Universal Ear Piercing Kit

Great diy kit. My tips: watch their training videos on the studex website. get a squirt bottle and fill it with salt water (I just dissolve salt in boiling water and let it cool) and use that to flush the piercing a few times a day and wiggle(over a cup or sink) . I have best luck with that. You’ll get salt buildup, but it can be cleaned off. Don’t go swimming for 2 months. PRACTICE draw some dots on cardstock and just reuse one earring practicing. Mine is very consistent but a little lower than I had expected. Use the rounded studex to pierce. Shaped ones fall out of the gun if you tip it, so consider piercing with rounded and then switching to a shaped piercing stud. Consider giving tiny ones ibprofen first or be prepared to let them wait a day to do the second. Older kids have done fine with no painkiller.Pros: quality surgical steel earrings (they heal best, trust me) with for when one gets lost (they lock tight, but we snagged one). Consistent aim, never jams. Cons- mine pierces about 1 mm low BUT CONSISTENTLY And predictably. Not a fan of the gel afterpierce care. It dries on like a film you have to peel off. Wish it were all surgical steel and not gold plated since gold Is softer and more prone to scratching which can supposedly then create a home for bacteria. Overall, it’s simple, and remember some kids cry having theirs professionally done, some don’t and even piercings done at the mall or tattoo shop can get infected (soooo many stories). It’s an open wound so take care of it. If it snags on a shirt or hairbrush, you may get a little blood. I’ve done 4 so far (2 mine, 2 a neighbors) without major issues and we’ve saved a lot of cash and have had no major issues. Just a girl who went swimming and we had to take the earring out and clean it a few times (I used liquid silver) because it was starting to look infected and eventually swapped her gold one for a surgical steal and it healed up fast.

I have done myself earrings and is so easy and fast to use. Even my nieces asked me to do theirs and they are so happy and feel so cool with their new earrings. I'm a person that loves to use a lot of accessories and this is really amazing to get the style of what I was looking for. You only feel a pinch for a second and after that you will be fine, just take care of it every day and it will heal in no time.

This is great. Pretty pricey for my single time use on my 6yo though. I followed all sanitary precautions and used numbing cream, ice and childrens pain meds 30min before. I also wiped it down with alcohol before I began as the packaging was slightly flimsy/ sketchy as others have mentioned (appeared DIY heat film sealed not sealed with a machine like from a factory and possibly resealed although I should hope not as that would be a major health concern). My main advice: I recommend taking your time after making the mark to observe that’s where you really want the earring and both are even before piercing. I practiced ten times on a card first to aim placement and watched online videos. In the end I realized one was slightly too high and am kicking myself but it was my fault in marking, NOT in aiming and it’s really not very noticeable and my daughter is happy. Also be sure to read the leaflet front to back including troubleshooting before you begin! This saved me when I must have accidentally tipped the gun and the backing fell out so I had to fumble around with one free hand while the other held the gun to the ear to refill and manually clip the backing with the gun and gentle trigger method indicated. I so wished another set of hands was there to help me unpack a new set and load one-handed (in the end two additional sets of earrings wasted but we had bo use for them anyway). Then, apparently that backing wasn’t clipped securely enough either (make sure it clicks!) which ended in tears moments later at lunch when the backing fell off and the piercing came out halfway as it got caught on her hair and it resulted in screams and crying but I calmly reloaded, pushed the earring back through with gloved hands, reloaded the gun with a new backing, used the gentle manual gun click method and it’s now been in for weeks, no infections or anything. I highly recommend saltwater piercing care spray 3x/day. I didn’t even need any of the ointment swabs I purchased. I also do not rotate the piercing. Be aware not to do this in summer months as you can’t swim for at least six weeks while it heals. We did this in Feb. Also warn a child they can’t wear fun styles right away. I would also never try this on anything other than a lobe if you aren’t licensed as it seems risky and would go to a proper tatoo place. I’ve locked this away as my daughter can be impulsive and would recommend not allowing kids or teens access to it if you use this at home, as with anything with needles or sharp edges. Not sure what I’m going to do with this as I have no use for it now and I wouldn’t feel right reselling it for health reasons. I was five when a popular mall shop pierced my ears with a similar gun but these days many people advise against multi use shared guns and I would agree. Single use seems much safer.

Best kit on the market. Fully sterile piercings all pairs individually sealed. Great for a house full of girls! The cost of this kit is just a tad more than going and getting one pair done at Claire's. I absolutely recommend.

The functioning of the piercing gun is simple enough. The first pair of earrings (that came with the set) that I tried, the earring kept falling out of the gun before I could get it to my ear. I eventually put that set aside and tried a different set (note that I am using the correct size adapter for the earring), this one held in place. I used it to pierce my cartilage. It worked well and wasn't really painful...until the next day. There was plenty of room, on the post, for the piercing, but the backs of all these earrings are so very sharp around the edges. They were making the back of the piercing very painful. I eventually took the back off and made a bandaid spacer to keep the back from touching my ear. It has since been much better, and I am still able to clean the area as directed. I also pierced second lobe holes in both ears with the smaller size earrings. They both are fine (except the sharp edges on the backs). My only negative about this kit is the backs of the earrings that are included. They really need to find a way to make them less sharp around the edges.

This was a hit for my daughter’s birthday. Super easy to use and pierced all the girls ears. Only problem is I’ll never use it again since we are all pierced. So I have a lot of extra ear rings. Just didn’t trust someone else to do it. Gun is strong. Earrings are sturdy. Make sure you clean your ears everyday with hydrogen peroxide

I love the quality of this piercing gun. I have never used one before and was able to pierce my daughters nose with ease and no pain. This kit had everything I needed and the instructions were very easy to follow. There were definitely cheaper kits out there but the quality and durability of this piercing gun was by far the best i came across. I was scared to buy a cheaper one because they didnt look structurally stable and i was afraid it would cause me to hurt my daughter when piercing. This gun was everything i hoped for and more. I highly recommend this piercing gun kit.

Great - complete set, came with waivers and aftercare sheets and all, pierced 3 of my children with it and all went smooth & healed well (with the studex piercing solution I also purchased separately). Definitely for experienced piercers though, would not recommend someone who’s never pierced before to start with this instrument.

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