On the ear, keloids typically begin as small round bumps around the piercing site. Sometimes they develop quickly, but usually they appear several months after you pierce your ear. Your keloidmay continue growing slowly for the next few months. Can you pop a piercing keloid? With the help of...
Albeit mild, and over in a flash! Make sure whatever piercing you go for, your piercer uses a piercing needle (not the Parent Trap kind). Avoid any places that use piercing guns as needles are a much safer option – not to mention a lot less painful, too! If you're on the ...
While your physician or dermatologist can tell you definitively what the bump is, if it looks like an angry pimple on the surface of the skin with scar-tissue texture, then congrats, you've got a keloid! But your cute new nose or lobe piercing doesn't have to be plagued by the bump ...
Sometimes, an injury to the skin on your ear can cause what's called akeloid-- a thick, dense patch of scar tissue. You could get it for several reasons, such as after an ear piercing, tattoo, bugbite, burn, bad scratch, or acne. While not harmful, keloids can be really itchy. Y...
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