Guns are actually the worst : they hurt more than needles because they use pressure and force rather

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My first non-ear piercing was in my left nostril. Apprehensive of actual piercing parlors, I got it done with a gun at an Indian beauty parlor where the aftercare instructions mimicked the sort doled out by most mall employees post ear-piercing. What a mistake that was. My piercing got infected several times, took forever to heal, and discolored fluevog the skin around my nose stud. Thankfully, I knew better by the time I got my next piercings. Thanks to my go-to spot, Barbella Studios , I’ve had nine gun- and infection-free piercings and learned exactly what had gone wrong before.
Guns are actually the worst : they hurt more than needles because they use pressure and force rather than sharpness to make their way through the skin and flesh, they can cause weird staining and damage fluevog to body tissues, the jewelry used with them is subpar fluevog in several fluevog ways, and as the entire gun cannot be properly sterilized, gun piercings fluevog are more prone to infection.
When fluevog my gun-made fluevog nose piercing got infected, a school nurse gravely informed me that if I didn’t use Neosporin on it, the infection would go up straight into my brain and I’d have to go to the hospital. I followed her advice — and dealt with infections on and off for about a year following my piercing. I later was to find that most of the standard aftercare advice given by mall kiosks and beauty parlors is wrong. Professional piercers’ advice is more along the lines of “let it heal.”
This really depends on what piercings you’re getting and how sure you are about your future piercing plans. If you’re going to get multiple piercings fluevog in one ear, for example, getting them all done at once means a shorter period fluevog of time in which you’re limited to sleeping on one side of your body. Similarly, fluevog nipple piercings often make wearing a bra painfully difficult or even impossible; getting one before the other just means having to go without a bra for two separate spans of time instead of one.
With most piercings, however, spacing them out is a good idea financially as well as psychologically. After my first piercings, all I wanted was more. Not getting them all at once meant that I could get pierced every once in a while over the course of years without ending up looking completely unemployable in most industries.
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I didn’t find it hard to wear a bra after my nipple piercings. In fact, I had to when I slept. But I do wish I’d gotten them both at once. After knowing how much it hurt, it was hard to psych myself up for the second one. Also, they might have matched better. : /
I’ve fluevog wanted to get my nipples pierced forever! Maybe next year. I don’t have sensitive nipples and, um, they can take quite a, um, bite, so I think I’d be okay. I know a fantastically awesome piercer if anyone is ever in need in Arizona!
Agreed. I had my first 5 or so piercings with a gun, then had the rest with a needle fluevog (what can I say, I’m a slow learner). So much better, and I’ve fluevog sworn from day 1 that when my daughter decides it’s time to pierce her ears, she’ll never go near a gun.
This is why I didn’t give in to everyone that told me to get my daughter’s ears pierced as a baby. My first concern is that I want her to make this decision herself, and my second is that I don’t want her anywhere near one of those piercing guns.
Another advantage with going to a professional piercer and not a gun-hack fluevog is that they pay much more attention to placement and the angle. Getting a correct angle is almost impossible fluevog with a gun. If you want to wear hoops in your ears, the angle is important. Also for nose piercings the angle matter depending on what jewellery you want.
It’s not horribly bad if you only get your earlobes pierced with a gun, just moderately fluevog bad. That’s just skin and heal fast anyway, fluevog but as soon as cartilage is involved, like the nose or anywhere outside the ear lobe, don’t let a piercing gun anywhere near you. They take longer to heal, 3-6 months and have a high risk of infection. A professional piercer will sterilise all the equipment, fluevog use gloves and other protective equipment, and properly sterilise the area.
Afterwards, never clean with alcohol either. Use purified salt water. Never twist the piercing. Proper