Archive for New Piercing Trends
Below the Surface – Sweet New Trends in Surface Piercing
Posted by: | CommentsAs the amount of new and different piercing styles and methods continues to grow, piercings themselves become more and more available in places that they never were before. With safer and more inventive ways to pierce emerging all the time, along with knowledge of better aftercare and quicker healing processes, new trends are now surfacing, spearheading some of the most interesting, amazing, and evocative piercing and jewelry styles ever seen. I mean, just consider the evolution of the surface piercing.
Surface piercing started small, with single surface barbells in simple, easy to reach places, like the anti-eyebrow. Though this piercing of the upper cheek or area around the outside of the eyebrow has certainly evolved, for the most part it remains a single piercing done with simple jewelry.
Then look at the nape piercing. Piercing at the nape of the neck has now become popular amongst both sexes, and is a fun and flirty piercing that despite it’s position is still relatively easy to heal. The newest developments in nape piercing include several piercings running parallel, and looks that involve intersecting piercings or “cages.”
Next we have chest piercings, another type of piercing that has grown to popularity amid both males and females. Though there are several different places to get a surface piercing of the chest, most popular seem to be the clavicle, the décolletage, and the hollow of the collar bone (which is called a “Madison”).
Amongst the newer trends developing in surface piercing are the vampire bite or “vampire’s kiss,” designs on the back, the corset, and arm piercings. A vampire bite piercing is another neck piercing, but this time placed at the side of the neck, where one would expect to be bitten by the undead.
Our old friend the corset piercing has seen some serious action lately too, with new piercing methods and healing provisions increasing the ability to actually heal and wear this amazing work of art.
And along with back corsetry comes the advent of more interesting and beautiful surface designs of the back skin, ranging from upper back to lower back to whole entire back!
Then finally, one of the neatest things to spring up: arm piercings. No longer just temporary, piercings of the wrist, forearm, and even the entire length of the arm are cropping up more and more recently. They’re even an available character accessory on popular online role playing game IMVU.
Talk about really digging beneath the surface. What will they pierce next?
Multiple Piercings – How Many is Too Many?
Posted by: | CommentsWe’ve all seen the latest craze in body piercing: multiple piercings in different places.
With so many new and interesting piercings popping up all the time, it’s hard not to want to try some of them out, and many of us will attempt a new piercing whether or not we keep it because (let’s face it) you won’t be sure if you like it or not until you try.
Piercing combinations, especially in the face and ears, are practically endless. There’s nostril piercings, septum piercings, bridge piercings, vertical bridge piercings, lip piercings, labret piercings, monroe piercings, tongue piercings, eyebrow piercings, anti-eyebrow piercings, and many others, just on the face alone.
For the most part, this trend is beautiful, provocative, and interesting, but when piercings begin to reach excess, many have been recently asking, “how much is too much?” and where do we draw the line?
The answer? It really depends. Some who have multiple piercings may be ascribing to a different aesthetic than what’s currently mainstream. Just check out our friend here. Several large, gauged piercings worn with plugs may appear odd to some people, but the smile on his face tells me he’s pleased as punch with this interesting look. And who are we to disagree?
And look at this gorgeous set of multiple ear piercings. Recognize this famous female ear?
It’s Kate Moss! And she’s not the only celebrity who has a serious love of ear piercings. Scarlett Johansson, Miley Cyrus, and Rihanna all have several piercings as well, along with a ton of other celebs both male and female.
So when it comes to multiple facial piercings, it’s still a matter of beauty being in the eye of the beholder, and at least for now, we can keep the hollow needles coming.
Hot New Trends: Piercing and Body Art Go Retro
Posted by: | CommentsPiercings combined with retro style clothing, accessories, and tattoos is becoming a stunning and (I think) lovely trend.
The style of old school ink, whether in small quantities or bordering excess, is being completed everywhere you look with simple, modern piercings and gorgeous retro style make-up.
Guys are getting in on the trend as well, with nods to yesteryear visible in their body art, clothing choices, and hairstyles.
Even the uninked are hopping on the tatts+retro+piercings= amazing banwagon, as hand-painted tatouage, and even faux piercings make a comeback.
Celebrities are leading the way, with popular personalities like Kat Von D, Amy Winehouse, and Christina Aguilera pumping up the trend and getting in on the retro fun
Piercing Trends Gone Wrong – The Piercing of….Animals?
Posted by: | CommentsOccasionally, a piercing trend gets carried away… in the complete wrong direction! So when I realized that I was seeing something terrible related to trendy body modification, I just had to share. And here it is: animal piercings.
The world was astounded and appalled late in 2008 when a Pennsylvania woman’s home was raided and she was brought up on charges for the weirdest thing ever: piercing kittens. That’s right, she was piercing little kittens and selling these so called “goth kittens” for amazing sums of money. The kittens (pictured below), were pierced mostly in the tails, ears, and napes of their necks.
The really interesting thing is, it doesn’t end there. The internet is awash with photos and home movies showing owners who have pierced the ears, noses, and lips of their pets. Yowza!
