00:00Piercers are trained to operate with infectious diseases without cross-contaminating.
00:07So these are practices that we've been doing for years.
00:13I'm Andrea and I'm getting an industrial piercing done today.
00:17I had an industrial done on this ear by my friend.
00:20It was like 20 bucks, so I was like, why not?
00:23May 2017, I went backpacking in Europe and my industrial got really infected,
00:31which I, being a dumb 20-year-old, chose to ignore and use like soap and water to rinse it
00:38and try and keep it sanitary, which didn't really work because eventually I had to go
00:43to the hospital in Portugal. It was like thick and red and hot and itchy.
00:50It started like leaking yellow fluid, which is terrifying.
00:55A couple years later, here I am getting it redone.
01:00I'm Brian Keith Thompson. I own Body Electric in Los Angeles.
01:04I've owned Body Electric now as of July 1st for 14 years,
01:07and I've been piercing as long as I've owned the studio.
01:11It's still the love of my life. I feel it's the only thing that I'm good at.
01:15So the pandemic has changed the way I do business.
01:19I had to figure out how to make the studio appointment only and taking much fewer clients.
01:27I understand you want to get your industrial pierced.
01:31Yes.
01:31An industrial piercing is a extra-long barbell that goes pretty much from the Ford helix
01:38to the helix. It's two piercings, of course, and they're done back to back.
01:43I think we should add two piercings to your lobe right here with it.
01:48Kind of.
01:48Yeah?
01:49Yeah, sort of.
01:50All right.
01:57Before I get pierced, try not to think about it. Just don't think about it.
02:02I think I'll be back.
02:03Yeah.
02:04All right, here we go.
02:07This piercing is called How to Make Grandmother Cry.
02:13I will position the industrial to work with the mask.
02:19I will place the needle on the other side of the helix. I will have my receiving tube
02:24on the inside of the ear, and I will be piercing down into the glass receiving tube.
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03:02As you know, industrials are two piercings.
03:07After that first piercing, I'm going to adjust, move my receiving tube to the bottom side
03:12of her helix, pierce again into it.
03:38I'm going to remove the needle with the taper, transfer the jewelry in to the ear.
04:02And remove the taper.
04:04So I wanted to bring a little color in there and White Gold's best friend is Rose Gold.
04:08They look great together.
04:09I put Rose Gold balls on the end, so I added a little color to it.
04:17I didn't want to just stop there.
04:19I thought she had great lobes to put a stacked vertical lobe piercing.
05:18So I used two Black Diamond bezel BVLA threadless ends.
05:24I just felt the bezels fit her style more because it's more industrial.
05:31And the Black Diamond, she just screamed Black Diamond to me.
05:35Like badass.
05:36Like badass.
05:36Hardcore.
05:39Ooh!
05:40That's so cool!
05:42Look at it!
05:45I want to like poke it, but obviously that's not a good idea, but it's so cool!
05:50Yay!
05:54First thought was, oh, that didn't hurt as bad as I remember it hurting, so that's good.
06:00I was actually pretty stoked when I looked in the mirror.
06:02I was like, hell yeah, that looks sick as hell.
06:05So stoked.
06:06I'm really glad that I let him do his thing on there.
06:08I couldn't have chosen anything better personally.
06:11His signature little vertical piercing thing looks so sick, and I wear black all the time,
06:17so the Black Diamond's look really cool too.
06:19Her ear was perfect, and she was a trooper.
06:22She handled herself quite well.
06:23She was easy to pierce, and a lot of fun to pierce as well.
06:26So we did the industrial with a titanium barbell because it needed to be a little bit longer
06:31for the healing process.
06:33I don't recommend getting pierced with silver.
06:35Silver is an oxidizing metal.
06:37It starts tarnishing, getting that kind of black tint to it.
06:41That can actually be absorbed into your body.
06:43If you like the color, go with titanium, or white gold, or if you're just a baller, go
06:49with platinum.
06:50An industrial is going to take you upwards of a year to heal from start to finish.
06:55It's almost impossible not to injure it or hit it or snag it.
06:59Less care is best care with an industrial.
07:01Wash it once, no more than twice a day with a very gentle cleanser.
07:06So I think definitely after this experience and comparing it to my first one, first step,
07:10just go to a good piercer and not your friend that's piercing at a tattoo shop.
07:15So what is it like piercing during a pandemic?
07:18I must say it's like piercing any other day of the week.
07:21Body Electric has always been operating this way.
07:23We clean the studio together as a team every day.
07:26The mask also can make the healing much more intensive, not being careful and pulling it off
07:34too quickly, snagging the piercing.
07:37Definitely glad that I did it again because, yeah, it's awesome.
07:41I love it.
07:42I'm stoked.
07:43Why not decorate your ears?
07:45Our face is covered now and the ears are the only things you're really seeing.
07:50You're seeing our forehead, your hair if you have some, and your ears.
07:54So get them pierced.
07:55I mean, why not?
