What is the sideways tongue piercing called?

Horizontal Piercing

Horizontal tongue piercings are characterized by a single piercing passing through the tip of the tongue horizontally. These piercings are also sometimes called snake eye piercings or scoop piercing.

What are the different types of tongue piercing?

What is Snakeeye piercing?

The snake eye piercing is a curved barbell placed horizontally towards the tip at the end. Two ball ends give the appearance of eyes, making your tongue look like a snake. Turning your tongue into a snake may sound awesome to some of us, but not everyone's a fan.

Do horizontal tongue piercings hurt?

Tongue piercings actually tend to be on the lower end of the pain scale for most individuals. In fact, a lot of people report that getting their tongue pierced hurt less than they expected it to. On the contrary, horizontal tongue piercings are among the more painful of tongue piercings.

What is horizontal piercing?

A horizontal lip piercing is a continuous perforation of a lip with two visible jewelry ends. Actually, horizontal piercings can be located anywhere on your face, but when it comes to the lip piercing, it is usually placed on the bottom lip due to its appropriate thickness.

Snake eyes tongue piercing, what to expect and proper aftercare

Is a horizontal tongue piercing safe?

By piercing sideways through two muscles, it's not safe or viable.” It's also important to note that horizontal tongue piercings can easily cause enamel and gum erosion, as the jewelry rubs the roof of the mouth. It “will create a bigger dentist bill than the piercing is worth in the long term,” says Rose.

What is an angel kiss piercing?

The angel kiss piercing is a surface piercing that goes through the middle of the bottom lip and out the bottom of the lip.

What are Ashley piercings?

“An Ashley piercing is a single piercing that goes directly through the center of the bottom lip, exiting through the back of the lip,” says Kynzi Gamble, a professional piercer at Ink'd Up Tattoo Parlor in Boaz, AL. An Ashley piercing is a bit more involved, as they're pierced according to your anatomy.

What piercing hurts the most?

What is the Medusa piercing?

What is a medusa piercing? A medusa or philtrum piercing positions a stud in the center groove above the cupid's-bow of the lip. A piercer usually fits the piercing with a long labret stud. Once the piercing heals, a person can exchange the stud for a shorter stud to avoid causing damage to their teeth and gums.

What is a rook piercing?

A rook piercing goes though the inner edge of the uppermost ridge in your ear. It's one step above a daith piercing, which is the smaller ridge above the ear canal, and two steps above the tagus, the curved bulb covering your inner ear.

What is a scoop piercing?

Surface tongue piercings, or tongue 'scoop' piercings, are just as bad as they sound. These are piercings that pass horizontally through the surface of the tongue in the same way as a surface tragus or other surface piercing. The main issues with tongue scoop piercings are the same as with snake-eyes.

Can a tongue piercing paralyze you?

Piercing may cause permanent numbness and/or paralyze the tongue if a nerve is injured, he adds. Levy calls a tongue pierce a "plaque trap" that can sabotage proper dental hygiene.

What types of tongues can't be pierced?

Why is my tongue piercing slanted?

A new piercing shouldn't look crooked when you leave the piercing shop. But over the coming week, swelling can make the piercing look askew. Swelling is a natural response to piercings as your body begins to heal. As the swelling fades, the piercing should return to normal.

Why should you not get your tongue pierced?

The American Dental Association recommends against tongue piercing. It shouldn't come as a surprise, but the ADA recommends against tongue piercing because of risks including "swelling, bleeding, infection, chipped or damaged teeth, gingivial recession, lacerations/scarring, hypersalivation, etc."

What is the most painless piercing?

What is the least painful piercing? Most piercers agree that earlobe piercings are the least painful type of piercing because they are positioned on a fleshy, easy-to-pierce portion of skin. Most oral piercings, eyebrow piercings, and even navel piercings are also surprisingly low on the pain scale for the same reason.

What piercing takes the longest to heal?

A navel piercing has one of the longest healing times – as much as 12 months – because of its position on your body. However, the jewellery can usually be changed to a slightly shorter sterile piece from 6–8 weeks.

How painful is a tongue piercing?

Many people who have undergone tongue piercings report less pain than ear piercing. Some have explained the pain to be like taking vaccine injections but the pain is lesser than the one felt during withdrawing blood from the veins for a blood test. Some say it hurts a lot whereas others say it is not that painful.

Can I get a Christina piercing?

You also need to have a deep enough divot just above your hood to accommodate the jewelry. To figure out if your body is Christina-friendly, feel the area just above your clitoris where your outer labia meet. If it's fleshy enough to pinch, then you're probably good to go.

What is the Cupid's bow piercing called?

It's a piercing that sits in the philtrum, also called the Cupid's bow. It's the little divot just above the lip. In the industry, this type of piercing is called a philtrum piercing.

What is a venom piercing?

A venom piercing is a double tongue piercing — one on each side of the tongue. Though not quite as tough-sounding, it's sometimes called a frog eye piercing because the balls on the jewelry resemble frog eyes when you open your mouth.

What are spider bite piercings?

What is a spider bites lip piercing? The spider bites lip piercing consists of two piercings placed right next to each other on either side of the lower lip near the corner of the mouth. Because of their proximity to each other, they resemble a spider bite.

Does Angel bite hurt?

Yep, but pain is subjective so it's hard to say exactly how much. Based on anecdotal reports, people say the rate the pain as being anywhere from 3 to 5 on a pain scale from 1 to 10. Having an experienced piercer and making sure you're relaxed for the procedure can help make things less painful.