Here is advice from a piercer if you people want to call him dumb, he is actually in fact correct along with a couple people who have also stated facts about this. Guns crush the tissue, they are usually only swabbed with alcohol which does not actually clean them, skin & occasionally blood is left behind from previous people pierced with the gun, in many states its illegal to pierce cartilage with a gun, it is disgusting & causes damage! If you people actually read or studied you would know!!
I agree piercing guns are BAD news! the ear piercing I got with a gun have given me more trouble then all of the other piercings I have gotten with needles.... I also think that needles don't shock your body as much as a gun...
i had my second earlobe piercings with a gun but i won t do it again, next time i ll try a needle because my ear was hurting my for like 20 minutes after i got them and my left ear got a little infection because the earing was to tight , they are fine now but it was anoying :(
wow i always heard that the gun is bad but i didnt realise how bad it is! Im going on the weekend to get my 2nd ear piercing (the 1st ones i had done by the gun got infected lol) and I asked at the place where im getting it done if they pierce with needles or with the gun and she said that they dont use needles anymore... WTF now im worried becuase i dont know how to get it done with a needle and no, i dont want to do it myself... so what should i do? should i just go ahead with the gun?
So wish I would have known this seven years ago. It took three attempts (spread out through a year or two (maybe three)) before my ears finally decided to (mostly) stop screwing up. All three times it was with a gun. One time the person even had it slanted (my right ear still doesn't like to cooperate with me half the time). Next piercing I get will definitely be from a tattoo shop!
ive noticed this(or is it just me) that when i had my first ear peirce dont when i was younger, late in the night i accidentally took it out cause i wasen't thinking, and it closed up almost immidiatly, yet i recently used a needle for my 3rd hole in my ear & i took the needle out for like 5 minutes(to find the ring) and it didnt close up at all in that time. is that just a coincidence or...?
@zdogg30 i went to get my cartilage done at claire's..... big mistake... it was always hurting and i took it out one day and it wouldn't even go in 2 hours later!
*The problem is that here in portugal a nose piercing with a gun costs not much than 3 euros (around 5 dollars) but if it piercing with a needle it costs 35 euros (50 dollars) or much. So why pay 50 dollars for a hole made with a needle while you can do it with a gun that costs less than half the price?? But I guess I'll prefer to do it the safer way in the future :) Thanks for your demonstration :)
I get your point but I got my nose pierced with a piercing gun and it's healing perfectly. I got my cartilage pierced in 2 different places, almost two years ago, also with a piercing gun and one of them healed perfectly but the other one infected pretty bad so I took the stud out :/ I plan on doing more piercings in the future but I'll definitely do them with a needle. *
Thanx for this video dude. Very informative and I agree 100%. It is much smarter to get your ears done by a professional with a needle then to just get them done in a mall! I am thinking about becoming an Apprentice Piercer and this has helped me on my way.
my first 2 lobes at about the age of 5 with a needle. i don't quite remember how fast it healed, but i know that it was only momentary pain and 5 minutes after, it didn't even feel like i got them pierced.
i got my 5 gun ones(1 helix and 4 lobes) done at a spa and beauty boutique in a mall. they cleaned and sterilized everything. took about 1 month till my ears stopped hurting. they healed fine. it was just a pain in the ass for the first month.. no infection whatsoever. still say NEEDLES FTW!
I will never ever get another piercing with a gun. I got an earlobe piercing with a gun about a month ago and it still hurts. I also got my Tragus done ove a year ago with a gun and I regret thAt even though its healed fine, cause I learnt you can go deaf. The chick that did it, did it in a really bad spot too. Sigh.
i definatly agree to this. my first ear piercing was with a sterilized needle, and it was smoothly inserted, no problems, but the ear piercing i got 2 weeks ago at claires with a gun, was irritated, and it got infected :( apperantly they did not sterilized properly, i mean how can they with the shitty plastic gun. :( needles are waaayyy better
got ym cartilage pierced twice at claires....got keliods and fucked it up bothtimes. my friend had the same thing happen so she let it close up and went to a tattoo shop and got it pierced with a needle and isnt having any problems.
i got my cartilage piercing with a gun last week, and now i'm scared... i'm 13 and i didn't know you can die from using a gun D: shall i go to the doctors? :(
I had my cartilage pierced with a gun. Like two years ago before I knew they were unsafe. Mine got irrated I took it out and it closed up. Now I just have excess (oops not enough emphasis) EXCESS scar tissue. Plus, depending on where you live it's illegal to pierce cartilage with a piercing gun. I say take it out, let it heal and get it redone later.
@killermuffins09 you'll be fine. I got my cartilage pierced with a gun more than a year ago before I found out that guns were bad. Just make sure you take extra care of your new piercing as it will be more prone to complications.
i got my cartilage piercing with a gun last week, and no i'm scared... i'm 13 and i didn't know you can die from using a gun D: shall i go to the doctors? :(
LOL I love how you're able to respond to the haters' comments very calmly. But yeah - got my first earlobe piercings done with a gun (I was 7 - didn't know a thing) and I remember they got infected pretty bad. Just got my second lobe piercings done 3 weeks ago using needle and no infection whatsoever (itched a little for the first few days and that's all). Yeah - GO NEEDLE! hope people will learn that GUN is EVIL. spread the word!
i agree but i have one problem, gun go way faster and don't slowly push it through.they also have a back thingy that works like a clamp.other than that you make a good point.I wish they had a gun you put the needle in, take the gun off and put the earring in, like a needle but with the quickness of the gun.
@midnigt2 If you have a piercer who knows what they are doing a needle should not go through slow what so ever. It should be one quick, precise, push and done. I agree a gun may be even faster than that but when you weigh they options of the safety of the needle compared to the gun, in all a few extra seconds is nothing if done correctly with a needle.
