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Professional piercer here!
One of my favourite fun facts to tell people about getting pierced with guns, is that the reason they tell you to twist and spin your jewelry, is because the jewelry is so low quality that it’s actually porous, and if you don’t spin it, your skin may HEAL TO IT!!
I always like to tell people that Claire’s piercings is just a teenager doing their best.
Please get pierced by professionals!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Horrific!
I was wondering how many of the 'infections' were people have reactions to the guaranteed shoddy metal (probably way too much nickel in those alloys), but sounds like that's a 2-for-1 special!
@@bore-alissI think that was definitely what happened to me. I could never wear anything but surgical steel without getting an infection, even years after I was pierced. Eventually gave up on earrings because of it, and let things grow shut, but I have three big scars in each ear that I wish I didn't.
This!!!
As someone who’s had many surface piercings (in a professional setting) and I had also gotten a job at lovisa who has the same training and products, I got fired for refusing to do it. We practiced on paper ears…
@@toniprekker3656same!
As a tattoo artist I would strongly recommend to get even children to a GOOD tattoo place that does piercings. The hygiene standards are high and taken very seriously.
Plus the kids feel like rockstars afterwards 😎
As a mom who is pieced alot and tattooed I never pressure my teen to get pierced. But I tell her if she wants to we will go to a piercing shop and get a pro to do it. Its alot of up keep in the beginning stages but it wont be worth it if its done wrong.
@@deadfujoshi796weird comment, as what parent would encourage a child to get piercings or tattoos?? That’s for them to decide if or not they want to. Isn’t tattoos and piercings about self expression about who a person feels they are. You felt the need to express yourself artistically, your child is not a mini me, so may express themselves differently. It sounds like you’d be more proud if they followed you in your passion, let them find their own. I’ve four very different children because I allowed them to find out who they were
@@TJ-bn2cn lol you are so silly and totally contradict your own argument. If she was a mini me she would have pieced ears already don't you think? I tell her when we are shopping and she says she really likes a pair of earrings. It's cute you are trying to come up with conspiracy theories on someone else's parenting style while being ignorant. But I guess it makes you feel better. Do you feel better now?
I agree. My third ear holes were done at a tattoo shop. I learned about why piercing guns aren't safe.
I was treated so well at a studio when I got my ears pierced, it felt so cool to get pierced there at 16 :)
The fact they still haven't been restricted from piercing with guns to this day gets on my nerves.
"But you get free earrings every month for a year"
😒 xx
@@Proppa-Gander I didn't know there was a promo with it, that's even worse.
@@psyolytesaille They need a gimmick to bypass common sense 😏 xx
It's because it's a big portion of their revenue and them switching to actual piercing needles would be too much of a risk and liability. So getting rid of the guns would get rid of them piercing ears which again they're not gonna do cuz its a massive portion of the money they make. Which is why they can afford to throw the jewellery in for free.
What’s sad is it’s not only the piercing guns that’s the problem. Their aftercare is pretty much the complete opposite of how you want to clean piercings. Also, cartilage piercings should NEVER use butterfly back earrings. They’re setting their customers up for failure with these piercings 😞
I worked at Icing for around 4 months in 2016. The "extensive training" is around 6 hours of videos, and the "piercing competencies" are a more senior employee making sure you place the dots correctly and making sure you can get the back out of the gun when it inevitably gets stuck causing even more trauma to the site. I walked out when they told me I was required to pierce infants if the parents wanted me to.
Ive always thought piercing a baby girls ears was cruel and stupid. Parents say "oh cause its pretty" isnt your baby pretty enough without jewelry? Plus your making a modification to their body without their consent AND creating a situation that could lead to infections or keloids where it never would have been if Youd just left them alone. Dont babies have enough to worry about? And dont get me started on circumcisions.
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@@jameshopkins503 I 100 percent agree. It always makes me upset to hear about people getting an infant's ears pierced. Just wait until the kid is old enough to consent and go to a tattoo shop. Claire's is the only place in my town that pierces infant ears and it makes me sick that they are able to do that. Of course tattoo parlours won't do it until they can consent.
I still cannot believe that piercing your baby’s earlobes is legal. They cannot consent and you are causing permanent trauma to the site (even if it heals, the intention is to cause a permanent hole that is visible on the head…).
It’s completely cosmetic so there is NO reason a parent should be allowed to get this done to their child. They should be allowed to choose if they want piercings when they’re old enough to consent to it.
I got my ears pierced at Claire's for my 9th birthday. I cried buckets for sure, but I also kept screaming, "I can do this!" I was a huge "sparkley elf princess" kid and any glass crystals or anything with a rainbow opalescent sheen was my jam. That said when my own kid wanted their ears pierced for their 7th birthday, I found a state-licensed piercer in a local tattoo parlour. My mother was horrified. "You're taking her to a filthy disease-filled tattoo parlour??" (Oh, Mummy, if only you knew). The piercer was this huge leather biker with a shaved head and beard. He was so sweet and talked to my kid's emotional support fox plushie like a person. It was a great experience. We recently went back for that same kid's 17th birthday to get their septum pierced. That said I'll always have a 90s kid soft spot for Claire's.
I wish more people were comfortable taking kids to these places. The people are usually very big on safety and hygiene and would probably love to work with the kids. 🦊💕
Honestly, If only they knew! Alternative people are usually some of the sweetest, and free of judgement as we are so commonly misunderstood! At my tattoo shop kids are always enamoured by our “unicorn hair” as they say 🦄🌈
You’re an amazing parent!!
Thank you for being some of the few to take the ill-practices and safety concerns of Claire’s and other places that use piercing guns seriously, it’s truly not worth the risk!
That's honestly so sweet! A quality shop will beat Claire's hygiene and experience.
My mom said the same thing when I told her I was taking my daughter to a proper piercer. I took a tissue and quietly drained the near-constant crud I have in my ear from how poorly my Claire's piercing was done and tried to hand it to her. She didn't say anything else .
