“Apparently this has never happened before.” Whoever told that parent that was lying straight to their face, piercings guns are notorious for locking up around people’s ears.
EDIT: wow this totally blew up! It seems like there needs to be a little follow up with this information so here ya go:
Piercing guns are bad for piercing for a few reasons. One of them being that they have a tendency to lock up, which we saw in this post. Another issue they have is that they are difficult, if not impossible, to properly sanitize. To get all the way into the actual piercing mechanism, you have to take apart the entire gun and sanitize it piece by piece. However, because this is a difficult and tedious process, it’s rarely ever done. Most places that use guns are cheap in many ways, not just in how they pierce, so the likelihood you’re getting a nice, sanitary piercing done by a gun is very low. The other issue with guns is that they don’t actually pierce the ear, so to speak. Proper piercing needles are hollow, allowing the piercer to create a clean hole in the ear before threading the piercing into the new pierced hole. Piercing guns, on the other hand, take the jewelry and shoot it through your ear, essentially ripping a hole into your lobe. This can cause bruising, excess pain, and slower healing since the hole the gun made is ragged and not tidy. The combination of these effects make the piercing higher risk, opening it up to a greater likelihood of infection, pain, improper placement, and longer healing times.
If you want a proper, less painful, less risky piercing, go to a licensed piercer. You can find one at most tattoo parlors. They use a single needle per piercing, educate you on proper aftercare, and it hurts way less.
haileyhurley on October 23rd, 2018 at 01:19 UTC »
If you’re going to pierce ears in the first place, never use a piercing gun, it causes damage to the tissue ...
lydocia on October 23rd, 2018 at 02:13 UTC »
My parents when I was 3: "let's get Amy's ears pierced!"
My parents when I was 16: "No, you're not getting your bellybutton pierced. That's totally different."
Mediocre-banana on October 23rd, 2018 at 03:46 UTC »
“Apparently this has never happened before.” Whoever told that parent that was lying straight to their face, piercings guns are notorious for locking up around people’s ears.
EDIT: wow this totally blew up! It seems like there needs to be a little follow up with this information so here ya go:
Piercing guns are bad for piercing for a few reasons. One of them being that they have a tendency to lock up, which we saw in this post. Another issue they have is that they are difficult, if not impossible, to properly sanitize. To get all the way into the actual piercing mechanism, you have to take apart the entire gun and sanitize it piece by piece. However, because this is a difficult and tedious process, it’s rarely ever done. Most places that use guns are cheap in many ways, not just in how they pierce, so the likelihood you’re getting a nice, sanitary piercing done by a gun is very low. The other issue with guns is that they don’t actually pierce the ear, so to speak. Proper piercing needles are hollow, allowing the piercer to create a clean hole in the ear before threading the piercing into the new pierced hole. Piercing guns, on the other hand, take the jewelry and shoot it through your ear, essentially ripping a hole into your lobe. This can cause bruising, excess pain, and slower healing since the hole the gun made is ragged and not tidy. The combination of these effects make the piercing higher risk, opening it up to a greater likelihood of infection, pain, improper placement, and longer healing times.
If you want a proper, less painful, less risky piercing, go to a licensed piercer. You can find one at most tattoo parlors. They use a single needle per piercing, educate you on proper aftercare, and it hurts way less.