If you're looking for a piercing shop, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. I have eleven piercings and none of those even compare to how bad my experience was here. I hate calling out specific people, but I think this... Read More
If you're looking for a piercing shop, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. I have eleven piercings and none of those even compare to how bad my experience was here. I hate calling out specific people, but I think this is important. My piercer was Todd and I got my nostril done. My partner got her septum done first. He did not wash his hands before he started prepping the area (putting down the sterile sheet on the tray, getting out the jewelry and needle, etc.). I had just watched him play on his phone and run his hands through his hair and now he's touching all of this stuff. I let it go and didn't say anything. He eventually put on gloves. The rest of her piercing went fine, and now it was my turn. He washed his hands this time! Prepped the area, put on gloves, and got to business. We decided on a placement and he put the needle in. Things went fine. Here's where things got shitty: I asked to have a small hoop put in. There was some struggle, I figured he was just trying to bend it so it would screw in easier. But things started to hurt. Really bad. I had tears streaming down my face. I have a high pain tolerance, so this was weird. This went on for about five minutes until I finally asked what he was doing, because he literally was not explaining anything that he was doing. (Most, if not all, of the piercers I have been to before will tell you exactly what they're doing, right down to them saying they're throwing the needle in the sharps container.) His reply was, "picking your nose." I waited for an actual response, and got nothing. I asked him again. He said that the hoop didn't want to go through the hole, so he was trying to push it through. For five minutes. With tears streaming down my face. He was trying to stick in jewelry that was clearly too big for the hole he had just created. At some point, as a professional, wouldn't you stop to ask if the person was okay, or if they wanted to switch to using different jewelry that would be easier to insert? I was in so much pain that I asked to switch to different jewelry. He ignored me and kept trying to push it through. This time, I TOLD him to switch the jewelry. He didn't show me the jewelry he was putting in, he just stuck it in there. I looked and it was horrid. A huge silver ball on my nostril with a post that was clearly not made for a nostril. I told him to change it. His gloves were off at this point because he thought we were done. He pulled out another post from the cabinet, bare-handed, and showed it to me. He put his gloves on, I figured he would wash the new post, but never did. This post slid in like a hot knife into butter, and we were finally done. TL;DR: extremely unprofessional piercer, unnecessarily painful experience Read Less