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where to get piercing?
Hey, I wanna get my ears pierced :) I know it's kinda out dated already, but I like to do stuff when no one else is doing any more, just so that I don't feel like everyone else...
Anyway, I wanna get my ears pierced, but I don't know where? and how much are they?
thanks
Anyway, I wanna get my ears pierced, but I don't know where? and how much are they?
thanks
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i have my cartilage pierced, at Next (downtown vancouver, granville street).
it's a pretty good, clean place for piercings.
on a side note (just for kicks), i got my eyebrow pierced in Nice, France...at a place called House of Pain. now doesn't that sound fun?
http://www.nextbody.com/piercing/price_guide.php
it looks like they have some discounted prices for the lobes. not too bad.
the thing is, the piercing is cheap, but the jewelry may be expensive. i'm not sure how expensive it would be, so maybe if you just went there and checked it out?
First thing, do NOT get them done with a gun at the mall. Not only is the chick doing it a retail clerk and not a piercer, the gun is unsanitary and really hard on your body. You will have a long time healing and a few painful weeks ahead of you. I know people used to get their ears done this way all the time, but there is a lot of good reasons why you should go to a proper piercing place.
I like Sacred Heart. The one on Nelson Street downtown is especially good. The girl who did my ears was named Stephanie, and she was awesome. They are all very nice and highly professional there. They actually know what they are doing and take their time to get it done properly. Plus everything his highly sterilized.
Here's an article about piercing guns.
needles are the way to go. the sound of it made me feel squeamish at first, but really it is less painful, in my opinion.
ps. i have an eyebrow piercing. did not hurt at all--but i got it in france and the guy seemed to know what to do (avec 20 years of experience). there's a lot to think about for the eyebrow piercing, especially where it's placed. i've seen some weird ones that hang over the eye, and the jewelry size is much too long so it's protruding out...in that case, you'd have to go in to get shortened a few weeks after. and there is always the risk of your body rejecting the eyebrow piercing...which in that case, there's nothing you can do but wait for it to pop out (gross)...it just depends on how your body handles these things.