I've been going to this place for all my piercings for years. Unfortunately, however, my most recent experience was the worst I think I've ever had (and I have about 9 piercings). I believe they recently hired a new piercer as the one who had done all my other work was no longer there. He seemed like a really nice guy but it kind of seemed like he didn't really know what he was doing. So so many things were not right and all of my red flags were going off. I'll summarize, and for reference I went in for a daith and a helix:
- We started with the daith, my first red flag was when he was marking me up with a ballpoint pen (precision and sterility issue)
- Secondly, he marked a dot on my daith?? Not sure what his plan was but I had to explain to him that I wanted the daith piercing to go though the actual cartilage either side. Really not sure what he would have done with the dot he marked had I not told him what I wanted.
- When prepping to pierce my daith, he opened a straight 16g needle and bent it with his hands (tissue trauma and healing issue)
- He also had an issue getting the ball on the daith after installing it and had to use the forceps to probe the horse-shoe angle open more, and then force it back into its original position. Ive not been messing with it but I wouldn't be surprised if the jewelry inside my ear was severely messed up.
- With my helix, again marked with a ballpoint pen, he tried offering me hoops to heal. I feel like to any seasoned piercee you'd know that hoops are a definite no-go for fresh piercings and healing, and as a piercer you should know better.
- In addition to that, my helix turned out super crooked and the flat-back that he ended up giving me was at least one size too small if not two, and it was unable to properly account for my swelling. I also had a super nasty bruise atop most of my ear, and with all of this added together I had to take out the piercing not even 2 days after getting it done. My swelling would not go down even with ice and ibuprofen and the risk of my ear swallowing this helix was a real issue.
- On top of ALL that, he also broke sterility multiple times. He was very back-and-forth with the jewelry and equipment draws after already donning his gloves, and would then touch the jewelry and needles and whatnot after. Very wary of the cleanliness of this entire experience and I just really hope I'm able to hang onto the daith without a bad infection.
Overall a really awful experience and I unfortunately will NOT be going back, which is a big shame as it's been my go-to for ~5 years. Please be careful. read more
