It can be indicating that the healing process is taking place.

Piercing navel healed. It all begins even before you get pierced. Navel piercings will scar some. Not every navel is pierceable, just like not everyone can get an industrial, or a daith.

Tight clothing and rough fabric will rub against your piercing, which can make it take longer to heal. All of those things will result in a lot of irritation to the piercing. Here's a video detailing my plus sized navel piercing healing process!

Navel piercings can be one of the slowest piercings to heal, with sources reporting a range of six months to two full years. You may want to use a stretchy, elastic bandage to hold. Navel piercings are prone to bleeding, redness and swelling.

Use a sterile saline solution to soak the area for 5 to 10. Wear clean, loose, and soft clothes. If your piercing is healed, the skin should be the same color as the rest of the skin on your stomach surrounding the piercing.

In addition, it will get rubbed/pressed on by clothing and is more likely to get snagged. If you take out your jewelry, it will heal over but it will look like a piercing hole. This is a unique type of piercing that involves horizontally piercing above or below.

In both healed and healing piercings, piercing bumps are often a result of trauma to the piercing site. Just a bit of background i’ve got my nostril, lobes and double lobes. How do you heal a navel piercing scar?