jacquelineanna
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So if a beauty therapist where you are wants to offer ear piercing what does the training involve for you guys that is accepted by the insurers?
Jacqui xx
Jacqui xx
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eskimonailtech
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It's illegal I believe. Most people have learned the risks of piercing guns here and go to career piercers at the tattoo shops. I personally only go to a specialized piercing place - thats all they do. They've been featured internationally and I have seen their practices.
jacquelineanna
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Interesting.
We have approved and accredited one day courses here using the gun and it is accepted by all the insurers.
I wonder why what is accepted in one country is frowned upon on another.
Jacqui xx
We have approved and accredited one day courses here using the gun and it is accepted by all the insurers.
I wonder why what is accepted in one country is frowned upon on another.
Jacqui xx
eskimonailtech
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There was a lot of "mall piercing" here. With girls doing it in clothing and jewelry shops. Really sketchy.
I would trust a beauty therapist herself if she'd done the course, but not the tool itself.
I would trust a beauty therapist herself if she'd done the course, but not the tool itself.
Pinkbunny28
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You can sterilise certain plastics in an autoclave.
I got my ears pierced with a gun as a child and I've never had any problems. Got my bellybutton pierced with a needle and that rejected which I was told was down to my skin texture or something.
Anyway I would never do anything to endanger someone else hence why I was uncomfortable piercing a sponge! I will go see Caflon if they are at Olympia and get all questions answered then decide.
Thank you for your opinions and help everyone x
I got my ears pierced with a gun as a child and I've never had any problems. Got my bellybutton pierced with a needle and that rejected which I was told was down to my skin texture or something.
Anyway I would never do anything to endanger someone else hence why I was uncomfortable piercing a sponge! I will go see Caflon if they are at Olympia and get all questions answered then decide.
Thank you for your opinions and help everyone x
eskimonailtech
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one last post - belly button piercings can take 1-2 years to heal and have a high rejection rate, very common. i sincerely doubt it was your skin texture. your body just didnt want a barbell in it!!!!!! i know lots of people who have never had problems with ear piercing guns as well.
do you plan on autoclaving yours?
do you plan on autoclaving yours?
Pinkbunny28
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I don't even remember what they said to be honest, I will try again after babies otherwise it's tattoo route
though I'm doing that anyway....At the mo I don't have an autoclave but if it's possible I def will.
ProperPrincess
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i don't disinfect them i have a electronic heated sterilizer! but then i dont use the baby bottles pierce skin.
i have 20 tattoos and 9 piercings i know how its done. but ear piercing is done differently hear. laws are different. belly buttons, noses, cartilage take a longer time than ears...but i can't ever see a.beauty salon offering this. it would look cheap no??
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Pinkbunny28
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They do it in claires. I think a salon is more hygienic and looks better than claires
ProperPrincess
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oh we have that here. personally i wouldst trust a Saturday girl with me skin. your right defo career piercer. might find they won't do kids...but i don't think anyone should...but that's another thread x
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Just to clear things up, the Carlton institute course you are thinking of attending uses disposable cartridges. The earrings (metal) are sterile and any back splash from the body will be disposed of as the whole plastic gun/cartridge is binned after use. Hths!
Embellir
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I always got told you can't sterilise plastic, you sanitise it, had to do a whole blimming essay on sterilise and sanitise lol ??
Although the baby bottle is a good point because you always say sterilise!
Anyone able to clear this up?
Kim xx
Although the baby bottle is a good point because you always say sterilise!
Anyone able to clear this up?
Kim xx
eskimonailtech
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I didn't realise that piercing was traumatic to the body.
I will most likely strike this off my training wish list.
of course its traumatic. you're ramming a needle/back of a stud through an appendage. Backs of studs are far less sharp than a needle and therefore cause more trauma.
I suppose I didn't really look into it. I just saw the area being pierced as a non important, flap of skin. I thought that it is pierced initially with a sharp needle, not a blunt edge.
This is why I love this site...actually makes me use my brain instead of rail roading into training for treatments that are not as simple as I thought!
It was on the bottom of my training wish list it must be said.x
This is why I love this site...actually makes me use my brain instead of rail roading into training for treatments that are not as simple as I thought!
It was on the bottom of my training wish list it must be said.x
Ok you aren't going to believe this, but were I am we don't have any proper training for ear piercing! I was shown by a fellow esthetician and that was that. I bought my kit and away I went. Never had an issue with it. The studs used have very sharp points, and everything is contained in its own protective sterile package. BANG and it is done, next ear, BANG and it is done. I understand the piercers/tatoo specialists, but it is the ear lobe. Good grief, when I was girl we did it with a needle, thread and a potatoe behind the lobe. Once a hole was made a narrow hoop was pullled through it. No biggy. I've done as young as three. As for Clair's we have them here also, I don't think I would go to them and have some young girl do it in sitting in the front window for the world to watch.
eskimonailtech
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Not surprising.
beauti-licious
Well-Known Member
really?.....
bang and its done? thats all? no consultations? no cleaning ears? marking ears to ensure are level? no after care? so if something goes wrong? your insurance covers this? or do you not need that either? if im honest i dont see much difference in yourself (please dont take that as personal to you, i mean all with no qualification) and some young girl sitting infront of a window for the world to watch at Claires? if both do none of the above?
its so frustrating that so many things differ so dramatically from county - county, state etc.
ralphswurld
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Ok, me and my friend decided we wanted ear lobes, so we bought them. She got a size fourteen, and me a ten. Mine hurt, but her doesnt.
So I was looking at training courses and came across the Carlton Institute. Seems absolutely perfect until you get to the bit that says:
You will do a piercing on the day which will be to pierce a sponge.
What?! So you don't even get to pierce somone's ears? Does this worry anyone else or am I missing something?
It can take for ever to get the money back, you will need a licence from the council, insurance, training, equipment, and sundries..... and we would always turn away children( its hard making excuses to mothers as you don't believe that babies and tots should have them, but the mum wants them, sorry the gun is damaged, cant do this today!)
Thanks xxx
