Requesting Fashion Assistance

[noone]

I currently have a Facial Piercing. It's a small partial hoop with two metal bits, in my eyebrow.

Since I'm working food service and they changed the rules, I have to remove it, meaning it'll heal over before my shift is done.

My question is: Why is it considered a Health hazard after it's done healing? I could understand if it was before it was in six months, when you can have infections. (If your piercing hasn't healed over in six months or so, take it out, it probably never will.)

Secondary question, after I graduate, should I get it redone and be able to expect to get a job? I'm going into the art field, where people are almost expected to be nuts. My first few wage slavery positions will probably be as interns or some other sort of Studio Minion.

[Treasure]

2 options I can think of:
1) wear a band-aid over the piercing (making sure it covers the entire piece of jewelry) but this may also require manager/HR approval
2) get a clear spacer from a piercing shop - explain the situation and they should be able to help you out.

[noone]

2 options I can think of:
1) wear a band-aid over the piercing (making sure it covers the entire piece of

As weird as it sounds, putting a bandaid over a hoop like mine can push it out sideways, so basically my face would heal behind it.

Currently, it healed/was put in wrong, so I'm gonna take it out anyway.

[Moirae]

Ok, this is not what you are going to want to hear, but having a facial piercing is going to make it difficult to find a respectable job. People don't like that stuff. Its seen as immature, and unprofessional, not to mention mildly creepy in the first world nations.

Now, if you're a musician or something, you can usually get away with it. But if you work in any business atmosphere, restaurant, etc, people will not like it.

I'm not saying this to be mean, or that it should be this way, I'm just telling the truth.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

After you graduate, unless you are extremely lucky you will have to do some dues-paying before you get a job you really want. And you will be competing with everyone else who's in the same boat.

Let it heal, and then if you're in a position later where you can get it redone, go ahead. But don't start out in the professional world with a handicap unless you particularly like working jobs you're not entirely happy with.

People seldom graduate and get handed a dream job. They have to hustle and compete for them.

[Nyoibo]

One of the other reasons is that it's possible for the ball to come undone and fall out, not good for somone to find that in their food, the other simple way to deal with having to take it ouy is to use a bit of fishing line, I know a few people in circus situations where they most deffinately cannot have piercings, they replace it with a bit of fishing line until their done then just put the piercing back in.

[blas]

As far as I know, just about every type of piercing causes scar tissue, so it's up to you if you want to risk that if you want to take it out and wait until you can have it again.

I know for sure I'd never re-pierce my tongue or anywhere on my face if I took it out once before for any reason and it healed up. The tongue is the worst, so you may have a chance of it being just fine with the eyebrow.

Those bandaids look stupid. Then it's obvious you have a piercing and have to cover it up. I blame employers on that one. That's more of a sore thumb than a facial piercing.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I would think a bandaid is more of a sanitary issue than the piercing. Also more likely to come loose..

[Cookie]

Certified in food safety here. All jewelry is pretty much considered a health hazard for the sheer aspect of introducing foreign objects. I couldn't wear earrings when I cooked for a living. I did wear my wedding/engagement rings, but most employers won't ask you to take them off for the sheer liability of potentially losing it. I constantly wore gloves over them, though, and they don't have protruding rocks.

[Marmalady]

In the store where I work, we are not allowed any visible tattoos or facial piercings. One girl, who has now left, already had her upper lip pierced when she started there, and was allowed to keep it in provided it was covered over with a small piece of flesh coloured plaster (which I agree made it more obvious, not less)
One of the lads decided, just as he had been offered a Supervisors post, to have his eyebrow pierced, and was effectively told that he could either have the piercing or the post, but not both.. he chose to lose the piercing.

[Shangri-laschild]

Having been through the eyebrow piercing thing twice, I know what it's like to have to take it out and let it heal up. You're better off though. It will heal up fine. My second one barely even left anything behind, including scar tissue. Still waiting to get it done a third time and hoping it takes that time. Hang in there. I believe you'll have to wait at least 6 months to get it redone. I'd wait till you're more established in your job. Once it's healed, make sure to purchase a clear spacer that you can put in during work hours and job interviews if needed. Also see about whether or not a bandaid will work in the future.

[Squeaksmyalias]

As someone who worked with other artists (photography studio and I'm a photog for some events) I will give you my advice. I don't have anything against piercings but I think it can make it harder to get jobs. While a lot of places wouldn't care if you were at a desk job and not handling clients, and some of those clients wouldn't care, it still can be an issue.

I will give an example, my studio we could do some cool colours to our hair if we wanted to, but we had to understand some jobs we would not be given. Like going to private schools, or some events. Our boss was pretty cool about that, one of my coworkers had a blue mohawk and some piercings, but he was strictly hired for backroom see no clients ever work. While the boss was open minded, he had to keep in mind some clients were not. I kept my colours pretty tame, as did a woman who was a photographer there, we stayed in the red purple range, which is easier to hide in darker lighting where we would be set up at schools.

I would say WAIT, wait until you get a good job where you will be there for a while, feel things out on how wild you can be check with the boss. Then decide, besides as my mother said waiting can keep you from doing something you regret , by then you might be over wanting piercings. Like when I waited and got bored with the idea of dying my hair green...I have no idea what I was thinking with that, it would not have been a good look at all for me.

[Seshat]

I have a selection of clip-in (or in one case, pony-elastic-in) hair enhancements. It looks particularly wild on me because my hair is quite curly and it's obvious that these are straight!

But I can have brightly coloured locks and braids whenever I want, and a normal natural hair colour just by taking it out.

I also have some ear cuffs, and some magnetic earrings. Both of which allow me to seem to have extra piercings. (Which I don't have.)

[Little Retail Rabbit]

I know someone already suggested a clear bar but they are only for use AFTER the healing process. They are not appropriate for use before then- during the healing process you need to be wearing metal (probably surgical steel or titanium depending on what your piercer gave you, mine are titanium), but you musn't wear plastic (which clear ones are). I can't remember the reason exactly, something about how it makes the wound "sweat" or something, but everytime I've seen plastic piercing adornments there is a warning on the packaging about not wearing them before they heal, and my piercer has always warned other customers about that before.