Ear piercing sticker shock

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are still piercing pagodas and claire’s. I’d personally never get my ears pierced with a piercing gun by a minimally trained mall employee (or a pediatrician), but it’s an option and much cheaper.

You can also go to any piercing/tattoo parlor with great reviews. It won’t be close to $400, that’s just outrageous. The kinds of bougie places you’re looking at like Brilliance pray on your fear of scary heavily tattooed people to charge you an arm and a leg.

Why are you lumping pediatricians in with minimally trainer mall employees? That’s ridiculous.

I’d prefer a mall employee actually. They actually do piercings every single day at least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are still piercing pagodas and claire’s. I’d personally never get my ears pierced with a piercing gun by a minimally trained mall employee (or a pediatrician), but it’s an option and much cheaper.

You can also go to any piercing/tattoo parlor with great reviews. It won’t be close to $400, that’s just outrageous. The kinds of bougie places you’re looking at like Brilliance pray on your fear of scary heavily tattooed people to charge you an arm and a leg.

Why are you lumping pediatricians in with minimally trainer mall employees? That’s ridiculous.

How is that ridiculous? Pediatricians, like mall employees, are minimally trained in doing piercings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are still piercing pagodas and claire’s. I’d personally never get my ears pierced with a piercing gun by a minimally trained mall employee (or a pediatrician), but it’s an option and much cheaper.

You can also go to any piercing/tattoo parlor with great reviews. It won’t be close to $400, that’s just outrageous. The kinds of bougie places you’re looking at like Brilliance pray on your fear of scary heavily tattooed people to charge you an arm and a leg.

Why are you lumping pediatricians in with minimally trainer mall employees? That’s ridiculous.

How is that ridiculous? Pediatricians, like mall employees, are minimally trained in doing piercings.

Agreed. My pediatrician did mine when I was 5 and they look terrible. Too low and not pointed the same way. I can wear tiny studs but even those look weird. If my kid ever wants to pierce their ears, I'd take them to a good tattoo place like Craig.

[Anonymous]

Go to a tattoo and piercing place. I got my kiddos ears pierced at Red Octopus Tattoo shop. We went back for nose piercings a few years later.
$50 for both ears and basic studs. Nostril was $40 which included a basic piercing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to a tattoo/piercing place. They will be much better than something at the mall.

This. Best answer!

[Anonymous]

I bought the piercing things on Amazon and did it myself. They look good and now they want more, and so do their friends.

Costs about $10 for both ears. https://www.amazon.com/Hermosa-Piercing-Earring-Disposable-Sterile/dp/B07JBTMSWQ/ref=sr_1_6?crid=AD52EX4A3CUO&keywords=ear+piercing+kit&qid=1659983209&sprefix=ear+piercing%2Caps%2C61&sr=8-6

Neosporin is good for the healing.

I'm a bit of a control freak and wouldn't trust some random stranger to do it exactly in the right spot. I wouldn't have the stomach to do it in the cartilage area though. My aunt did my piercings when I was a child. The ones I had from when I was a baby closed up from not wearing earrings for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP - is it just that your daughter wants really expensive earrings? The piercings themselves at Brilliance are $105 for both ears and you can get a set of titanium studs for $60.

https://www.brilliancepiercing.com/pricing

This is where I took my teen and I highly recommend them. I paid about $250 including tip, but they definitely had less expensive earrings than the ones DD chose.

We had a great experience at Brilliance. The cost will depend a lot on which studs. But well worth it, the did an excellent job and DDs piercings healed extremely well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Craig Pokes U in arlington is the gold standard - should cost under $200 depending on the earrings that you buy.

I agree with Craig Pokes U.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My incoming freshman would like a second ear piercing. After two years of begging, we have decided we are ok with it. I started looking at places (are there even anymore mall piercing pagodas?) and they are all so fancy. They charge for each ear separtely, plus the studs (separately). The first place, with the cheapest earring comes to about $400. The other place I checked is around the same. I checked two places called Brilliance Piercing and Belleza Piercing: https://shopbrilliancepiercing.com/pages/faqs and https://www.bellezalase.com/

I welcome any suggestions. Am I looking at the wrong places or is this the new cost?

Thank you!

The extreme pricing comes from the “DMV Tax” - where everything in this area is extremely overpriced.

$400 for simple ear piercing would get you laughed at throughout most of the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My incoming freshman would like a second ear piercing. After two years of begging, we have decided we are ok with it. I started looking at places (are there even anymore mall piercing pagodas?) and they are all so fancy. They charge for each ear separtely, plus the studs (separately). The first place, with the cheapest earring comes to about $400. The other place I checked is around the same. I checked two places called Brilliance Piercing and Belleza Piercing: https://shopbrilliancepiercing.com/pages/faqs and https://www.bellezalase.com/

I welcome any suggestions. Am I looking at the wrong places or is this the new cost?

Thank you!

The extreme pricing comes from the “DMV Tax” - where everything in this area is extremely overpriced.

$400 for simple ear piercing would get you laughed at throughout most of the Midwest.

I thank the heavens every day that I'm not in the Midwest. Worth it!

[Anonymous]

My mom fought me for years and years and years on a second piercing. Basically we argued about it my whole childhood, from around 6 yo to college. Now, decades later, I am SO GRAETFUL I don’t have a tacky extra hole in my ear. Thank you, Mom!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom fought me for years and years and years on a second piercing. Basically we argued about it my whole childhood, from around 6 yo to college. Now, decades later, I am SO GRAETFUL I don’t have a tacky extra hole in my ear. Thank you, Mom!

I’m grateful I didn’t turn into a judgmental snob like my mother. Unfortunate you can’t say the same.

[Anonymous]

Try Claire’s,

[Anonymous]

ice and and a needle at home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are still piercing pagodas and claire’s. I’d personally never get my ears pierced with a piercing gun by a minimally trained mall employee (or a pediatrician), but it’s an option and much cheaper.

You can also go to any piercing/tattoo parlor with great reviews. It won’t be close to $400, that’s just outrageous. The kinds of bougie places you’re looking at like Brilliance pray on your fear of scary heavily tattooed people to charge you an arm and a leg.

Why are you lumping pediatricians in with minimally trainer mall employees? That’s ridiculous.

NP but my pediatrician recommended going to a piercing shop even though she does pierce ears. She said they're far more experienced than her (she does this maybe once a month or so, piercers do it many times a day).