Jewelry 101
What to Expect at Your First Piercing Appointment
You booked your first piercing appointment. Maybe it's a nostril, a helix, a daith, or your very first lobe. Either way, walking into a piercing studio for the first time...
What to Expect at Your First Piercing Appointment
You booked your first piercing appointment. Maybe it's a nostril, a helix, a daith, or your very first lobe. Either way, walking into a piercing studio for the first time...
Piercing Jewelry Types: Complete Guide to Every...
Walk into any piercing shop or scroll through an online jewelry store and you'll see dozens of styles — threadless, threaded, hinged, curved, captive, L-bend. It can feel like a...
Piercing Jewelry Types: Complete Guide to Every...
Walk into any piercing shop or scroll through an online jewelry store and you'll see dozens of styles — threadless, threaded, hinged, curved, captive, L-bend. It can feel like a...
How to Sleep with a New Piercing Without Ruinin...
You survived the needle, you love the look, and now it's bedtime — and you have no idea how to lie down without smashing your fresh piercing into the pillow....
How to Sleep with a New Piercing Without Ruinin...
You survived the needle, you love the look, and now it's bedtime — and you have no idea how to lie down without smashing your fresh piercing into the pillow....
Piercing Sizes Chart: Standard Gauges, Lengths ...
Buying piercing jewelry online and not sure what size to order? This is the quick reference you need. Every standard gauge, post length, and ring diameter for every common piercing...
Piercing Sizes Chart: Standard Gauges, Lengths ...
Buying piercing jewelry online and not sure what size to order? This is the quick reference you need. Every standard gauge, post length, and ring diameter for every common piercing...
Can You Swim with a Belly Button Piercing?
Summer's here, you just got your navel pierced, and now you're staring at the pool wondering if you can jump in. Short answer: it depends on how far along your...
Can You Swim with a Belly Button Piercing?
Summer's here, you just got your navel pierced, and now you're staring at the pool wondering if you can jump in. Short answer: it depends on how far along your...
Piercing Swelling: How Much Is Normal & What to Do
Your fresh piercing looks puffy. Maybe it's only been a few days and the swelling isn't going down yet. Maybe it swelled up bigger than you expected within hours. Or...
Piercing Swelling: How Much Is Normal & What to Do
Your fresh piercing looks puffy. Maybe it's only been a few days and the swelling isn't going down yet. Maybe it swelled up bigger than you expected within hours. Or...
Piercing Migration: Signs, Causes & What to Do
You got your piercing months ago, it healed fine, and now you've noticed something off — the jewelry doesn't sit where it used to. The entry and exit holes look...
Piercing Migration: Signs, Causes & What to Do
You got your piercing months ago, it healed fine, and now you've noticed something off — the jewelry doesn't sit where it used to. The entry and exit holes look...
Embedded Piercing: Signs, Causes & What to Do
If you're looking at your piercing and the jewelry is disappearing into your skin — only one ball visible, or the post completely buried — you're dealing with an embedded...
Embedded Piercing: Signs, Causes & What to Do
If you're looking at your piercing and the jewelry is disappearing into your skin — only one ball visible, or the post completely buried — you're dealing with an embedded...
How Many Piercings Can You Get at Once? The Hon...
You're sitting in the piercing studio chair, you've been planning this for weeks, and you're wondering: could I just get all of these done today? The answer is usually "a few...
How Many Piercings Can You Get at Once? The Hon...
You're sitting in the piercing studio chair, you've been planning this for weeks, and you're wondering: could I just get all of these done today? The answer is usually "a few...
Piercing Needle vs Gun: Why the Pros Won't Touc...
If you've ever been pierced at a mall kiosk, Claire's, or a salon offering "free piercing with earring purchase," you've been gunned. It probably felt quick, cheap, and convenient at...
Piercing Needle vs Gun: Why the Pros Won't Touc...
If you've ever been pierced at a mall kiosk, Claire's, or a salon offering "free piercing with earring purchase," you've been gunned. It probably felt quick, cheap, and convenient at...
Cartilage Piercing Infections: How to Tell If I...
So your cartilage piercing is angry. Red, swollen, hot, maybe leaking something that definitely wasn't there last week. Before you panic — or worse, take the jewelry out — let's...
Cartilage Piercing Infections: How to Tell If I...
So your cartilage piercing is angry. Red, swollen, hot, maybe leaking something that definitely wasn't there last week. Before you panic — or worse, take the jewelry out — let's...
Dermal Piercing Removal: How It Works, Scarring...
You've had your dermal for a while. Maybe it's starting to reject. Maybe it's been catching on everything for years and you're done with it. Maybe your job changed and...
Dermal Piercing Removal: How It Works, Scarring...
You've had your dermal for a while. Maybe it's starting to reject. Maybe it's been catching on everything for years and you're done with it. Maybe your job changed and...