best bar to use is a long one because your tongue swells a lot and if the bar is too short it can swell over the ball and cause infection or even worse. About a inch long is good but a 1/4 inch size is what i used and it was okay. it all depends on how much it swells and how you keep the swelling down. i would talk with your piercer before.
What is the recommended size of tongue bar?
The barbell is 14g that is the actual thickness of the jewellery as for how long it it that depends on the thickness of the tongue, that is the job of the professional body piercer to determine what size will best accommodate swelling .
Swelling from tongue ring uncomfortable?
its not so much the swelling that hurts, its the fact you have a bar shoved through your tongue, and it hurts for like a week. the next day is horrible you can move your tongue at all and you talk with a lisp for a week or two
How long is a long tongue bar?
Each barbell is scaled to the size of the tongue to be pierced therefore there is no "actual size" barbell for tongues, this is why you need to have the piercing done by a professional body piercer who will scale and measure the tongue and place the correctly sized barbell into the piercing.
Can you change your tongue ring bar to a longer one once its healed?
Go to your piercer when the swelling goes down and they'll change it if its ready.
