Jewelry 101
Can You Tan with Piercings?
Whether it's a beach day, a sunbed, or a bottle of self-tanner, chasing a glow gets more complicated when you have a piercing—especially a healing one. The short answer is...
Can You Tan with Piercings?
Whether it's a beach day, a sunbed, or a bottle of self-tanner, chasing a glow gets more complicated when you have a piercing—especially a healing one. The short answer is...
What Do Different Religions Say About Piercings?
Piercing is one of humanity's oldest forms of adornment, so it's no surprise that the world's major religions each have something to say about it—sometimes embracing it, sometimes cautioning against...
What Do Different Religions Say About Piercings?
Piercing is one of humanity's oldest forms of adornment, so it's no surprise that the world's major religions each have something to say about it—sometimes embracing it, sometimes cautioning against...
Back-to-School Piercing Ideas for a Fresh-Seaso...
A new school year has the same energy as New Year's: a clean slate, a chance to refresh your look and step into the season as a slightly new version...
Back-to-School Piercing Ideas for a Fresh-Seaso...
A new school year has the same energy as New Year's: a clean slate, a chance to refresh your look and step into the season as a slightly new version...
Piercings in Hinduism: Understanding Karna Vedha
In much of the world, ear piercing is a personal or fashion choice. In Hinduism, it can be something else entirely: a sacred rite of passage with thousands of years...
Piercings in Hinduism: Understanding Karna Vedha
In much of the world, ear piercing is a personal or fashion choice. In Hinduism, it can be something else entirely: a sacred rite of passage with thousands of years...
Summer Piercing Care: Keeping a New Piercing Ha...
Summer is hard on a healing piercing. Heat, humidity, sweat, sunscreen, chlorinated pools, and travel all land at once, and each one is a small stressor on tissue that's still...
Summer Piercing Care: Keeping a New Piercing Ha...
Summer is hard on a healing piercing. Heat, humidity, sweat, sunscreen, chlorinated pools, and travel all land at once, and each one is a small stressor on tissue that's still...
The History of the Piercing Gun: How the Mall S...
For a few decades, getting your ears pierced meant one thing: sitting in a chair at a mall jewelry counter while someone lined up a plastic device against your earlobe...
The History of the Piercing Gun: How the Mall S...
For a few decades, getting your ears pierced meant one thing: sitting in a chair at a mall jewelry counter while someone lined up a plastic device against your earlobe...
Hair Dye, Styling, and Your Piercings: A Safe-S...
Your ear and facial piercings sit right in the path of everything you do to your hair—dye, bleach, heat tools, hairspray, and the daily tug of brushing and tying it...
Hair Dye, Styling, and Your Piercings: A Safe-S...
Your ear and facial piercings sit right in the path of everything you do to your hair—dye, bleach, heat tools, hairspray, and the daily tug of brushing and tying it...
Modern Primitivism: The Movement That Brought B...
If you walked into a mall in 1999 and saw teenagers with eyebrow rings, stretched lobes, and tribal armband tattoos, you were looking at the downstream effect of a movement...
Modern Primitivism: The Movement That Brought B...
If you walked into a mall in 1999 and saw teenagers with eyebrow rings, stretched lobes, and tribal armband tattoos, you were looking at the downstream effect of a movement...
Mixing Metals: Gold & Silver Piercings
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us absorbed the rule that you don't mix gold and silver—that your jewelry should all match, all the time. It's one of the...
Mixing Metals: Gold & Silver Piercings
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us absorbed the rule that you don't mix gold and silver—that your jewelry should all match, all the time. It's one of the...
Hippie Movement & Nose Rings in the West
For most of Western history, getting a piercing meant one thing: earlobes. Then, in what felt like a single generation, the nose ring went from a distant cultural curiosity to...
Hippie Movement & Nose Rings in the West
For most of Western history, getting a piercing meant one thing: earlobes. Then, in what felt like a single generation, the nose ring went from a distant cultural curiosity to...
Asymmetrical Piercing Looks: A Styling Guide
For a long time, the unspoken rule in the piercing world was simple: everything had to match. Same studs in both lobes, and a cartilage piercing on one side eventually...
Asymmetrical Piercing Looks: A Styling Guide
For a long time, the unspoken rule in the piercing world was simple: everything had to match. Same studs in both lobes, and a cartilage piercing on one side eventually...
Can You Wear Makeup with a New Piercing?
You just got a gorgeous new facial piercing and you want to show it off—but you also have a makeup routine you love, and you may be wondering whether you...
Can You Wear Makeup with a New Piercing?
You just got a gorgeous new facial piercing and you want to show it off—but you also have a makeup routine you love, and you may be wondering whether you...