Body Jewelry History

Cultural Celebration: The Autumnal Equinox

The Autumnal Equinox is upon us again, and so begins the season of color, cold remedies, and of course, Halloween.  The 2014 equinox occurs on September 23rd, but there’s no reason celebrations can...
Jewelry Fashion

Jewelry Fashion Fix: Moonlight and Roses

Nothing is so pretty as a freshly cut rose, except for a rose that’s a brilliant classic black.  This Fall it’s time to try your luck with darker florals, and we guarantee they’ll get just as much ...
Piercing and Aftercare Information

Video: Micky’s Madison Chest Dermal

Follow along as the lovely Micky gets a Madison dermal piercing.  Look for the money shot at around 47 seconds. Before doing the piercing, Micky’s neck and upper chest are thoroughly cleansed. Then...
Body Jewelry History

Body jewelry Update: Fabulous Fortune Cookies

Celebrate Fortune Cookie Day, with fun Chinese symbol body jewelry featuring your favorite spiritual and inspirational kanji characters.   The beauty of Chinese as a written language is captured in...
Body Jewelry Information

Keeping Up with the Threads

Have a recurring issue changing out the jewelry in that hard to see piercing?  Then maybe it’s time to think about changing your threads. Most body jewelry is what we call “externally threaded.”  T...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Stretched

In tribal cultures the stretching of ear lobes and other soft tissue piercings is predominantly performed with a single method: dead stretching done with gradually larger pins and plugs.  In the we...
New Body Jewelry

Body Jewelry Update: Geeked Out

Today is the unofficial Read a Book Day, but we don’t just want you to read a few chapters.  It’s time to celebrate our intellectual side with some fun body jewelry that embraces our geekness. Get ...
Life in ink

Life in Ink: Put a Bird on It

We’ve all seen those awesome old black and white photos of swallow tattoos inked across the chests of burly sailors, but why does the bird continue to fascinate and compel us, even in the modern wo...
Belly Piercings

Need to Know: Popular Belly Ring Styles

The belly button is the most common body piercing site in the west, second only in worldwide prevalence to piercings of the human earlobe.  So with an almost endless plethora of belly rings availab...