A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

Needles Not Guns

Deejay Grantmyre and Brock Bassels at Perfect Image in Wasaga Beach doing a double ear piercing on one of their youngest customers.

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82 responses to “Needles Not Guns”

  1. janey Avatar

    awww poor chook. i make that face everytime i get a piercing, but i think i made that face x 10 when i got my first piercings – gunned ear lobes at age 7. it definitely hurt way more by guns.

    props to the parents, and i hope she got a lollipop afterwards for being so brave.

  2. janey Avatar

    awww poor chook. i make that face everytime i get a piercing, but i think i made that face x 10 when i got my first piercings – gunned ear lobes at age 7. it definitely hurt way more by guns.

    props to the parents, and i hope she got a lollipop afterwards for being so brave.

  3. Wicked Avatar

    I got mine done by a scary hair dresser in a dodgy hair salon when i was 6.. her fingernails were like an inch long and she didn’t wear gloves or wipe anything… worst infection EVER, had to have a doc cut the studs out..!

    then got them done again with a gun at a chemist when i was 10….i just didn’t know better, I wish my mom took me to a piercer 🙁

  4. Wicked Avatar

    I got mine done by a scary hair dresser in a dodgy hair salon when i was 6.. her fingernails were like an inch long and she didn’t wear gloves or wipe anything… worst infection EVER, had to have a doc cut the studs out..!

    then got them done again with a gun at a chemist when i was 10….i just didn’t know better, I wish my mom took me to a piercer 🙁

  5. Kpingvin Avatar
    Kpingvin

    Do you wank on these sort of pictures?

  6. Kpingvin Avatar
    Kpingvin

    Do you wank on these sort of pictures?

  7. Avalon Avatar
    Avalon

    yay parents for that. Im glad they did it the right way!

    I remember my parents being uptight and not letting me get my ears pierced for my 16th birthday. They said, I could do it, that they’d take me into walmart. I freaked out and begged them to let me go to a shop. I had done research about six months before, and found proof about how bad gun piercings are. I tried so hard, but they said gun or none at all. Sooo.. I did it, and the gun got caught on my ear(it hurt) and I still have problems with them). (too bad they know NOW, but they have a 3 year old, and if they let her get her ears pierced, she’ll get it by PIERCERS, not mall or wal mart employees.

    That’s my stand,

    but that picture’s so sad… hehe awww..

  8. Avalon Avatar
    Avalon

    yay parents for that. Im glad they did it the right way!

    I remember my parents being uptight and not letting me get my ears pierced for my 16th birthday. They said, I could do it, that they’d take me into walmart. I freaked out and begged them to let me go to a shop. I had done research about six months before, and found proof about how bad gun piercings are. I tried so hard, but they said gun or none at all. Sooo.. I did it, and the gun got caught on my ear(it hurt) and I still have problems with them). (too bad they know NOW, but they have a 3 year old, and if they let her get her ears pierced, she’ll get it by PIERCERS, not mall or wal mart employees.

    That’s my stand,

    but that picture’s so sad… hehe awww..

  9. detour707 Avatar
    detour707

    way to go B-rock, hah your customers are gettin younger and younger

  10. detour707 Avatar
    detour707

    way to go B-rock, hah your customers are gettin younger and younger

  11. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Please, explain to me what is the deferent’s between the two? When I was a little girl and had it done with a gun.
    The back of the earring had my ear and we had to have it
    cut off. And I am thinking about getting a another piercing.
    If it hurt that Angel. I will not have it done

  12. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Please, explain to me what is the deferent’s between the two? When I was a little girl and had it done with a gun.
    The back of the earring had my ear and we had to have it
    cut off. And I am thinking about getting a another piercing.
    If it hurt that Angel. I will not have it done

  13. Redsiren Avatar
    Redsiren

    Awww, poor thing. 😛 She’s in a good shop though, Perfect Image is the only shop I go to for everything I get done. Really high quality work.
    Props to her parents for sure for going to the right place and a good place.

  14. Redsiren Avatar
    Redsiren

    Awww, poor thing. 😛 She’s in a good shop though, Perfect Image is the only shop I go to for everything I get done. Really high quality work.
    Props to her parents for sure for going to the right place and a good place.

  15. WildFlower Avatar
    WildFlower

    well i am glad she is taken to the right place…… i had the gun used and my ear swelled and then a few years later realized they werent suppose to use a gun up in the cartilege… because at that time i took it out and had the other ear done up in the cartilege adn the same thign happened and i thought it was my ears until years later i was told i needed to have it done with a needle and not the gun.

