Body Jewelry Information

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, ...
Body Jewelry Information

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...
Belly Piercings

Jewelry Trend Spotlight: the Return of the Belly Chain

The belly chain is making a major comeback. Victoria’s Secret’s much anticipated 2011 Swimwear catalog released earlier this year featured a barrage of beautiful sun-soaked models wearing graphic p...
Body Jewelry Information

Labret Piercing: Jewelry Styles for Every Aesthetic

The most common and basic type of labret jewelry is the screw-on tip labret.  There are two general styles in this type that will have a ball tip, (which can be inset with a gem, made of acrylic wi...
Jewelry Fashion

Inspired Summer Jewelry Style: Gypsea Swimwear

Summer should be full of fun, color, and amazing jewelry.  This is the time of year to really do it up and deck it out with as much interesting, flirty, and vibrantly toned jewels as possible, and ...
Jewelry Fashion

It’s Greek to Me: A Taste of Exotic Jewelry at Greek Fest

The festival season in Western New York is in full swing, and to start things off right, we opened the Summer with one of my all time favorite cultural adventures: Hellenic Heritage Festival, or as...
Body Jewelry History

Bollywood Beauty: Indian Piercings and Jewelry Style

Most of us know that the piercing of noses is a practice originated in ancient Indian culture, but did you know that nose piercing is mentioned in the Vedic Scripts, which are over 6000 years old!?...
Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Wonderland: Taking a Cue from the Queen of Hearts

Ever since the premiere of Tim Burton’s darkly fantastical reimagining of the classic tale Alice in Wonderland, the fashion world has been awash in tones of subdued azure and cerulean.  Glorious re...
Body Jewelry History

What’s More Metal Than… Metal? – Musical Culture’s Influence on Facial Piercings

Now to say that the piercing and modification community has always been tied heavily into corresponding musical styles and genres is an understatement.  Going back 25 to 30 years it was the early P...