Ugh. My mum took me to get my ears pierced with a gun when I was little.. had them done 3 times with it 'cause they would never heal properly and she couldn't figure out why.. Haaaa.
Thanks for the demostration. So glad I go to a proper shop to get mine done. Just watching the stud go through a glove was enough to make me rub my ears in sympathy pain D:
I got my earlobe pierced for the first time today with a piercing gun, I got kinda scared when people said that piercing guns are bad. Will I not be able to get my earring out when it's time for it to come out?
@Konman804 you'll be fine.. I got my ears pierced fifteen years ago by a piercing gun.. Using needles rather than studs is just the better, more professional choice. Just try to twist the stud around every now and then.
@Konman804 You may not be able to. Mine got stuck and infected from it. I got my second ones done with needles and they healed beautifully other than your typical puncture wound pain as any piercing has. My earrings never embedded or got infected the second time.
There's more to it that just the sharpness. Piercing guns cannot be properly sterilized and they are typically re-used agin and again from one person to the next. A new earlobe piercing with a stud in it will not properly heal: the jewelry needs some room for movement and rotation that a ring would allow, while potentially infectious mattering will accumulate around a stud with no outlet for the piercing to "breathe" and cleanse itself.
@markincapemay Yes but are they piercing guns that use a cassete?In that case the stud pierces the ear and the gun does not have a needle..it just pushes it .That can be infectious...Am I wrong?
@markincapemay absolutely 100% correct. im glad someone actually knows what there talking about for once. you get a lot of idiots trying to say otherwise. and i love all the comments your getting how you dont know s***t. i been piercing for 7 years and that one of the very first things any good shop will teach you. there evil and a wast of body tissue.
good video man. needles all the way. had my ear done wit ha gun as a kid, and 2 body piercings with a needle. the ear got infected....nipple and pa didnt....
I really wanna get the cartilage of my ear pierced (was that sentence phrased right?) but people keep saying getting it done with a needle is safer. But unfortunatley for me i dont know of any places that pierce with needles. Everywhere I go that has peircing available (mostly stores or whatever; wal mart, claire's,) does it with a gun & stud. So since there is nowhere near me that does it with a needle should i just go ahead and do it their way? Btw does any of the stuff i just said make sense?
@Shaniktea OMG Please please PLEASE go get your cartilage done with a needle! Guns (while unsafe in their own right) are only meant to be used on lobes. A piercing gun can shatter your cartilage and permanently disfigure your ear. If you want to find an actual piercist, go to a tattoo parlor. Almost all tattoo parlors also do body piercing. Make sure they are on the up and up. A clean shop that uses an autoclave to sterilize instruments. Have them open the needles and tools in front of you.
@Shaniktea find a reliable tattoo/piercing studio. Check their portfolios and look around the shop. Ask to watch them pierce somebody. If they don't follow proper sanitary procedures (wearing gloves, washing hands, autoclaving tools and jewelry, etc.) don't go there. Find a place that is clean and you feel comfortable with. Any place like Claire's or Wal-Mart will use guns, and as the video demonstrated they are neither efficient nor sanitary.
@Shaniktea I hope that a month later I can still help you. Your problem is that you're looking in the wrong place. Big chain stores like Claire's and Walmart, will ALWAYS use piercing guns - this does NOT mean they are safe. You need an actual piercing studio, like where you would go to get your nose, lip, etc. pierced. The easiest way to find one is to ask friends with piercings where they got theirs, or to search Google. Please feel free to message me if you have more questions!!
@Shaniktea yeah it makes sense. just google piercing shops and you should be able to find places that do piercings i your area. sometimes they have professional ear piercers at tattoo parlors just make sure they are APP certified. don't do your cartilage piercing, or any other piercing for that matter, at walmart or claire's
all u people who say hes dumb hes not the gloves is supposed to be skin and hes showing u pretty much that studs are gay and needles rule but i dont u eaither i just bust out a small gauge like size 8 or 6 and pierce yeah u guys are jacks
And you do? Please, share your insight on this topic (references are preferred), or continue looking like the uneducated illiterate individual you present yourself to be.
the guy is right and not only that but getting pierced with a gun through your cartilage, shatters it and takes more than the double the time to heal.Needles all the way :D
I fully support you on this piercing gun shit, I recently got my cartilage pierced with a gun and 5 days later my whole ear is completely fucked. Red, Swolen and when i say swollen i mean about twice the size. The stud has even embedded itself into my ear, which i removed and replaced with a ring. Painful shit, but please no body get pierced with a gun. Nasty objects.
Thank you! I don't understand why people can't seem to comprehend this. It's simple fact. Are they really that stupid or do they just want to ignore fact for convenience?
Its a good thing ears aren't made of latex :-P....In all seriousness though, I agree. Most people just go for the gun due to an unnatural fear of needles....and not guns...
@snakehands there are alot of those videos i laugh at them everytime. ive only seen 4 maybe 5 videos of parents taking thier children to piercing parlors and get it done right
Ugh, you smart person, one of my stupid "friend" is getting her nose pierced today, announced it on facebook, and everyone told her "oh i hope you get it done wif a gun nt a needle" After about 3 of us told her all the risks. Stupid people
ughh i've gotten pierced w/ a gun it hurts . i've never gotten pierced w/ needle but i think i will this weekend so i'm happy ! and yeah the piercing i got with a gun (in my lobe) is like not even in the right place . its like reallly far away from my first hole , and my third (also with a gun) is realllly close to it . and now both of those holes get infected easily . lame :(
wish I knew about the needle thing before getting them pierced with a gun the other day. Your video made sense to me, but there's not much I can do about it now.
