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Body Piercing Instruments

A body piercing studio without all the right instruments is as incomplete and unprepared as a doctor's office without medical equipment or an army with few armaments. Each body piercing instrument has been designed to perform a specific task, and without an adequate selection of equipment you risk being unable to pierce your clients in a comfortable and professional way.

  1. Piercing Needles

    • The most vital piece of equipment in any piercing studio is the pre-sterilized disposable needle. You should ensure that these are disposed of after one use. For wide-gauge piercings you can use a dermal punch. A dermal punch will punch a hole in your clients' flesh like a cookie cutter. Piercing guns are legal and often used to pierce ear lobes but cannot be sterilized like professional piercing needles and are therefore often avoided.

    Additional Tools

    • There are a number of instruments designed to hold and maneuver your clients' flesh and jewelry. You may use ring opening and closing pliers, forceps of various shapes to hold the different parts of the body you will pierce, hemostats to clamp jewelry and pliers to grab jewelry balls. You can measure jewelry with gauge wheels and calipers, bend nose screws with nose ring pliers and avoid poking yourself or your client using corks and needle-receiving tubes.

    Cleaning Equipment

    • Your piercing studio needs to abide by strict health standards. You will need disposable gloves and clean work clothes such as an apron, disposable coverings over your work surface, sterilized containers to hold your piercing equipment and properly labeled waste baskets to dispose of used needles, gloves and other items. You should always have soap to wash your hands, skin disinfectant to sterilize your clients' skin, detergent to clean your piercing instruments and a sterilization autoclave pouch to sterilize needles and jewelry.

    Miscellaneous

    • No matter how many piercing needles you have in stock without jewelry your piercings will be incomplete. You should have a range or jewelry including rings, barbells and studs in different gauges and sizes. Ensure that you have long barbells and studs for new piercings as flesh swells significantly after being pierced and needs some leeway to enlarge before healing again. Some clients may ask for a topical anaesthetic so you should consider stocking some.

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