21/11/2025
Kaya I don't use catheter needles, pang medical purposes talaga 'to kaya nga may piercing needle🥲
Piercers in the United States… we need to talk.
I was hanging out with my piercer friend this weekend, and I casually mentioned the whole “catheter needle trend” that’s spreading through the US industry right now.
He didn’t know so I pulled up a picture of a catheter needle next to an actual piercing needle. And he FREAKED OUT. Like literally jumped up, ran into the yard, hands on his head! Because everything about a catheter needle screams NOPE!!
If you’re using these, you really should consider stopping and here’s why:
💎 Catheters are medical devices designed for IV access even if they say *made for piercing* it is still a medical instrument not a piercing needle
They are built for sliding a plastic cannula into a vein not for creating clean, parallel channels through tissue.
💎 The cutting surface is SUPER SMALL compared to a blade needle they crush and shred tissue not glide.
You get jagged entry points, unnecessary trauma, and an overall messier wound!
💎 Why do all my piercings gush blood?!
A catheter has a bigger plastic tube around the needle, and that tube is wider than your jewelry. So when it goes through the tissue, it creates a bigger hole than your actual piercing needs.
Bigger hole = more trauma
More trauma = more bleeding
Blade needles = same gauge as jewelry
Less Trauma = less bleeding
✨If you’re a piercer who didn’t know this NO SHAME. Need help transferring over to a blade needle or want the name of the company that I use send a message to the page. I will gladly help you! But PLEASE learn it now.
It matters. Your work matters. The tissue you’re working with matters. People’s comfort matters!
⭐ So why only United States piercers specifically?
Because in many parts of Europe, blade needles are banned. Piercers legally have to use medical catheters they don’t get a choice.
Here in the U.S.? We DO have a choice.
Blade needles are legal, accessible, and industry-standard…yet shops are voluntarily choosing the other option anyway.
Need a piercer that only uses blade needles in the US find one here: safepiercing.org 🩷