Self Piercing a Belly Button
“Unlike other areas of the face or body, piercing a navel is fairly easy to do yourself since you are able to easily see the area and hold the forceps in position without obstruction”
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The Madonna Piercing
“…a type of body piercing that is performed on the upper lip, off-center fashion, to mimic a beauty mark”
How to handle a difficult customer: Part III (Not all money is good money)
“It seems like every day there’s someone coming into my shop asking me how much for a piercing and when I tell them my price they react as if I’d thrown a bucket of acid on them”
Has Body Piercing gone mainstream?
“if you pull aside a random group of younger adults (between 18 to 25 years of age) you will find the majority of them will have some type of body piercing”
Body Piercing Kits: The Good, The Bad and the dirty
“Using unsterilized body jewelry endangers your client and puts you at risk legally…”
Genital piercings: How much Pain before the pleasure?
“Because many people (especially women) may not be comfortable with a stranger performing the piercing, there is a growing movement of piercing devotees that choose to do it at home with a body piercing kit.”
Piercing the web
“Although a relatively simple body piercing to perform, a web piercing has a higher chance of rejection than other facial piercings.”
Should you autoclave or use disposable piercing supplies?
“Since autoclaves can cost upwards of two thousand dollars, and cleaning, pouching and spore testing can be very time-consuming, many body piercers choose to purchase their body piercing supplies already sterilized and pouched, ready to use.”
Should you purchase a body piercing kit?
“Although it is not recommended for inexperienced amateurs to pierce nipples or genitals, the growing numbers of people ordering piercing kits demonstrates this phenomenon is not going away.”
The Freehand Mini Body Piercing Kit
“Freehand body piercing should only be attempted by experienced and certified body piercers.”