piercing license
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Saturday January 19th, 2008 @ 12:14 AM
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I am working with someone else to open up a piercing studio in Philadelphia, PA. The piercing would take place in a beauty salon, but with a proper room and proper sterilization equipment for safe body piercing.
Do you know what kind of licensing we need to get in this area? And where can we go to get this licensing?
I don’t believe there are actually any regulations in PA (someone correct me if I am wrong). That being said, from a business perspective I WOULD HIGHLY DISCOURAGE putting any money into ANOTHER shop in Philly. Talk about an over saturated market, there’s one huge respected piercing shop, a few good ones and DOZENS of places offering half ass discount piercing. You probably can’t compete with the reputations of the good shops and unless your cutting serious corners you can’t compete with the prices of the total hack shops. It’s your time and money, but I had to throw in my two cents.
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11 Responses to “piercing license”
Not legal. PA state board of cosmetology prohibits any piercings from being performed in a salon. Sorry, I’m a hairstylist, and had looked into this earlier.
Sarah on January 19th, 2008 at 10:39 amI’m not trying to discourage you, but Philadelphia is really a big small town. Infinite is a great shop, and exclusively pierces, and Luis at No Ka Oi tattoo is amazing. You can’t beat either reputation.
Jooey on January 20th, 2008 at 11:29 amyour != you’re.
shiv on January 20th, 2008 at 4:10 pmdont you have something better to do then correct spelling or grammer?
Andrina on January 21st, 2008 at 3:27 amI’m pretty sure that Philadelphia (I don’t think the whole state) has a pretty decent set of regulations for piercing, including being able to use only internally-threaded jewelry in fresh piercings.
It seems that a simple Google search would turn up those regulations pretty easil
Derek Lowe on January 21st, 2008 at 12:13 pmWhereas Pennsylvania doesn’t have state laws last we heard - Philly has some of the more stringent body piercing laws in the country.
caitlin on January 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pmi’ll agree that luis is amazing but i’m sorry, even with the reputation that infinite has.. i haven’t met too many happy customers from there. they fucked up my piercings a few years ago and a lot of my friends since. great reputation that i personally feel they don’t live up to. but i will agree that you’re not going to be able to compete with either of their reputations. just a waste of time on your part.
AJ Apathy on January 21st, 2008 at 2:53 pmDon’t you have something better to do than complain about other people trying to be helpful?
…ad infinitum.
Xenobiologista on January 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pmgrammar.
shiv on January 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 amGrammar.
drew on January 24th, 2008 at 8:15 pmI am the original poster of the question. My partner and I are located in Northwest Philly, near Germantown and Mt. Airy, so it wouldn’t be in direct competition with the older establishments in Center City, like Infinite.
Katie on February 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pmI’ve heard great things about Infinite and don’t want to take business from them, but there are many potential customers just in this neighborhood who don’t always have the time to drive to South Street just for a stretching or jewelry change if that’s what they want.
That said, the fact that I am adjoined and partnered with a salon will bring in the kind of customers that wouldn’t necessarily have gotten a lobe, helix, or nose piercing done in a reputable place.
I’d like to point out to Sarah that the piercings would not be performed IN the salon, they would be a separate business in a separate room where no other salon services are performed. The two places are only sharing a waiting room, we even will have separate reception desks. Even the Association of Professional Piercers has no complaints with that kind of arrangement.
I’ve done some research into the competition, but I haven’t found any other reputable shops in the area that are charging $45 for almost all piercings, but using 316LVM surgical steel or titanium and not cutting corners with sterilization and cleanliness.
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