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 [...]
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 [...]
Should You Work Out With A New Piercing? As gyms have reopened, the weather is getting chillier and rainier by the day, we are getting used to the idea of being around quite a bit of people again, and you have finally booked in for that piercing you were waiting for until after summer, you [...]
How To Deal With Piercing Anxiety Even though it is an entirely voluntary procedure (as opposed to say, a necessary operation), getting a piercing done still involves having a sharp object stuck through your skin (or, in the case of the tongue, muscle) and out the other side. This will, inevitably, involve some level [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
