Aftercare
Where your piercing is today, and what to do next.
Healing Tracker
Where Is It Today?
Choose your piercing and the day it was done: the tracker shows its stage today, when to come back for the downsize and when it should be healed.
Ear · Cartilage
Helix, Week 3
StageSettling
Swelling goes down; clear or pale crust is part of healing.
Downsize
Today
- Pierced-
- Downsize-
- Healed At The Earliest-
- Healed By-
The Routine
Spray sterile saline on the front and back twice a day, then pat dry with clean gauze.
Do
- Sleep on a travel pillow, ear in the hole
- Keep hair, phones and headphones off it
- Come back for the downsize when the swelling has gone
Leave Alone
- Turning or twisting the jewellery
- Changing to a hoop before it has healed
- Swimming in the first four weeks
Fine-Line Tattoos
Caring For A New Tattoo
Leave the second-skin film on for three to five days, then wash with unscented soap and apply a thin layer of balm twice a day for two weeks.
Do
- Keep it out of the sun, then use SPF 50
- Let flakes fall away by themselves
- Book the free touch-up inside eight weeks
Leave Alone
- Swimming and baths for two weeks
- Scratching or picking
- Thick layers of balm
Healing
Asked Often
Lobes in six to eight weeks; cartilage between six months and a year. The Aftercare page shows where yours is today.
Once it has fully healed. Before then only the downsize, which we do for you.
Leave the second-skin film on for three to five days, then wash with unscented soap and apply a thin layer of balm twice a day for two weeks.