Another point proven why guns suck and should be outlawed. >.> Not only do they ruin your lobes, tear, cause excessive scar tissue, and hurt like hell, you can't sterilize the gun itsself (though the studs may be). Imagine how dirty the guns are... and what diseases could be spread from them. Yuck!!!
Considering that you merely want to play stupid and argue semantics instead of offering rebuttal in regards to your original statement...I would say that you, in fact, are the retard.
This video is a wonderful, very simple demonstration of why needle piercings are the only way to go. This day and age there is no excuse to be gun pierced other than laziness. People who aren't willing to thoroughly research the piercing they are so desperate to have done.
And to the moron who said it takes "five minutes to get a needle through" that's a crock. I've never had a piercing in which it took any longer than a split second for the needle to pierce through the tissue.
Haha I love the comments saying "BUT ~PIERCING STUDS~ ARE SHARP ON THE END SO ITS TOTALLY THE SAME AND GUNS R BETTER!!" They're not sharp. They're only slightly pointed. Why don't you just take a fork and jab it through your ear lobe.. it's pretty much the same thing.
@jesuisfancy thanks man, now you made me remember the video of a guy that got a nipple piercing by hammering a fork, through his nipple, into a wood table.
But yeah, your right, if your gonna get a gun-made piercing you might as well force the stud through your ear by hand. It would be the same and it would be cheaper.
Getting my ears pierced in a few day, obviously with a needle.
Im glad you made this. I got my lobes pierced with a gun back in the day when most kids did (I was in 3rd grade when I got the first hole and 5th for the 2nd hole- went to Claires lol) but Id never go back. Im older and know better. I have 9 piercings now not including the lobes.
Simply- I wish more parents would take their kids to have it done the right way
haha yer my idol.!!! im getting mine done with a needle but my freind is insisting guns are better which ino are deff not!!! i have used a gun before rushing into the piercing and it got infected sooo im now trying again with a needle....dumbass guns!!!!
oh ya... i guess a quick prick hurts a lot more than sitting there for five minutes shoving a needle through your ear.... this is all bullshit... if u go to a professional with a gun, everything is sterile... if it got infected, it just means you took care of it wrong
The term "professional with a gun" is wrong. Any piercer who has gone through the necessary training and knows what they're doing will never use one. Needles are a lot better, and they don't take "five minutes shoving a needle through your ear." If you've ever been to a reputable shop, you would know this.
5 minutes with a needle? Wow, your level of retardation shocks me.
I have had several piercings done with needles. Even with things such as tragus and conch, which are way harder to get through than lobes, it goes through right away.
GUNS ARE NEVER STERILE, so don't even try to pull that. They cannot be autoclaved, end of story.
i had my nostril pierced with a gun, but i was naive and didnt know any better, now i can make sure i dont get anymore piercings with a gun, thanks! :)
sure, if you do it at home, a needle is better than a stud. but if you get it done with a gun, the point on the stud that goes through IS SHARP, and its done quickly, so it just pops right through. so yeah, studs are waaaay the fuck better if youre using a gun, which you should. so no, piercing guns dont = bad. you just equal = fucking stupid.
No, retard. The stud is not sharp enough. And guns aren't sterile 100% of the time, nor are they handled by professionals.
Yeah, I guess compared to a normal earring, the piercing studs are sharper. But compared to piercing needles they don't even compare. It's like trying to compare a butter knife with a surgical scalpel.
Don't talk about things you don't understand. You just end up looking stupid.
How someone can even think a piercing stud is sharper than a piercing needle is so beyond me, they've obviously never even SEEN a needle.
"compared to a normal earring, the piercing studs are sharper. But compared to piercing needles they don't even compare. It's like trying to compare a butter knife with a surgical scalpel."
Also, when I read that, I thought "it's like trying to compare a butter knife to a surgical scalpel when you're used to wearing spoons, haha. It's really that different!
Do this little experiment for me will ya. Take a piercing stud (I'm assuming you haven't thrown yours away) and prick your finger with it. I'm betting you can't even make it bleed no matter how hard you prick it.
Pointed does not equal sharp. Now trying doing that same thing with a hollow point needle. You'll bleed, I can guarantee you that
And now I have a brilliant reference to use then people disagree with me saying the gun is crap x]
I salute you.
The gun is alot more painful. I had my lobes done when I was about 7 and the pain was unbelievable. I had my seconds done last year with a needle and i couldnt even feel it :S
LOL at the person who mentioned "sharing needles." Bahaha. I had my lobes gunned at Claire's as a kid [but hey, didn't everyone?] and they got infected all the time 'cause of the crappy cleaning solution and even crappier jewlery. Now I'm going to go get my lobes done with a hollow 10G needle, yay!
Piercing guns really piss me off, especially when I see helix, other cartilage, and nostril piercings being done with them. Gross.
Here is advice from a piercer if you people want to call him dumb, he is actually in fact correct along with a couple people who have also stated facts about this. Guns crush the tissue, they are usually only swabbed with alcohol which does not actually clean them, skin & occasionally blood is left behind from previous people pierced with the gun, in many states its illegal to pierce cartilage with a gun, it is disgusting & causes damage! If you people actually read or studied you would know!!
SinnyWish 6 months ago 7
I agree piercing guns are BAD news! the ear piercing I got with a gun have given me more trouble then all of the other piercings I have gotten with needles.... I also think that needles don't shock your body as much as a gun...
