This also makes it more difficult for healing because the sharp back end of the jewelry is not covered by anything and therefor left open to create wounds behind your ears if the jewelry puts any pressure onto the back of your ear or neck.
The main reason for this article is to educate and inform you of the potential dangers of piercing guns and why it's best to seek an experienced piercing professional to pierce you or your children. A professional piercer will be able to determine what type of jewelry and length is appropriate for your anatomy and perform a sterile and comfortable piercing.
A professional studio should always take the time to explain in great detail how to care for your new piercing, offer free check ups and happy to answer any questions throughout the healing process.
Your cart is currently empty. Piercings in the cartilage area of the ear take longer to heal about 12 weeks than earlobe piercings. Actress Jennifer Affleck in shortly after having her ears re-pierced for the second time by a doctor using a piercing gun in a Santa Monica medical center.
My other sister, Susannah, has had her ears pierced since she was fourteen, and I'd had mine done a couple of times in the past, but let them grow over again both times. We both told her she'd nothing to worry about and it didn't hurt at all, so she said she'd trust us and get them done - but only if I went with her and got mine done too.
So she watched me get my ears pierced, and then she finally got hers done too. Celebrity Wiki Explore. Recent blog posts. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Ear piercing instrument. View source. History Talk 0. Ear piercing gun original spring-driven type using separate studs. History The first types of ear piercing gun were developed in the early s, at the time when earlobe piercing was once more becoming fashionable for women. Disposable cartridge model A piercing gun employing a disposable cartridge Most newer models of piercing guns use a disposable cartridge, sometimes called a cassette.
Hand clasp model Ear Piercing with Studex A demonstration video showing ear piercing with a hand pressure-powered gun using disposable capsules. Advantages of piercing guns vs needle piercing Piercing guns offer many advantages over the older piercing methods such as needle piercing. Criticism and anti-gun propaganda Piercing guns have been criticized as dangerous by some of the more vocal and extreme members of the professional body piercing community.
Use on areas other than the ear lobe Some believe that piercing guns are not designed to pierce through the cartilage of the upper ear, or to pierce any part of the body other than the ear lobe. Piercing guns in popular culture In a deleted scene in the movie My Girl 2 , the character of Vada, played by Anna Chlumsky, has her ears pierced for the first time using a piercing gun.
The scene had to be captured in a single take as Chlumsky, who did not have pierced ears, actually was being pierced for real.
In January , actress Jennifer Affleck and her older sister Melissa Wylie were photographed by paparazzi coming out of a Santa Monica medical center where both had just their ears gun-pierced by a doctor. For her 51st birthday, talk show host Oprah Winfrey had her ears pierced for the first time live on her show.
The piercing was done by a plastic surgeon using a piercing gun. In the movie Freaky Friday , actress Jamie Lee Curtis is seen getting a new ear piercing using a spring-powered piercing gun. As part of the channel's cancer charity special "Be Aware Show You Care" in October , QVC presenter Jilly Halliday had her ears pierced for the first time live on air by a beautician using a cartridge-loaded spring-powered piercing gun.
The clutch at the opposing saddle area receives and engages the earring stud or post. Release mechanisms on the capsule and clutch cartridge permit removal of the earlobe with the earring away from the instrument.
Type: Grant. Filed: November 22, Date of Patent: August 8, Inventors: Samuel J. Mann, Charles Kowalski. Enclosed clutch for a piercing earring and an integrated disposable cartridge containing the same.
Abstract: A clutch for a piercing earring having a piercing pin comprising a head portion having an internal end wall; a piercing pin positioning structure within the head portion for receiving and positioning a piercing pin having a piercing end point within the head portion; the piercing pin being stopped from further travel when the piercing end point contacts the internal end wall; and the head portion preventing the piercing pin from contacting a user when received within the head portion.
Filed: June 18, Date of Patent: June 13, Assignee: Inverness Corporation. Inventor: Samuel J. Ear piercing cartridges. Abstract: A disposable Ear Piercing device consists of an outer cartridge which is inserted into the piercing instrument. The outer cartridge contains a slideable inner capsule retaining an earring with a slideable spacer therein.
By applying force to the instrument handle, an internal driving rod advances the inner capsule and slideable spacer forward, forcing the earring post through the ear and into a closed bottom retaining clutch. At such time, the earring is released from the inner capsule by spring arms which are integral with the spacer, opening hinged doors or door on the inner capsule, clearing the outer cartridge and allowing the earring and clutch to be released from the capsule onto the ear.
The design of such inner capsule and spacer allows unsymmetrical decorative heads of varying thickness to be utilized. Filed: April 9, Date of Patent: April 11, Earring piercer assembly for stud guns.
Abstract: A product and method are provided for piercing an ear with an ornamental earring using a conventional stud gun. An earring retainer is provided with an interior cavity sized and shaped to conform generally to the outer dimensions of the ornamental portion of a post-type earring so that when the earring is enclosed within the retainer, the retainer will prevent pivoting of the earring relative to the retainer.
The retainer has an outer diameter dimensioned to fit snugly in the plunger of a conventional stud gun and prevent the retainer from pivoting or shifting significantly with respect to the plunger or retainer during use.
The retainer can also have a physical feature, such as a notch or ridge, so that it can be releasably mounted on a carrying block and placed in the plunger of the stud gun without the need for a user to touch any portion of the retainer or earring prior to use. Filed: June 19, Date of Patent: June 30, Rotatable ear piercing cartridge assembly.
Abstract: An ear piercing gun including a housing, a push rod and a stud cartridge receiving chamber for receiving a stud cartridge therein. The gun may also include a clutch positioner adapted to receive a clutch cartridge. The hands being used simultaneously, both ears are pierced at once. However, browsing other early patents you start to see hints of this line of thinking, and definite precursors of designs that are still in use. From left to right below are US patents , filed May 1, by Lois Heckman , , May 8, by John Caldwell , and , May 1, by Charles Westcott — what is it with piercing inspiration and the month of May by the way?
All three of these designs use some variation on the backing lightly clamping into place on the bar, the first two being aesthetically closest to modern salon-style jewelry. The third one caught my eye though, because although it is functionally similar to the first two, visually it is identical to the barbell jewelry popularized in the body piercing world by Jim Ward in the s…. When I have more time I will do additional patent research on this subject, both on the early history of body modification, and on some of the more recent patents, which have the advantage of being far more hilarious.
Anyone who has ever brushed plaque off of a tongue barbell can imagine just how disgusting this jewelry has the potential of becoming!!!
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