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Nostril Piercing: Body ArtistsFinding a Legitimate Body Piercing Studio
This second article in the series Nostril Piercing, a comprehensive guide to everything related to piercing your nostril, discusses finding a body piercing studio.
What’s involved in finding a great body piercing artist or studio?All right, so the decision has been made to go ahead and get a nostril piercing. Now, how to find the best body artist in the local area? Friends’ or coworkers’ recommendations are the best. If they have gone to a specific studio to get tattoos or piercings, ask how their experience was. Did they find the body artists professional in their work? Was the environment and equipment sterile? Sometimes, friends or coworkers will love a particular studio or body artist so much they’ll recommend them right on the spot. Choosing a Body Piercing StudioIf the avenue of asking friends or coworkers is not available, the next best bet is to check out the local Better Business Bureau or newspapers. Look for the body studios with the best reputations, who have been in the business the longest, and who might even have won local awards of excellence. SterilityThe most critical thing to finding a great body studio is sterility. They must be absolutely committed to using sterile equipment, and using it only once. If the studio does use their equipment repeatedly, they must sterilize it after each use. Most excellent body studios use an autoclave, which sterilizes equipment with steam, pressure, high heat, and a good length of time. This is the same type of machine used by medical professionals to sterilize equipment. Needles Good, Guns BadAnother small but very important tip, any really great body artist will use a needle, not a gun, to make the small piercing in the nostril. Any artist who uses a gun is not treating his/her clients’ bodies with respect. Using a gun to pierce a hole tears and damages the tissue of the nostril, while a needle actually makes a clean hole. Follow-upOnce having located a body piercing artist who sounds legitimate, by all means do more research about the person if so desired. Call them; find out their policies, procedures, prices, and hours. Ask if they use sterile equipment, and if they use a needle or a gun for piercing. Another option is asking to take a tour of their work area before getting the nostril piercing done there. This way a good feel for their work ethic can be gained before entrusting them with the nostril to be pierced.
The copyright of the article Nostril Piercing: Body Artists in Body Piercing is owned by Kira Robbins. Permission to republish Nostril Piercing: Body Artists in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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