Foxycyclegoddess 6 months ago
i had my second earlobe piercings with a gun but i won t do it again, next time i ll try a needle because my ear was hurting my for like 20 minutes after i got them and my left ear got a little infection because the earing was to tight , they are fine now but it was anoying :(
TheLitleVampireBat 6 months ago
wow i always heard that the gun is bad but i didnt realise how bad it is! Im going on the weekend to get my 2nd ear piercing (the 1st ones i had done by the gun got infected lol) and I asked at the place where im getting it done if they pierce with needles or with the gun and she said that they dont use needles anymore... WTF now im worried becuase i dont know how to get it done with a needle and no, i dont want to do it myself... so what should i do? should i just go ahead with the gun?
eagerbeavers1130 6 months ago
i've pierced my cartlige with a gun and a needle once.
and from my experience, they both heal and i didn'T have any problem but
if you compare them the gun hurted more and myear did get red (not swolen)
and the needle didn'T hurt at all. and the hole was much better looking.
so i say go with the needle. it won't hurt anyway
pink2431 7 months ago
Exactly what I've tried to explain to so many Claire's or salon piercing goers.. Hollow needle slides like hot butter.
Herinternalmisery 8 months ago
Thank you so much for your dedication to this industry! The examples that you have given here are awesome. I appreciate this video very much :)
softbear420 8 months ago
So wish I would have known this seven years ago. It took three attempts (spread out through a year or two (maybe three)) before my ears finally decided to (mostly) stop screwing up. All three times it was with a gun. One time the person even had it slanted (my right ear still doesn't like to cooperate with me half the time). Next piercing I get will definitely be from a tattoo shop!
Ambrolen 9 months ago
ive noticed this(or is it just me) that when i had my first ear peirce dont when i was younger, late in the night i accidentally took it out cause i wasen't thinking, and it closed up almost immidiatly, yet i recently used a needle for my 3rd hole in my ear & i took the needle out for like 5 minutes(to find the ring) and it didnt close up at all in that time. is that just a coincidence or...?
CatastropheMeetsMadi 9 months ago
LOL it doesn't even go through the glove! WHY would you want to put it through your ear!
Gillypants1 9 months ago
@zdogg30 i went to get my cartilage done at claire's..... big mistake... it was always hurting and i took it out one day and it wouldn't even go in 2 hours later!
EdwardCullenLover108 10 months ago
*The problem is that here in portugal a nose piercing with a gun costs not much than 3 euros (around 5 dollars) but if it piercing with a needle it costs 35 euros (50 dollars) or much. So why pay 50 dollars for a hole made with a needle while you can do it with a gun that costs less than half the price?? But I guess I'll prefer to do it the safer way in the future :) Thanks for your demonstration :)
itsvaniafernandes 10 months ago
I get your point but I got my nose pierced with a piercing gun and it's healing perfectly. I got my cartilage pierced in 2 different places, almost two years ago, also with a piercing gun and one of them healed perfectly but the other one infected pretty bad so I took the stud out :/ I plan on doing more piercings in the future but I'll definitely do them with a needle. *
itsvaniafernandes 10 months ago
I got my ears done with a gun and it was a sharp stud??
nuttycookie7 10 months ago
Thanx for this video dude. Very informative and I agree 100%. It is much smarter to get your ears done by a professional with a needle then to just get them done in a mall! I am thinking about becoming an Apprentice Piercer and this has helped me on my way.
666RebelAngel666 11 months ago
my first 2 lobes at about the age of 5 with a needle. i don't quite remember how fast it healed, but i know that it was only momentary pain and 5 minutes after, it didn't even feel like i got them pierced.
i got my 5 gun ones(1 helix and 4 lobes) done at a spa and beauty boutique in a mall. they cleaned and sterilized everything. took about 1 month till my ears stopped hurting. they healed fine. it was just a pain in the ass for the first month.. no infection whatsoever. still say NEEDLES FTW!
Memozia 11 months ago
Where are you out of homes ?
zzacksback 11 months ago
I will never ever get another piercing with a gun. I got an earlobe piercing with a gun about a month ago and it still hurts. I also got my Tragus done ove a year ago with a gun and I regret thAt even though its healed fine, cause I learnt you can go deaf. The chick that did it, did it in a really bad spot too. Sigh.
EmmaTedeschi 11 months ago
i definatly agree to this. my first ear piercing was with a sterilized needle, and it was smoothly inserted, no problems, but the ear piercing i got 2 weeks ago at claires with a gun, was irritated, and it got infected :( apperantly they did not sterilized properly, i mean how can they with the shitty plastic gun. :( needles are waaayyy better
kylblk3 1 year ago
piercing guns should be banned dont ever get a piercing done at a salon or beauty shop cos there CRAP
sukiesoya 1 year ago
got ym cartilage pierced twice at claires....got keliods and fucked it up bothtimes. my friend had the same thing happen so she let it close up and went to a tattoo shop and got it pierced with a needle and isnt having any problems.
x00yellow00x 1 year ago
lmfao this made my giggle.
JennaLL 1 year ago
and to think i was gonna go to claire's to get my cartilage done
zdogg30 1 year ago 13
FUCKIN FUCK FUCK FUCK I AM SO ANGRY I GOT MY EARS PIERCED WITH A GUN ESPECIALLY THE CARTILAGE :@ Regrettt
LM999CR 1 year ago
i got my cartilage piercing with a gun last week, and now i'm scared... i'm 13 and i didn't know you can die from using a gun D: shall i go to the doctors? :(
killermuffins09 1 year ago
@killermuffins09
I had my cartilage pierced with a gun. Like two years ago before I knew they were unsafe. Mine got irrated I took it out and it closed up. Now I just have excess (oops not enough emphasis) EXCESS scar tissue. Plus, depending on where you live it's illegal to pierce cartilage with a piercing gun. I say take it out, let it heal and get it redone later.
