1. How did you learn to pierce?
If more than one pertains to you please select the venue in
which you received the bulk of your education.
a. an apprenticeship
b. workshop
c. self-taught
d. other
2a. Do you offer apprenticeships?
2b. If so, for how long do they usually last?
yes
no
a.1-6 months
b.6 mos.- 1 year
c.1-2 years
3.
If you received an apprenticeship, how long did it last?
a. 1-6 months
b. 6 mos.- 1 year
c. 1-2 years
d. longer than 2 yrs
4. On average, how many pairs of
gloves do you use, from set up to clean up, to perform a piercing?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5 or more
5. What product/s do you use to
sanitize skin prior to: 5a. body/facial piercings?
5b. For Oral piercings?
a. Technicare
b. Iodine based product
c. Iodine + Alcohol
d. Iodine + BZK
e. other
a. Listerine
b. Tech-2000
c. Biotene
d. Other Alcohol based rinse
e. Other Alcohol FREE rinse
6. What do you use to mark placement
for: Body / Facial piercings? Oral piercings?
a. single use pen
b. single use surgical marker
c. multiple use pen or surgical marker
d. single use, sterile toothpick and Gentian
Violet
a. single use pen or surgical marker
b. multiple use pen or surgical marker
c. sterilized toothpick and Gentian Violet
7. In order to be pierced clients
must:
a. be completely sober
b. have eaten within 4 hours
c. present proper identification
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
8. Do you use APP aftercare guidelines?
a. yes
b. no
9. How do you prepare jewelry for
insertion into a fresh piercing?
a. cold soak
b. bulk Autoclave + cold soak
c. individually packaged and Autoclaved
d. Statim
10. Do you insert externally threaded
jewelry into fresh piercings?
a. yes
b. no
11.
What other services, if any, are offered in your facility?
a. Tattoo
b. hair or beauty
c. retail, other than piercing related
d. scarification / branding
12.
How many employees, or contract workers are working in the
PIERCING portion of your studio?
a. 1
b. 2-3
c. 4-6
d. 7 or more
13.
Do you have a web site?
a. yes
b. no
14.
Piercers are paid how?
a. commission
b. hourly
c. salary
d. salary or hourly + commission
15.
What is your personal gross annual income from piercing?
a. 10,000-25,000
b. 25,000-35,000
c. 35,000-45,000
d. 45,000+
16.
Do you provide or are you provided any of the following benefits?
16a. Medical insurance? 16b. /Paid vacations?
16c. /Bonuses?
a. yes
b. no
a. yes
b. no
a. yes
b. no
17.
Jewelry is selected based on:
a. whatever the client wants
b. the client's anatomy
c. standard size for the body part.
d. available back-stock
18. Do
you pierce minors?
a. yes
b. no
19.
If yes, do you require parental consent?
a. yes
b. no
20.
How long have you been piercing professionally?
a. 0-1 yr
b. 1-5 yrs
c. 5-10 yrs
d. over 10 yrs
21.
What is the maximum number of piercings you would do on a
person at one time?
a. 1
b. 2-3
c. 4-6
d. 6+
22. Clients
are provided with:
a. verbal aftercare suggestions
b. written aftercare suggestions
c. both a & b
d. neither a or b
23.
Do you sell care products for piercings in your studio?
a. yes
b. no
