Tattoo & Piercing

Seasonal Accessorizing: How to Keep Holiday Simple With the Holiday season looming, we’re all starting slowly but surely starting to catch a little of that seasonal spirit. But how do you show that you do have cheer without committing a Holiday fashion don’t? There’s a few festive motifs that aren’t to bold, but still let everyone know you’re ready to deck the halls. Snowflake jewelry, clothing, and accessories are a great way to crank up the Holiday sweetness without going overboard or getting too cutesy. In the right combinations, they’re even downright chic. And because they’re so simple and generally […]

Seasons in the Sun: Choosing Shades to Match Your Piercings Today is Sunglasses Day, and we’re here to help you find the perfect pair of shades to go with all your awesome piercings. Ready? If you have symmetrical piercings: Have some fun and go retro with some rectangular shades, or some flirty cat eyes. Wider set frames that are vertically slender look best with symmetrical piercings and features. If you have a single piercing in the middle of your face (your nostril or septum): Go for some aviators or similarly shaped sunnies. The unique lens shape and high-set bridge tricks […]

Say No to Guns: Switching to a Professional Piercer It makes sense, if you want your car fixed you go to a trained professional auto mechanic, if you’re sick you go to a doctor, if you want a hair cut you go to a hair salon, and if you want a piercing… you go to a piercer (duh). I don’t know who would ever think that a mall kiosk, staffed by a teenager with very little training who is equipped with a piercing gun would be a better option than a trained professional piercer. The piercing parlor is not scary. […]

Seasons of Style: Evoking the Southern Gothic Mystique With the Halloween season looming, and a wealth of parties and Fall events to attend, it’s time to start thinking about what to wear. So since it’s our mission to make body jewelry fashion fun, easy, and on point, we’re here to explore one of the coolest creepy styling trends that’s exploding this year: Southern Gothic. While Southern Gothic art and photography are meant to create a very rich and atmospheric snapshot of rural Southern life, the impact of jewelry and accessories as part of a fashion style is often more subtle, […]

September Birthstone: Sapphire! Sapphire is the gemstone for the month of September. This brilliant gemstone is a striking deep blue color that sparkles and shines. The Sapphire stone symbolizes truth, faithfulness and sincerity. This gemstone is very popular and carries many beliefs and stories with it. Some ancient civilizations believed that the world was set upon a giant Sapphire and that its reflection painted the sky blue. Also, Price Charles chose this rich colored gemstone to give to Prince Diana for their wedding. Ever since, it has been a popular choice for engagement rings. The month of September is the […]

Seeing Red: Pantone 2015 Color of the Year And the Pantone Institute’s 2015 Color of the Year is (drum roll please!) …marsala? Now before you go getting bummed about this seemingly anti-climactic season opener, allow us to clarify exactly what marsala really is. Whereas wine, or deep red with a hint of violet, may be a color about as old as time itself, marsala is a far more brilliant offshoot. In the purest (and certainly intended) form, we’re talking about a rich, dimensional, rusty red that hearkens to the era of film noir. A color that’s capable of bringing out […]

Septum Piercing Overview: History and Standards The septum is the piece of cartilage that separates the nostrils, though it is often used as a blanket term to refer to the entirety of the space between them, including the skin and other tissues. A septum piercing is actually not a piercing of this piece of cartilage, but of the tissue directly underneath it on the underside of the nose, sometimes called “the sweet spot.” Due to their historical cultural significance in branding hunters, medicine men, and leaders across various native tribes, septum piercing in the Western world has largely been a […]

Should You Tip Your Piercer? (PLEASE NOTE: In some countries, tipping isn’t a common practice. If that is the case in your country, this may not apply – but throwing a few extra bucks or a nice little gift to someone who just did a great piercing on you will always be appreciated.) A common question that comes up in piercing-related social media is whether to/how much to tip the piercer. Today we are going to going discuss tipping and give a basic idea of how much is generally considered fair and appropriate. When one goes out to dinner, it’s […]

Sk8ter Girls: the New Generation of Hip In the two thousands, gender barriers in sport have been shattered like never before, and the trick skate genre is no exception. More and more female skateboarders, snowboarders, and inline skaters are breaking onto the scene every year, and the pop culture machine is beginning to take notice. Enter: the skater girl fashion craze. Unlike many other youth fashion trends, skater girl (or sk8ter girl), is almost strictly attached to the pierced, tattooed, and alternative set, making it one of the more unique neo-retro styles to infiltrate popular culture. Beginning in the late […]

Sizing Your Eyebrow Ring: What to Know You may think that eyebrow rings only come in one size, but think again. The standard gauge for an eyebrow piercing is a 16, but depending on what type of jewelry you were initially pierced with and how it healed, about one size deviation in either direction is possible. The other thing to consider is length. For all curved barbells, length is measured as the distance directly across from tip to tip, not as the full length measured along the curve. There are standard sizes here too (most eyebrow jewelry comes in a […]