Cool or Fool: Peek-A-Tongue?
“Stretching your lower lip down to your chin will certainly make you stand out, but it can also cause problems when against the bone of the chin, as well as cause ‘leakage’ from saliva or food debris while chewing…”
Body Piercing Types
Explanations of the various types of body piercings and how they are performed
Is Body Piercing an Art?
“For a body piercing to be considered ‘art’ it might be when a piercer has reached the point of such mastery in their career that the piercing goes quickly, with no hesitation, and minimal (or no) pain felt by the customer. When you have reached that point in your piercing experience, you have attained the level of mastery and are a true master piercer…”
Do You Have What It Takes to be a Body Piercer?
“…more than ever, people are looking for a place to get a safe and professional body piercing. In the past, the only place to get pierced was in a tattoo shop, by tattoo artists, which generally look upon piercing as a side-line or just do it for the money. The need for body piercers and dedicated piercing parlors is growing.”
Cool or Fool: Leg Piercings?
“…having this many surface piercings positioned so close together can cause massive problems with migration and rejection caused by the constant movement of the legs, as well as contact with clothing…”
What are Your Stories About Body Piercing?
Do you have an interesting story or photo you’d like to share with us?
Self Piercing: How Dangerous Is It?
“If you are determined to pierce yourself, make sure you have researched the technique required for the piercing you are going to do, and purchase a sterile body piercing kit that includes the proper tools, needles, skin preparation and of course, the most crucial factor of all, sterile body jewelry.”
The Auricle Piercing
“…the Auricle piercing is a piercing of the cartilage that is found along the outer edge of the ear at the furthest point from the head…”
Looking for the Newest Trends In Body Jewelry?
“What started out decades ago as basic steel shapes bent to be worn in noses, navels, nipples and lips, has become thousands of different colors, styles, and materials that offer almost unlimited variations…”
Where Does Body Piercing Go From Here?
“It could be that today’s extreme trends in body jewelry extremism may be giving us glimpses of what is coming for all of us in the years ahead…”
Cool or Fool: Human CD Player?
“Thus, the day is quickly coming where compact discs will no longer be necessary and indeed be no longer useful for anything – except for acting as a type of make-shift body jewelry”