The other day at the mall i saw a 15 year old sitting in a Claire’s piercing booth and it took every fiber in my being to not just grab her and take her to the actual, clean and sanitary and not guaranteed to fuck up your ears tattoo shop literally next door. Like I was frantic. Snakes manifested in my house
Piercing guns almost ALWAYS cause infections
They hurt more because they jam dull jewelry into your ear
Needles from a professional are designed to allow for minimum damage thus less pain.
The people working there literally have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and just guess it with a 1 hour training video vs a professional who trained under a mentor for at least a year and has a passion in the craft
They use bad metal for healings (copper, silver, etc) that can irritate ears. Surgical grade steel should be the only thing in your healing piercings
They put them on way to tight, causing swelling issues. Swelling is normal and piercings should be large enough to allow for that
They give you shit aftercare advice and cleaner (literally just buy saline solution at Spencer’s or hot topic for 8 dollars at the most and don’t touch them at all)
If done on cartilage it can LITERALLY SHATTER YOUR EARS
Please if any young girls in your family want their ears pierced take them to actual professional and don’t trust piercing guns. If a professional says your kid is too young (I.e a fucking baby) then trust their professional judgement. It costs more but you are getting essentially a art piece from a highly trained professional who knows what they’re doing vs a part time min wage employee who had 1 hour training on how to pierce ears.
I literally wrote an entire essay in college why piercing guns should be banned with pictures and my professor told me she was so interested in my topic and had no idea and even googled the topic herself out of curiosity and was horrified on the amount of damage they case
I am a licensed piercing professional and this is all sound and accurate advice. Get your piercings done by a licensed professional at a reputable shop. Not at the mall kiosk that uses piercing guns. Not by your friend who ordered a kit off of Amazon.
Association of Professional Piercers Aftercare Guide:
Didn’t know this, but I had a feeling after my cousin and I have both had our ears pierced twice there with issues(the first time, both of us got infections, second time hers hurt and one of mine just closed up within like 3 hours of having it out) I’m gonna get my next piercings probably when I get a tattoo
Y’all for real. Please take this advice.
My parents took me to get my ears pierced 3 times. The first time, I was five. It was a Claire’s. They used a piercing gun, obviously. Not only was it comically unsanitary, but they used nickel earrings, which as it turns out I am VERY allergic too. What followed was an absolutely horrific infection that spread onto my neck and into my scalp. Piercings closed up, of course.
Tried again age nine or ten. My parents didn’t know any better, and took me to another fucking Claire’s. I had a bunch of scar tissue from the first attempt, so the genius professional piercers at this Claire’s said, “Alright, we’ll just use more expensive earrings this time and pierce in a spot with no scar tissue, what could go wrong?” Got an even worse fucking infection. Surprise, surprise.
Age 12 I got my ears pierced a third and final time. This time, I was old enough to adamantly request surgical stainless steel earrings and at the very least didn’t get a horrible infection. It was still a stupid piercing gun though. The holes are a bit wonky and there’s… so much scar tissue built up in my ear lobes. I’ll probably get them professionally re-pierced at some point.
Anyway tl;dr if your kid wants earrings please get their ears pierced professionally, my parents are STILL kicking themselves over this cause they didn’t know better
Had my ears pierced when i was 7 (at a claires or a similar place) and it caused an ear infection that has never completely healed. Get professional ear piercings. Please.
I had my ears pierced with a piercing gun. It’s been more than 5 years and I still have problems. Don’t do that.
I also had my ears pierced with a gun. Tho the one ear the lady did somehow wrong and i have one hole like… Curved. Like – how am i supposed to put earrings in a such hole? (And this is why i can’t wear earrings in one ear)
Also i had few problems healing these (got silver earrings at first and then a bit of allergy) ;u;
For sake of your child’s health and your money & nerves pls don’t dare using piercing guns.
Pay a proffesional and have a smooth and competent work done.
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