honeystraw:

darkbookworm13:

vextera:

guardofvariansbutt:

The other day at the mall i saw a 15 year old sitting in a Claire’s piercing booth and it took every fiber in my being to not just grab her and take her to the actual, clean and sanitary and not guaranteed to fuck up your ears tattoo shop literally next door. Like I was frantic. Snakes manifested in my house

Piercing guns almost ALWAYS cause infections

They hurt more because they jam dull jewelry into your ear

Needles from a professional are designed to allow for minimum damage thus less pain.

The people working there literally have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and just guess it with a 1 hour training video vs a professional who trained under a mentor for at least a year and has a passion in the craft

They use bad metal for healings (copper, silver, etc) that can irritate ears. Surgical grade steel should be the only thing in your healing piercings

They put them on way to tight, causing swelling issues. Swelling is normal and piercings should be large enough to allow for that

They give you shit aftercare advice and cleaner (literally just buy saline solution at Spencer’s or hot topic for 8 dollars at the most and don’t touch them at all)

If done on cartilage it can LITERALLY SHATTER YOUR EARS

Please if any young girls in your family want their ears pierced take them to actual professional and don’t trust piercing guns. If a professional says your kid is too young (I.e a fucking baby) then trust their professional judgement. It costs more but you are getting essentially a art piece from a highly trained professional who knows what they’re doing vs a part time min wage employee who had 1 hour training on how to pierce ears.

I literally wrote an entire essay in college why piercing guns should be banned with pictures and my professor told me she was so interested in my topic and had no idea and even googled the topic herself out of curiosity and was horrified on the amount of damage they case

I am a licensed piercing professional and this is all sound and accurate advice. Get your piercings done by a licensed professional at a reputable shop. Not at the mall kiosk that uses piercing guns. Not by your friend who ordered a kit off of Amazon. 

Association of Professional Piercers Aftercare Guide:

https://www.safepiercing.org/aftercare.php

^^all of this

I refused to get any of my kids’ ears pierced until they would be able to make the decision for themselves. I can’t tell you how many people gave me shit for not taking them to a walmart kiosk or the mall to get them done. I nearly came to blows with my ex-mother in law over my refusal to get my eldest’s ears pierced that way.

My eldest daughter asked why her ears aren’t pierced yet, and I explained that I wanted to give her the choice, because I was taken to a Claire’s at about 11 years old, and had them done with a gun. Which hurt so much, I didn’t want her to be in pain like I was. I promised her that if she wanted them done later in life, I would take her to the piercing parlor and hold her hand if she needed it.

I didn’t tell her that my mother and the sales associates held me down to do it, or that it took about 3 years for my ears to stop seeping fluids (not counting the scars around the piercings, or my metal allergy that started after I got them done.) 

Don’t fucking do that shit to your kids, especially little babies, I heard one person say that they wanted to get their newborn’s ears pierced at the mall, and I had to leave the area before I was arrested for stealing the baby away like the Evil Witch everyone thought I was to raise her as my own.

I had terrible ear pierce infections as a kid, 3-4 separate times because my family just kept taking me to Claire’s or mall kiosks. No matter how clean they were kept I always got infections and one of my few childhood memories is all the pain I was in and how my mom had to hold me down so many times so she could clean my piercings. Everyone kept telling me I was just prone to infections and it was going to happen no matter what. I just kept taking the earrings out and letting the holes close up, and I’d ask again for real piercings and get taken to kiosks again. So I waited until I was old enough to be taken to a legitimate parlor, and told my parents “look I found this great parlor that a few friends have gone to and they have this deal for piercings and shit it’ll be great this is what for my birthday or Christmas or whenever it was”

To everyone’s amazement but my own, I didn’t have even the slightest infection. They stopped hurting after a few days. Everyone just told me it’s because oh you’re just more responsible now and actually taking care of them now (I guess they all forgot I was never even the one cleaning them it was adults taking care of me) but I know it’s because we went to an actual parlor that sterilized their shit three full times and wore two pairs of gloves and spent a full five minutes cleaning and scrubbing my earlobe and the surrounding area all to insure there’s as little chance of infection as possible.

Do not go to Claire’s. Do not go to kiosks. Especially do not fucking being young children to these places that’s just cruel but my opinions on piercing children is another post for another day. Go to a real parlor. These people are actually trained to do this shit properly. Any extra expense it costs to go to a parlor over Claire’s or a kiosk would’ve just been spent on antibiotics and more cleaning shit anyway. Go. To. A. Parlor.

beyoncescock:

billyteddys:

so i was talking to my dad about guardians of the galaxy and when i mentioned chris pratt my dad sighs and says “I dont know how parents could be mean enough to name their child after a fried rodent” and i sat there looking really confused and he just whispered “crisp rat.”

this is the end