There was some heated discussion a while back about doing surface piercings with a CBR, which is widely acknowledged as not the most ideal way to go about things… Anyway, Roo fixed the RAID array in my one of our archive boxes so I was able to retrieve this picture of a Madison piercing that I took at six years old, done with a circular barbell and looking perfectly healthy. I don’t have any reason to believe that it’s rejected since — if the wearer kept it, it would now be sixteen years old.

Either way, it certainly had no difficulties healing. I’m definitely not recommending rings — I feel strongly that surface bars are the way to go — but I did just want to say that just about everything can and does heal on someone. While risk of failure does increase dramatically when one chooses less than ideal jewelry, it absolutely does not guarantee failure…