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Professional who turns 'are you sure?' into a hole in your face, on purpose.
means Someone trained to puncture skin or cartilage with a needle, usually to insert jewelry.
from A straightforward agent noun: 'pierce' plus '-er,' the suffix English slaps onto a verb to name the person who does it. 'Pierce' itself comes through Old French 'percier' (to pierce, bore through), tracing back to a Vulgar Latin root tied to 'pertusus,' the past participle of 'pertundere' — 'to beat or bore through,' from 'per-' (through) and 'tundere' (to beat or thump). So at its root, piercing was just violent emphatic poking, long before it became a profession with a sterilizing autoclave and a consent form.
- needle, not gun
- hollow needles cause less tissue damage than ear guns
- healing time
- cartilage can take up to a year to heal
- licensing varies
- some states require less training than hairdressing
- aftercare matters
- most infections come from touching, not the piercing itself