(My ear is messed up so that it essentially gets dead skin, dirt and sebum trapped in it like a zit. Don't get piercings done at Claire's!)
I took my grandmother to the shop I did my scarification apprenticeship at and the tattoo artist flirted her socks off while she was having her lobes re-done to distract her lol, it was very sweet. She thought it would be scary but absolutely melted for his charms, ended up sending him a card with some baklava to thank him for keeping her calm. That image of a huge dude with spike implants in his forehead holding my nana's hand still sticks in my brain clear as day.
As a piercer, I hear all sorts of horror stories from customers about their Claire's piercings. Plus having to fix their piercings after the fact and removing embedded earrings. I also get many customers who are not happy that I use one time use needles instead of a gun because of places like Claire's. Plus they still tell you to twist your earrings and use alcohol for cleaning 🤨 All around a bad idea to trust them with such an invasive procedure. Thank you for making this video
Isn’t that a normal thing for parents to do. It’s your child’s body after all and parents don’t have any right to do what they want with their child’s body.
Good lord, I can’t believe they suggest alcohol to clean a piercing… how hard is it to recommend saline?!
@@emilygoogle6520I know! I fully remember being told to use alcohol and twist my jewellery when I got my gun piercings. Going to an actual piercer when I got my nose pierced was a totally night & day experience. The entire process was better, and I actually got the proper aftercare.
It's no wonder one of my gun piercings in my earlobe got perpetually infected and I ended up having to remove it and let it heal over. I still can't believe though that I got my helix done by an employee at my local drugstore using a piercing gun 🥲
Genuine question - because my niece just got her ears pierced and was advised to do this - are we not supposed to twist the stud round??
@@JP-iz9cz No, there's many reasons. It's basically introducing bacteria to an open wound, irritating it with friction, ripping open scabs and scraping/cutting the inside of the wound with any crust that is stuck to the bar.
This is why I took my daughter's to a tattoo/ piercing shop for their ears. No infection, no issues, and cost about the same as Claire's. Piercing guns are an absolute no.
My 6 year old daughter has been considering getting her ears pierced, and if she ends up wanting a piercing, I'm bringing her to my professional piercer. They make you take off your street shoes and when you're getting the piercing, they wear masks, gloves, etc, and unless you buy their pure gold jewelry, it's all implant-grade titanium and they autoclave and anodize their stuff on site. Plus, they really respect and listen to you, take pains to ensure the piercings will be beautiful to look at and symmetrical, and ask for consent with every step of the way. It's a long way away from sitting on a nasty stool and having the girl who was trained for 15 minutes before her shift shoot at your ear with a glorified staple gun.
@@forest_greenI didn’t get any piercings until I was 18 and now have a whole bunch- ALL from a piercing studio. It’s the most hygienic way and a lot less painful.
Well it was the opposite for us... Worst experience at a tattoo/piercing place. My daughter's ear was bleeding a lot and it got super infected after. On top of that, the piercing was crooked. I ended up going at Claire's couple of years after and everything was perfect and easy.
@@AnnieIsaLau you definitely have to find the right place! My first non-earlobe piercing was in my septum and it wasn't the greatest experience. I later found out that the piercer was a creep. I made the mistake of going to the highest rated place on Google maps. After that, I did hours of research and asking around for the most trustworthy piercers, that were welcoming to women and queer folks, because I thought they'd tolerate creeps less. The care they take with their customers is miles above my first experience.
I'm glad your daughter had a good experience for her second piercing.
when my daughter was looking into getting piercing, all my friends who are nurses basically begged me to go to a real tattoo shop. Apparently not only is it unsanitary, the gun causes a much bigger injury than a piercing needle. It tears the skin up.
Sooo, I worked on the Claire's corporate product development design team ages ago. I had to concept countless ways to design with pink/purple/blue glitter/sparkles/feathers, etc. I did learn a lot there but your description of "pens with feathers on them" brought me right back to my first week of employment there.😂
My “ extensive “ training was 10 mins with a impatient manager that was ready to clock out
Ive heard the exact same, i guess whoever passes "you' gets 60$ or something along those lines, just absolutely yuck..
I can back that up, though my "training" was in the late 90s. Most of the piercing "practice" I had before being forced to piece customers was on a teddy bear and the manager overseeing my 15 minutes of training. I was appalled that the managers were forced to get pierced over and over (they just removed the earring afterward) in the name of "training" us, and that the associates could not refuse to pierce as part of their job.
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SAME!!! And I was only very freshly 18 years old. Just a regular associate working for minimum wage still in high school. Not old enough to legally buy a beer but apparently old enough to be stabbing jewelry through the ears of babies! It was weird. I only worked there a few months but was piercing ears on week two! I may have even been 17 actually.
Wait... @@saramatty14 I was pierced in the 90s and remember the person working on a bear before butchering my ears the first time! I got such a bad infection all of the times I tried to get my ears pierced and I still have issues. As an adult I do not blame the person at all but my parent and the system they also were trapped in but I thought that was some weird kid fantasy for coping with being forced into this!
Story time!! I FARTED on my sister's lap and in front of a mall audience when I had my ear lobes done at Claires, around age 10 😭 I wanted to look pretty and fit in with my peers but I was terrified and was anxious about it all day beforehand, and I guess my only way of emotional release was to pass gas 😭 definitely on my top 10 embarrassing moments list
Real 🤣
At like age 8-9, I had two claires staff pierce me at the same time and I SCREAM-cried *immediately* afterwards in front of some girls who were definitely younger than me and were staring at me, waiting for their turn. it’s been 11 years and I will never forget this one girl who gave me the classic stare that kids do like 😐 also I hate their thing where they pierce you in front of the window for all to see. I don’t have those piercings anymore luckily nor did I ever go back there but I see they’re now offering free ear piercings. 11 years too late. I remember mine were not cheap.
I am firm believer that the child should be a willing participant to ear piercing. My parent waited for all three of their children to request ear piercings before having it done and if we had freaked out when it came time to have it done, you can be sure they wouldn’t have forced it.
