Video: Body Piercing Training

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Body piercing training includes an apprenticeship under a reputable artist, blood born pathogen classes and at least six months of trainee work, which teaches proper sterilization techniques and jewelry use. Get training as a body piercer with tips from a licensed piercer in this free video on body modification.

- Converting Body Jewelry Gauges to Millimeters
- Become a Licensed Piercer

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Hi I'm Tristan McCauley from Lucky 7 Tattoo. And I'm here to tell you a little bit about body piercing training. The first thing you want to do is try and find an apprenticeship program at a local shop with reputable artists that have been doing it for a while and are willing to teach you. Some people charge for it, some don't. It just depends on who you go to. Another thing you want to do is attend a blood born pathogen class. This basically just teaches you sterilization techniques, disinfection techniques and the proper way to avoid cross contamination. Fiojen artists, most of them will have a certificate something like this, just to say that they've taken these classes and they'll have a certificate kind of like this. This is their license. It looks similar to this. It may be different from county to county or state to state but you get the idea. Another thing you want to do is during your apprenticeship you want to work for at least 6 months as a trainee in order to learn all the things you need to know. You want to be able to troubleshoot any kind of problems that may arise. Say someone comes in with an irritated piercing, it looks red around the opening and closing. You want to be able to see what that is, tell them whether it's infected, whether it's just irritated or whether it's just normal healing process. You also want to be knowledgeable about jewelry. You want to be able to tell gages to millimeters, millimeters to inches, things like that. The more you know about the jewelry the better you are at doing the piercings. Another thing you want to do is to be able to learn proper after care techniques. Like the more you know about aftercare the better you can help the client actually take care of what they got. And after applying for your permit through the health department the last step you want to do is join the APP or the Association of Profession Piercers. This kind of legitimizes what you're doing and gives you a better reputation as a respectable piercer. And this is just a little bit about body piercing training.

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