A TikToker's urging folks not to get the $5.Fifty five piercings Five Below is now offering consumers, going to extra reputable piercing institutions as a substitute.
TikToker Victoria Michaels, who posts on the popular social media platform under the handle @nulleigh, posted a now-viral clip highlighting something she found "disturbing" whilst walking via a Five Below retailer: advertisements for $5.55 ear piercings, in conjunction with an additional $3 for jewellery.
She writes in a caption for the now viral TikTok. "Save yourself the time and the uneven piercing/ go to a professional body piercer! I went through this type of piercing as a child and wish I could fix mine. LOVE Five Below SO much- but I don’t love this."
In a textual content overlay for the video she goes on to jot down, "Went to Five Below today and saw something really disturbing...there are now offering EAR PIERCING by unprofessional body piercers...they only cost $5.55 per piercing and an additional $3.00 for the jewelry. Don't do it!'"
Safe yourself the time and the uneven piercing/ go to a pro frame piercer! I went via this type of piercing as a child and need I may just fix mine. LOVE Five Below SO much- however I don’t love this. #fivebelow #fivebelowfinds #earpiercing #piercing #bodypiercing #scary #piercinggonewrong #fyp #foryou #dontdoit #no
♬ Oh No - Kreepa Source: TikTok | @nulleighAlthough a whopping 83% of Americans have pierced ears, and there are lots of other people who've pierced different parts of their body as neatly, the prevalence of this aesthetic choice does not negate the truth that it may possibly come with some vital health risks if they don't seem to be performed properly.
Very Well Health states that Keloid scarring, infections, abscesses, stressful tearing, perichondritis, in conjunction with a litany of other pores and skin stipulations and health headaches can rise up from piercings gone fallacious.
The idea of heading into a Five Below retailer to buy yourself a couple of Baby Yoda socks and a few bespoke Haribo gummies together with an affordable water gun for an IG photoshoot, and then getting your ears pierced on the manner out might seem like a peculiar thought.
It doesn't seem that the ear piercing offer is solely being held at one specific Five Below location either. According to the chain's legitimate web page, it appears that they're going all in at offering it.
On their web site, the franchise writes that the piercings are performed by way of "trained professionals" who make the method "safe & easy."
Five Below additionally adds that its piercing process is FDA compliant and it comes with a "lifetime guarantee, however, there really isn't any further delineation offered as to what that means on the website.
In the comments section there were some folks who said that they were Five Below employees who claimed that "no person" in the store is happy about the fact that they're now offering ear piercings.
Many others said that there's no way they would trust a $5.55 ear piercing from Five Below and urged many other TikTokers to go to a local ear piercing spot instead.
"I’m a supervisor at five below! No one isn’t satisfied about this. They are bringing it to the shops whether we like it or now not:/"
"I were given mine pierced at Claire’s as a child and they’re so uneven I will handiest consider what that'll be like"
"I work at five below and I completely hate this. I don’t feel relaxed doing it and we just had a 10-month-old come in last month"
How do you feel about getting your ears pierced at Five Below? Would you feel comfortable doing so? Or do you think it's "no other" than getting it achieved at a Claire's in the mall and then making yourself feel better with some Cold Stone afterwards/?
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