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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's fine, truly. It's been several years, but my daughter got her ears pierced at Claire's in Montgomery Mall. The main thing is making sure to manage the healing process with her - a 6yo isn't going to be able to be as diligent as you need to be the first stretch of time.

Honestly, the Claire's people do a lot of piercings and their process is pretty solid. It is a different piercing process than is normal at a tattoo shop, and I think that it's expensive for what it is, but it's fine. This board is snobby af and very paranoid about things seeming low-class.[/quote]

I don't think it's snobby to understand that Claire's uses a piercing gun with parts made of plastic that can't go into an autoclave to be properly sterilized.  It just carries a higher risk of infection to do it with a piercing gun, Claire's or not.  Personally, I think the risk is small, but it's up to the individual to accept that greater risk.  [/quote]

+1. I am not an expert but it looked like my pediatrician was using the same piercing  gun as Claire's. I am sure it was sanitary.

See, I see that everywhere, but it just doesn't ring true. The guns they use at Claire's are basically holders for the single-use cartridges they loads the starter earrings into and then that is what pierces the ear. It's not one needle in a plastic gun that they wipe with a Clorox wipe between crying kids. The "gun" never actually touches anyone other than the Claire's employee holding it. The main risk of infection continues to be in aftercare, per my tattoo artist, who asked the poor girl at Claire's about a hundred questions and asked to see the whole process when his kid wanted her ears pierced there.

But on this board? It's snobby. Half the people posting here are embarrassed that they use drug store makeup. [/quote][/quote]

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