Whether you’re a beauty professional looking to upskill or a career body piercer in waiting, our piercing course is the perfect way to find your new direction.

Pursing piercing as a profession (excuse the alliteration) is an exciting undertaking. It’s a career path that involves knowledge, theory, and – practice makes perfect! So, if you’re keen to get started, start with a course that gives you the introductory knowledge and theory to be taken seriously in the industry.

Introduction to Body Piercing will provide you with important knowledge and theory to seek entry into this exciting profession. You’ll learn the skills you’ll need to seek out apprenticeship or mentorship opportunities.

In this online body piercing course, you’ll discover relevant skin penetration guidelines, learn about infection control, including use of PPE and respiratory hygiene, as well as sterilisation procedures, managing hazards, and wound and aftercare.

On completion of this course, you will feel confident to pursue a career as a body piercing professional with the theory and knowledge required to perform competently.

Learning Outcomes

Outcomes achieved by undertaking our piercing course include:

• Treatment plan
• Prepare client for service
• What is upper body piercing?
• Piercing sites (naval, ear, nose)
• Contra-indications
• Age, intoxication, skin conditions and allergies
• Keloid scars
• Wound healing
• Stages of wound healing
• Healing times
• Factors that impact on wound healing
• Jewellery
• Recording client information
• Body piercing tools
• Perform body piercing
• Prepare the client
• Performing the procedure
• Skin receptors and stimuli
• Materials and products
• Preparing yourself
• Recording client characteristics
• Where to pierce the ear
• Final client preparation steps
• Personal protection equipment (PPE)
• Respiratory hygiene and coughing/sneezing etiquette
• Preventing droplet and airborne infection
• Identify infection hazards (your areas and other people)
• Responsibility for infection prevention and control
• Protocols for care after exposure to body fluids
• Worker safety
• Required report documentation
• Management protocols
• Appropriate signage
• Spill management
• Document and assess the likelihood and severity of risk
• The chain of infection
• Policies and procedures
• Risk controls
• Measures that will minimise or control risks

And more!

 

Why Do People Get Piercings?

There are many reasons why people choose to get piercing. It’s a form of self-expression, a way to conform to a religion or culture or rebel against it! But, most commonly, people do it because they like the way it looks and the way it makes them feel.

#1 – They make a visual statement

Many people who get piercings do so simply because they like the way it looks. It’s primarily for aesthetic value.

#2 – The influence of popular culture

Famous artists, actors and musicians are often responsible for setting trends, and it’s no different with piercings. Celebrities have a significant impact on popular culture, and they shape the decisions of young people.

#3 – To commemorate an occasion or celebrate a milestone

Just as people get tattoos to commemorate a person, place or occasion, piercings also mark special moments in people’s lives. A piercing can commemorate a loved one who’s passed, an achievement they’re proud of, or can be a reminder of something symbolic.

#4 – Cultural or religious reasons

Many cultures around the world pay tribute to their ancestors or commemorate rites of passage with piercings. So, while it may be perceived that piercings came about as a result of popular culture, it’s been a cultural practice for many societies throughout the centuries.

 

Historical and contemporary piercing culture, examples:

• Piercings in India, such as nose piercings, are one way that Hindus pay tribute to Parvathi – the goddess of marriage.
• Native American’s Sun Dance ceremony, piercing was performed to inspire powerful visions.
• In Nepal, the Brahmin and Chhetri people have a nose piercing tradition that dates back to the 10^th
• Ancient Egyptians and soldiers pierced their nipples and navels as a sign of entering manhood.
• The Punk movement adopted nose piercing in the ’70s to symbolise a rebellion from conservative values.

 

What Are the Most Popular Body Piercings?

In western cultures, body piercing has seen a rise and fall in popularity. A dramatic spike was experienced following World War II with young people experimenting with non-traditional piercings; by the ’90s unconventional piercing became more mainstream.

However, nostril and ear piercings are still the most common piercings and are represented in today and throughout history. As a result, many piercing courses will focus on the nostril and the ear as the primary piercing areas.

Although nose and ear piercings are the most widespread worldwide, tongue and lip piercings are also popular. These types of piercings were also a favourite of American and African tribal cultures. In ancient Rome and India, nipple and genital piercings were also standard tribal practices.

 

A History of Piercings

The oldest mummified remains wearing earrings dates back 5,300 years. The remains of Otzi (the oldest mummy ever discovered) was found in 1991 by tourists on the border of Austria and Italy, and he was found to have pierced ears! It is believed Otzi lived around 3,300 BC!

While earrings were believed to be worn decoratively and as part of cultural practice, primitive tribes also wore them for superstitious reasons. People believed that demons could enter the body through the ears, and certain metals deterred them. So, it seems earrings were also protection against possession!

Historians believe nose piercings, an ancient form of body art, date back to 1500 BC! During the 16^th century, the tradition was brought to India from the Middle East by the Mughal emperors.

 

Would you like to become a piercing professional? Our piercing course, Introduction to Body Piercing, will allow you to gain entry to this exciting and popular industry.