As someone who works in the OR, nothing is guaranteed sterile, even stuff processed in our sterile processing, at a piercing studio, etc. that’s what indicators are for. Most shops will show you the pass/fail strip they throw in the cassette they throw into their autoclave, and we check them in every package in the OR too. “Peel packs” (like real ones not these) can get holes too. Above all, shit happens, we drop stuff, we make mistakes. Sterility is never guaranteed, even in the perfect environment and that’s why piercers and people in the OR got ways to check everything!

Do you have any stuffed animals? Give them piercings with those cheap ones! They don't end up in a landfill, and no one (in theory) catches any strange diseases/infections from them lol

You need to make a short, clipped down version of this for TikTok. More young people need to see this. Super well said and informative!

I'm thinking of sending this to my father, he gives me shade for paying a professional.

Putting jewelry on denim jackets or purses can look cool and is a good use for the low quality stuff!

I should say I'm shocked that there's a "pierce yourself at home kit" available on Amazon but at this point? Nothing shocks me 😆 Edit: Seven fucking dollars?!

Not related to thr video at all, but I just wanted to say thanks. I got my first real piercing studio piercing today and your channel really helped me understand the process and not be too nervous. ❤❤❤

I understand that getting a piercing done by a professional piercer costs lots of money but you can't put a price on your health and getting this cheap piercing kit is a BIG no-no.

I saw the title and immediately got a snack to watch this, amazon products are not great quality for things that aren't required to be sterile to be safe, nvm things that should be. Also as far as those shitty jewlery pieces go, my vote is to either get a pair of fake elf ears and pierce them (I met a person at my local shop who did that, it looked rad) or as someone else suggested, pierce some stuffies with them! It would be super cute to give nervous people a cute stuffy with piercings to hold while they got theirs done!

oh no LOLLL thank you for putting yourself through this for the benefit of everyone else in the world lmao

Tha needle has a Bur on it, That's going to tear through the skin instead of cut it. That will make the most painless piercings feel like the worst painful piercing ever. Just awful. I prefer to do my septums sort of free hand. I take the jewelry and align the dots Exactly how I want them both sides, Then I use a triangle focep without rubber band to support the skin. I always insist seeing the needle protruding to my dot for the exact placement. Septum forceps are terrible & leave too much room for error blindly piercing in a tunnel. I have also used a bunch of designs, great idea, just a terrible tool in practice. I never recommend them, In fact I recommend against them. Same with receiving tubes, If I use a receiving tube on on some extremely tough skin, Most of the head of the needle is already poking all the way through, So then using a receiving tube at that point will not change the projectory of the needle & cause a crooked piercing. The Association of Professional Piercers report in their handbook Says vinyl gloves are the worst choice, They have an extremely high failure rate of something like 53%. Of which many are already compromised with small or micro holes before they are even pulled out of the box. For example, How many times have you dyed Someone's hair and those damn gloves broke & you dyed parts of your hands?! Awful. Latex has a 3% failure rate which is a million times better & Nitril had a 0% failure rate last I checked. My absolute favorite are the Defend Latex with corn starch not that other dry chemical. Even people with latex allergies Can use these gloves for nearly 15 to 20 minutes Without a reaction. GREAT VIDEO IDEA! Implant grade jewelry ASTM F316 LVM steel at wholesale costs a body piercer more than that entire kit FOR 1 JEWELRY PIECE. Most Health departments & states consider body piercing as mild surgery. They might as well be selling a scalpel & a rusty nail to 5th graders.

Well, I feel exposed. I got an almost identical kit like this at sixteen, minus one of the clamps and the alcohol wipes. But they had a bag full of uncoated mystery metal. It was way more than you got, and I think I was also missing balls and stuff. I quickly abandoned the gloves because they had no grip, and I think I only cleaned with hydrogen peroxide. It was both my second lobes and I repierced my left one because it was too low. So now my left lobe piercing has a big scar right on top of it. I'm actually shocked I didn't get an infection.

I can’t wait for the day when selling piercing kits and piercing guns are illegal. I know it probably won’t ever happen but one can only dream.

I'm not going to lie, I have thought about buying one of these kits to do my own piercing. I decided to go a professional instead.

This was such a fun video! Thanks for the information and laughter lmfaooo

When I saw these ads I literally thought I was having a nightmare

I pierced one of my packers several times with an 18g injection needle and some crap pieces of jewelry that I got pierced with/got on amazon for my healed piercings lmaooo or do what someone else suggested and pierce a teddy bear or smtg that would be so cool

Wow this video was the first time I heard you say your last name, I realized I've been saying it wrong in my head all this time and I don't know how to feel about it

the gloves are so unsterile 😭 they didn’t come in their own individual baggg

I went to an arts high school with a dorm (GREAT idea right???), and there was one girl who bought a shitty piercing kit... no research or anything she just started charging people to be pierced. They were some of the worst piercings I have ever seen. She was giving septum piercings through the cartilage and putting in whatever jewelry she could find. Every nostril she did had that bump on it, etc etc

Your face right from the start says it all. 😂

What you think you save in money, you pay for with the healing.

Forever my idol!

It shouldn't really be legal to sell these things in my opinion. As for ear piercing guns, well when a piercer suggested using one on me, I found somewhere else.

Now this is how you do a review! Not like @stopcryingjosie 🙄

LOL I bought this kit like 3 times n only successfully did my nose piercing 💀 how do people manage to give themselves eyebrow piercings w this kit or snake bitesssss, a skill I wish I had lmfao

Who in the world makes these kits 😭

you could maybe pierce a teddy bear / a plushie with all the jewelry lmao that way at least you'll have a cool looking plushie

Can you tell me which part I can get a good kit