Another reason that getting pierced with a piercing gun is not suggested is that it is very difficult to control the angle of the piercing. Unless you specifically ask for a thicker piece of jewelry, we pierce with a stud or ring the same size as the majority of traditional jewelry. I suspect that the gun manufacturers make the stud thick so that it does not bend or torque when attempting to go through the skin. Most people are familiar with the gun stud, which is thicker than most traditional earposts on the market. ![]() Guns use a spring mechanism to shove a sharpened, thick earstud through the tissue. ![]() Although the concept of a needle stirs up most people’s anxiety level, the truth is you will get a cleaner, more accurately placed piercing with less trauma to the tissue with a specially designed piercing needle than with a gun. Non-disposable piercing guns are banned by the Association of Professional Piercers, and disposable ones are very frowned upon. It was center when they were a child, but the ear grew and more tissue developed, so what was centered as a child is frequently not centered as an adult.Ī lot of chain stores use piercing guns-best to avoid?Įveryone in the professional piercing world uses needles, not piercing guns. I frequently see women come in for secondary lobe piercings and I can tell their first hole was done as an infant due to the high, non-center placement. On the same note, we start ear piercings at age 5 and up, because we want someone’s ears to be sufficiently developed so as to not change and affect piercing placement. This way, the emphasis is on the front of the ring and its decorative elements, not the inside of the ring which frequently happens when rings are pierced perpendicularly to an attached lobe. Rings should sit almost straight on, with a slight angle. The same angling goes for rings, as we can pierce with rings for earlobes. Our low profile settings emphasize this point-we like our studs to lie very close to the body, and that helps to see the jewelry when looking straight on. The end result is that the wearer should see the front of their studs when looking straight in the mirror and not have to turn their head to the side to see the stud straight on. The closer the ears are to the face, in general, the more the piercings should be deliberately designed forward for rings/studs to be pointing to the front, and not just perpendicular to the ear. That means I assess how much their ears stick away from their body. I first look at the person’s ears and see how “attached” they are. This determination tests the aesthetic skill of the piercer. You are very careful to ensure that both the front angle and the back angle are flattering-how do you determine what will look best? This vascularity also explains why tongues, despite their thick tissue, take a very short amount of time to heal. So, a helix piercing, which might takes the same amount of time as an earlobe piercing to perform, will take longer to heal and be more sensitive/tender in the morning if you have slept directly on it. Less blood flow equates to a longer healing time. The different areas of the ear have a different amount of vascularity for example the cartilage has less blood flow than the lobe, and that can contribute to how long it takes to heal. That piercing folds easily with the ear and does not experience torque from sleeping on the jewelry that a helix piercing can. Some of the inner ear piercings can take longer on the above scale to execute, like the daith, but that does not make it a painful experience. The client had exaggerated their expectation of pain based on memories of a past experience. ![]() After, they said it “barely hurt” and were thrilled and proud of themselves. I have experienced this many times in the room: nervous clients really want a tragus or upper ear piercing but worry about the pain. But we must be careful to generalize, as someone who had an inept lobe piercing might have experienced more pain than the same person getting a tragus piercing done professionally. In the context of the professional piercing world, earlobe piercing pain is mild, and areas of the ear with cartilage are slightly more painful. All piercings done by a professional should take 0.5-1.5 seconds to execute. Several factors contribute to the sensation of pain: the quality of the needle, the skill of the piercer to perform a quick piercing and jewelry transfer, and the client’s state of anxiety and preconceptions. It’s a bit difficult to quantify the level of pain for each area of the ear. Which piercing points are most painful? How long does it take on average for each placing to heal?
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