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The decision you wish you'd waited on There's a particular kind of regret that piercing wearers describe: the realisation, sometimes weeks or months or years after closing a piercing, that the closure was a mistake. The piercing that didn't fit your circumstances at the time has come around to fitting them again. The job you closed the piercing for has ended. The relationship has changed. The phase has passed. And the piercing you let go of is gone, replaced by a faint scar. Closure regret is common enough to deserve its own discussion. This guide covers why it happens, which...

Caught it in time The most common version of this scenario: you took your jewellery out for a few days for a job interview, a sports match, an MRI, a flight, or just because you forgot to put it back in and now when you try to reinsert it, the channel feels too tight. The post won't go through. The piercing isn't fully closed but it's not passable either. You're caught in the in-between zone where the original piercing might be recoverable or might be effectively gone. This guide is for that moment. It covers how to assess what state...

The decision between closure and concealment When a piercing is no longer working for your current lif a new job, a new relationship, a new aesthetic, a new phase the immediate question is whether to close it or keep it but conceal it. Most people default to closure because retainers are less discussed and less understood. This guide makes the case that for many situations, a retainer is the genuinely better answer. Retainers preserve options. Closure forecloses them. If the reason for removal is anything less than permanent and most reasons are less than permanent a retainer keeps the piercing...

Returning to a position you let go of A surprising number of piercing decisions are made twice. People get a piercing, wear it for years, let it close for some reason a job, a relationship, a life phase and then later decide they want it back. Re-piercing the same position is possible in most cases but it's not the same procedure as the original piercing. The presence of scar tissue, the change in your skin and anatomy over the intervening time, and your own different relationship to the position all matter. This guide covers what's different the second time around,...