Definitely NOT recommended. Your tattoo could end up looking really bad if you soak it. Soaking a fresh tattoo can cause scabs, and scabs could cause color to pull out or scarring. Swimming with a fresh piercing is also not good. Piercings can easily get infected. Especially in lake, river, or ocean water, mmm… fish poo in your fresh piercing. There is no such thing as a completely waterproof bandage

Will my allergies affect my piercing?

The most common allergy that affects a piercing is a nickel metal allergy. Nickel is in steel, stainless steel, and surgical stainless steel (SSS). Though SSS has less nickel in it than the other forms of steel. Some people tell us that they react to cheap earrings from boutiques and department stores. These are made of what we call crap metal, because nobody knows exactly what the earrings are made of. We carry Titanium and Niobium jewelry for those that need or desire Hypoallergenic metals
If you do have other allergies you are concerned about call or stop into our shop, or your local studio. Ask questions you’ll be glad you did.

What kinds of jewelry do you carry?

We carry a large selection of 316-316LVM implant grade surgical stainless steel (SSS), niobium, titanium, and organic jewelry. We carry everything from barbells to plugs, nostril screws to captive bead rings. Most of our SSS jewelry is 316L or 316LVM implant grade surgical stainless steel. If you want color or have a nickel allergy, niobium, which is completely free of commercial impurities, and titanium are great for a fresh or healed piercing. We will also do custom jewelry orders. If we don’t have what you want we’ll do our damnedest to get it for you. If you are worried about crap jewelry, don’t be. If we do not know what the jewelry is made of, we won’t carry it.

Do you reuse any tattoo or piercing needles?

Absolutely not, never ever, ever, we never reuse ANY needles. We don’t even use the same needle on the same person twice. You come in, and get tattooed then that or those needles are trashed. Even if you come in for say, 2 earlobe piercings we will use 2 different needles.

How long will my piercing take to do?

For most piercings we set aside a half hour block of time. The actual piercing doesn’t take that long, however we do go through an entire care sheet before doing the piercing. The half hour time allotment gives us time to go through the aftercare and answer any questions you may have.