One of my mum's biggest regrets was getting my ears done at a pharmacy at 5. They were botched (completely uneven and terrible looking). I'm now 25 and currently healing replacement piercings (they ignored the placement of both the old ones because it was so bad).
In Latino countries is a thing to get the ears pierced asap, almost when you are less than a week old. It's also very common for the godmother/father to gift the first set of gold earrings. I still don't know why it's necessary though
This is what I did with my daughter. They are her ears, not mine, so it was her decision to get it done when she wanted it done. My mom also did the same with me. I was five when I got it done because I wanted it done, not my mom. My only complaint with my mom, was hair. She would never let me do what I wanted to do to it, she decided for me. My daughter gets to decide what she wants done to her hair, and when the stylist asks me, I tell them to ask her what she wants because it’s not my hair. I hate seeing babies with pierced ears. Drives me insane.
I am 25 & always said No to pericings growing. I genuinely love how I had a choice ❤ I just got my helix done last week
My mum waited until I was a lot older before she asked if I wanted my ears pierced. I was 15 when I finally got them done and I handled the situation better than if I had've been 5 years younger. I'm always thankful for that.
I worked at Claire’s and pierced ears and while my store’s piercing station was clean and sanitized and the earrings came in sterile packaging, I can tell you there was no “extensive” training. We practiced on a cardboard ear a few times… & the piercing was “free” but you had to pay $40+ for the earrings we pierced the ears with. I hated doing them but they pushed the piercings to boost sales 😩
Surgical nurse here - plastic can absolutely be sterilized. Over half the supplies we use in surgery are sterilized plastics. Autoclaves aren't the only way to sterilize things.
Also that's not what sepsis watch is, that's just what we tell everyone to look out for as signs of worsening infection. Trust me, if you're on sepsis protocol they don't let you leave the hospital and go home haha
Was just about to say this!
I think a lot of modern piercing “guns” are autoclave safe, though Claire’s absolutely does not have autoclaves on site. They usually use wipes to clean them between customers, and then the guns dont go into a sterile environment, they go into a drawer.
@@trala8911 The cartridge that actually pierces the ear is single use, that's the plastic part I'm talking about. They're wiping down what is essentially a metal holder for it, which doesn't need to be sterile because it isn't piercing the ear.
I'm really not trying to advocate for getting piercings at Claire's or not, I'm just trying to point out the misunderstandings that were mentioned about sterility.
My father had sepsis..he did eventually go home . He did die of sepsis and my stepmother died from it right after from sepsis.
@@carolestrasburg9847Sorry for your loss.
It would be sad to lose Claire’s from the high street. Tweens and preteens (especially girls) hardly have any spaces that are just for them. I have such fond memories of going when I was younger and like you mentioned, in a small town with only a few shops, it was so fun to have a place to go with your friends and spend your pocket money on silly stuff!
Yes I'd hate to see it disappear. Kids need to be kids and bright tat with feathers on is what kids should be spending their pocket money on! If you can be a unicorn when you're seven when can you be? x
I understand the appeal of "play" makeup for young people, but there are much better, affordable options that can still be age-appropriate. NYX, ELF, Wet n Wild are great examples
Miss A has good quality makeup (and brushes, sponges, etc.) and it's mostly $1-2, a lot of it is themed with pre-teen/teens in mind. They have accessories too, some really adorable cheap stuff. Then if your teen gets a bit more serious about makeup you can always upgrade to Colourpop or something. But these days even beginner "play" makeup can be decent quality and SAFE.
A lot of play makeup is actually too pigmented and stains your skin, too. I have a vendetta against it, against my wishes my daughter had a play makeup set when she was 6 and a pan of bright blue shadow fell out and ended up ground into my cream carpet. That's the day I mourned my $600 security deposit.
"age appropriate" "wet n wild"
Yeah! I bought my friend's teenage daughter some of all of those. The only "adult" branded thing I got her was Mabeline clear mascara because she's blond and it always looked weird to me to see friends in school with blond hair and black eyelashes. She was 13 and perfectly happy with it.
when I was that age we went to Bath and Body Works and they were much better quality cheap makeup.
My kid has only elf and essence makeup
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it's fun getting to know you through your videos 😂
Hiii ok so I haven't watched the full video yet but I worked in a Claire's for a short stint during a Christmas period!
A) A lot of items being sold, including hair items, have probably been worn by staff as they enforce a rule that you were a minimum of 100 euro worth of shit!
B) Because it was the Christmas period, a lot of families would take their young, and I mean like 6-8-year-old daughters in to get their ears pierced. Well during this very busy spell, one of the guns stopped working halfway through the piercing. As in... The jewelry would be HALF WAY "PIERCED" THROUGH THE EAR LOBES AND GET JAMMED AND STUCK!!! While the kids were crying and in pain! And no, it wasn't a one-and-done thing. They kept taking on customers KNOWING the gun was having issues.
I said to the manager about maybe stopping it for the day because well, I have empathy for little girls being traumatised??? And she told me it was a stupid idea because the ear piercings were their biggest money maker... Like tf???
Edit: Also I'm in favour of renaming it from "Piercing" to "puncturing" because that is essentially what it is
I call it "hole punching" since that's what it reminds me of haha
@@anonymouse9833 haha yeah that’s 100% accurate
Yessss omg I worked therr too and I remember the guns getting jammed and we also kept continuing to peirce
Oh yuck that happened to somebody I knew growing up! My babysitter lady took her daughter to get pierced and it ended up with the gun stuck in her ear, so for several tense minutes the mother was having nightmare fantasies of explaining to people why her kid was permanently wearing the piercing gun instead of an earring.
@@antoniavro aw nooo I was hoping it was only the place that I worked at that would continue with such dangerous practice :( it seriously needs to be banned!
