AboutBrian Skellie Expertise I can answer questions in regards to and not limited to: jewelry safety, specifically material, shape, proportion, and related issues; aseptic technique and sterilization as it applies to piercing safety; ethical issues of technique and bedside manner; the aftercare and recovery process for piercings.
Experience
Past/Present clients
Tens of thousands of one on one client experiences. http://www.piercing.org/ Body jewelry design and safety expert: Member ASTM committee F04(www.astm.org)
Member AAMI (www.aami.org)
Research advisor and educator for the APP for over a decade(www.safepiercing.org) teaching advanced studio setup, sterilization and equipment management, freehand piercing, aseptic/sterile technique and much more.
Distributor for SciCan StatIM sterilization and cleaning products. http://www.piercing.org/statim/
Question how much would it coast to get my lip done.!? and would it hurt..!?! alot or a little cause i always wanted to get it done and i have tha money and everything i just wanna find a place to go thats cheap under $40 bucks and could yu answer my questions please?! =] thank yu.
There are important differences between procedures and jewelry qualities that make a cheap piercing unsafe and painful. The safety assurances our procedure, quality jewelry and a gentle, swift and accurate placement by a skilled and experienced professional are described in detail at http://piercing.org/pexy/standards/standards.html and the links on that page.
Here is what you could expect from my studio:
Glad to help, we'll be here to welcome you with a smile.
The service is valued at $50 for the lip. The jewelry, a small bar with your choice of gemstones in titanium would be about $20. We could make the titanium metal any color you like for no extra charge if you please.
Our procedure for lip [labret, beauty mark] piercing
Please use the information on our http://www.piercing.org/pexy/technique/technique.html page for safety procedures for all piercing.
As for the actual part where we make a hole and put in jewelry, that part is pretty simple.
1. We select custom fit jewelry (We never use rings as initial jewelry, and encourage you consider them like high heeled shoes, kind of awkward and best used carefully or only for dress up)
2. We have the client fill out a consent form
3. We explain and give printed recovery information
4. We sterilize the gloves, gauze, needle, and jewelry by a state of the art autoclave steam process
5. We bring the client to a private clean room used only for piercing services
6. We make the client feel comfortable, confident, and trustful
7. We put on a surgical mask and protective eyewear
8. We scrub our hands
9. We put on sterilized nitrile medical exam gloves
10. We mark the skin where the jewelry will live
11. We prepare the skin with a surgical cleanser (Techni-Care)
12. We change to a fresh pair of sterilized nitrile gloves
13. We pick up the freshly sterilized gauze, drape, needle and jewelry
14. We put a sterile fabric drape with the window in the drape positioned over the area we are to decorate
15. We align the tissue by hand, like a surgeon would line up tissue to suture
16. We ask the client to take a deep breath and tell them that when they let it out, it is over
17. The client breathes out smoothly, and the skin is pricked gracefully, quickly and with great attention to aim
18. The jewelry, in this case a post with a smooth flat back made of implant material, connects to the needle and gently follows it through
19. The ball is threaded into the hole in the post and tightened
20. The client gets a first look and to live happily ever after with their new jewelry
In about 30 to 90 days, it should be finished healing, with no antiseptic cleansing, just clean bottled water and ice. http://piercing.org/pexy/recovery/recovery.html has more information about what you can expect during recovery and growth. We encourage our clients to return for a checkup within the first two weeks to evaluate the fit, shorten the jewelry and make sure everything is going well.
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Brian Skellie : Piercing Experience
Owner-Piercer-Advisor : www.piercing.org
brian@piercing.org : 1654 McLendon Ave NE
404-378-9100 : Atlanta GA 30307-2153
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