I have gotten a few piercings here. My experience was not the greatest, to be completely honest. I was offered a deal: three piercings for $80 + $10 tip (my choice). This is not a bad price at all. I ... Read More
I have gotten a few piercings here. My experience was not the greatest, to be completely honest. I was offered a deal: three piercings for $80 + $10 tip (my choice). This is not a bad price at all. I accepted and was onto the piercing. Everything was seemingly clean, neat, and nice. However, I noticed that their waiting area and piercing area were not well separated...not very hygienic. Also, the piercer took the needles out and stuck all three needles into a block of lubricant (I do not even know if the lube was unused or new). This, also, is not clean because the needles are no longer sterile when you break the packaging so they were getting dirtier and dirtier as time went on. He talked me through the piercing process and started setting up. I don't even remember if he had gloves on, but if I had to guess, I would guess that he had no gloves on. Very unclean!I was never told to breathe in and out when the needle went through. I was not marked at all or talked to during the process at all; this only made my nerves worse. That is entirely unprofessional and completely wrong. I kind of figure that the place does not have enough funds to afford sterile ink to mark piercings. If that is the case, they should NOT be piercing anyone. He did ask me if I wanted to be pierced where I was pierced before, but he ended up piercing them in different spots. The piercer just pierced without asking me if I liked the placement. Seriously?The absolute WORST thing he did was put a tiny 1/4 inch (or smaller) stud in my cartilage piercing, causing it to not heal at ALL. I did NOT even KNOW that he put such a small stud in my helix (this is completely wrong for healing piercings) until I realized a month later how swollen, red, puffy, leaky, and bloody the whole ear was. I then took it out and replaced it with a bigger stud, but the damage was already done and I had to take the whole piercing out. Very disappointing. He put bigger labret studs in my earlobe piercings. However, my earlobe piercings were very uneven so I had to get them redone elsewhere. Please do not go here. I paid 90 dollars for uneven piercings and bad, tiny jewelry in my helix. I only kept one of his piercing that he did. As for aftercare, he recommended NOT doing sea salt soaks and instead just using antibacterial soap. This is NOT recommended at ALL by a large majority of the piercing industry because of how harsh antibacterial soap is. Sea salt soaks are ALWAYS the most recommended because of the natural healing properties. I was thoroughly surprised by his recommendation. The piercer is friendly but the piercings are not that great. I am extremely disappointed and do NOT recommend this place AT ALL! Read Less