I'm not very familiar with pierced navels, but I think mine is done too shallow. When I wear a curved barbell, there's only 0.5 cm of skin on the bar. Also, there's quite a lot of silver bar visible when I wear them as well.
Is it too shallow? If so, how do I repierce it? How long do I wait?
That definitely sounds like it is a shallow piercing. Without being able to see it makes recommendations difficult.
Need to know some information. How old is the piercing? Was it always that shallow or did it become shallow as time went on? What was your aftercare? Did you get pierced with a ring or barbell? If pierced with a ring, did you switch it on your own or was it done by a piercer friend?
The more information you can give us the better we can help.
I pierced it late November 2004. I think it has always been this shallow; there doesn't seem to be any signs of migration. I think, at first, it looked alright as the piercing was infected and 'bloated', so it looked less shallow. My navel was pierced with a barbell.
Thanks for your time!
We do not pierce with a barbell because it is difficult to properly clean the piercing without irritating the skin. Generally, when done with a barbell, you are told to move the barbell up and down with some type of cleaning solution and this irritation is what causes problems.
Depending on what your aftercare was and how often you moved the barbell, the piercing is probably migrating.
Take out the jewellery and in about a 3 weeks get it re-pierced behind the first piercing and please use a ring. It only has to be there for 6 weeks and then you can get a barbell.
Good luck
HI, I recently had my belly button redone a couple months ago. It's been hurting alot lately. I can see more barbell, and theres not much skin over the piercing. I was wondering if that was a sign that it was too shallow.