"bright crap with festhers on" never has a more accurate read been uttered 😂
I'm old enough to remember when Claire's sold stickers...rolls and rolls of stickers... and lots of glittery lip gloss. We could get cheap earrings, a massive volume of stickers, and glitter gloss for under $5.00 and leave the store feeling like we'd hit the jackpot.
I remember when the solution bottles were white with no label 😂 probably the same time
Omg I forgot about the stickers!!!! They were soooo good
I've gotten maybe 15 ear piercings; these after care instructions are STRESSING me
Also shout out to my mum for listening to child-me and not forcing me to get my ears pierced when I didn't want it. I used to do dance competitions and my dance teacher ragged on me wearing clipons, but I was scared to get my ears pierced. I eventually decided around age 12 I wanted them and so she took me, but until then, she listened to my "no" and I'm so glad she did
When I got my helix done the piercer said that 6-8weeks is how long it takes for it to heal ENOUGH. But fully healing to the point where I could change out the piercing stud might be up to a year. One side kept getting irritated and infected on-and-off until nearly 1.5 years after I got them done and now they never give me a problem, but this was with me diligently cleaning them with warm salt water everyday.
That's interesting, I got my nose pierced with a stud as well and it quite literally would not heal until it had a ring in it. I cleaned it obsessively and everything but until I put a ring through it it wouldn't heal. And I had heard from my mother that it used to be standard practice for starter jewelry in most things to actually be rings.
I remember that Claires and the Icing were THE place to get jewelry for school dances. They would have the crystal tiaras and necklaces that looked so ✨️fancy✨️ as a preteen. 😂
I’m so glad you’re talking about this!! It drives me crazy when I see babies with their ears pierced!! Why would you ever make your child get their ears pierced?! That is crazy!! I told my daughter when my granddaughter is ready to get her ears pierced to take her to a good tattoo artist/piercer. Back in the old days, we all went to the mall to get our ears pierced, but now we should know better!!
I get your point but I'm honestly glad my mum took me when I was 4 cuz it happened so quick I had no idea and to this day I don't remember having them done. And they heal up if you don't want them when you're older. Babies get needles and jabs quite often really don't they anyway xx
@@JadeBlakeVideosNot everyone’s bodies heals the same. I was forced to get piercings as a young child and I immediately took them out, and almost 20 years later my earlobes still haven’t fully healed. It’s pretty much a constant reminder lmao
@@bashfulwolfo6499 and it bothers you a lot? They're so small I don't even notice.
I had my ears pierced as a baby. I personally think that everyone should wait until they are old enough to choose, but I would just say keep in mind that it can be cultural as well.
@JadeBlakeVideos I have a similar story to the person you asked, thought I wasn't really young, I was 8. And yes, they do still bother me sometimes. I don't even have complete holes through my ears anymore, but every couple of months or so, the "hole" on one will get irritated, itchy, sore and turn into a hard lump that will eventually drain. My ears were done with a piercing gun and have mostly just cause problems even when I wore earrings.
I got my ears pierced at Claire's when i was six. The first ear hurt so bad i almost ran out of the store to avoid getting the other one done 😅
Dude I literally did. I actually had already had them pierced before and let them close. It didn't really hurt! I wanted to redo it when I was 9 and... I ended up with only my left ear pierced. 😆 I ran away screaming. My mom had to hunt me down, I was hiding in the mall because I thought she'd make me pierce the other one hahaha
I was fully ready to run away from home, live in the mean streets of the mall...
I think it was worse because of the scar tissue 😅
Yep, it hurt so freaking bad. It hurt more than any of my other professional piercings/stretching, and some of my tattoos.
I just took my 5 year old to get her ears pierced at a professional shop, and it was so worth paying the extra money. She didn't even flinch when her first ear was done. I was worried she'd want to run away too, but she did amazing. I almost took her to Claire's because of how much cheaper it is, but I couldn't bring myself to do that to my daughter since I know better. I got my first ear piercing done at Claire's too when I was 7.
OK, this will sound terrible 😬, but when my twin boys were around 11 they got it into their heads that they wanted an ear peirced, I flat out refused. After around 12 weeks of non stop..and I mean morning noon and night, begging and discussions about it..I relented.. Off we go to (not clares) but a department store.
First twin has an ear done and has a meltdown, other twin gets spooked, I plonked him in that chair and he had it peirced.
They took it out a week later, moral of the story, don't nag your mum, she will call your bluff.
LITERALLY SAME!! I sobbed and begged my mom to let me walk around with just one
When I think of asbestos, I think of this sweet little boy we helped care for when I was in nursing school. He had a glass eye and cognitive delays, amongst other health issues, which were derived in utero due to his mother's exposure to asbestos. Apparently, whatever job she was working, at least partially through her pregnancy with him, exposed them both. I believe they said it was early on during her first trimester and she had no idea. He was the coolest, sweetest little dude. It's funny how certain patients really stick in your memory ❤
It's funny how the rabidly "pro life" people in the US are the exact people who vote against funding to support care for medically needy babies like your patient, and also vote to deregulate workplace safety, defund Osha, and give corporations human rights while limiting their liability for doing things like maiming babies.
The fact that after-care video said you should twist and push and move around the healing piercings 💀💀💀
I know! I was like, "This video is outdated! Don't touch that damn thing!!" 😱
I watched that and was like “no no no nononono NO!”
That’s my generation in the 80’s, that’s how we did it….horrible!!!! My nose was pierced that way too early ‘90’s, very lucky nothing terrible had happened to me.
That’s what I was told to do in the ‘90s. My ears got very infected
Bc if you didnt it would get all crusted and then it would be crusted to your skin and the earring which wasnt good haha got my ear pierced many times at claires 😬
I watch Roly and I love him talking about all these subjects. I can't believe Robert talking about this too! Great! ❤
Omg I worked there like 22 years ago 😂 I HATED doing piercings. I had a lady almost fight Me because I wouldn't pierce her daughters nose! We only had lipgloss back then. But it was so annoying when moms dropped off their kids there like we were babysitters.
