I got my lips pierced here and how disappointed I am with the result. So firstly this is not my…read morefirst piercing, but it is my first piercing at this establishment.
Going to be totally honest, I've never written reviews, so to anyone reading this, please take this as your sign to reconsider coming here _.
Firstly let's start with the environment, the workers here were pretty nice. I had no issue with their attitude or with the way they treated me. Though I did feel a bit uncomfortable when getting pierced. Often when I get pierced at my usual spot, it's always just me and my piercer alone, but here, it seemed like all the employees wanted in on the action lol
Since I wanted to try a new place out, I gave them the benefit of the doubt.
So for the piercing itself, while I was getting it done, my piercer was a little shaky and hesitant on the placement of the lips. Her unsureness really worried me, but I stayed calmed and put trust in the process (not a good idea). Eventually it was time to get pierced and it was not too bad, now when she was done. I wasn't given much advice on the aftercare.
They did try to sell me their own aftercare, but im pretty sure it would have been of their best interest to let me know what to buy from a genuine store/pharmacy and what to use to make sure the healing process goes well...
Anyways, one of the piercings were crooked :(
Ok so it was bothering me and so I decided to give the owner a text. He lets me know I can come in and get it repierced.
So I show up to the store and the owner himself repierced it. Thought he didn't give me any mouthwash for when I got it repierced :0
I don't know whether it was safe to have repierced an already wounded piercing, but since they were the piercer, they told me they could repierce it and it would just swell. Ok so I go through with it.
Big mistake.
I got it pierced at 2 pm, and around 5 pm I noticed a bit of bruising and by 9 pm, the bruising got worse.
I texted the owner to voice my concerns and they told me that it was normal due to the trauma for being pierced twice, I guess I could somewhat understand that.
The bruising gets worse and there's bleeding and lots of swelling. I figured it probably did just need a bigger bar. I kept waking up in the middle of the night with pain in my lips and the swelling getting worse :/
Eventually I decided to contact my usual piercer, so I go to their store and when I showed them the issue, they told me that I needed to take it out immediately and that hopefully the jewelry was not stuck to my lip. So they take me to the back and take out the piercing, which luckily comes out. There's non stop bleeding to which my piercer has to hold down towels to make sure I don't bleed out. He then tells me to go to the ER near by (._.)
I go the er, they let me know that a vessel was pierced and they have prescribed me antibiotics. I was lucky that the bleeding stopped.
I go back to my piercer and they also informed me that not only was that one piercing done incorrectly, but that the other piercing was pierced at a wrong angle. So both piercings in the end weren't don't correctly _
Please be mindful of where you get your piercings.
