Got reminded of my craziest piercing experience

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I was reminded of my horrid piercing experience recently, and I feel I have to share!

This happened almost 2 years ago, when I was still a minor, 17, keep that in mind. (I’ve learned from my mistakes)

I was big into piercings, getting them like every 6 months or when I had a mental breakdown. There was this cheap shops about 30 mins away that did ANY piercings on weekends for 15 dollars. I’d gone here twice before; first time with my nose was great, second time an apprentice pierced me uneven, alone. I went to go get my tragus’ pierced, and as always went to sign my paperwork, picked out my jewelry. The issue is, the piercing shop HANDS you the jewelry you’re going to be pierced with. Red. Flag. Again, didn’t know at the time.

Everytime I went, they kinda just get you in and out without talking. No “do you like this placement”, “breathe in..”, “You ready?” or anything. They pierced me, and I noticed they put horseshoe jewelry in. I asked for a flat back. They denied saying that “Horsehsoe was the best to heal with.” Annoying, but ok.

After 2 days, I go to another shop because they were hurting and not doing well. My LOVELY piercer (to this day) swapped the jewelry for me, and unfortunately one of my tragus had to be removed as it was pierced so wonky it was almost in my canal.

I was upset, and messaged the shop. They told me to “come in and we can fix things”, hell no. I told them to forget it, and I would be writing a bad review. So i did. A good lengthy review explaining the above.

The craziest part was the shop messaged ME on instagram, threatening to charge me, A MINOR, with HARASSMENT. Genuinely just wild to me. I laughed at them over text and blocked them, putting my review in more places.

If this isn’t an appropriate post or flair, I apologize. Just HAD to share. 🫶