LegalArtofUpotic 8 months ago
@killermuffins09
i got my cartilage peirced with a gun but it worked out fine.
but it hurted more when i did with a gun.
pink2431 7 months ago
@killermuffins09 you'll be fine. I got my cartilage pierced with a gun more than a year ago before I found out that guns were bad. Just make sure you take extra care of your new piercing as it will be more prone to complications.
dreamHIGH94 5 months ago
i got my cartilage piercing with a gun last week, and no i'm scared... i'm 13 and i didn't know you can die from using a gun D: shall i go to the doctors? :(
killermuffins09 1 year ago
LOL I love how you're able to respond to the haters' comments very calmly. But yeah - got my first earlobe piercings done with a gun (I was 7 - didn't know a thing) and I remember they got infected pretty bad. Just got my second lobe piercings done 3 weeks ago using needle and no infection whatsoever (itched a little for the first few days and that's all). Yeah - GO NEEDLE! hope people will learn that GUN is EVIL. spread the word!
cemilita 1 year ago 5
dude you are totally right needle is much better than gun
DasGeheimnisvolleIch 1 year ago 4
i agree but i have one problem, gun go way faster and don't slowly push it through.they also have a back thingy that works like a clamp.other than that you make a good point.I wish they had a gun you put the needle in, take the gun off and put the earring in, like a needle but with the quickness of the gun.
midnigt2 1 year ago 2
@midnigt2
Quickness? It takes a skilled piercer 30 seconds TOPS to push the needle through, follow it with jewellery and tighten the ball.
experiMENTALhospital 10 months ago
@midnigt2
A good piercer will do it very quickly and cleanly. There is never an excuse for doing any piercing with a gun.
Sanrei 9 months ago
@midnigt2
That's called a good piercer. Go to the right person, they do it fast. Needle in, out, jewelry in, done.
LegalArtofUpotic 8 months ago
@midnigt2 if you find an experienced it will should still go very quickly. usually less time than it takes to breath out.
swanqueen 6 months ago
@midnigt2 If you have a piercer who knows what they are doing a needle should not go through slow what so ever. It should be one quick, precise, push and done. I agree a gun may be even faster than that but when you weigh they options of the safety of the needle compared to the gun, in all a few extra seconds is nothing if done correctly with a needle.
SinnyWish 6 months ago 3
When I had my ears doubled pierced they used a gun ?
sexysoccerbabe1291 1 year ago
ahaha love it how you say; AMAZING *puts needle through* ahaha :D
MsComatose12 1 year ago 2
AMAZING! wait wait wait... one more time... AMAZING!!!
Sirafrican 1 year ago 7
Ugh. My mum took me to get my ears pierced with a gun when I was little.. had them done 3 times with it 'cause they would never heal properly and she couldn't figure out why.. Haaaa.
xGiraffes 1 year ago
@xGiraffes , Cute name by the way. Any have you got your ear pierced since then?
Serenityblu23 1 year ago
Thanks for the demostration. So glad I go to a proper shop to get mine done. Just watching the stud go through a glove was enough to make me rub my ears in sympathy pain D:
withoutexpectations 1 year ago
I got my earlobe pierced for the first time today with a piercing gun, I got kinda scared when people said that piercing guns are bad. Will I not be able to get my earring out when it's time for it to come out?
Konman804 1 year ago
@Konman804 you'll be fine.. I got my ears pierced fifteen years ago by a piercing gun.. Using needles rather than studs is just the better, more professional choice. Just try to twist the stud around every now and then.
4plus2minus0 1 year ago
@4plus2minus0
You're NOT supposed to move the jewelry, that is terrible advice.
gegele40 1 year ago
@Konman804 You may not be able to. Mine got stuck and infected from it. I got my second ones done with needles and they healed beautifully other than your typical puncture wound pain as any piercing has. My earrings never embedded or got infected the second time.
juliefisher4000 1 year ago
There's more to it that just the sharpness. Piercing guns cannot be properly sterilized and they are typically re-used agin and again from one person to the next. A new earlobe piercing with a stud in it will not properly heal: the jewelry needs some room for movement and rotation that a ring would allow, while potentially infectious mattering will accumulate around a stud with no outlet for the piercing to "breathe" and cleanse itself.
markincapemay 1 year ago 34
@markincapemay hence the video description :P
disfiguredxheart 1 year ago
@markincapemay but yes, I 100% agree.
disfiguredxheart 1 year ago
@markincapemay Yes but are they piercing guns that use a cassete?In that case the stud pierces the ear and the gun does not have a needle..it just pushes it .That can be infectious...Am I wrong?
Riversuicune 1 year ago
@markincapemay The cartridges they use are disposable
lwizzy13 1 year ago
@markincapemay absolutely 100% correct. im glad someone actually knows what there talking about for once. you get a lot of idiots trying to say otherwise. and i love all the comments your getting how you dont know s***t. i been piercing for 7 years and that one of the very first things any good shop will teach you. there evil and a wast of body tissue.
freakshowtim 1 year ago
Why does a gun have to be sterilized? If it's not coming into contact with the ear or the earring?
xXcharleXx 10 months ago
good video man. needles all the way. had my ear done wit ha gun as a kid, and 2 body piercings with a needle. the ear got infected....nipple and pa didnt....
popeye2k9 1 year ago
some dumbasses here xD nice demonstration
pingpongball19735 1 year ago
Piercing guns are bad it's a crooked shot.
Hollowed needle is GOOD.
KnifeBloodRomance666 1 year ago
its a good point though think about it before you insult
M1ndfr3akpixie 1 year ago
I really wanna get the cartilage of my ear pierced (was that sentence phrased right?) but people keep saying getting it done with a needle is safer. But unfortunatley for me i dont know of any places that pierce with needles. Everywhere I go that has peircing available (mostly stores or whatever; wal mart, claire's,) does it with a gun & stud. So since there is nowhere near me that does it with a needle should i just go ahead and do it their way? Btw does any of the stuff i just said make sense?
