Isabella Piercing

I received an email about a type of piercing I don't perform: I noticed you don't list the Isabella piercing. Is it because they are too rare? I had one when I was younger and I've got some nerve… Read More

Piercing Lactating Nipples?

I received this email from a piercer: I written you before on the topic of aftercare products, and the use of pierced ear antiseptic and am proud to say the studio I work in now carries Satin! Anyway… Read More

The Pierced Consumer

The entry I wrote about safer sex got picked up as a Valentine's Day post by another blog, The Pierced Consumer. Cloud, the woman who writes the blog is not a piercer--she is a piercee.  She is very… Read More

Spreading the Information Around

Today I was contacted (as Medical Liaison to the Association of Professional Piercers) by the media relations department of the Loyola University Health System. They are planning to write a press… Read More

I'm Back

I had a fantastic time in San Diego with the members of the APP Board of Directors. We came from all over: Mexico City, the Yucatan, Atlanta, and Philadelphia to name a few places! Working on the… Read More

Surface Piercing vs. Dermal Anchors

I struck up this conversation with a gal who made a comment on a post I made about surface piercings. She wrote: … I'm getting a five point star surface piercing/s on my right hip in a few days :]… Read More