Is Body Piercing Here To Stay?
“…the exploding popularity of body piercing has created a demand for professional body piercers that is going unfilled…”
Body Piercing Types
Explanations of the various types of body piercings and how they are performed
What Does Your Body Piercing Mean To You?
“Body modifications for centuries have carried with them religious, spiritual and even sexual symbolic meanings…”
How to Get Started as a Body Piercer
The demand for professional body piercers has never been greater than now. The question we get many times here at the Body Piercing News is ‘How Do I Get Started?’
Extreme Nipple Piercing: Cool or Fool?
“Most men that have had their nipples pierced know the pain involved can be excruciating, sometimes more painful than women’s nipples when they are pierced…”
Cool or Fool: Tattooed Eyeball
“The effects of injected ink (not to mention the pain involved) as well as the use of body piercing supplies or tattoo machinery around the eye is almost always going to be detrimental to you…”
Thinking about Piercing Yourself?
“You will know if it includes sterilized body jewelry because they will be packaged in light blue color-changing sterile pouches, and usually the company will clearly state that the body jewelry is sterilized. If the description of the kit does not clearly state the body jewelry is sterile, it is not…”
Micro-dermal implants: More trouble than they’re worth?
“However, either to avoid the higher cost of dermals (as opposed to needles) or because of ignorance, many dermal implants are done with needles (where the hole is stretched and manipulated by the needle) or worse, scalpels…”
Tongue Piercing: What are the risks?
“you risk either biting down on the barbell while eating (and potentially chipping or cracking your teeth), or you may be causing small ‘chips’ to the enamel surface of your teeth by ‘clanking’ the body jewelry around inside your mouth (so that it hits your teeth)…”
The State of Body Piercing
“Only a couple years ago it used to be that people would look at you strangely if you had a body piercing. Now, you may find yourself getting stared at for not having a body piercing…”
An Open Letter To Tattoo Shop Owners: Don’t Be Hypocrites
“The old way of learning how to tat or pierce was that you would go under the wing (more like armpit if you ask me) of a shop artist who would teach you how to do it. What you mostly learned was how to clean up, take out trash, dispose of bloody needles and towels, etc. etc. If you were lucky, after about 6 months of this slave labor…”