Piercing Parlors vs The Mall: What to Expect When Getting Body Piercings

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Rick Wyckoff. You can check out our website at avatartat2.com. I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com talking about body piercing and piercing with a gun versus a hypodermic needle. In most body piercing establishments, the most commonly used device to perform the piercing is this hypodermic needle. This has 3 bevels on it that make a razor sharp edge that create an elliptical incision in the selected area, and the jewelry sits in there real comfortably under no pressure and it makes a really clean lent channel that heals quickly and is easy to take care of. The area for purposes of accuracy and so that you get a mechanically clean push through the area, forceps or a receiving tube, or something like that. That is also sterilized and comes in a sterile pouch that a indicator on it that shows it’s been properly sterilized. Usually everything in their area has been sterilized, whereas getting pierced at the mall with a gun, they can’t really auto play that piece of plastic that the fire this semi-sharp piece of material through your earlobe. I’ve even heard of people piercing noses and navels with a gun. Another disadvantage other than hygiene is usually the stud that they pierce you with is made out of some sort of soft alloy like gold or silver. Typically, it’s gold, but it just has bullet shaped end on it like a point. As that point of soft metal passes through your ear, it becomes deformed and creates a really rag rue channel as it passes through your ear. Since it made a puncture with a series of tears as appose to a n incision, it not only takes longer to heal, but basically the jewelry’s under pressure. The ear is swelling and trying to basically trying to respond to this injury by sending lent fluid and white blood cells and repair enzymes etc. to the area so that when this happens, it basically applies pressure to the piercing making it more painful. Also, there is a question of accuracy with piercing guns because you can’t really see exactly what you’re doing. You’re just kind of lining it up and firing it through there. There’s not actual human involved that can make micro adjustments as you’re performing the piercing. The other thing is with getting pierced by a professional in a body piercing as apposed to a teenager in a mall, you’re basically getting pierced by somebody that’s had potentially decades of training at this point, as apposed to somebody who’s maybe only done one or two. "