Health & Safety
Here at Vaughn Body Arts, our clients safety and the cleanliness of the piercing services we provide are top priority.
We always sterilize all jewelry, instruments, single use needles and any other items we use for your piercing right in front of you just prior to your piercing, utilizing sterilizers that are made for processing hollow items (such as jewelry, needles, etc.). Not all sterilizers can process hollow items.
We are also a fully-disposable studio, meaning everything we use during a persons service is discarded afterward. So every single item being used during your appointment is brand new and just for you!
We also have a test strip called a class 5 integrator that runs with every sterilization cycle. These integrators monitor for temperature, pressure and exposure time. They provide a white bar that climbs black into either a “fail” or “pass” section on the strip and we show that to you before we pierce you, so you know everything sterilized properly.
In addition, we also do biological spore testing on all of our sterilizers on a weekly basis. The spores strips are ran through our sterilizers, then they are sent to Mesa Labs where their laboratory tests the spore strips to ensure our sterilizers are working properly.
Whether you get pierced by us or not, we just want you to be pierced safely, so here is a checklist provided by the Association of Professional Piercers (www.safepiercing.org) to help you find a safe piercing studio and a qualified piercer:
● ask to see their autoclave (sterilizer)
● ask to see recent spore test results, they should say “pass”.
● does the piercer provide aftercare guidelines?
● is the studio well-kept and clean?
● does the studio have a license to operate?
● check portfolios: are the piercings healthy and well placed?
● do they use only internally threaded or threadless jewelry for initial piercing?
For more information, take a moment to read this “Picking A Piercer” brochure from The Association of Professional Piercers.