Being able to give kids their first piercing experience, and give the education they can take for the rest of their life about piercings and how to take care of them, that is really cool. We are doing more small children’s earlobes than ever. NNBW: Is there one particular piercing you enjoy more than others? I only knew how to be a piercer when I started, but now I have many other skills. I also get to learn more about being a business owner. You see a lot more of what other people do to make their businesses successful. I really love that I get to employ a lot of people I know. But I had a good staff, and I had learned how to be a business owner, so I was able to let other people do things and take a backseat role. If the business was in its infancy I wouldn’t have gotten that opportunity. Watson: As a parent, I loved the opportunity to stay home with my daughter when she was born - people don’t get that opportunity often. NNBW: What do you like most about running a small business? Someone might be shopping at one of the other businesses and they’ll stop in just to see what we are. Watson: We have always had a good strong base of loyal customers in the area, but the Midtown resurgence brings more walk-in traffic. NNBW: How has the resurgence of Reno’s Midtown area helped your business? People tell things to their piercer that they’ve never told anyone. We are very invasive to people’s bodies and their situations. I thought I would have something more to do with community efforts, or psychology, therapy, counseling - something more person-to-person. NNBW: Is this the career you had envisioned for yourself? I did some piercings around the United States and then found Black Hole and bought it. We found someone in Sacramento to do it, and that person was teaching people how to pierce. The following year, a girlfriend of mine wanted to get her navel pierced, and I wanted to get my septum pierced. I was 21 years old and went to maybe the first piercing shop around, The Gauntlet in San Francisco. NNBW: How did you get into the piercing profession? These days I am here three days a week, and I work on a lot of business-building activities. Over the last five years, when my daughter was born to the time she went to kindergarten, I was afforded the luxury of being able to stay home with her because I have a really good staff and I was able to rely on them to do the day-to-day work. Northern Nevada Business Weekly: Tell us about Black Hole Body Piercing and what you do.Īngela Watson: In the beginning, I was the only full-time piercer, but over the years I have taken more of an administrative role, though I still do pierce.
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