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Ashley Cornejo
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The lady at the front desk was cool and friendly, and I got pierced by Ben, which was a great experience. I got a triple helix. He was easy to talk to and encouraged me to ask any questions if I had any. He did the piercing quickly and sent me on my way with thorough instructions. The downside is that Ben and Aaron are very old fashioned, which is fine, it's worked for people before, but it definitely made the healing process a lot more difficult. For example, Ben used externally threaded curved barbells. Externally threaded jewelery results in irritation, which I'm sure effected my ear. It would bleed even though it had been months since I had been pierced, and I'm sure the metal had something to do with it too. Although I'm not sure what the metal the jewelery was, it was not titanium. As a side note, he offered to put hoops in for my piercing instead of studs. Hoops aren't ideal for healing, and maybe then I should've known to leave. I've since changed them to titanium flat backs and they are doing much better. They have not bled since and my irritation bump has gone away. For the aftercare, Ben told me to use antibacterial soap. Again, this is fine, it's been done before for a long time, but it is outdated. I've learned that it's too harsh, and that saline is the best choice. But that's an easy fix. Moving on, because I was having trouble with my piercing, this was before I switched jewelry, I went in to see Aaron. Firstly, he called my piercing bump a keloid, an automatic red flag. A keloid is a raised scar, what I had was just an irritation bump. Secondly, he told me to put some aspirin paste on it, which essentially just burns off the bump. I don't think Ben and Aaron are bad piercers. They seem to love what they do and are very thorough and nice. They just use old and outdated techniques. If that's okay with you, go ahead, but I've lost a lot of time trying to heal piercings with wrong jewelry and aftercare. I'm sure if you ask for titanium they'll give it to you, but that's not something you should have to ask for anyways. So, all in all, I would go somewhere else to avoid the hassle.