I was talking to my piercer about the bad daith piercing I got in middle school and how I felt bad that I did it. He’s the first person to tell his clients that he got his tongue split in someone’s kitchen or all of the other bad body mods he got when he was younger. Mason always makes sure to tell us that if you get something bad, he’ll do everything he can to fix it but he won’t ever stop someone from making their own choices. But the first time I went into Planet 3 and had a great piercing experience, it was LIFE CHANGING

this video made me feel a lot better… a while back my ex-girlfriend told me she wanted helix piercings, and while i was excited for her and tried to be all hype about it, i mainly tried to educate her on the best way to do it (don’t go to claire’s, get it done with a needle, proper metal, threading, aftercare etc) and she took all that and went to claire’s and got it done with a gun and a couple weeks later she facetimes me and they’re gone! i’m like what happened and she said now that she took them out is the most relief she’s felt since she got them. apparently they got heavily infected, the butterfly backs got swallowed by her ear, pus and blood was dripping out of them etc. i was sad for her and tried to comfort her but underneath that, i was boiling. i felt so hurt that i gave her advice through love and care for her and she didn’t listen to me anyway, and she knows how passionate and knowledgeable i am about piercings. i let that whole thing fester in my head for so long. i just want to let it go and realize hey, it was her choice in the end, and there’s only so much i can do about things like this. other people’s actions are out of my control !

im so guilty of being overly passionate (not just in piercing) and this really helped me :) ive still got a long way to go in acceptance and understanding others dont always want my help and education but thank you so much because this is so comforting and important ❤️ being autistic its so difficult to understand why others dont think the same as me and why i cant educate them to have the same passion i have towards body piercing

This is true in so many more things than just piercing. It's such a hard lesson to learn that you can't help everyone. My coworker likes to say that you can't push a rope.

If it wasn’t for bad piercings, I never would’ve learned how to do good piercings. I got them so my clients don’t have to!

I hold this logic with EVERYTHING in life. I’m one small speck in this world. I can suggest something but at the end of the day there is only one person in the world I have total control of… myself. If someone after I suggest and educate them decided to go forward with something “bad” as long as it’s not hurting others or illegal, not going to stop them. This also plays a part in the career I want to go into. Like you can tell a patient to stop drinking or stop smoking, eat healthy, but at the end of the day you cannot force that on them once they leave the hospital.

I absolutely agree with you and love that you spoke up and voiced your feelings on this! I sincerely hope others take this advice in and really apply it to their lives in so many ways, not just when it comes to body modification

I get what you're saying about it being individual choice but I think we can do a lot with regulations to require piercers use proper equipment and have proper training. There's still going to be teens with ice cubes and safety pins whatever you do, but if you can't literally go to the mall to get a gun piercing it'll cut down on them a lot

I am having a revelation 😂 thank you for this amazing video as always 💛 and I am LOVING the hair!

this is so helpful! Ive been having that same reaction and it really hurts to see people not caring, but youre so right! It's not my body, and spending any time on it while personally i could be spent doing other things... like anything else. I will be watching this again

Gosh I really appreciate each of your videos. Your opinions are so refreshing and helpful.

THANK YOU for making free educational content about piercing. Know that while there are people who ignore it, there are also people who listen :)

had to add i love the way your face tattoo matches your eyes! they pop!

Safe piercing is expensive! A lot of us can't afford to drop $100+ on more important expenses, not to mention luxuries like getting pierced at some APP piercer with high end jewelry. Then the choice is between going through life unpierced indefinitely and doing it in a slightly riskier way. Like going out for drinks at the club on a friday night, it's a little risk to make life more bearable. I'm sure a lot of people just don't care or are penny pinchers - but a lot of people aren't, too.

As a baby piercer who grew up in the industry, my dads a piercer and owns his own shop which i work at now and grew up being there all the time😅 I still feel like this it’s so hard. Especially when I try to educate someone and they just straight up don’t listen 🤦🏼‍♀️ it can be mentally draining

Quite right! We can’t let anyone steal our peace! All we can do is educate, educate, educate! I feel this way about vaccinations! You don’t want to push or get upset, but it was kind of necessary early on in the pandemic when not enough people were getting vaccinated because it literally was life and death, not just for themselves but for everyone around them. I was sick for three months because at the height of Omicron no one was wearing masks and my husband(whose mask wasn’t good enough) got it and then me! Now it’s not nearly as critical with the next gen version coming out soon.It’s still important, especially for those who have been sick like me, but I ain’t sweating it anymore about anyone else. It’s gonna be like flu shots from now on, and for that we can just educate and move on and wish em peace and just take care of ourselves the best we can!✌️

Thank you for this message ❤

i understand people may not have the means to spend $60+ on a single piercing, but choosing the cheaper option will just cost you more in the long run. before I knew about how to properly go about getting a piercing I'd go to my regular studio (that was bad) and repeatedly get infections from their work. I got infections 2-3 times on piercings I got from there, and each time the doctor's copay + costs for antibiotics were around $40. that's already most of the price of a good quality piercing, plus the $40 I already spent on the initial piercings, you end up spending more when you opt for the cheaper option.

your palm tattoos are so clear! are they stippled?

Ed of Safe Harbor Piercing in PA? He’s so sweet! 🥰

I'm really trying to listen to you but I keep focusing on that red piercing below your right eye, or is it left. Is it infected, is it supposed to be symmetrical. I'm not trying to be a troll either.

would you ever go over your skincare routine? after seeing you do it in videos i’m curious about what products you use 😂

This absolutely, i notice this response in me when it comes to seeing some body mod traditions too (like scarification) where westernised, ignorant brain goes "dangerous" and i have to remind myself that it's not my business *at all* when it's not my history nor culture, not to mention i don't know *why* things are done the way they are and what importance or intense emotional meaning it could have, that wouldn't be the same when done in a different way. And also it's so offensive of me to think of adults as if they aren't capable of seeking medical help or recognising when they need medical help. For example one thing i don't react to nowadays but i know a lot of people do is traditional stick and poke tattoos (that not the traditional name in any sense ofc), i see a lot of responses about the safety of the practise and i can nowadays see that hey, that vid features 20+ year olds, who have access to healthcare, taking an informed risk, that's really emotionally important to everyone involved. That's one thing i love about the body mod community though, it really opened up my worldview to what can be "normal", safe and beautiful, from having been raised in a very limited pov ^__^ /gen

The word choice wasn't the best tbh. I understand you're coming from a place of wanting to help, but the word choice made it seem like if you're poor you don't deserve this service. When you said you didn't understand why someone would go to somewhere less expensive, but also less safe baffled me. Due to your lack of understanding coming from a place of privilege of never having to risk yourself to get piercing because it was the only option you had. Then clicked that you're just another white person who doesn't know the struggle that most minorities face in general but also this industry.