What does getting a tongue piercing actually feel like? Tongue traditions thousands of years old If you are reading this, you are either a very curious sort, or you already have a few piercings and are considering getting one more - the fabled but potentially quite subtle tongue piercing. This form of body art, [...]
How Does Earlobe Stretching Work? Photo: Valter Campanato/ABr via Wikimedia There are several different ways of stretching, or gauging, your earlobes. However, they all begin with the same step - get your ears pierced at a reputable studio by an experienced practitioner, such as the talented Vivid Ink team of body piercers. The [...]
Stretching In Body Piercing Stretching, in the context of body piercing, means to deliberately expand a healed piercing so that you can wear a specific kind of jewellery. As we mentioned in one of our previous posts on the history of piercings and body modifications, even the ancient Egyptians were fans of stretching their pierced earlobes. [...]
A History of Piercings - Part II In our last post on the theme, we traced piercing back to at least 12.000 years ago. Ancient civilisations from Africa to Asia all used body modifications to determine social status or to function as protection from evil spirits and demons. Ancient Romans wore studs in their ears. [...]
The History of Piercings - Part I Some decades ago, most people in the West thought of piercings as a classic and often discreet ear lobe or two. Perhaps we mostly tend to think of more prominent or substantial piercings, such as nose or tongue, as more recent phenomena, something that came about as [...]
Top Piercing Trends for Summer 2021 Summer is almost here. Well, you never know what the weather may get up to, but at least hats seem to be off. And we can finally have a semblance of social life again. As you know, Vivid Ink does not only host the most talented tattoo artists in [...]
Which Piercings Hurt More? Keeping with these weeks’ theme of Valentines Day, we thought we'd spread the love to all of the Vivid Ink community. As you may have noticed, this blog mostly focuses on the art of tattooing. Of course, this is not the only version of body art and modification practised within the [...]
Body Piercing Body piercing is an increasingly popular form of Body art where an extremely small incision is made into the skin, creating an opening in which Jewellery may be worn or Implant inserted in order to decorate the body. This is an increasingly popular act which can be used to express one’s individuality [...]