I was confused by the mention of makeup, I feel like I would have remembered, glad to hear my memory isn't failing me.
Her nose?! Like a child.... I understand different cultures exist but I feel like having Claire's pierce your child's face is irresponsible at least.... Glad you didn't do it.
@@Vesperrv I think she was 14, so yes too young but either way I wasn't about to do that lol
I used to work there too, it was awful. Parents would drop off their kids and go shopping at other stores around the mall. That's actually how I got fired. I had a mom threaten me for correcting her child, who might have been 5 and should have never been left unsupervised. She was trying to run behind the counter, open the cabinets, and generally being disruptive throughout the store. I was very kind to the child, but not so much to the mom, who acted so inconvenienced by me reminding her that Claire's was not a daycare service.
We used to have to explain we didn't do nose and bellies all the time in the 2000s. My store mainly carried lipgloss and polish. I'm also discovering that my region had a very different policy on who gets trained and the training
I had my ears pierced at Claire's twice. One of those times was a re-piercing because the holes closed up. The piercing gun didn't work on one lobe (too thick I guess? maybe scar tissue?) and had to be redone again. The other hole the gun got stuck. Literally she let go and the gun was hanging off my ear like a gigantic earring. She had to squeeze it three times before it finally released. It was super painful and "healing" took forever. That ear was never the same. So easily prone to bleeding whenever I wanted to put in earrings (I don't wear them that often because of the hassle). And eventually I had to get my ears re-pierced again! This time at a professional tattoo and piercing shop. We had a fun time discussing which hole to reopen since the original re-piercing wasn't lined up properly in the back and now I still have to figure out which direction to push the earring into to get it to come out the other end.
I never would have known in my youth there would have been lifelong piercing annoyances because of Claire's. Parents trusted them since they were "known" for piercings.
Claire's WAS cheap, as a teen it was really affordable, been there a month ago after 10 years (needed stuff for a special occasion) and the cheap plastic earrings already cost almost 10€... so it's really gotten expensive for what it is
Yeah I used to go there and get loads of stuff accessories like hats and scarves because it was so cheap. The deals they were great lol. The prices are insane now. Thought I'd find cheap fun stuff for my daughter omg! 30 bucks for a little plastic keychain purse. Wtf? It's wild how expensive the crap is now
that's what I thought. I still go there just cause I enjoy pink girly stuff lol but rarely get anything because it's so expensive. Hard to find anything for less that £5, even a few hair clips
A year ago I went there thinking I'd get some things for cheap as it's for kids. It was so bloody expensive for what there was.
OMG yes!! I went in to browse and I was stunned. Like ridiculously expensive
Yeah, you could fill a hand basket with stuff to buy with your birthday money and still walk out with some cash leftover if you were smart about it in 2005
Hahaha. “Extensive to whooooom?”😂 Love you Robert!
Robert, that eyeshadow is banging! You look fantastic.
Claire's has been doing piercing gun piercings since I was young and I'm 51. They are terrible. My first ear piercings were actually done by my pediatrician and with a needle. Then I wanted them double pierced and went to Claire's. Cleanliness, safety, etc aside.....I think the sound of that damn gun was worse than the pain.
I got my 3rd ear pierced at Claires in 89, they used a piercing needle. Maybe it's the after care that's the issue? I cleaned the piercing as told with the solution I bought and turned them as recommended and no problems. Same with my double piercings in 86 by Piercing Pagoda. They used a gun, same care not problems. I used to clean the earring itself religiously and such. Maybe I am just particular with instructions for care.
Claire’s was my first job, so this video was a must-watch for me! 😂 Can confirm that the ear piercing training was not in any sense extensive. I completed my full training within 2 weeks, and I was just trained by my store manager. My mom was a nurse, though, so I stuck pretty firmly to the sanitization procedures - rubbing down everything with a fresh alcohol wipe, changing gloves anytime you left the station and between piercings, etc. Oddly enough, I remember the piercing gun was stainless steel, not plastic. 😧 This was in the early 2000s, though, so maybe they changed it at some point. I rarely had trouble during or after piercings, and in fact all the ear piercings I got myself from Claire’s (2 in the lobe, one cartilage) have gone smoothly and to this day are still good and uninfected. But the most terrifying part of it all was that the plastic cartridges the earring studs came in (that connect to the top of the gun) were occasionally defective, and could jam mid-piercing. I recall one time the earring only made it half way through the lobe before the cartridge jammed, and the gun and cartridge were just stuck to this kid’s ear. 😰 My manager had to help remove it. Needles are without a doubt the safer option. I often thought since I left that job, like, how is it legal for them to offer this service without licensed personnel, even with the release form? And I assumed that by now they must have had to get rid of it, until I saw this video! All the other stuff you mentioned is all the same shit from when I worked there over 20 years ago, except the products are probably of even cheaper quality and even more over-priced. Back during my time there, they were doing a thing with NeoPets. 😂 They never change or evolve, they only seem to get worse lol. I think the store I worked at is still there in the same spot I left it. 😂
The thing is that those instruments need to be autoclaved; a wipe with any cleaning solution is not sufficient and doesn't get into all the nooks and crannies of the gun 😧
My sister pierced my ears at home with a sewing needle jammed into my lobes. I think we ran the needle over a fire to sanitize and we froze my lobes with ice cubes. We really had no options in the 1960’s like they do now. My daughter did the Claire’s piercing gun thing in elementary and it went well. Decades ago tho lol.
My friend and I in the 90s, pierced our own ears twice with earrings!...we used a lighter to heat up the ends.. We were crazy! Lol but they didn't get infected!
I got my ears pierced at Claire's years ago and they got infected. Would not heal! I just took them out.
@@jxn1056 glad to know it wasn’t just us old farts who pierced their own ears! My late mom had hers pierced at work in the 1930’s with no numbing or anything! All the ladies decided they would pierce each others ears while on break & grabbed a needle and went to work. They used sewing thread as the “earring” back then & just slid it back and forth to keep the hole opened until they got real earrings 😂
I did a new one myself under covid and all the shops and piercing studios were closed. It went well.