  16. WildFlower Avatar
    WildFlower

    well i am glad she is taken to the right place…… i had the gun used and my ear swelled and then a few years later realized they werent suppose to use a gun up in the cartilege… because at that time i took it out and had the other ear done up in the cartilege adn the same thign happened and i thought it was my ears until years later i was told i needed to have it done with a needle and not the gun.

  17. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I had mine done with a gun also, that was maybe 8 years ago they have never settled down.
    Massive infection, and still a large lump in one ear lobe, wish I had gone and had it done properly with a needle. Guess I didnt know any better at the time. Even now I have only got to put an ear ring in at slightly the wrong angle, blood, infection swelling (:

  18. ÈMþRê§§ Avatar
    ÈMþRê§§

    I had mine done with a gun also, that was maybe 8 years ago they have never settled down.
    Massive infection, and still a large lump in one ear lobe, wish I had gone and had it done properly with a needle. Guess I didnt know any better at the time. Even now I have only got to put an ear ring in at slightly the wrong angle, blood, infection swelling (:

  19. john doe Avatar
    john doe

    do guns hurt more then needle

  20. john doe Avatar
    john doe

    do guns hurt more then needle

  21. rings Avatar
    rings

    needles hurt alot lees

  22. rings Avatar
    rings

    needles hurt alot lees

  23. Golden Phoenix Avatar
    Golden Phoenix

    I had my first set of lobes done at about six or seven at the back of a rather dodgy looking jewelers with a gun. I was lucky, they are even and i never got infected.
    My 2nds i had done about four years ago now, done in a “piercing studio” with a gun, by a guy wearing gloves etc. Problem was, he didn’t wipe my ears down at all, and the gloves he used on me were the ones he’d used on my cousin seconds earlier. Massive infection! I had pus running from the wounds and had to bathe them every couple of hours in a salt solution. It was very painful and once the infection cleared, to add insult to injury, it turned out they weren’t level, and it was extremely obvious. I took them out, let them heal over and never had it re-done.
    I’m now considering getting a slightly more unusual piercing, but i’m still deciding what, i’ll be damn sure to go to a reputable piercer next time.

  24. Golden Phoenix Avatar
    Golden Phoenix

    I had my first set of lobes done at about six or seven at the back of a rather dodgy looking jewelers with a gun. I was lucky, they are even and i never got infected.
    My 2nds i had done about four years ago now, done in a “piercing studio” with a gun, by a guy wearing gloves etc. Problem was, he didn’t wipe my ears down at all, and the gloves he used on me were the ones he’d used on my cousin seconds earlier. Massive infection! I had pus running from the wounds and had to bathe them every couple of hours in a salt solution. It was very painful and once the infection cleared, to add insult to injury, it turned out they weren’t level, and it was extremely obvious. I took them out, let them heal over and never had it re-done.
    I’m now considering getting a slightly more unusual piercing, but i’m still deciding what, i’ll be damn sure to go to a reputable piercer next time.

  25. kezerb Avatar
    kezerb

    Hi I just wanted to say that having my ears done (both sides bottom and left top) with a gun hurt less than my snake bites done with needles. Also my ear peircings and pretty much perfectly level tho my snake bites are wonky ones at least a centimeter higher than the other and the one is practically on my lip

  26. kezerb Avatar
    kezerb

    Hi I just wanted to say that having my ears done (both sides bottom and left top) with a gun hurt less than my snake bites done with needles. Also my ear peircings and pretty much perfectly level tho my snake bites are wonky ones at least a centimeter higher than the other and the one is practically on my lip

  27. emu Avatar
    emu

    i got mine done with needles, my mum had hers done by her mum when she was little with a nail and a potato. she said it was gross, and i refused the gun so she took me to a shop

  28. emu Avatar
    emu

    i got mine done with needles, my mum had hers done by her mum when she was little with a nail and a potato. she said it was gross, and i refused the gun so she took me to a shop

  29. TomZmb Avatar
    TomZmb

    I had my lobes pierced with a gun when I was 3…scared the shit out of me…DAMN PARENTS FOR NOT KNOWING BETTER!!

  30. TomZmb Avatar
    TomZmb

    I had my lobes pierced with a gun when I was 3…scared the shit out of me…DAMN PARENTS FOR NOT KNOWING BETTER!!

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