General

 

For safe tattooing or body piercing, take the time to find a professional artist.

Why? 

• You want a good experience and a quality of work that is an expression of you.
• You don't want to be put at risk of infections. When the skin is pierced (as in tattooing and piercing), viruses and germs can easily get into the body. HIV, Hepatitis and other infections are risks of tattooing and piercing that can be avoided.
• A professional artist will be just as concerned as you are about preventing infections and producing good artwork.

Professional artists will:

• Be willing to show you and talk about examples of their work.
• Be willing to answer all of your questions (you have the right to ask them).
• Be willing to explain how they clean and sterilize their equipment. Blood and other bodily fluids from a previous customer can remain on equipment and work surfaces. These should be carefully cleaned and equipment sterilized in an autoclave (a steam machine).
• Have a clean, sanitary and well lit working environment. All surfaces, such as counters and table tops, should be made of hard material that is easy to clean with disinfectants such as household bleach.
• Use new piercing or tattooing needles for each customer. Needles that have been used on other customers may be contaminated with HIV or Hepatitis viruses. Also, used needles can have barbs, hooks, rough bumps or germs that can tear your skin or cause infection.
• Wash their hands and use new latex gloves during the procedure.
• Not be under the influence of alcohol or drugs and they will make sure you aren't either.
• If the artist can't or won't answer all of your questions, don't be intimidated. Leave and find a different artist. It's your body, your money and your choice.

What You Should Know:

• The best place to pierce is a meaty skin area. Avoid the neck, joints, arteries and tendons.
• Facial piercing is tricky. Talk to your artist about your options.
• Inform the artist if you have a metal allergy.
• There is a special jewelry for the piercing. Find it and use it.
• Sterile, surgical, single use, disposable piercing needles must be used for body piercing (see section on Shopping Tips).
• Ear piercing guns should not be used for anything other than the ear lobes.
• The artist must first clean the area to be pierced with soap and water and then with a skin antiseptic such as alcohol.
• Don't leave without written aftercare instructions.

The professional artist you have chosen will:

• Use new, sterile needles every time.
• Use special tattooing ink (other inks, such as pen inks, are toxic and must not be used). Be aware that some people may be sensitive to certain color dyes.
• Use new disposable ink caps which are small containers of tattooing ink. You should ask them if they throw them away after each use.
• Clean the areas to be tattooed with soap and water and then a skin antiseptic.
• Use a new disposable razor if shaving is needed.
• Make sure you leave with written aftercare instructions.
• Infection can ruin your new artwork!
• Make sure a sterile, non-stick bandage covers your tattoo when you leave.
• Tattoos can take up to 6 weeks to heal.
• Follow the aftercare instructions.
• If you must touch your tattoo, wash your hands first.
• If the tattoo area becomes red, swollen, tender or if pus develops, you may have an infection. See your doctor immediately.

For more information about safe tattooing and body piercing call:

Health Line Peel
905 - 799 - 7700

Ask for sexual health information.

 

Piercing

 

 
Do’s

1. Always wash your hands before you or anyone else touches your piercing.
2. Always wear clean clothing.
3. Eat healthy and get plenty of rest. A well rested body heals better.

Don’ts

1. Do not over clean or neglect your piercing.
2. Swimming in chlorine water will dry out your piercing.
3. Swimming in lakes will infect your piercing.
4. Peroxide and Rubbing Alcohol will destroy the tissue forming in a healed piercing.
5. Do not use Polysporin. Polysproin is for infections, and we gave you a piercing not an infection.
6. Keep away creams, make-up, and perfumes from your new piercing.

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Questions? Please call: (905) 451–1063
Piercing By: Nik

 

Healing Time: 8-10 weeks Clean 2 times a day 
Products: Mild Soap (Dove or Ivory) Ozonol Ointment
(Please use Ozonol for 14 days only!)  Sea Salts or Epsom
Salts, Q-Tips, Shot Glass or Juice Glass.

1. Wet a Q-Tip and gently wipe away the crust on your piercing.
2. Lather your jewelry with the mild soap. Carefully move your  jewelry to get the soap inside your piercing.  Rinse your piercing with warm water and then pat it dry.
3. Mix 2 pinches (no more!) of the salt with warm water in the Shot / Juice Glass.   Bend over and hold the glass to your piercing and allow it to soak for 5 minutes, once a day at night for six weeks.
4. Apply a small amount of Ozonol to your piercing, and turn it through the piercing.  Make sure to wipe away the excess Ozonol.

 

Healing Time: 6-12 weeks Clean 2 times a day
Products: Bactine First Aid Spray, Q-Tips.
Repeat this for 6-8 weeks

1. With a wet Q-Tip gently soak off the crust on your piercing
2. With another Q-Tip apply the Bactine to it, and then wipe it around the hole of your piercing.
3. With a Q-Tip wipe the excess Bactine from your piercing.

Healing Time: 6-8 weeks.
Follow full aftercare procedures for both #2 and #4


Healing Time: 6-8 weeks
Products: Non-Alcoholic Mouthwash (Oral B oral rinse or Listermint)
Cold products (Popsicles, Freezies, Slushies, and Ice Cubes) Advil
*Clean continuously for the first two weeks and then 2-3 times a day
for the remaining 4-6 weeks*

1. Every time you eat, drink, or smoke, rinse for at least 30 seconds with your non-alcoholic mouthwash, for the first two weeks.
2. For the remaining 4-6 weeks rinse with mouthwash 2-3 times a day.
3. For the first 2 weeks avoid oral sex, open mouth kissing, alcohol for 48 hours, and beer for 2 weeks, dairy products and spicy food.
4. Please try to cut down on smoking.

Healing Time: 6-8 weeks Clean 2-3 times a day
Products: Sea Salts or Epsom Salts

1. Wet a Q-Tip and gently soak away your crust that form on your piercing.
2. Take a Mug / Cup of warm water, and add two teaspoons of salts.
3. Flush or soak the area fully for a few minuets. Then gently pat dry.
4. Avoid oral sex, penetration sex, and touching the piercing for 2-4 weeks.

Tattoo

Miscare of your tattoo during the healing process does not reflect the work of the artist and will not be fixed free of charge.  However, missed areas will be gladly touched up.  Please be advised there is a definite difference between an area that has been missed and a scab that has been picked.

• Remove the bandage in the shower
• Loosen the edges of the tape and fold the bandage off carefully
• Let the water take it off
• Wash your tattoo with a non-perfume soap and water
• Rinse soap off very well
• Pat it dry
• Apply small amount of Webber Vitamin E Ointment and rub in very well at least twice a day
• Only take showers, no baths, swimming, etc.
• Do not pick scabs
• Your tattoo should be healed in about 2 weeks