Regular cleaning is the best way to speed up the healing process after receiving a piercing. This will reduce the amount of time that your belly button is tender and easily irritated. Regular cleaning will also help prevent serious irritants such as infection. After washing your hands with soap and warm water, use a Q-tip or cotton ball dipped in saline solution or mild antibacterial soap to wash both holes made by the piercing, as well as your belly button. Gently rotate your piercing about four times around after washing. To make your own saline solution, mix a half a teaspoon of salt into a cup of warm water. Continue washing your piercing and the surrounding area once or twice daily until the redness, swelling, and discharge that normally follow a belly button piercing subside. Once the belly button piercing has healed, it's still important to wash it regularly. Showering is the recommended method of washing, as bathtubs can harbor bacteria that may infect your piercing. Do not use a washcloth or loofah to clean your belly button piercing. These can harbor bacteria and may pull or otherwise irritate your piercing. Use a gentle soap to wash both holes of your piercing, as well as your belly button and the surrounding area. Allow water from the shower to simply wash the soap away. One common irritant and potential source of infection for belly button piercings is bodily fluid. This includes your own or other people's fluids. Avoid getting saliva, sweat, and any other bodily fluid on or around your belly button piercing. When you sweat, be sure to wash your belly button piercing at your earliest convenience. Do not get in a pool, hot tub, or natural body or water while your belly button piercing is healing or infected. Even a clean, well-maintained, and chemically-treated pool may still contain bacteria that can cause an infection or prolong healing. After receiving your piercing, the professional that gave it to you will direct you on how to properly clean the piercing and help it heal. Be sure to remember everything they tell you, and write their directions down if you may forget. If you experience unpleasant symptoms or an infection associated with your piercing, call the business where you received the piercing and ask what they recommend for treatment.
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One-sentence summary -- Clean the piercing daily. Wash the piercing every time you shower. Do not allow body fluids to touch the piercing. Stay out of bodies of water. Follow cleaning directions.

Examine the hull for any deep cracks or gouges. Mix together a 2-part gelcoat repair kit according to the manufacturer's instructions and press the gelcoat into the cracks using the mixing stick. Let the gelcoat cure for 8 hours before proceeding with sanding. If there are any minor scratches, you don't need to worry about repairing them. They will disappear as you sand and paint the canoe. using a utility knife. Use the edge of a utility knife to pry up the edges of any stickers or decals to loosen them. Peel them off in sections as you go until you get them completely off. If there is any sticker residue left after you remove the stickers themselves, you can rub it off with acetone. Always wear a dust mask and eye protection when you are sanding fiberglass. The particles can be very harmful to your lungs or eyes. Work gloves are optional if you want to protect your hands against any slips. Fit an orbital sander with a 120-grit sanding disk. Turn on the sander and pass it along the entire hull of the canoe, working lengthways, until you have roughed up the entire old coat of paint. You don't have to worry about removing all the old paint. The goal is to just give the hull and even, rough coat that the new paint will stick to. Use a clean tack cloth to wipe all the dust from sanding off the hull of the canoe. Make sure it is totally clean before you proceed to paint it. A tack cloth is a special kind of cloth used for wiping up dust from surfaces before painting. The sticky, or tacky, surface picks up loose particles of dust much better than any other kind of cloth.
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One-sentence summary -- Repair any deep gouges with a gelcoat repair kit. Scrape off any stickers Put on protective eyewear and a dust mask. Use an orbital electric sander and 120-grit sandpaper to rough up the old paint. Wipe down the canoe with a tack cloth to remove all the dust.

Doing this allows the natural oils in your hair to develop which in turn allows the dye to bind to your hair more easily. The dye will blend more naturally with your hair, and that tends to make it last longer. If possible, avoid conditioner when you wash your hair the day before dyeing it. Conditioner eliminates your natural oils, which you need for the dye to set in more easily. If your hair is extremely dry, condition it every night for at least five minutes in a hot shower for a week before you plan to dye your hair. Then, do not condition your hair the night before dyeing. This will keep your hair from drying out after you dye it. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the hundreds of shades you can choose from. If this is your first time dyeing your hair, its best to stick to a hair dye that is no more than two shades darker or lighter than your own natural hair color. If you are new to dyeing, you can also try dyeing your hair with a temporary or semi-permanent dye first. Using one of these types of dyes ensure that if you mess up, you won't have live with your mistake for long. Keep in mind that you have to apply semi-permanent dye to damp hair. Temporary dyes, such as chalk and mousse, usually wash out after 1 to 2 shampoos. Semi-permanent dyes will rinse out after 20 to 26 shampoos. Permanent dyes are permanent. The color may fade after 6-8 weeks, but will need to grow out.
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Wash your hair 24 to 48 hours before dyeing. Pick a color that you really like.