- At-home piercing kits and piercing guns bought online are causing increasingly severe ear injuries and scarring — professional piercers say some ears are “completely shattered.”
- Teens can buy these kits with no age checks and are being influenced by TikTok, leading to infections and poorly healed piercings.
- Piercing professionals, wound‑care experts and the Welsh government urge using licensed piercers and want bans or age limits on DIY kits as hospitals see related complications.
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