@@charisma-hornum-fries awesome! I don’t think I’d be brave enough to do one on myself! I admire you ❤️
Classic 👌🏻 My aunt pierced my mom’s ears with an ice cube and a sewing needle in the kitchen back in the 60s. It healed fine apparently
I am DYING at how much Robert took offense to Claire’s calling themselves “fashionable”. 🤣💀
Thanks for talking about this. Talc in makeup is a problem due to asbestos contamination. My uncle died from asbestosis and his daughters are still campaigning against its use, which is more widespread than you'd think. I knew about the ear piercing so my daughter had hers done at the local tattoo parlour instead. She was fine, her friends who went to Claire's got infected. I told the Mums but they were more scared of the tattoo shop than Claire's 🙄
Talc is used in the vast majority of makeup, even “luxury” brands…
@@xamyx725 yes, however its not the Talc itself that's the problem. Talc and Asbestos deposits are both usually found quite close together so there's a decent chance of Talc being *contaminated* by Asbestos. But that's why Talc used by reputable companies typically gets tested to ensure that the product is not contaminated with asbestos. All depends on the source and the testing.
In 2022 the FDA tested over 50 samples of talc-containing makeup for asbestos contamination, specifically targeting brands they believed to be more vulnerable to such contamination. Thankfully, they didn't find anything. Which is to say, its rare and probably not something to worry about on the daily, but contamination absolutely does happen.
Talc powder is linked to ovarian cancer too! Johnson and Johnson, who made the original baby powder, got sued for this.
They shouldn’t be more afraid of tattoo shops they are actually regulated for safety and cleanliness
my favorite earrings as a kid were those silicone spikey earrings!! looking thru the earrings at claire’s was so fun as a kid. i shoplifted quite a few of them…
I got my carteledge pierced at Claire's way back in the late 90s or early 2000s. I think I only had it in for a few months because it was so uncomfortable, but I STILL have pain from that piercing if it gets touched. Got my second and third lobe piercings there and while I had no issues, I would never recommend someone get theirs done there. The fact that they can still pierce boggles my mind. I was actually at the mall a month or so ago picking up an order and saw one of those jewelry kiosks getting ready to pierce an infant's ears. My mouth literally dropped, like wtf are you doing?!
I had my third ear piercing there, I think it was a needle. My double piercing at Piercing Pagoda with a gun and my 1st ear piercing as a baby by Pediatrician from what I was told. Never had a problem, I kept on top of cleaning my piercings like a hawk.
Piercing guns are a big nono for any part of the body but especially a cartilage piercing you’re lucky you didn’t develop a keloid
@@trinitybreann2535 Oof, yeah, I absolutely developed a keloid from my Claire’s cartilage piercing 20+ years ago. Fun times.
Sounds like cartilage was broken, that was my worst fear. I went to a piercer who has become my forever piercer because everything is so clean and professional. They got the placing correct even though my ears are slightly different shapes. I will not get pierced by anyone else.
Omg! The brown smoked out under your eyes is so dreamy!! 😍🤩😍🤩
"I would watch to see if someone would cry." 😂😂😂😂😂 same here!
I got my second ear piercings at Claire's about ten years ago. I can't wear any earrings in them now since every time I do, within an hour my ears get red and hurt a bit. My little sister had something similar happen with the ear infection (no sepsis thankfully and it cleared up) in the video. It was sometime after the initial piercing but it was with the jewelry. It was a gnarly sight to see and try to clean up. After that, my household became strictly no Claire's jewelry.
Have you tried implant-grade titanium in your seconds? Implant-grade titanium is the only thing I can wear in my thirds at the moment because they get really angry otherwise.
Had my ears pierced here about ten years ago, SO WONKY 😂🫣
I can't wear hoops in mine because one is pierced at an inward angle so the hoop turns outwards on the right ear and looks ridiculous 😢
@@LunarElevenomg mine are the same! Hate how hoops look in my ears 😢. I went to a proper piercer years later and straight away he was like, Clairs 😂 Xx
Same!!! I got my ears pierced at Claire's when I was 5. (my idea and my bday gift from my favorite aunt) I have never been able to wear hoops ☹️ They're both pierced at an angle and hoops don't hang right. It sucks!!
I feel like most people didn't know better back then.
You've awakened a long forgotten memory! Claire's (or possibly Icing) had 'Happy Bunny' products like it was a cute bunny with sarcastic comments. Anyway, bright green purse with Happy Bunny was my first purse! Walked around really swinging it.
I remember a girl I went to college with worked at Claire's and she told us she had about an hour's training before being let loose with a piercing gun. As I got older and I learned more about piercings, I became amazed that both my lobe piercings I had done at Claire's turned out alright. But also, knowing what a piercing gun does to your skin/cartilidge, it explains why one ear can get a little irrirated sometimes; because it's a point of trauma
This is your most beautiful eye makeup I've ever seen on you! The colours, the blend - just perfection! 🥰
Man, Claire's always had the BEST hairbows and scrunchies when I was growing up and a teen. Sometimes I still go there if I need an interesting hair accessory. But they need to stop piercing ears immediately, lol.
I loved thier scrunchies and hair stuff
Ooh fun gemology fact /s
The reason why asbestos causes lung cancer is cause it's a fibrous crystal meaning it's raw form are extremely slender prisms that form muscle-like fibers (which is why they made such good insulation) so when they broke apart and where inhaled, those extremely slender prisms where like a thousand microscopic needles shredding your lungs lol
Other crystals with a fibrous habit include selenite, tiger's eye, serpentine, etc. So tumbled/processed versions of these crystals are fine but please don't be anywhere near the raw version of these or expose them to water
I’ve been a silent watcher (I don’t comment usually lol) of your channel for a few years now and I just wanna say you’ve been on itttttt lately props to you Robert, rlly do appreciate the consistency🫶🫶
i recently found your channels (this one and the reaction one) and i binge watch your content all the time. you're the best!
