What to Know Before Getting Your Belly Button Pierced
What to know before getting your belly button pierced For a while, it seemed as if the once-so-popular belly button piercing was disappearing. However, along with a newfound 90s nostalgia (mostly driven by a generation that did not experience the decade itself), this iconic piercing is finding its way back into the mainstream (perhaps not […]
How To Protect Your Piercings While Doing Sports
How To Protect Your Piercings While Doing Sports The track and field world championships are just wrapping up this weekend in Eugene, Oregon. As always, we have seen an array of body art ranging from the dainty single-line pieces of Norwegian middle distance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen to the powerful shoulder roses of Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson […]
How To Prepare For Your Piercing Appointment
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 a […]
What Are Piercing Rejections?
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 […]
A Brief History of Piercing Needles
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 old, […]
Piercings You Can Hide
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 […]