Rockford tattoo artist & piercer breaks down safe ways to pierce ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) -

Euro 2 Tattoo, a Rockford tattoo and body piercing shop is under investigation by the Winnebago County Health Department, after a dozen customers develop serious bacterial infections. We looked into ways to get pierced and stay protected.

When it comes to tattoos and piercings, one Rockford business owner says you get what you pay for. He shares with us the before, during and after of a customer's experience.

"This is a semi-permanent fixture. This shouldn't cost the price of your value meal. You're going to spend more on your shoes, the electronic device that you carry in your pocket and you want to worry about those brands, you want to worry about how great those things are, but you also need to know and understand what you're putting in your body, it needs to be that good if not better." -says Delicious Ink Owner, tattooer and piercer Tim Atwell.

Atwell says the piercing process is all about communication. The conversation starts with where you want your jewelry.

"When you sit down, we're going to clean you, we're going to place a mark on you. We're not going to use a marker or a pen, we want to stay away from those things because it's continuing cross-contamination, so we'll use like a drop of gentian violet, a sterile toothpick, we'll dot the area, we'll mark it, as long as you're okay with it then we're going to talk about piercing it."

He says he'll only use specific kinds of metal.

"I prefer threadless jewelry, like neo-metal brand jewelry, so everything pushes together, that's all Grade 2 Titanium; from what holds the gem, to what travels through your tissue, to what's on the back of your tissue."

His tattoo artists tell you what they're doing while they're doing it and communication doesn't stop after you're pierced.

"We'll go through our whole break down of how we'll take care of it according to season. If it's summertime we've got to talk about swimming, lakes, rivers, we've got to talk about pools and water parks, we've got to talk about interacting with other things." -Atwell adds.

He says the best way to keep from getting an infection, after you're pierced properly, is clean the area with warm water and mild soap in the shower and avoid contact. Try not to touch the piercing or sleep on it.

Source: http://www.wrex.com/story/22937243/2013/07/25/rockford-tattoo-artist-piercer-breaks-down-safe-ways-to-pierce

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