Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Update: Eternal Love

Love.  You can feel it in the air (and see it just about everywhere else) as Valentine’s Day approaches.  Brilliant red trimmings and pop-up displays of heart-shaped candy luxuries litter the lands...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: The Anti-Valentine

  Valentine’s Day is coming on fast, and everyone’s getting ready for that ooey gooey love rush.  But what about people who are unattached?  Or those who had a partner and recently decided to go th...
Ear Piercings

What’s That Called?: Ear Piercing Index

Lobe: This is just a standard ear lobe piercing.  For most this piercing was originally performed with a piercing gun, but in recent years trained piercers with sterile shops have been called on to...
Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: A Flower In Your Hat

Today is National Hat Day in the US.  Sounds a little bit interesting, no?  Just when you thought there was a holiday for literally everything, here comes another new one!  Actually, this unofficia...
Jewelry Sizing

Body Jewelry in Depth: Anatomy of a Tongue Ring

For the most part tongue rings come in one standard type, a straight barbell with a decoration on one end and a ball or half ball on the other.  There’s definitely more to picking out a new tongue ...
Jewelry Fashion

Jewelry Fashion Fix: Dreaming Big

Today is Make Your Dream Come True Day, and what a wonderful offbeat holiday it is.  Dreams, goals, and aspirations are common to every human being on the planet, binding us all together as a wishi...
Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewlery Update: Good with Wood

We all know that wooden body jewelry looks cool, but did you know that there’s other benefits to wearing wood?  In stretched piercings, organic wood jewelry is ideal because it’s naturally porous. ...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Having the Hots for Tea

It’s no secret that the pierced and tattooed community has the hots for that wonderful beverage called tea.  In fact, the month of January is Hot Tea Month, and around the western world people are ...
Body Jewelry Information

Modern Modification Vocab: Plugging Away

Even if you happen to have your own piercings, tattoos, or stretch mods (or all of the above), chances are that at one time or another you’ve had a conversation about plugs in person or on an inter...