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Are you confused with the term “snakebite piercings”? Don’t worry we are over here to help you recover yourself from such dilemma throwing the light on what such term actually stands for and what its significance are. Although many of you must be well introduced with different types of body piercings including the lip piercing, the snakebite or bite piercings may for some of you be still a neoteric term. Also known as “bites”, the term “snakebite” is actually used for the illustrations of variety of piercings to be expedited on human lips. The “snakebite” can also be perceived as a widely used terminology for a few specific portions of the lips to be pierced for putting there on attractive jewelries, barbells or lip studs.

As the trend of body piercing is catching on in the world the people prefer to get the piercings expedited on a few specific parts of their body such as ears, nose, lips, nipples, bellybutton, naval, genital, clitoris, corset and hips. The piercings have been categorized as facial/oral piercings, body piercings, unisex genital/anal piercings, female genital piercing and male genital piercing. Corset, hand web, hip, Madison, wrist piercing and neck piercings are considered to be the parts of body piercing, while anal piercing, anus piercing, Christina piercing, clitoris piercing, Clitoral hood piercing, triangle piercing, fourchette piercing, Isabella piercing, Labia piercing, Nefertiti piercing and princess Albertina piercing come under the female genital piercings.

Although piercings are believed to be practiced at large by the women only, the men are not behind the women in undergoing piercing on many sensitive parts of their body. It is an immense crave and craze among the men that has flourished the piercing business with the entry of many professional piercers piercing the sensitive parts of men and women. Variety of male genital piercings are available in the USA, such as Ampallang piercing, Apadravya piercing, Hafada piercing, foreskin piercing, deep shaft piercing, Dolphin piercing, Dydoe piercing, Frenum ladder piericng, Lorum  piercing, magic cross piercing, prince Albert piercing, Reverse Prince Albert piercing and the Transscrotal piering. As the topic of this article revolves only around the snakebite or lip piercings, we would contemplate only on the lips to be pierced. The pierced sites of lips are put on attractive jewelries according to the choice of the individuals concerned. Men are much crazy for the snakebite piercing or the lips piercing in comparison with women. 

Types of bites or lip piercing

There are a few popular bites piercing the lips to let the individuals wear thereon a preferred jewelry.

• Angelbites- It covers both the sides of upper lip.
• Cyberbites.
  
• Spiderbites.
  
• Snakebites.
  
• Viperbites.

Does snakebite piercing mean lip piercing?

Although the term snakebite piercing is used generally for the lips to be pierced, the piercing expedited on the ears and nose also also are termed as the snakebite piercings. As far as the lips are concerned its surrounding regions are selected for the snake-bite piercing or lip piercings as per the choice of the individual itself. Following the lip piercings (snake-bite piericng) the individual gets a chance to wear a barbell or ring-like jewelryon his lips. With the lip piercings trend gaining worldwide popularity, especially in the western countries, different types of piercings have been introduced for upper lip, lower lip and side lips. As selecting a site on the lips for piercing is the matter of individual’s choice, the piercer performs piercing over the feasible site of lips for snake-bite piercing or lip piercings. The lip piercing can be single or in pair paving the way for wearing attractive jewelry thereon.

How much time does the snake-bite piercing take in healing?

Although a pierced site of the lips takes twenty to seventy days in healing completely, it is the healing power of human body as well or his immunity that determines the healing time. In other words, the physical immunity plays a crucial role in helping the wounds recover faster or slowly. It is the complete healing of piercing wounds that allows the individual to change his lips jewelry frequently. After undergoing the piercing on lips or the individual should exercise a great aftercare in preventing infections. As the piercing wounds on lips remain open it can come under bacterial onslaught that triggers infection catching the individual concerned, unawares of its secret attack. 

The snake-bite piercings

As the lips remaining always exposed through our face attract everyone’s attention, they should be considered for the snake-bite piercings only after lips piercings’ feasibility for our facial look. Instead of being influenced, at the behest of someone, to undergo snake-bite or lip piercing you should ensure whether it would contribute in enhancing the attractiveness of yours facial charm or not. Keep it remember that snake-bite or lip piercing is a new trend of facial decoration and more than 80% people in the world still are not introduced with snake-bite piercing trend that seems to have become a craze in many western countries.

As the snake-bite lip piercing can be expedited wherever you want to, you should select a few specific sites that seem to enliven your personality through the facial expression. As far surface of the lips are concerned it should not be caused any wounds except a perforation conducive for the preferred jewelry, lip barbell or stud. Maximum number of the youths generally wears only one stud either on upper lip or lower lip keeping in view the catalyzing effect of studs, while some people wear two barbells or pair of lip studs as per theirs choice. Apart from using upper and lower parts of lips the youths put on the studs on left and right sides of their lips as well by undergoing snake-bite piercings. The horizontal lip piercings, canine piercing, Monroe piercings, Medusa piercings (piercing through the center of the upper lip) and labret piercings are some of the popular snake-bite piercings. Although vertical lip piercings are easy, comfortable and common among the youths, the horizontal lip piercing is a precarious and most difficult one as it involves a great part of mouth posing oral risk to the individuals concerned.

Aftercare of lip piercings

If proper aftercare is taken by the individuals after the lip piercings, the infection will occur enhancing thereby the natural healing of lip piercings. It is the cleanliness of piercing wounds that checks the emergence of bacteria and thus prevents bite infection or infection of lip piercings.

• If you have undergone recently a snake-bite on your lips then you should rinse regularly the piercing wounds of your lips with non-iodized saline water two times a day. Healing property of saline water ensures fast recovery of the piercing wounds, checks the bleeding, cleans the piercing and exterminates bacteria (if exists).
• Use only the cotton ball to clean up the lip piercing. You should always use two separate cotton balls to clean the piercing wounds. Do not use the same cotton ball to clean two piercings at the same time.
• As far as cleaning of the starter barbell/stud is concerned you should use a q-tip bud to clean it gently without causing any heavy impact over the piercing.
• Apart from ensuring regular rinsing and cleansing of external part of your pierced lip you should keep your mouth also healthy by using mouth wash with no any alcoholic content.
• Use the mouth wash after having your meal. Drinking plenty of fresh clean water flushes away the deposition of filth or residues of foods checking the bacterial infection at bay. 

Types of lip jewelries to be worn after the bite (snakebite)

There is a wide range of stunning lip jewelries to choose from. With successful snake-bite or lip piercing you become entitled to wear a lip jewelry of your own choice. Although the professional piercers advice the individuals to wear only a starter or rudimentary lip jewelry, it is up to the individual itself to wear a lip jewelry of his/her own interest. Generally a rudimentary jewelry is put on immediately after the piercing of lips. The starter jewelry or barbell (aka labret stud), made either of surgical stainless steel, upgraded titanium or non-reactionary/non-allergic are used at large.

Keeping in view enormous post-piercing swelling the professional piercers put a on a long stud or barbell after expediting the snakebite piercings on the lips in order to prevent pain to be caused due to pressure of stud on piercing. The individual should avoid changing the worn lip unless the piercings are healed completely. But what he should do regularly is rotating his lip stud gently in order avoid its jamming on the lip healing lip. If the piercing is healed completely the worn starter lip jewelry or barbell should be replaced with another beautiful jewelry fitting closely and comfortably over the pierced site of lip.