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 ...
Belly Piercings

The Comprehensive Users Guide to Belly Piercing: Part 4

Even once it’s healed, a piercing that’s only a couple months old can be prone to irritation, especially in the sweltering heat of Summer.  Belly rings with fancy large designs or long decorative d...
Body Jewelry Information

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...
Multi Functional Body Jewelry

Something to Hide: Hiding a Body Piercing Safely

There are tons of hair-brained ideas out there for hiding a piercing; anything from removing the ball, to covering up with a band aid and pretending it’s a zit!  So since we have a moment, we thoug...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

Why Does My Piercing Smell Like Death? – a Lesson About Natural Care

The title should give a pretty clear idea of what this post is about- “Piercing Funk” as I so lovingly like to call it.  With almost all piercings over time the body will begin to smell and in many...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

The Ins and Blow-Outs of Stretching My Ears

About 5 years ago I decided that I wanted to finally get my ears pierced with the intent of stretching them to a larger size.  Going into it I will openly admit that I knew nothing about the proces...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Hot New Trends in Body Piercing

There are a lot of fun, new, and interesting piercings popping up all over the world these days, and some of them really caught our eye.  So here’s a list of some of the coolest, sweetest, most con...
Belly Piercings

The Comprehensive Users Guide to Belly Piercing: Part Three

Now that it’s been about six weeks, I’ve finally reached that long awaited moment: my belly button piercing is almost entirely healed.  Although I would love to claim all of the credit for a fast-h...
Body Jewelry Information

Industrial Ear Piercings – Healing and Jewelry

The industrial or “scaffold” piercing is any piercing in which two separate pierced holes are connected with a single piece of barbell body jewelry.  Though an industrial piercing can be made anywh...