Yeah, those kind of shops aren't really the best for piercings. I'm not saying your ears will fall off or anything (that's where I got my first holes done), but they aren't really trained well and often give bad advice. Piercings are one of my huge interests, I even toyed with the idea of becoming a professional piercer before (the kind that works in a tattoo studio and goes to conventions, not at a store in the mall) so I get twitchy when I hear about people rotating their new piercings. <.