# it's time to get new holes in my skin

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785 "2002-03-17T22:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785/21 "2002-10-10T05:10:52Z")

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Oh, one last thing for **Eleusis** : it’s good that they use a brand new needle every time; they should. But an autoclave is a necessity for even a brand new never-been-used needle. A new needle may be clean, but you don’t want clean, you want sterile.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785/22 "2002-10-16T00:08:57Z")

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OK, I heard about a place to get this done. It’s called Ocean Mystique. Anyone in Virginia heard of this place?

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**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785/23 "2002-10-16T01:20:01Z")

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> \*Originally posted by pravnik \*  
> \*\*Oh, one last thing for **Eleusis** : it’s good that they use a brand new needle every time; they should. But an autoclave is a necessity for even a brand new never-been-used needle. A new needle may be clean, but you don’t want clean, you want sterile. \*\*

Well with this particular place (Tatu Tatoo in Chicago)- the needles come in sterile packaging, like a hypodermic needle or the finger-prickers used for drawing blood from your fingertip.

The jewelry, on the other hand, is cleaned with iodine and alcohol before insertion. I don’t know what is standard practice for the jewelry, but this seemed adequate.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-time-to-get-new-holes-in-my-skin/98785/24 "2002-10-26T00:33:41Z")

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I just got it pierced! It looks AWESOME! And it only hurt a little bit, although the thing is bleeding…grrrrr. But I like it.

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