Hey im 13 and im thinking about getting a scaffold piercing. My cousin got hers done and she said it barely hurt. Is it better to do it with a needle or a gun?
You really need to wait until you are a little bit older before you get this done. I am 20 years old, have a high tolerance for pain, and this hurt like hell to me. It's healing time is anywheres from 2 months to a year, maybe more if you don't take care of it correctly. You can't do something like this with a gun, you have to go to a professional piercing parlor and they have to do it with a needle...and to be honest, I doubt anyone would do your's with you being so young.
No good piercer (in the United States) would do an industrial/scaffold piercing on someone younger then 16 with parental consent. Any piercing (even lobes) is better done with a needle. The needle hurts less, is sterile (where a gun can't be sterilized), and the piercer has lots of experience and will use the right length of jewelry for YOUR anatomy. Mine didn't hurt much..the second hole was definately worse then the first though. It may be sore for months afterwords, they take a year to heal. The one I've had for 3 years still gets sore although it's fully healed.
