Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Update: Tough Girls and Teddybears

Nowadays most of us ladies are pretty tough.  We’re strong, independent, we run marathons, build stellar careers, and helm flourishing modern families.  Even the toughest of femme fatales and super...
Body Jewelry History

Body Modification and Superstition: Friday the Thirteenth

Friday the 13th has a stigma and flurry of superstitions behind it that go beyond the popular horror movie series.  Superstition is a pseudoscience, and is justified based on the power you give it ...
Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: Coming Up Roses

It seems like roses are everywhere lately.  They’re woven into hairdos, embroidered onto vintage cardigans, painted on manicured fingernails, and inked across countless skinscapes.  It’s easy to se...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Animal Magnetism

Tattooing and piercing go through trends as fast as fashion, with multiple styles, materials, and motifs in a constant state of popularity flux.  There are some emerging trends though that seem to ...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Modification Around the World: Maori Tattooing Then and Now

Chances are you’ve seen a Maori style tribal tattoo on somebody before, maybe even one of your friends or family members, but many people aren’t aware of what that might entail.  The Maori are an i...
Jewelry Fashion

Fall Fashion Fixation: a Penchant for Punk

Steel Town Boom Nothing says punk like standard, unembellished, run of the mill stainless steel.  Just like the original piercing punks of the 1970s, this well-worn and ultra-simplistic style is an...
Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Update: New School Neon

When you hear the words “neon belly ring“, you might be making a funny face, or maybe feeling the tingle of nostalgia inside over something you used to see club kids wearing circa 1994.  But neon i...
Eyebrow Piercings

Quick Take: Eyebrow Piercing Jewelry

Know anybody with an eyebrow piercing?  Then give us five minutes, and gift shopping woes will be a thing of the past.  Depending on the anatomy and personal style preferences, there are three basi...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Alternative Beauty and Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks have become a cornerstone of modern alternative fashion, a statement absorbed and encouraged by persons from a multitude of cultures and ethnic backgrounds.  But how did the dreadlocked ...