When I first got the idea of being pierced I was sixty four and had the knowledge about piercings of a snail. I started by looking in the yellow pages and went to a few shops The first was a clean looking place and the people were pleasant. They were very limited in what they would do. The second shop was a joke from the looks of it and they acted like they were doing me a favor by talking to me. I contacted the third shop by phone and they went out of business a week later. I went back to the yellow pages and a shop advertised that they had been rated by the local paper as the best shop.