Piercing and Aftercare Information

Body Jewelry Update: Let’s Get Physical

Today is official Family Health and Fitness Day, and for those of us who are pierced, tattooed, or otherwise modified, a huge part of protecting our health involves carefully caring for our skin.  ...
Industrials

Piercing Profile: The Awesome Industrial

What it is:  An industrial piercing is actually a set of two piercings at different points along the helix that are connected by a single long barbell, aptly known as an industrial bar. Variations ...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

Video: Tiffany’s Cheek Piercing – Up Close and Personal

Dimples are adorable, and if you’re not lucky enough to be born with natural cheek dimples you can now get them by having your cheeks pierced. My best friend Tiffany has wanted to get her cheeks pi...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

Video: My Dermal Experience – Up Close and Personal

Dermal piercings, or microdermal implants, are a permanent method that involves making a single point perforation in the sub-dermal skin layer of the body. Professional piercers use either a pierci...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Body Beautiful: Celebrating Modification Now

Body modification is not just for punks, bad to the bone bikers, and prisoners anymore. Everyone from your mom to the girl next door is now proudly modified and it’s just fine by society. Even the ...
Body Jewelry Information

The Body Jewelry Survival Guide: School Daze

Braving the pitfalls of high school can be even harder than usual if you’re a member of the modified community, but it doesn’t have to be an unpleasant experience.  Just check out these solutions f...
Eyebrow Piercings

Quick Take: All about Eyebrows

Eyebrow Piercings The actual piercing itself is done in a variety of ways depending on exactly where along the brow you’re getting pierced, what size needle is being used, and the general preferenc...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

The Photographic Dictionary: Piercing and Body Jewelry Tools

Cork: Some piercers will use it, and some won’t, but when it is used the cork is placed on the sharp end of the piercing needle to prevent any contact with other parts of the skin. (You only want t...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

Quick Take: Summer Care for Body Mods

We all know Summer is the season of mods.  Tattoos, piercings, stretch mods, brandings; this is their season to breathe, and to be shown off.  The warm weather also makes it the perfect time to get...