Shaniktea 1 year ago
@Shaniktea OMG Please please PLEASE go get your cartilage done with a needle! Guns (while unsafe in their own right) are only meant to be used on lobes. A piercing gun can shatter your cartilage and permanently disfigure your ear. If you want to find an actual piercist, go to a tattoo parlor. Almost all tattoo parlors also do body piercing. Make sure they are on the up and up. A clean shop that uses an autoclave to sterilize instruments. Have them open the needles and tools in front of you.
darkstmyst 1 year ago
@Shaniktea find a reliable tattoo/piercing studio. Check their portfolios and look around the shop. Ask to watch them pierce somebody. If they don't follow proper sanitary procedures (wearing gloves, washing hands, autoclaving tools and jewelry, etc.) don't go there. Find a place that is clean and you feel comfortable with. Any place like Claire's or Wal-Mart will use guns, and as the video demonstrated they are neither efficient nor sanitary.
withoutexpectations 1 year ago
@Shaniktea I hope that a month later I can still help you. Your problem is that you're looking in the wrong place. Big chain stores like Claire's and Walmart, will ALWAYS use piercing guns - this does NOT mean they are safe. You need an actual piercing studio, like where you would go to get your nose, lip, etc. pierced. The easiest way to find one is to ask friends with piercings where they got theirs, or to search Google. Please feel free to message me if you have more questions!!
rainbowcrayon37 1 year ago
@Shaniktea yeah it makes sense. just google piercing shops and you should be able to find places that do piercings i your area. sometimes they have professional ear piercers at tattoo parlors just make sure they are APP certified. don't do your cartilage piercing, or any other piercing for that matter, at walmart or claire's
yannagrl24 1 year ago
all u people who say hes dumb hes not the gloves is supposed to be skin and hes showing u pretty much that studs are gay and needles rule but i dont u eaither i just bust out a small gauge like size 8 or 6 and pierce yeah u guys are jacks
seeyouinaugust1 1 year ago
dude u are just an ass who wants to make people frighten
highvoltagewwe15 1 year ago
@highvoltagewwe15 No, I'm just a piercing enthusiast who wants to educate people. Big difference.
disfiguredxheart 1 year ago 127
@disfiguredxheart dude it worked im frightened
highvoltagewwe15 1 year ago
I always wondered why getting my cartilage pierced at piercing pagoda hurt more than than getting an industrial. WEIRD!
haha, good shit, thanks for the demonstration.
kawaiikiwi3173 1 year ago
nice!!
monicagarcialv 1 year ago
piercings should be done by professionals not by mall rats with a gun.
porkerpalz2000 1 year ago 7
thank you for this. very good
blackdancinshoes 1 year ago
wow this is sooo truee thnx fo thee help:))
nd dnt isten to ppl dere jst lowlifes who jst hate
on other ppl:))
but thnx again!!!
MegaWiggles123 1 year ago
u fukin dumb ass u dont kno shit
ejm730 1 year ago
@ejm730
And you do? Please, share your insight on this topic (references are preferred), or continue looking like the uneducated illiterate individual you present yourself to be.
disfiguredxheart 1 year ago 71
the guy is right and not only that but getting pierced with a gun through your cartilage, shatters it and takes more than the double the time to heal.Needles all the way :D
kyokushin4eva 1 year ago
Piercing guns should be banned, they are brutal, unhealthy and really messes up folks' ears.
Jevezy 1 year ago
I fully support you on this piercing gun shit, I recently got my cartilage pierced with a gun and 5 days later my whole ear is completely fucked. Red, Swolen and when i say swollen i mean about twice the size. The stud has even embedded itself into my ear, which i removed and replaced with a ring. Painful shit, but please no body get pierced with a gun. Nasty objects.
SugarPlumCheese 1 year ago
hahaha "try it again....Ahmazing!"
interesting video!! I wish i got my lobe piercing done with a needle :[
stupid people from Claires but next time I'll definitely get it done with a needle.
shareberry18 1 year ago
Thank you! I don't understand why people can't seem to comprehend this. It's simple fact. Are they really that stupid or do they just want to ignore fact for convenience?
crazzynascarfan 1 year ago
Its a good thing ears aren't made of latex :-P....In all seriousness though, I agree. Most people just go for the gun due to an unnatural fear of needles....and not guns...
AnnieUlukou 1 year ago
@AnnieUlukou Tell that to muggers, you wont get far trying to rob someone with a needle.
davidgzmn12345 1 year ago
Phenomenal example.
shelbypierces 1 year ago
HAHAHAH ahhmazing
M0rb30uS 1 year ago
XD AMAZING
TheChopstixofdoom 1 year ago
Ya. i guess you're right! LOL
natesikdog 2 years ago
I don't think he would have been stupid enough to use a regular, blunt ear stud for the comparison.
alanmacleod50 2 years ago 5
this video is pointless because studs are sharper than normal ones when you use a gun.
konohagakuree 2 years ago
Considering the fact that I used a piercing stud - your comment is pointless.
disfiguredxheart 2 years ago 39
@disfiguredxheart Can you help me please?
Tyannalyn 1 year ago
that is so TRUE
thickmami20 1 year ago
Haha. "amazing"
So true & great example :)
IamGeekTheGreat 2 years ago
"amazing" haha
tnip91 2 years ago
I've seen guns jam and get stuck a lot too, not to mention the idiots who will pierce through their gloves too then it's stuck on your ear.
snakehands 2 years ago
@snakehands there are alot of those videos i laugh at them everytime. ive only seen 4 maybe 5 videos of parents taking thier children to piercing parlors and get it done right
flaxbvlad5150 1 year ago
2 years ago i got my lobes pierced at claires and then a few months later they got infected :( claires is a cheap place to get ear pierced!
strawberrypuppy55 2 years ago
I've had three piercings at Claires and none of them got infected.
