Mom Terra Hailes wanted her 15-month-old daughter Savannah to have earrings, just like the toddler's three-year-old sister.

Hailes took Savannah to a Winnipeg salon recently so the little one could get her ears pierced; now, she wishes she hadn't.

The mom said she could tell something was off from the get go.

Hailes told CTV the woman doing the piercing kept dropping the earring on the floor, and then missed the target when piercing Savannah's second ear; leaving the toddler with a hole in her earlobe.

"I felt horrible. I was crying, everything, in the parking lot all the way home. I felt this is my fault because you know, mommy wanted to go get her ears pierced," said Hailes.

Chelsea Ortilla, manager of Winnipeg tattoo and piercing shop Metamorphosis, said salons and jewelry stores offering earlobe piercing don't have to follow the same rules as her industry.

Ortilla said body modification shops are inspected and must follow strict rules over sterilization.

"In salons, they use a tool well known as a piercing gun. It cannot be sterilized. It cannot be put in an autoclave and used once on somebody,” said Ortilla.

The manager said her staff go through rigorous training and must use a new needle each time.

She said all shops that do any kind of piercing should fall under the same regulations.

Hailes agrees and said she wants more rules and regulations in place for salons and other stores that do earlobe piercings.

"I think that they should; I think that you need to be licensed to put a hole in anybody's body,” said Hailes.