I love his reaction channel! Have you seen the am I the asshole videos? They are so cool!!
i have 2 piercings on each earlobe. they were all done at claire’s with piercing guns 😬 i was lucky enough to not have issues but…. also what was the ear care solution that we had to use???
It was probably just a saline solution. Or a very diluted alcohol/antiseptic liquid. 🤷🏻♀️
@@grannym2880I had to look this up as I was curious. It has potassium sorbate and benzalkonium chloride.. not the best. It’s touted to be “saline free” which is baffling to me because sterile saline solution is pretty much the only cleaning solution universally recommended by piercers!
Where I’m from Claire’s is like younger and Icing is supposed to look more mature, like “wedding” jewelry or bridesmaids. Pieces that are supposed to look fancier for older people.
Hygiene is so important especially in a piercing environment. I have a few piercings and thankfully never went to Claire’s. Also I have to say Robert your eye makeup is always so flawless and beautiful ❤
Making minimum wage employees with no training forcefully pierce the ears of traumatized children is just, so crazy.
What? 😂 Not that I agree with Claire’s policies but no one is “forcefully” piercing ears and the children are possibly upset not “traumatised.”
Love the eyeshadow!! I recognize the eyeliner from your Instagram post. You and James are my daughter's age (she was born in April 89). I remember taking her to the mall when she was younger and we always stop in at Claires. I haven't been to the mall in forever so I hadn't even thought about them. I do remember your video about Jojo and Claires
I'm from Costa Rica, 35, and my mum pierced my ears when I was about 2 DAYS old with a sewing needle. She was the lady in the neighbourhood that would pierce the ears of all the baby girls. Eventually she stopped doing it for whatever reason. She hasn't done it since forever ago.
Okay, but like we need a tutorial on this eye look!!! Stunning look on a stunning person. :)
I loved Claire's 😄 I love all the colors. Whenever you need something cute to match a new dress or outfit, you know you will find something at Claire's. They had tiaras, bracelets, necklaces and chokers, and endless earrings. It is so much fun and you won't break the bank 💕 Oh yeah, plus they have several sensitive skin options that you can't get anywhere else
I went into a shopping centre a few years ago and there was a Claire’s. It was out in the open in the centre, like not in an enclosed shop. I ended up spending so long in there lol. Things were definitely overpriced, but there were actually a few accessories (mostly hair) that worked for me that were still cheaper than at a store geared towards adults.
The amazing thing though was just the experience of being in a Claire’s again! I cannot explain how powerful the sense of nostalgia was. There was only one staff member and she was so lovely, and there were next to no customers so we chatted for a while. I told her how I was feeling, how powerful and honestly magical the nostalgia of being back in Claire’s was lol, and she said she’s heard that a few times. I’m still a lover of cute things so the Disney branded things were cute to look at too (not buy because expensive).
The quality of makeup and jewellery is pretty bad, accessories are slightly better. Piercings are a no, and I feel really bad for the undertrained employees who have to do them. But overall I will always have a soft spot for Claire’s in my sentimental millennial heart 🥹✌🏻
I’m so glad you’re talking about this and that you mentioned just how unsafe Claire’s piercing practices are! Those little guns destroy your cartilage because it takes a blunt earring and just shoves it through rather than using a sharp and sanitized needle. I had my first earlobe piercings done at Claire’s and it got infected and annoyed quickly, I’m also allergic to the cheap nickel they use. Since then I’ve gotten professional piercings and a tattoo done in an actual specialized shop and it’s much more hygienic, safer, and honestly a lot more fun. Also since those piercers have to go the APP (Association of Professional Piercers), it’s a lot more regulated. Also if your kiddo is really little, I believe that you can have a pediatrician pierce your child’s ears.
Former Claire’s employee here, I worked there for almost three years, we do get trained to pierce ears and I do know that they retrain everyone every six months to refresh. Most of it is reading and watching videos. But a lot of the time the managers (the good ones) will consistently coach everyone so that everyone was on the same page. I got coached and I was also trained to pierce cartilage (helix) and noses (because I was an assistant) and I was also Bloodborne Pathogens certified. So there is a fair amount of training when it comes to the piercing aspect. I can only say that for the Claire’s I worked at because the store manager is great at her job, I can’t speak for all the Claire’s just the ones I worked at. But as a piercer we do give thorough information and instructions on how to maintain and clean the piercing but it really depends on the person who’s getting pierced. Some people really don’t take care of their piercings and in the paperwork it goes over the after care process. Sometimes people don’t listen to the instructions , some people could have thick ear lobes and they put the backing on too tight. In my almost three years of working there I had very few complaints about the piercings I performed and I had regulars come to get more piercings. My overall experience with the company was positive, but that’s just my personal experience.
I lovee this classic black and silver eyes, with the brown eyeliner on the bottom!!! Nude lip look . YOu look great!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
i got my ears pierced at claires, i would always recomend an actual piercing shop for piercings. side note- some of their jewellry is actually nice, i got some really cool butterfly hoops from there recently
eye look tutorial please, this is so beautiful 😭
When I was a teen about 20 years ago I worked at Claire's and did the piercing, we were trained on bit if cardboard shaped like an ear with a bit of foam on the back 👍🏻
i got three piercings done at claire’s and while i didn’t take care of them great because i was a pre teen i struggled so much with them but didn’t realize that wasn’t normal until i got my cartilage done years later at a proper studio and has almost no problems at all
This is exactly what happened to my oldest! I Will never forget the cries my daughter had getting the earring out of her ear. I had to take her to a tattoo piercing shop and thankfully whatever she did healed my daughter's ear
'I would watch. Waiting for someone to cry'
Robert 😂
My friend currently works for Claire's. She peirced my ears for my birthday, half off. Fourty bucks later, and two months later they haven't healed fully, and keep getting infected. I've had the original studs in for two months. Constantly cleaning my ears. Don't go to Claire's. Go to an actual tattoo and peircing salon. It's cheaper. Safer and cleaner!
