I’m sure that Nenita is perfectly able to consent to a piercing and I don’t really have a problem with it, but pictures of little kids in pain always upset me… This was done by Martin at Tattoos by Tito in Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
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77 responses to “These pictures upset me…”
my mum took me to get my ears pierced with a gun when i was 5 months old, she also let me get my helix pierced when i was 7, which was also done with a gun.
i think it cost about £3 then to get it done aswell haha
well i dont like the lil`girel face neither but u know what , i prefer to see her face in here , that seee her gettin pierced when she born (yeah they pierce kids here a month after ) and with a gun ! and im sure she ask to get the lobes pierced and family took her to a bodyshop instead of going to the gun place
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love that face…
Count me among those who are glad the parents took her to a real piercer rather than Claire’s. I got my first lobe holes when I was three years old, in a mall with guns. I am lucky that they have never been any problem at all. Future ones have been done with guns and needles when I was older, currently have three on each side.
It doesn’t look like PAIN to me, it looks like HEYYY OWWWW but not in a real serious way.
I’m also glad to see a parent giving their daughter the oppurtunity to have their ears pierced a safe way. I had my lobes gunned when I was 4. They didn’t ask me, I was just taken to the mall one day. It hurt. BAD. I pried the studs out three days later because I had an alleric reaction to the metal of the cheap crappy studs, but I didn’t know it at the time. All I knew was that it hurt. My boyfriend’s sister just had a baby, and I educated her on the dangers of piercing guns. She’s going to wait until her daughter is old enough to ask her to have it done, and find a proper piercer to do it. Maybe someday we’ll see the happy day when guns are banned for good.
Hey!!! good to see a mate from my home town beign featured!!! 🙂
that’s martin, tito’s tattooshop piercer, not esteban felix (tito) himself, anyway, good to see that at least some things have improoved since i left. i agree with piercing kids, of course, using professional piercing methods, not piercing gun or something related to it at all…professional techinque, professional jewelry. as far as age concerns, i wold only pierce kids that are fully aware of everything, and most important, they are wanting em…i always make sure they are da ones that truly want em, just asking, making em feel sure while choosing jewelry and making a friendly relation so they can tell ya what they feel and u can make em feel much more comfortable than they xpect it to be, this is way is the best. normally they are around between 5 or 7 years when they come wanting the ear lobes pierced.
congrats to martin and tito’s place for da feature!!!!
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I got my ears gunned twice…first at 5, second time at 10. It didn’t hurt in the slightest, I didn’t cry, I never had a “problem ear”, and years later I was able to stretch both sets of holes to a 0ga and 2ga, respectively, with little to no difficulty and no issues with scar tissue.
My nose piercing (obviously done with a needle, and in a very reputable shop), however, is starting to have issues with a keloid developing.
Guess I’m an outlier? =P
lucky kid… I had 3- yes, 3, I know it’s terrible- sets of ear piercings done with guns. It’s kind of ironic that that’s how I found BME about a year and a half ago, I’d gotten my 3rd holes done at Claire’s and they were REALLY infected and I was looking online to try and find out how I could make the infection go away, and I was pretty much led straight here (although, I wish I didn’t have to go through all of the pain and now pretty bad scar tissue to do it.)
kids really do cry about anything. and they just as quickly get over it. i find that very amusing. you can count me among one of the pleased that this isn’t a gun people.
Isn’t this illegal? I certainly wouldn’t pierce ANYONE under 16; if they’re under the age of consent for sex, then they’re under the age of consent for anything else, parental permission or none.
And Nikki #57, noses tend to develop hypertropic scarring (not keloids) since it’s a cartlidge piercing. The bump will go away.
That is so good that this kid is getting their ears pierced with a needle. Unfortionatly many parents don’t realize how bad gun-piercings are (including mine). Almost everyone I know who has had gun-pierced ears, has ended up with either very low, very uneaven, or a combo of both. I got lucky, very even piercings high up.
