also vote for going to your Dr. office. However, if your Dr. can not do it, then what ever you do, DO NOT go to a place in the mall. Believe it or not, the best place to get ears pierced would be a tattoo studio that does piercings. In most cases they can do a better job at making everything sterile. Most tattoo places use an autoclave to clean all their needles and other instruments. The gun they use at Claire's and other such places can not be fully cleaned. Tattoo places also use a needle that makes a hole rather then the gun that "tears" a hole through the skin. A needle piercing will heal faster then a gun piercing.