There is a full Claire's in my local Walmart. Not like a section, but outside the checkout there is a whole store. It's weird, but I get nostalgia every time I walk by it.
I worked at Claire’s at 16YO. I’m 28 now. Let me tell you they basically give you a 5 min “training”, then you watch another “trained” employee do it once, and then you’re ready to pierce little kids ears. The amount of little kids that are now grownups that probably have crooked earring because of me is crazy to think about
I worked at Hot Topic in the early 2000s and we used to pierce ears and I can attest that this "extensive" training consists of a 5 minute explanation and a run through once on using the gun on a piece of cardstock.
Okay, I am about to date myself tremendously, but in my first year of college (1984) Madonna was just becoming popular in her Material Girl persona. Lots of lace, torn stockings, tons of bracelets and necklaces. I went into a Claire’s with my roommates and bought a set of twelve plastic bangle bracelets. Multi-colored with two in each color. Gads, I LOVED those things. I would wear them all the time, stacked up with 6 or 7 at once. They looked especially good with my white and neon green striped sweater. Ah, the ‘80s!
I had my ears pierced at Claire’s by a woman with one arm in 1988. Twice. Never had any reaction to those, but have had infections from very upscale piercers using needles. (I think anatomy wise, my ears only tolerate the lobes being pierced! ) I’m 50 now so this was such a throwback 😆 I didn’t even know Claire’s was still around and those piercing guns are way more painful than a needle 😖
Omg you described the "Claire's Shopping experience" perfectly!😂 It's kind of like a garage sale if the homeowner was a 14yr old girl❤( or just someone who likes ultra kitschy stuff)
When I was like 15 I used to love their emo arm warmers 🤣 especially the stripy lace up ones! And the avril lavigne style satin ties 😂
Oh my gosh, you're right. I did shoplift rings from Claire's. Oh my God you just reminded me and I completely forgot. But Claire was always an excitement. Also, please for after birthday parties as odd as that thought as now lol
I had mine done years ago with the gun but at a department store. No pain, no problems and a lecture on how to care for the piercing. I had gold studs and the only problem I had was purchasing a cheaper pair of earrings at another store. Turned the area on my skin, green. Learned my lesson.
I had my ears pierced by them long ago and my thoughts are the quality diminished after the early 90's. I don't remember any of my friends having any issues with them either.
Sad for the ones who did suffer, I hope they healed and didn't have serious problems
Totally off the subject but you’re really inspiring me to do more with my eyes. I have the same color, brown with auburn and I just wear brown eye shadow all the time.
Claire’s was always where I got my belly rings in high school. Theirs were always the cutest
Am loving these types of videos Robert. Well done❤
Claires teamed up with Walmart in the states too. A lot of Walmarts have Claires in them.
That bottle of ear cleaning solution brought back some memories
I got my ears pierced at Claire's twice. Once for both ears and once to redo one side because it closed (not their fault, my earring fell out during the night when the piercing was still fairly new) and after having heard all of the horror stories I am SO thankful nothing like that happened to me
I loved buying accessories from Claire's when I was a tween/ teen. Scene culture was in and they carried rainbow studded belts for a pretty cheap price lol. I never got any piercings from there, but similarly they were done in an open booth in the mall, so not any better 😂
«I would watch, waiting for someone to cry»
Love it 😂🖤
I just remember claires for the cellpone lip gloss, those neon spiky jelly earrings and those little heart magnetic friendship necklaces
A very similar thing happened to me when I got my ears gun-pierced in 1996, at Walmart (which had a jewellery section similar to Claires back then). 😅 I got them pierced for my 11th birthday and was so excited, but within a week they were hugely swollen, embedded, and absolutely pouring with pus. My mother didn’t want to have to remove the earring and then pay to get my ears pierced again, so I remember her standing in the bathroom trying to swab all the infection away with neosporin and pouring rubbing alcohol over them, while I sobbed uncontrollably from the pain.
We had no internet back then, so I doubt she realised that stuff like sepsis was possible. I’m pretty lucky that they eventually healed with no complications - although tbh, they’ve never been quite right. The holes almost felt diagonal and it was very hard to get earrings in, and if I left my earrings out for more than a day they would heal over. I finally just let them totally close a few years ago and have plans to go get them re-pierced properly.
18:40 "... A staple for any St Patrick's celebration..." 😂😂😂
I still have an eyeshadow palette from Claire’s about 23 years ago 😂 it has 4 trays of different shades. I used to just adore it. I can’t get myself to throw it out.
Chaotic fact in the Wizard of Oz the scene where the main characters fall asleep in a poppy field and it snows on them…THAT SNOW WAS 100% ASBESTOS! 🤯🤯
When I first moved to London from Australia, I wondered into Claire’s and thought it was a novelty store for tweens!
Your makeup is outrageously gorgeous here! Beautiful
I worked at Claire’s, and was a store manager, during the 80’s, 90,s and early 00’s. There is absolutely no training for ear piercings! We were trained on foam ears then straight to people. Yes, we were told that we did have to pierce babies and kids ears, even if they didn’t want it. It was horrible.
I got all my normal 3 piercings done at a pharmacy and I’m so lucky to have had this lady do 2 on both ears she was so gentle and was a natural, it was a gun so I was concerned but for me luckily I had a healthy and good recovery. For future earrings I’ll be getting the needle.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 some of your best work!!! I LOVED your passion in this one!
I love your eye makeup in this video!
I took my daughter to the doctor's office and did the same for my own ears. Different shapes of earlobes require different placement of the piercing to prevent tears. By "tears" I mean a rip through the ear, not weeping.
When I was in a professional Bellydance troupe, Claire’s was our go-to for matching, glittery, rhinestone jewelry to complete our stage costumes. Also the body glitter that would sparkle under stage lights. It was great for that purpose. Otherwise, I’d never have gone in such a teen shop. But for a kid, it must be a visual blast. 😁