Pink Armadillo

I said I was going to give my review about this place and it’s not going to be pretty. I went there to get my other tragus pierced with one of my friends who came into town. My cousin went there for her piercing and said she had no issues and they were cheaper compared to other places.
With that being said, ‘you definitely get what you pay for’.
The place was clean, workers were polite, and getting the piercing done wasn’t terrible.
Okay the pros stop there. The latter was definitely different. My friend asked me if the piercer guy told me how to clean my tragus, my answer was «no» he said verbatim, «clean it the same exact way you did your other tragus». I’m thinking to myself, what if I forgot, I got it done forever ago. I asked my friend if he gave her any directions being that this was her first piercing, he told her nothing at all. We just ignored it and went to the store to load up on all the supplies to keep it sanitized. I took care of this piercing like my last one but it just wouldn’t heal, it kept swelling up, keloiding, and just wasn’t a good experience. I finally went to my original place, Physical Graffiti and the employee had to take it out and told me to let it heal. She said it could have been cheap steel and was never going to heal properly if I didn’t remove it. What a waste of money. I endured the pain for about 4 months and finally just had to get rid of it. My friend wasn’t so lucky. She had to go to emergency and get it cut out and put on antibiotics for a week. My cousin had to get hers taken out because of some type of allergic reaction.
I understand if I was the only one who just had this mishap, but two other people I know that went there had issues too. I smell a conspiracy. I just can’t fathom the idea of ever going back here and enduring a horrific ending afterwards.