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TheGreyEyedMonster wrote:i sometimes feel like we are wasting our breath.

Agreed.

Well oh wise one. I was warning him about stretching to fast. Maybe u should read thru the thread before posting huh?

i have read through the posts completely, both this one and others. if you would read you'd see that he said on his other post he went from a standard ear piercing to a 6g to a 00g. we told him this was a very bad way to stretch and he said, quote, "why not, it wasn't that bad." you need to follow your own advice. we're the ones trying to help and when we offer advice and information you come one here and bitch that what we say isn't necessary and overly cautious. that may be the case but why offer not-as-good advice because 'it usually ends up ok'? we're just trying to put out proper advice for stretching and healing.

krazer9 wrote:Well tbf, i just put the earing straight through, i did sterilise it first tho.

Unless you have an autoclave and used that, it wasn't sterile. Boiling, soaking in alcohol, fire, etc. doesn't sterilize anything.

corazon_de_oro wrote:

krazer9 wrote:Well tbf, i just put the earing straight through, i did sterilise it first tho.

Unless you have an autoclave and used that, it wasn't sterile. Boiling, soaking in alcohol, fire, etc. doesn't sterilize anything.

Wrong. Boiling piercing tools in a pot of water on the stove for at least 10 minutes is sufficient to sterilize it for use in piercing, if you don't have an autoclave available.

This is how my fiance and I have done our "home done" piercings and we haven't gotten one single infection. And before you scold us for doing home piercings, she has done a course that qualifies her to do most piercings (it was mandatory in her Certificate III hairdressing course).

Also, just as many piercings get infected that have been done in a studio with equipment that was sterilized etc. It's 80% in how you take care of your piercing during it's healing.

exactly. im not so much concerned about the DIY job as i am about the fact that he is skipping so many sizes and not waiting a while between stretches.

Boiling is a lot better than alcohol or fire or something but it still doesn't kill EVERYTHING. And honestly a body piercing course at a hairdressing school is not going to be the most reliable thing in the world; to be a qualified body piercer you need an apprenticeship of about a year or so.
I'm not saying you WILL get an infection if all you do is boil the jewelry, just that people think they're completely sterilizing something and they're really not. Plus I'm sure the OP probably didn't wear gloves or anything so that just adds to the contamination.

I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks shoving an unsterilized earring through your ear is a bad idea....

corazon_de_oro wrote:
I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks shoving an unsterilized earring through your ear is a bad idea....

Lol trust me, i personally would never do that, but whats done is done, nothin left to do but tell him how to take care of it safely

corazon_de_oro wrote: I can't believe I'm the only one who thinks shoving an unsterilized earring through your ear is a bad idea....

I didn't say it wasn't a bad idea, I just think as long as you take every single precaution possible when doing it yourself, then there is no harm in trying.
Same thing with tattoos, I know people who got them done in professional studios who use Single use and Autoclaved tools that are completely sterile, and yet the person still ended up getting an infection that they had to take antibiotics for.
All because they didn't do the proper aftercare.

But each to their own, and as long as you know the risks you're taking and accept them, at least it shows you're not a complete ignoramus. Just stubborn

I havn't been on for ages tbf. Internets been down BUT




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