Bethiiiix 1 year ago
Ugh, you smart person, one of my stupid "friend" is getting her nose pierced today, announced it on facebook, and everyone told her "oh i hope you get it done wif a gun nt a needle" After about 3 of us told her all the risks. Stupid people
AshelleTH 2 years ago
'amazing'
pebbles987 2 years ago
uhhmazngg!
hhaha its funny and so true :)
makeupbyjules 2 years ago
damn i just got mine done again with a gun no infection but i almost wanna take them out and go to a tattoo shop : /
ieatpaste002 2 years ago
ughh i've gotten pierced w/ a gun it hurts . i've never gotten pierced w/ needle but i think i will this weekend so i'm happy ! and yeah the piercing i got with a gun (in my lobe) is like not even in the right place . its like reallly far away from my first hole , and my third (also with a gun) is realllly close to it . and now both of those holes get infected easily . lame :(
i'm glad i found this video !
carlichan21 2 years ago
wish I knew about the needle thing before getting them pierced with a gun the other day. Your video made sense to me, but there's not much I can do about it now.
myshellurshell 2 years ago
This should be an advert on tv!
gobbyblah 2 years ago
haah! right on!
xxJazzyJessxx 2 years ago
So wait please some advice I want to get my lip and ear pierced should I use a gun or a needle what should I do please?
withintemptation5 2 years ago
Needle needle needle!!!
DancingInTheHeather 2 years ago
never use a gun for a lip piercing.
arikitten 2 years ago 9
UM, don't do your lip yourself, dumbass
rainbowlabcoat 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this demonstration!!
Another point proven why guns suck and should be outlawed. >.> Not only do they ruin your lobes, tear, cause excessive scar tissue, and hurt like hell, you can't sterilize the gun itsself (though the studs may be). Imagine how dirty the guns are... and what diseases could be spread from them. Yuck!!!
punkenchinada 2 years ago
men get pierced with studs:)
tocaMAMA10 2 years ago
That has to be one of the most retarded things I've ever heard.
disfiguredxheart 2 years ago 2
oh really im pretty sure you didnt hear it dumb ass. you read it whos the retard now?
tocaMAMA10 2 years ago
Considering that you merely want to play stupid and argue semantics instead of offering rebuttal in regards to your original statement...I would say that you, in fact, are the retard.
disfiguredxheart 2 years ago 9
so how can i get my ears pierced? i want to get them gauged but the only piercing people i know use guns?
rejectedbythedevil14 2 years ago
you wanna go to a piercing shop.
and you can gauge them yourself by getting tapers, that's what I did & I'm currently at size 0.
rainbowlabcoat 2 years ago
@rainbowlabcoat wow
AbercrombieGirl2011 2 years ago
Lmfao TocaMama10, owned! :L
willywankaman 2 years ago
THANKYOU for a great demonstration, it is so much easier for people to understand rather than try to explain!
Pinkslugcat 2 years ago
This video is a wonderful, very simple demonstration of why needle piercings are the only way to go. This day and age there is no excuse to be gun pierced other than laziness. People who aren't willing to thoroughly research the piercing they are so desperate to have done.
And to the moron who said it takes "five minutes to get a needle through" that's a crock. I've never had a piercing in which it took any longer than a split second for the needle to pierce through the tissue.
KatAutumn 2 years ago 3
Haha I love the comments saying "BUT ~PIERCING STUDS~ ARE SHARP ON THE END SO ITS TOTALLY THE SAME AND GUNS R BETTER!!" They're not sharp. They're only slightly pointed. Why don't you just take a fork and jab it through your ear lobe.. it's pretty much the same thing.
jesuisfancy 2 years ago 75
@jesuisfancy thanks man, now you made me remember the video of a guy that got a nipple piercing by hammering a fork, through his nipple, into a wood table.
But yeah, your right, if your gonna get a gun-made piercing you might as well force the stud through your ear by hand. It would be the same and it would be cheaper.
Getting my ears pierced in a few day, obviously with a needle.
davidgzmn12345 1 year ago
sharper = less pain.
oxsideswipexo 2 years ago 11
thanks for the information so now i know that the needle is going to be much safer and less painful than the danm gun.
sanchoclause007 2 years ago
Im glad you made this. I got my lobes pierced with a gun back in the day when most kids did (I was in 3rd grade when I got the first hole and 5th for the 2nd hole- went to Claires lol) but Id never go back. Im older and know better. I have 9 piercings now not including the lobes.
Simply- I wish more parents would take their kids to have it done the right way
WarmbloodJumper 2 years ago
i got mine done with a gun
it hurt but it turned out fine
i think the needle would have been way better though
oh you forgot to say amazing that last time lol
LilDonnie21 2 years ago
haha yer my idol.!!! im getting mine done with a needle but my freind is insisting guns are better which ino are deff not!!! i have used a gun before rushing into the piercing and it got infected sooo im now trying again with a needle....dumbass guns!!!!
TokioxoHotelxoLove 2 years ago
When I got peirced with a gun it hurt like hell :( needles are better! :)
BeckyLouiseMcIntosh 2 years ago
oh ya... i guess a quick prick hurts a lot more than sitting there for five minutes shoving a needle through your ear.... this is all bullshit... if u go to a professional with a gun, everything is sterile... if it got infected, it just means you took care of it wrong
krowndkingskateteam 2 years ago
The term "professional with a gun" is wrong. Any piercer who has gone through the necessary training and knows what they're doing will never use one. Needles are a lot better, and they don't take "five minutes shoving a needle through your ear." If you've ever been to a reputable shop, you would know this.
disfiguredxheart 2 years ago
"if u go to a professional with a gun, everything is sterile"
Bullshit, i chalenge you to prove it.
punked0up0angel 2 years ago 2
5 minutes with a needle? Wow, your level of retardation shocks me.
I have had several piercings done with needles. Even with things such as tragus and conch, which are way harder to get through than lobes, it goes through right away.
