How To Prepare For Your Piercing Appointment It may be easy to think that since you are not actually doing anything per se, you can just rock up to your piercer a little unprepared and as-you-were. While it is of course true that you should feel relaxed and not stress about it, there are [...]
What Are Piercing Rejections? As much as we may love piercings, both the aesthetics and (yes) the process, our bodies still perceive the new foreign objects as little alien invaders. As such, in our best interest, they launch an immune response that can sometimes be successful enough to actually force the piercing back towards the [...]
Body piercing is the art of perforating a part of the human body so that a piece of jewellery or other ornamental object can be worn. There is evidence to suggest the practice has been around since ancient times, with mummified bodies showing signs of piercings. This includes Ötzi the Iceman. Over 5,000 years [...]
Piercings You Can Hide While many of us want to run out the moment we have a new piercing or tattoo and show it off to all our friends, some prefer keeping their new body art more private. Be that due to family reasons or potential work situations, or simply because we like to keep [...]
When Can I Change My Piercing Jewellery? One of the most common questions people want an answer to when getting a piercing (apart from how much it will hurt) is when they can safely change the first piece of jewellery to something different of their choosing. This is unsurprising with the growing number of beautifully [...]
Your Guide To Eyebrow Piercings While ear piercings are certainly still on trend for 2022 - think unique constellations and varying designs from left to right - people are also placing their prediction bets on something a little more eye-catching to make it into the mainstream. After all, what to do after you have gotten [...]
Ear Piercings Trends for 2022 We know, we know, it’s only November. But if Leicester Square and Covent Garden can throw up the Christmas lights from now, we can begin to dream of a brighter 2022 and all the body art and modifications to come in the new year. While the classics such as [...]
How To Tell If A Piercing Is Infected As it is Halloween and all, we thought we'd take a look at the not-so-pleasant side of body piercing. No matter how skilled your piercer, the health of your piercing will depend on how well you look after it when you come home and during the month’s [...]
Your Guide to Nose Piercings - Part I A nose piercing is a total look-update. Unlike the more discreet lobe or ear cartilage piercings, there is no hiding you have gotten your nose pierced - and nor, we would guess, would you want to. And nor are you short of placement options for your [...]
What to Know About Daith Piercings With so many ways to curate your ears, if you are looking to add to your piercing collection, you are sure to have come across the ever more popular so-called Daith piercing that sits through the little fold of cartilage right outside of the ear canal. The piercing [...]
