Everyone with an earring, not to confuse with ear piercings, directly knows what it is, a piercing gun. It might remind you most of a riveting machine. A small opening where the earlobe can be placed in between and ‘puff’ you have an earring. With a good deal of power the earring is pressed through the earlobe. Unfortunately, there are also people with ear piercings that exactly know what this kind of piercing gun is. Why should you never, but really never ever, get pierced with a gun?
Ignorance while shooting an ear piercing
Especially at jeweller’s that also set piercings sometimes things go wrong. They offer to set tragus or helix piercings with their piercing gun. Even though it luckily decreased in great numbers over the last few years, it still happens. The fault used to be given to ignorance. The jeweller’s often didn’t know better. Unfortunately, also more than often, the reason was making some extra money quickly.
A tragus piercing, a helix piercing and all other piercings always have to be set by hand. This has to do with the cartilage. If you touch your outer ear, you can feel that it is hard but still flexible. If you touch your earlobe you recognize, that there is nothing hard in it. It is soft tissue only.
The soft tissue thus isn’t damaged quickly and can deal with the blow from the gun. Cartilage in contrast is best viewed as a flexible plate of plastic. If you put a piercing gun on it and let it shoot shut with a big blow, you run a great risk that this plate breaks, or worse, splinters.
If that happens, you are far from home. You run a lot of risks like infections, scar tissue and your ear becoming overgrown. In the worst case, you end up with a cauliflower ear. Believe us, you want to prevent this no matter what.
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