Big Question??? — Page 2

No problem

Just ask them for a lollypop after it is over

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It is not that I am so afraid it is more of the anticipation and I am not sure what it is going to feel like and I don't want to cry. lol... I guess what I just said sums it up to I am scared. I am soooo excited though. I got really pretty star earings.

I hear it feels like a bee sting... is that right?

Yah i know, thanks... i am getting my earlobes pierced.

Updated On: 6/11/07 at 09:45 PM

20 years ago you couldn't find a place that DIDN'T pierce with a gun. The gun is faster and puts earring directly in the ear. Two clicks and it's all over. Cartilidge should be done with a needle, but piercing the lobes with a gun is fine. I would guess 90% of the people I know with pierced ears used a gun.

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i understand that most people use them but it's really not good for your ears to be pierced like that. every professional piercer i know (i know quite a few) says the same thing. you need to use a hollow tribeval needle, prefferably 16g to start with.
but whatever. it doesn't matter beacuse i have a feeling she's not going to take any advice that was given here x_X


edit: i posted a link telling you why a gun is bad, you thanked me for the link but obviously didn't read it.

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Updated On: 6/11/07 at 10:27 PM

since links are obviously too complicated for you...

Getting pierced with a piercing-gun is very unhealthy for your body. A piercing-gun inflicts blunt trauma force to the body (sort of like trying to punch a hole through your arm) which increases the chance for infection and an unpleasant healing process. ALL piercings should be performed with a hollow, surgical steel tribevel needle. This will alleviate the problem of "blowout" (having a volcano-like build-up of flesh around the exit hole of you piercing) and decrease chances for infection.

The first such problem is the risk of contracting disease. Most guns have plastic parts which cannot be properly sterilized, giving rise to the possibility of spreading bacterial infections, such as those suffered recently by a group of people in Oregon after getting pierced at a mall, or more serious blood-borne diseases such as Hepatitis B and C.

The second problem has to do with the shape and composition of the jewelry itself and the force applied by it to the earlobe (or any body part), making healing difficult. These guns were first manufactured to tag livestock, and inflict unnecessary blunt trauma to the tissue. The studs used by the guns have clasps which trap bacteria and which, when combined with the too-short post used by the jewelry, compress the tissue. This does not allow for any swelling, makes cleaning the site difficult, and reduces the availability of oxygen to the wound. In addition, the metal used for most of the gunned jewelry is of inferior quality and may inhibit healing by causing contact dermatitis or nickel allergies.

The best and safest option for any piercing, including earlobes, is to patronize a professional body piercer. These individuals have the proper training to perform safe piercings, unlike most physicians, and certainly unlike the poorly trained clerks piercing people in malls. Professional piercers observe proper sterile procedures, use a single-use, sharp needle which does not damage tissue, and good quality body jewelry made specifically for safe and speedy healing.

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