Pain Reducing Pads for Body Piercing
“Pain reducing pads are now available that actually numb the skin surface sufficiently to substantially reduce the pain felt during piercing”
For Pros Only
Professional Body Piercing tips, info and insights for body piercings of all kinds.
Renegade Body Artists: Are you in compliance?
“Once a body piercer or tattoo artist takes a Health Department approved pathogen course, they are still required to undergo a series of Hepatitis B vaccinations (3 vaccinations over a 9 month period) before they can be issued a county body technician permit.”
Body Piercing Kits: The Good, The Bad and the dirty
“Using unsterilized body jewelry endangers your client and puts you at risk legally…”
Body Piercing Tools for Professionals
“A tool that malfunctions during a piercing can not only be highly unpleasant for the client (not to mention the piercer) but possibly lead to extended bleeding and complications leading to injury to the client…”
How to handle a difficult customer: Part II
“The only reason to remove a fresh piercing is if there is a raging infection, or if you need to have a medical scan done for an emergency situation – that’s it!”
Apprenticeship: a dying art?
“The truth is, whether we like it or not, these aspiring body artists are everywhere, and they are going to continue to follow their dreams, and make do with what they have available to them”
Fainting during a body piercing
“if you are an apprentice piercer, make sure that you don’t make the mistake this guy does and have your client seated in a chair leaning back slightly, so if they do pass out, you don’t risk them hitting the floor”
Piercing the web
“Although a relatively simple body piercing to perform, a web piercing has a higher chance of rejection than other facial piercings.”
How to handle a difficult customer (Part 1)
“If you can’t the customer calmed down, do the right thing for everybody, and turn them away. I’ve had to turn grown men away that were tatted up to their eyeballs that kept asking me how much it was going to hurt. Are you kidding me – these guys spent weeks getting tattooed and they’re afraid of a body piercing?”
Should you autoclave or use disposable piercing supplies?
“Since autoclaves can cost upwards of two thousand dollars, and cleaning, pouching and spore testing can be very time-consuming, many body piercers choose to purchase their body piercing supplies already sterilized and pouched, ready to use.”