Pain and anesthesia

The intensity of pain perception is individual, meaning each person has a different pain threshold. It’s impossible to accurately predict how much a specific piercing will hurt; the same location on someone’s body may hurt more for one person and less for another. In most cases, people tolerate piercing without issues.

If you arrive exhausted and hungry, and you panic before the piercing, you are more likely to feel unwell. The use of sedatives, drugs, or alcohol “for courage” before the piercing will only lead to potential increased bleeding and reduce the release of endorphins (a type of enzyme produced during exercise, excitement, physical pain or orgasm, which helps reduce the sensation of pain and increase the feeling of pleasure).

It is advisable to eat something sweet before piercing to raise blood sugar levels. Try to relax so that your muscles do not unnecessarily tense up and listen to your piercer’s advice. Focus on slow and steady breathing.

Fortunately, the feeling of pain is forgettable; otherwise, we would have been out of a job long time ago.

No piercing hurts so much that you won’t come back for at least one more within a few months. After the first piercing/tattoo, people realize that it’s not as terrible as they expected.

Sometimes, a person may faint after getting a piercing. The reason for this is not physical pain because the human body can endure very high levels of pain (e.g., childbirth, bone fractures), but rather psychological factors. When we are afraid of something unknown and know that it will happen soon, our breathing accelerates and becomes shallow, causing the brain to receive insufficient oxygen within a few minutes, leading to dizziness or fainting. If you are going to get a piercing and have been panicking about it all day, have trouble eating because of fear, and keep repeating in your head that you will definitely faint, then you cannot expect any different outcome.

If you usually feel unwell when getting blood drawn, have low blood pressure, or are simply very afraid of piercing, please inform us before the piercing so that we can make the situation easier for you. We always have lollipops ready to raise your blood sugar level and special scented tissues to “raise you from the dead“.

ANESTHESIA

Only authorized medical personnel who are trained to recognize and appropriately respond to any signs of an allergic reaction to the anesthetic is allowed to administer it. Administering local anesthesia with a needle would be about as painful as the piercing itself.

Spray or gel anesthetics mainly work on the surface of the mucous membrane but do not completely numb you. On undamaged skin, they will have almost no effect because they cannot reach the bloodstream, so it is pointless to use them before piercing.

In the history of the piercing industry, no one has died from pain during piercing. We have the gentlest piercers who will guide you through the entire process, so everything is done before you even think, “Why am I doing this to myself?” Once you break the ice with your first piercing and realize it hurts less than the average dentist visit, there is a high chance that we will see each other at least a few more times because there is a lot of beautiful jewelry that can be placed in various wonderful positions on your body. ????