Lip piercing

Lip piercing is considered to be the simplest and the safest type of piercing, because there are no large-vessels and complex ganglia in our lips.

Monroe piercings, medusa piercings or madonna piercings are the types of lip piercing. A left piercing is a monroe and a right is a madonna. Medusa piercings go through the center of the upper lip (directly under the nose). As usual, labrets of 1.6 mm gauge and 6-10 mm long are used for these types of piercing. For faster healing you should choose the labret with the length 2-3 mm more then the thickness of your lip.

However, some nonstandard types of lip piercing exist: vertical piercing of lower or upper lip and lip piercings on opposite sides of the mouth. For such operations you should better choose the rings of 10mm or 12 mm in diameter, or bananabells of 1.6x10 mm or 1.6x12 mm with the equal beads......read more