So I was asked if I could write a text like a sum up of your experience with the christina and nipple piercing being a swim teacher/ lifeguard
On November 19th, 2018 I got my nipples pierced with 12g barbells. The next day I wore nexcare waterproof bandages over my piercings to work. My piercings sayed dry. I did this for about two weeks but my nipples were starting to get too sensitive from the bandages and not the piercings. Afterwards I swam and had no issues.
On February 20th 2019, I had a work meeting which required me to practice in-water lifeguard saves. Everything was going well until right nipple got between my coworkers body and the lifeguard tube. My nipple was bleeding but I checked and it looked fine. The next week it was stinging. I did everything I could think of; saline; saltwater soaks, running it in hot water and the lovely tea tree oil. Nothing worked. I went to my doctor, who also has many piercings, she said that it was infected but I did not need any antibiotics since it was very small. She told me to use antibacterial soap to clean it and she told me to use neosporin. I was taken aback due to the fact that every piercer I know say to never use ointment but at this point I was ready to try everything.
My nipple healed three days later but the damage was already done. The barbell was almost vertical due to migration. I went to my piercer in June, 2019 and she told me to take it out. I took it out in August due to the fact that I did not want to part with it.
In September 2019, I went to another shop after class to get my right nipple and a christina done the fact that my main piercer does not do genitals and the other piercer I mainly consult was not open yet. This shop was really cheap and I wouldn’t really recommend anyone go there unless it was for ears or nostrils. Anyways, when my right nipple was pierced, he used the wrong gauge. instead of 12g he used 14g. So on my right nipple I had 14g and on my left 12g. For my christina, it hurt like a bitch and it was slightly crooked but I didn’t care, it was unique.
you can check out how my first month went here
I had a blister on my christina and many people said it was not noticeable but I noticed and it bothered me so I continued to treated it as seen here. December 15th 2019, I took it out after noticing that it had migrated a lot. After thinking long and hard… I don’t think I’ll get it redone. It bothered me a lot even though it was a cute piercing. The day after I took the Christina out, the bump disappeared.
As for the right nipple, it has not been bothering me at all. In fact I sometimes forget that it is there. I went to another shop to downsize the barbell on my left nipple so that both nipples would match but I am thinking about having it repierced. My piercer and many others said I didn’t need to but it looked a bit crooked. We’ll see sometimes I work myself up until pain no longer mattered. I also have trouble parting ways with a piercing so there’s that also.
I do think that my job did not help at all from the fact that the pool is quite filthy and that there is a lot of bacteria swimming around. Also some of my students would accidentally kick my christina, trying to push off from me and that hurt so much.
Anyways that’s my experience if anyone has any questions hmu.
more info on what it’s like to be a swim instructor/ lifeguard here
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