12. Uncommon Piercings: Nasallang

I especially enjoy it when an uncommon piercing request comes through the door. This piercing is called a nasallang, a combination or two nostril piercings and a septum piercing, pierced all the way through with one piece of jewelry. It can take some time to heal, but over-all it's a really unique piercing to have. I love how well the piercing suits this gentleman's face. This is the only piercing in the nose that I've done like this, and I'm extremely pleased with the end result!

11. A little update, and some cool piercings.

I've not been able to update due to my lack of a computer. The laptop I own had some problems, but it is all fixed now! Back to full updates, even photos. I promise to update more regularly!

It's been picking up here at the shop, and more unique things have been coming through the door. Here's a little of what I've been up to around the piercing world. :)

I've been doing a lot more piercing with clear glass jewelry lately. It's safe, durable, and most people can get away with them at work since it's technically a "hider" type of jewelry. Here's a lovely set of snakebites I did about a week ago. The glass is even more transparent than acrylic and looks more "invisible" once installed (since the acrylic is more yellow-ish).


This is one of the closer-to-the-eye anchors I've done. I think it's an adorable spot for a dermal anchor. She's obviously taken great care of this one. Here it is at about three months old.


Here's a cool one. I did this piercing over two years ago, and recently saw it again. Look at how very lovely and healed it is! It's a rare type of snug piercing, and I've also seen it called a ragnar. It's the only piercing that I've done like it.


I love doing fun oral piercings. Here's a scoop I did at about two weeks old. A scoop is basically a tongue surface piercing. It definitely gives the impression of venoms (two off-center tongue piercings), but without penetrating through the tongue.

10. Chest Play Piercing

I love doing play piercing. :)

Here is a 16 point play piercing on the chest. I sort of just winged it, but the design came out pretty all right. :D

I did some messing around with ribbon too, but I didn't like how it was turning out. The third photo is with some ribbon, and it was the only photo I liked with it...so that's all you get. Teehee!

I'm gonna do a cool one coming up this week or next. I will post photos. :)







*this type of piercing is temporary and not intended to be permanent*

9. Facial Anchors

Well, I did some anchors in my face a few weeks ago (three weeks last Friday) and I thought I would share a little update about them.

They're healing great, so everyone knows! They're laying nice and flat, and even minor bumping from time to time doesn't affect them. Sometimes the left one has some little crusties when I wake up in the morning, but I think it's because I sleep on that side the most...probably just some extra pressure it doesn't like. However, it hasn't been red, even in the morning! I'm really into these piercings, and I even just ordered some micro-gems for them in peridot, cause I just love green!!

Here's what they're looking like. :)

8. Star Wars Tattoos

My boss Russ tattooed my toes two days ago, since my birthday was yesterday. It's a cool little gift! Thanks buddy!

It took about 30 minutes. Pain wise, it was comparable to the lower fingers. I didn't like it but it went by quickly. It's been a couple days now, but healing hasn't been bad. There is still some swelling going on, but otherwise they feel great!

7. Finger Surface Piercings

I'm a piercer who especially enjoys doing surface piercing, but I'm not one to just pierce any place..if I know it isn't going to work out, it's likely I won't do it. I prefer to not pierce the finger area too, due to the fact that the few things I have done on a finger have lasted less than two months (snags are a big cause of loosing a little finger piercing).

I agreed to do this set of piercings, even though I was wary. I just didn't want her to have problems, more so because I've done surface piercings on her that have healed, and I didn't want her to have something that would fail. She talked me into it, and since she takes extreme care with her surface work, I decided to do this set of fingers. These aren't just a piercing you can get and then forget about, you know?? Ultimately, I did them the best I could, gave her a strict aftercare regiment, and sent her off into the world. Since she is a regular, I would see her often to check up on them.

Here is a photo of the day I pierced them.



I used 16g curved barbells, and I flattened them out a little so they didn't have such a sharp curve. I chose curved barbels because I've tried tygon before and there were problems. My main concern was the first two weeks. It's a high motion area and there was a bit of swelling. Generally for piercings like this, the swelling would be minor for days and possibly prolonged due to so much movement, and redness around the holes probably for most of the healing time. Any snag or a couple missed cleanings in the first few weeks could have done these piercings in.

But she knew that it wouldn't be easy, and took extremely great care of them. Here is what they looked like at just over 5 weeks old.



She followed the regiment I gave to her exactly, and look at how lovely they are healing! These are quite possibly the best looking finger surface piercings I have seen at 5-6 weeks old. The redness is minor around the holes, and there has been no migration whatsoever. I was expecting to see at least some migration, but she seems to not be experiencing any at all. She's had a couple little snags, but otherwise no soreness and little crusting.

Well, I saw her again yesterday, so here they are at 10 weeks.



It's hard to believe that they look this good and have lasted this long. Still some minor redness around the holes (it hasn't changed in a few weeks) but no real scarring, and it looks like the jewelry is still sitting well with no signs of migration or rejection so far. She told me there has still been very little crusting and they never seem to get irritated, even if they get tugged on every now and again. At this rate, she may be able to actually heal these things.... if all goes well!

I will post more photos as time goes on. Even if these piercings do begin to have problems or fail, I will still document the process. I hope you come back for more in the future. :)

6. Apprentice. :)

I hadn't planned on it, but I did take on an apprentice recently, and she started this last week. Here she is, the lovely Becca! She's been doing well so far, and I have her doing simple things now like setting me up, cleaning up after procedures, and changing beads and jewelry when people come in. I hope she continues to enjoy her education and this ever-changing industry. :)

5. Betta lovin'.

I've had him for over a week now, but I thought I'd introduce him. Say hello to my new shop fish, Prince Albert! He lives in the window in my piercing room, and I really think he likes his new home. :) Prince Albert was the best piercing name I could think of for him....it seemed appropriate.