GUNS ARE NEVER STERILE, so don't even try to pull that. They cannot be autoclaved, end of story.
HadleyDGRC 2 years ago
always have it done by needle no matter what its faster and easier
dragonlance99 2 years ago
i wish i could of saw this video before i got my ears pierced (it was done with a gun!) plus it hurt! D:
JuLiARoCkS1997 2 years ago 6
same! when mine was done i was in so much pain! i wish i had seen this video and got a needle instead of a gun.
BeckyLouiseMcIntosh 2 years ago
i had my nostril pierced with a gun, but i was naive and didnt know any better, now i can make sure i dont get anymore piercings with a gun, thanks! :)
Queenloverforever20 2 years ago
sure, if you do it at home, a needle is better than a stud. but if you get it done with a gun, the point on the stud that goes through IS SHARP, and its done quickly, so it just pops right through. so yeah, studs are waaaay the fuck better if youre using a gun, which you should. so no, piercing guns dont = bad. you just equal = fucking stupid.
SkullandCrossbones94 2 years ago
No, retard. The stud is not sharp enough. And guns aren't sterile 100% of the time, nor are they handled by professionals.
Yeah, I guess compared to a normal earring, the piercing studs are sharper. But compared to piercing needles they don't even compare. It's like trying to compare a butter knife with a surgical scalpel.
Don't talk about things you don't understand. You just end up looking stupid.
disfiguredxheart 2 years ago
How someone can even think a piercing stud is sharper than a piercing needle is so beyond me, they've obviously never even SEEN a needle.
"compared to a normal earring, the piercing studs are sharper. But compared to piercing needles they don't even compare. It's like trying to compare a butter knife with a surgical scalpel."
Also, when I read that, I thought "it's like trying to compare a butter knife to a surgical scalpel when you're used to wearing spoons, haha. It's really that different!
xxIreneCaffeine 2 years ago
You = Fucking Stupid....Dude in the vid,nice.Nice to see people posting videos that give the RIGHT INFORMATION...P.s...Amazing,lol.
brutalypink19 2 years ago
You think piercing studs are sharp?
Do this little experiment for me will ya. Take a piercing stud (I'm assuming you haven't thrown yours away) and prick your finger with it. I'm betting you can't even make it bleed no matter how hard you prick it.
Pointed does not equal sharp. Now trying doing that same thing with a hollow point needle. You'll bleed, I can guarantee you that
Twilight2tinkerbell 2 years ago 14
@SkullandCrossbones94 lol the end in your comment was funny!! and that is soooo true!!
silentchic123 2 years ago
And now I have a brilliant reference to use then people disagree with me saying the gun is crap x]
I salute you.
The gun is alot more painful. I had my lobes done when I was about 7 and the pain was unbelievable. I had my seconds done last year with a needle and i couldnt even feel it :S
ObscurityX 2 years ago
You sir. Are my hero.
Thank you for posting this for the ignorant souls of the world.
modsara136 2 years ago 3
Thank you! More people who understand the idiocy of piercing guns. Not only do they cause trama to your ear, they are horribly unsterile.
You have become very high up on my list sir. Keep teaching those ignorant children. :)
modsara136 2 years ago
i got mine done with a needle the guy who did my ear even told me that the gun is no good
ibrandon43 2 years ago
LOL at the person who mentioned "sharing needles." Bahaha. I had my lobes gunned at Claire's as a kid [but hey, didn't everyone?] and they got infected all the time 'cause of the crappy cleaning solution and even crappier jewlery. Now I'm going to go get my lobes done with a hollow 10G needle, yay!
Piercing guns really piss me off, especially when I see helix, other cartilage, and nostril piercings being done with them. Gross.
thereg0esmygun 2 years ago
I am SO glad I watched this video. I'm planning to get my ears pierced soon and I didn't realize how bad gun piercing is.
kaikauruwashii 3 years ago 3
hahahaha lets try that again
princesslinzo 3 years ago
AMAZING! HAHA. *TRUE*
HYPNOTIZEDZ 3 years ago
im glad i got my shit done with a gun now.......FACCCKKKK
norcalforlife707 3 years ago 4
haha i did mine with a stud..
haha
i feel bad for my poor ears now :P
luilynn 3 years ago 4
The sad thing is, is that this is NEEDED. People need this dumbed down step by step.
BAN GUNS!
dropaheart37 3 years ago 5
Thanks, it's so true.
thereshegoes03 3 years ago
AMAZING
shinypinkdoors 3 years ago
yea i watched this after i got my ears gun pierced now my right ear is throbbing like a mofo
babiiboii1 3 years ago
AMAZING lol ur cool =]
ilovetails123 3 years ago
ok so...for my nose piercing i have to use a needle!
thanks!
staymetal93 3 years ago 2
Gun piercings in general are bad, but on a nose is especially bad.
purplemutantas 3 years ago 2
Thanks man, you just saved my life.
ridgedemort 3 years ago 2
lmao again.. "amazing" hahahaha nice video :D
XNirvanaCobainX 3 years ago
yess
i dont use anything but
mindreasoninggirlXxx 3 years ago
how about needles in cartiladge?
SingSong6678 3 years ago
Definitely not. It's even worse.
disfiguredxheart 3 years ago
you mean better than a gun in cartilage
ichitehkiller 3 years ago
I must've been off that day haha.
Needles are fine for cartilage.
Needles are always better than guns period.
disfiguredxheart 3 years ago
heheh it happens, great demonstration
ichitehkiller 3 years ago
lol i'm pretty sure piercing your cartilage with a gun is illegal now.
but i could be wrong
CoWdUdE132 3 years ago
no. you are def. right.
crosscountrygirl28 2 years ago
in some places there are still no laws on piercings at all sadly
DthCb4Jane 2 years ago