If you are interested in joining the many hundreds of thousands of people who have something pierced, you may wonder where is best to have the work done. Whether it’s a simple earring, eyebrow piercing, septum, or even something more intimate like a tongue, nipple, or labia, there are a lot of people who are not especially picky about the type of establishment they choose to visit. This laidback attitude, in our opinion, is a little disconcerting, to say the least. After all, they involve making piercings in your skin.
It’s true that because of the renewed popularity and demand for piercings of all kinds, that you can get them virtually anywhere. However, just because a kiosk at the mall has a piercing gun and offers dirt cheap prices to give you what you hope will be a cool and lasting fashion statement, doesn’t mean it’s a good deal. There are various reasons why, if you are sure you want to add some jewelry to your body that you should choose a high end, dedicated piercing parlor.
Piercing Artists With Professional, Industry-Recognized Qualifications
While it may seem like anyone who claims to be capable of piercing various parts of your body is trained and qualified enough, the difference between the training a non-professional, kiosk piercer has and a professional piercer like any of the team at TheEndisNearBrooklyn.com has is night and day. Any professional piercing studio worth its salt has stringent requirements for its piercers. The artists in those establishments have successfully completed safety and skill certifications and courses before they are even given apprenticeships.
Apprenticeships themselves can take anything from one to three years to complete. During that time, they hone their skills so they can provide piercings of the highest quality possible.
That spotty teenager at the mall with a piercing gun is not just in a different league, but a completely different field.
Real Professionals Don’t Use Piercing Guns
On the subject of piercing guns, the hallmark of the jewelry store, and mall kiosk piercers, this is one piece of equipment you won’t find in a real professional parlor. The reason so many jewelry stores and kiosk piercers use them is because they do not need as much training or experience. Certification for using a piercing gun takes just two weeks to complete.
As if that wasn’t enough to warn you off them, piercing guns are ridiculously unsafe. Not only are they not sterile, but they use very blunt tips, which can result in skin damage in the area around the piercing.
Professional parlors only ever use needles to pierce, which are single-use and therefore, 100% sterile. The best you can expect that a piercing gun gets between uses is a simple wipe down. This means there is a greater risk of infection and disease.
Safety is Always a Priority
If it feels as if we have really drilled (sorry, not sorry) the importance of safety when getting any kind of piercings, we’re glad. That was the intention. All professional artists have extensive training, as we’ve already highlighted, not just in the skill of piercing, but safety and health. This includes everything from preventing the transmission of disease and the spread of infection and first aid training. Their various safety credentials need to be revised regularly to make sure they are as sharp as they were when they first qualified.
Beyond ensuring that the procedure is carried out safely, professional piercers also make sure their customers and their piercings experience long-term health. They pierce in sterile studios and parlors with sterile equipment and will instruct you on the various steps you need to take in looking after your piercing properly.