ART OF THE HEART TATTOO & PIERCINGS - RIVERTON UT — Local services in Riverton

Dirty shop, do not recommend. Took my teen to get ears pierced - basic lobes, nothing complicated. Jewelry selection was minimal and cheap quality. Earrings were all the cheap push-back type that are not appropriate for fresh piercings. The jewelry is not sterile, they are kept in bulk baggies in a little tool box drawer. Proper jewelry would have been individually packaged in sterile packaging. Non-sterile jewelry should never be used in a fresh piercing. The piercer seemed confused when I asked about different gauges, lengths, or styles of jewelry. I looked around and could not find a single sharps container. Later watched them throw the needle in a regular trash can. (Edit to add - I am a medical professional so am very comfortable with what to look for when it comes to proper sharps disposal and sterile technique - which were not followed). Piercing placement was off - hole was not centered on the lobe, and is too far inward (too close to the head). The needle was sterile when they started, but they then proceeded to use the same needle on both lobes. (and yes, I am 100% positive they used ONE needle on two lobes).

Absolutely would never go back. The only reason I let my child go through with the piercing is they were 18 and wouldn't have listened anyways. The second we got home, I thoroughly cleaned the fresh piercing and made an appointment with Iris piercing downtown to change out the jewelry.

*Edit to add - my visit was within the last year, but it has been more than several months - so pretty confident no cameras were checked as there would be no way for you to know what appointment, date, etc - out of a full year of footage? Also - when I mention jewelry, we didn't care about decorative - but hoops should have a captive bead to keep the hoop in the hole. Our only option was a thin hoop with no bead that allowed the hoop to slide out of the fresh piercing. Thank you for the salty response. I love small businesses and try to support local family business as much as possible - a big reason why we came to your business in the first place. My review is honest and simply intended to help others make...

Go somewhere else! Now for my review - I came to get my second lobe piercings here a year ago and waited until now to post a review. The place was nice. The piercer (I don't remember her name, but a short more petite woman with sort of emo blonde brown hair) was nice. But I have had nothing but problems with my piercings. First of all, she erased the dots I had put in place of where I wanted the piercing to be and so when she did the actual piercing they were too close to my first piercing, but I guess I could work with that. Then, they took forever to heal. Just constantly irritated and having problems. After about 9 months of this, yes 9 months for a second lobe piercing, I finally just figured I'd take them out and let them heal. But they didn't heal and so I still have these piercings. I put in some earrings today and I think I realized what was causing the problems all along. The piercer did not look at the angle that my first piercings were in and so just randomly pierced the second lobe piercing without taking the first angle into consideration. The backs of my earrings touch. I think that because of that, the second lobe was never able to heal because it was constantly being pushed by a piercing I was wearing in the first one. I have a lump of scar tissue that formed around the second piercing that is definitely because this is the one that was pushed so much. This was not my first piercing to ever get done. I know from other piercing studios that they examined the angle of the piercings and are really thorough about making sure that everything is alignment, and this place just did not deliver that kind of quality. I'll try to post pictures because the angles are just ridiculous. I also know that I'm not the only one who's had this issue, because my sister got a double Helix and second lobe pierced on the same day, and she has had the same problem with the angles and irritation on her piercings that she got here as well. Also not her first rodeo with piercings. I do not recommend coming here unless maybe you're just getting one lobe piercing and that's it, but honestly there are better quality places you should go to...

This parlor was perfect for our almost 7 year old! I really appreciated that they required our child’s birth certificate and my license to make sure she was our child first. They do piercings by hand instead of with a gun. Which we didn’t understand at first how important this detail was, but it is quite important. It turns out the gun actually tears your ear instead of doing a clean pierce. Plus, going to a place like Clair’s comes with its own set of problems, inexperienced teens that don’t study and do piercings for a living, and uneven piercings. The two girls that did the piercings were both very sweet while working with my daughter and told us when we could come in to have both of them pierce at once so that my daughter didn’t have to go through 2 separate pokes. They allowed us to watch/record the whole process and had a cute little seat for our other kids to sit in and watch from a distance. They truly made it a fun and positive experience. I even came in a few days earlier to see the earrings and hear the whole process. She was sooo patient and you could tell she truly wanted me to ask everything and anything I wondered about. They were excellent with explaining aftercare! They also didn’t try and upsell us on anything. It was a flat $50 for the piercings and the cute little studs that don’t have a sharp back on them so that my daughter can wear these as normal earrings anytime after healing. Lastly, it is ridiculously cute in there! Chandeliers, diamond studded oversized seats, cute colors, etc. It was fun to get a picture of my daughter before the procedure with these cute things. If you are considering getting your child’s ears pierced, take them here! You will...