All jewellery, disposable tools, equipment, and aseptic drapes are sterilised immediately prior to your piercing service in our Scican Statim 2000s G4 units, which are considered the industry gold standard for piercing sterilisation.

This is done not only to allow you to pick from our extensive range of jewellery in-store for initial piercing, but also to ensure no contamination occurs with pre-bagged jewellery and equipment.

WE DO NOT USE OR CONDONE THE USE OF PIERCING GUNS.

By design, modern piercing guns don’t technically pierce the skin. Instead, they use the jewellery itself to penetrate the skin by force, wedging it between irritated, now-inflamed skin.

Piercing guns can NOT be autoclaved.

Although adopting single-use piercing models and sterile cassettes for guns has reduced the risk of cross-contamination during a procedure, the fundamental flaws of the jewellery design remain unchanged.

Boxed examination gloves, although not ‘dirty’, should be considered contaminated by design as they are left open and exposed to airborne pathogens, environmental contaminants and potentially even bugs.

It is very common for places that offer piercing services to reuse items like marking pens or use non-sterile items like gloves, fields and cleaning solutions to reduce their costs.

We take your safety very seriously. Basically, anything that touches you during a skin penetration procedure at our studio will be opened out of a sterile bag in front of you to ensure no contamination occurs, including:

• Sterile nitrile gloves
• Sterile fields to place equipment on
• Sterile single-use skin cleaning solutions
• Sterile single-use marking pens
• Handling of jewellery

We ensure all our staff are trained to wear gloves when handling new jewellery prior to sale to reduce the risk of contamination.

We also request that, if you bring in jewellery (even if it’s new), you ensure it is inside a sealed bag and do not handle it in the store. You may also be asked to use our supplied hand sanitiser in store if we suspect accidental contamination.

Latex gloves are made from dipped rubber, which sheds natural rubber latex particles that remain suspended in the air and may be inhaled or eventually settle onto surfaces or people nearby.

Many clients may not know they have a sensitivity to latex, as they may assume the extra swelling or redness is part of their normal inflammatory response to a fresh piercing.

We ONLY use nitrile gloves at our studio. While nitrile does not offer a completely allergy-free alternative, you can rest assured that allergies to nitrile are far less common.