Maybe she was singing
I hate to see infants with their ears pierced, not only because of how disgusting guns are, but also because I think if a young kid is going to get their ears pierced it should be because they’re at least old enough to tell you that they want it for themselves. I took my sister to get her ears pierced for her 4th birthday because she wanted it done. I took her to Amazing Grace, Ken Karnage did it, he even has a couple pictures of her in his piercing profile on IAM if you want to see them. They were done immediatly after they were pierced, and the smile on her face is ear to freshly pierced ear! Granted she took a half hour break between ears, but Ken was really good with her, and she was a champ herself!
#9, piercings done by a gun don’t nescessarily have scartissue when streched. I’ve streched my gun-pierced (in my defence, I was young and I didn’t know better) lobes to 6mm and had no problems what so ever. But needles are better than guns.
#19 lol.
I really think, just as many people do, that parents should only get their children’s ears pierced, if the kids themselves ask for it.
I just don’t see the point of a toddler having earrings, since he most likely wouldn’t be aware of them. Feels more like the parents would want to get accessories for their little doll 🙁
I have a confession to make.
When I was 17 I was a “piercing specialist” (fucking joke) at my local Claire’s. Oh how I regret that. Even before I’d discovered how horrible guns are I refused to pierce any child who didn’t understand what was going to happen to them, and knew that it was going to hurt. I also refused to pierce on the shop floor – I saw colleagues attempting to pierce while surrounded by bustling Saturday shoppers – what a great idea!! I wholeheartedly regret ever taking that job, and left pretty quickly when my manager started taking umbridge at my morals – low as they were.
Apologies to the entire community for my naivity!
My mum took me to get my ears pierced with a gun when i was three.
I’m 15 now and I’ve never had any problems with them. They’re now stretched to 0g and i have 18 other piercings… my mum must have known i’d be into body mods when i grew up!
she looks to be doing better than a couple of kids i’ve seen…and im sure she got a lollipop afterwards 🙂
The poor thing! I remember that!
nothing is more horrifying than realizing how far we have gotten from our human rites of passage. Thank god some piercers, (myself included) are willing to decolonize our minds and reclaim our culture.
I was 4 wen i got my ears pierced… i had one done…then wudnt let the dude anywhere near me to do the other…
my mum dragged me back after a week or so…id bin walking round with one ear pierced lk the tru tom boy i was lol :P..
im sure my face was worse than this tho !!
at least the kid was old enough to say yes or no to getting pierced and her parents had the common sense to take her to a hopefully good shop to get it profesionaly done instead of trying to save a buck and go to claires. i work in the mall and it just sickens me when i see people getting their ears mangled at that place. when people come in my store and ask where it is so they can get it done. i give them a list of reasons not to and a business card to my studio of choice.
Devil’s advocate from a non-Western culture: Just wanna point out that in some cultures – Latin American, Indian (as in from INDIA) – it’s perfectly normal to pierce female babies’ ears and a gun might be faster and cause less emotional trauma than trying to get the kid to sit still for a needle. And really, they’re babies. They’ll forget about it quickly.
i got pierced as a baby by my dad but with a needle… my dad says my mom cried more than i did
I WORKED at Claires and was forced to pierce poor little babies ears. One lady brought in a two week old baby and demanded I pierce his ears. When I refused she wanted to speak to my manager..I told her she could come back and see my manager the next day. Instead she went down to the “piercing pagoda” where they also refused. What an IDIOT.
I will never be a fan of piercing guns again. I screwed up too many ears and I’m not an idiot…guns are the devil.
in my country (hungary), every girl gets her first earrings when she’s a baby..we even don’t remember.(btw when i got my ear pierced [yes, with a gun.], i was sleeping).
Here in Belgium, most girls get there first set of earrings at the age of 7. I want to bet for $1.000 that 99% of those get there ears pierced with a gun.
Now tell me, which is worse?
– Piercing a kid’s (not baby!!) ears with a needle and let it have 2-3 minutes of fear of the big tattooed guy and no further problems
OF
– gunning a kid’s ears in a jewellery shop and let it have some infections or other sh*t, which will last for days or even weeks
Choice is easy to make for me…
i had my babys ears pierced at 6 months and shes a year now and perfectly healed ears..,…..this is a awesome pic