piercing gun

Quick ear puncture tool

A piercing gun is a handheld device that forces a pointed stud through soft tissue—typically earlobes—to create holes for jewelry.

The gun uses spring-loaded pressure to push the earring through in one quick motion.

Piercing guns are common in mall kiosks and jewelry stores but criticized by professional piercers as less hygienic and more traumatic to tissue than hollow needles.

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device · cartilage · aftercare · barbells · infection prevention · cultural significance · jewelry · stretchers · healing process · saline solution · personal expression · lobe · plugs · body modification · gauges · retainer · philtrum · nose rings

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piercing method/technique

piercing gunpiercing needle

Tool for body holes

hollow needle · scalpel

body modification approach

piercing gununpierced

Having no holes

body acceptance · surgical removal

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG