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Ear piercing
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So I gather from things I've read on here that you should always get piercings done with a needle rather than a gun.
Why? And would it actually be likely to cause a problem if I were to get my ears pierced (regular plain boring ear-lobe piercing) with a gun rather than a needle?
Why? And would it actually be likely to cause a problem if I were to get my ears pierced (regular plain boring ear-lobe piercing) with a gun rather than a needle?
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http://tattoo.about.com/cs/psafety/a/piercing_guns.htm
this includes the top of my ear which was also pierced with a needle.
Needles however, come fresh out of a sterile packet and are then disposed of in a sharps bin - therefore being used once only.
Guns also 'shoot' a blunt piece of metal through flesh - tearing it, causing unnecessary scar tissue to form. The studs they use are of a lesser quality than BCRs, they are also blunt. They are also too short and don't allow for swelling - so many find themselves having to have the butterflies being surgically removed.
Needle piercings are a breeze. They are hollow needles, that come to a point - therefore they don't just 'force' their way through the flesh, they part it gently with a sharp blade. Healing is healthier and quicker with a needle and there are less complications with a needle piercing.
But i dont think my body takes kindly to piercings unless they're pure gold or titanium.
"ooooh im scared of the big needle" - you obviously dont want a piercing bad enough
"ooooh the places are dirty and icky" - find a cleaner one
To the original poster, glad your actually looking into it as opposed to the legions of morons who just see "ear piercing £3" in claires window and think its all hunky dory.
Peace
Fucking hell, that's one talented piercer you went to... If it's done correctly you barely have blood spotting and that's if you have any blood at all...
And to OP, go needle piercing, specially for ears you won'tfeel a thing and it is prper medical equipment...
haha you rule
I feel so bad for the poor kids. I don't even know why parents do it. They have to listen to the kids scream after it, they have to sit and clean and change the kids earrings for the next half a decade. Whats the point.
There really should be laws when it comes to body mods. :grump:
Yet babies and toddlers who cant give consent get earrings shot through their ears just cause parents think its cute.
There should be. Thats horrible. I've never actually *seen* a baby getting it done, oh I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut either! Sick, tbh.
Anyway, needles all the way. I had my lobes done nearly 10 years ago and they still aren't properly healed and get very tempermental.
Oh my parents were the same way, wouldn't let me do it till I was 14. Also hated them at the time
Hoop earrings on a baby. Thats shocking. Thats so bad
My next piercing was my nose (also with a gun) when I was 12 and had no end of problems with it.
I've had 10 piercings since my nose and all have been done with a needle. :yes:
Is your nose piercing now still from that one?
I don't like the earrings they use for the guns either, I don't know what it is about them, that weird shape how their so think on one end or something... I don't know.
Random nose piercing question, what kind of stud do you have in it? One of those short straight ones or one of those spiraled ones or something else? I had the spiral one as the straight ones just poped out, but then it just collected boogies and went into a whole new mess
So, I went to my local piercer (who offered me the gun) and it was smaller than the ear gun, and all was well. The stud was hilariously big though - the size of a normal ear stud :yuck:
The piercing itself was very temperamental for about the first year and I had several granulomas which looked a right sight and was so sore. I had to take it out for P.E. at school one day, and when I got home, it had closed up - so I had to literally force the stud through myself.
8 years later and it's a perfect neat little hole, that doesn't close up. I wear a simple straight stud that I cut down with nail clippers, then file so it's not sharp - I don't like the bent ones, they don't tend to fit properly and sort of hang out of my nose like a booger :flirt: sexy lol.
My mum didnt let me have my ears peirced until I was about 12 for the first pair. It took me a year to convince her as well. I understand now why now as well, and will probably do the same thing when I have kids.
I personally dislike it on children though.
think i'll do the same kinda thing when i have children.
i had both my pairs done at claires with a gun :S they get infected sometimes but rarely - and i always thought its because im allergic to nickle and cant afford to constantly buy earings made of solid silver
hopefully gettin cartilage done soon so will get a needle for that.
Same story here. Then by the time I hit sixteen the novelty of it had worn off and it didn't even cross my mind to get them done.
Then for like, I dunno, a year or so? I've been thinking about getting them pierced, but not with any seriousness cos I'd have to wear fat blue plasters over them at work and look a reet tit.
I'm still not sure that it wouldn't look weird. I don't think pierced ears look at all strange on other people but I just can't imagine it on me now. Mental
ETA: I'm actually really, really shocked at the number of my mates that've told me to just 'go get it done at Claire's,' and think the only reason I won't get it done there is cos a) I don't want people to be able to watch and b) I'm scared it'll hurt. I'm nineteen, for Christ's sake, I honestly didn't think anyone above the age of about ten got piercings done at Claire's Accessories