How to Identify Sterile Body Piercing Environments

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Nick. I'm a professional body piercer over here in Studio City Tattoo in Studio City, California. On behalf of Expert Village, we're going to go ahead and talk about sterilization. In general, you want to be in a shop that uses sterilized tools. A lot of tooling is reused day to day on each client, so these tools need to go through a sterilization process. On the tail end of the sterilization process, you just want to make sure that the tools are coming in a sterilization pouch and are being open in front of you. There's an indicator strip on the back of the packaging that usually has a color strip that changes when it's actually been sterilized, because someone actually could just put these in the packages without sterilizing them. You want to make sure that at least that the indicator strip has changed color, and that's how you know how something's been sterilized."