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Trend Translation: How Your Hairdresser is Shaping Style

We all know that beauty and fashion are like fraternal twins: separate but forever intertwined.  But did you know that there’s one important person in your life that’s been shaping your fashion and...
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Barbell Body Jewelry: Sizing, Measuring, and Standards Overview

Today we’re going to cover the general standards, sizing, and measuring for barbell body jewelry, starting with the piercing that takes the most common style and size barbell: the tongue. Tongue ri...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Taping Up Gauges: an Ironic Way to Avoid a Sticky Situation

If you’re stretching your ears at all or are planning on it and have looked at the sizes, you may have noticed that it’s not exactly a straight increase.  As the size of the plugs gets larger, the ...
Body Jewelry History

Party Like It’s…: Jewelry of the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties

Going to a costume or themed party this Summer?  Want a retro styled look for a cocktail or garden party or a special night out?  Vintage clothing and jewelry is one seasonal trend that’s running f...
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Summer Piercing Care: What to Know

Today is the first official day of Summer, and to celebrate the long awaited return of our favorite sunny season, we’re breaking out the aftercare rulebook for a quick overview of everything the pi...
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Tongue in Cheek: a Tongue Ring Style Overview

Today we want to show a few of the most common basic styles of tongue rings.  All of these styles include a straight barbell of standard length (12 to 19 millimeter), and some type of decorations o...
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All Tied Up: Trend Spotlight on Bows

Bows.  They’re stylish, they’re purposeful, both feminine AND masculine (think bow tie); every culture in the world is acquainted with some form of the bow.  Ribbons, fabrics, animal hides, straw, ...
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To Anodize or Not to Anodize? – Titanium Body Jewelry Overview

There are two basic types of titanium body jewelry: solid titanium, and anodized or electroplated titanium, which is a hard titanium coating placed over another metal.  In most piercing jewelry, an...
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By a Thread: Internally and Externally Threaded Body Jewelry

With so many options available, purchasing new body jewelry can be confusing.  What size?  What color?  And what the heck is internally threaded?  Well, internally threaded body jewelry and externa...