Amongst the most prevalent pierced animalia are dogs and cats, followed by fish (who are also being tattooed, by the way), and rodents like rabbits.
So what can we do? Well for starters, check out anti-cruelty jewelry lines like Heart U Back. This company sells beautiful (mostly hypo-allergenic too) jewelry to benefit the ASPCA. It’s like two birds with one stone: wear the jewelry that sends a positive message about love for your pet, and see a portion of the proceeds go to helping stop animal cruelty. Bliss!
For those who want to send out powerful vibes about their love of the furry set and against the piercing of them, there’s also a great movement developing as an answer to the initial trend of piercing the fuzzy ones. Wearing body jewelry in your own piercings that sends a message of love, anti-cruelty, or positivity about animals.
Hot Summer Piercing Trends: Multiple Piercings
Posted by: | CommentsSummer is in full swing (today is the official first day of Summer, yahoo!), and all of that bare skin out there seems to have one thing in common: multiple piercings. The multiple piercings trend is going strong and bigger than ever, but a few mini trends within that scope are definitely standing out above the rest.
One of them is multiple piercings of the nose. Until very recently, multiple nose piercings were a rare and interesting commodity, but now adays the multiple nose piercings trend, especially when worn with a combination of hoops, has hit a high. For men, multiple piercings of the same nostril seems to be the hot ticket, while we females have been seen rocking up to five nose piercings at once, and still maintaining a delicate feminine appeal while we do it. Uber-thin hoops and a mixture of ball captives and studs worn in multiple nasal and/or septum piercings is evolving into a look that’s actually pretty aesthetically pleasing and showcases the beauty of the female nose.
Our next stop on the multiple piercings Summer express? Multiple ear piercings. Though piercing multiple parts of the ear is nothing new, the evolution of this trend seems to have gone to extremes (and we like it).
And surprise, surprise, multiple ear piercings can still be dainty, flirty, and understated as well. Just take a cue from Miley Cyrus and Scarlett Johansson. Both stars have multiple ear piercings and coordinate their piercing jewelry to stylish perfection for formal events.
Now we come to the funnest, wackiest new trend to hit the nearly mainstream: multiple facial piercings accented by contact lenses. Lenses with unnatural colors and designs have emerged from more and more major brands in recent years, and those with sets of several piercings in the nose, lip, eyebrow, tongue, and cheeks are going avant garde, mixing haunting new styles and hues for a look that’s out of this world.
Our final multiple piercings trend is a bona fide twofer; multiple dermal piercings, and multiple body mod styles. Yes, I’m talking about the trend of adding dermal anchors and piercings to tattoo art. Though some opt for a single dermal in representation of a jewel, the vast majority of dermal tattoo accents are seen in multiples.
The multiple piercings trend is definitely alive this Summer, with steamy weather bringing out the desire in all of us to show a little more skin, and to make that skin a little bit more interesting.
Plug In and Stretch Out – Wild Gauged Piercings
Posted by: | CommentsWhat’s the next step when a piercing trend has gotten stale? Stretching of course!
Plenty of prominent celebs have stretched their ear piercings (the most commonly stretched piercing worldwide), especially those in the music biz. Just look at your favorite alternative, pop, and hardcore singers and bandmates like Brandon Boyd from Incubus, Adam Lambert, and Chester Bennington of Linkin Park.
But hold the phone if you think that stretching of the ears is just a boys club extra-curricular, because in today’s day and age, flocks of beautiful women are right there in the mix.
Though fun and interesting things are constantly coming about in the wonderful world of stretching or gauging piercings, the idea of stretched modifications is actually nothing new. Tribes from all over the world have been engaging in this practice for hundreds, and some even thousands of years. Just check out the examples here: Apatani tribal nose stretching from India (a practice which is now becoming extinct), Mursi lip plating from Ethiopia, South American tribal septum stretching, and a tribeswoman sporting traditional Thai ear modification.
In fact, if you look closely, you’ll notice several highly recognizable deities from many different world cultures are depicted with stretched ear lobes. Amazing, huh?!
While in the modern era the stretching of ear lobes, noses, labret piercings, and tongues has been taken to new heights and extremes…
…ask some of the surviving nomadic tribes thriving around the globe and you may just find that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
New Piercing Trends – Give Your Piercer a Hand
Posted by: | CommentsYou recently may have noticed that surface piercings are becoming a commonplace body modification, but what do we do once standard body piercings start to become old news? Simple. Put them in the most interesting places possible, like the hands. Hand, finger, and lower wrist piercings are becoming the neatest, most interesting trend in years, and surprisingly enough, the most versatile as well.
Starting with piercings of the fingers, this new piercing style quickly moved from standard surface bars, onto dermals that emulated diamond solitaire rings, and finally to…
…well, I’m not really sure what this is called, but I like it.
As a contrast to the more mainstreamed look, some even started piercing the underside of their fingers instead, usually worn with a horseshoe that fits around the finger like a makeshift piece of adjustable fashion jewelry. Then it was piercing of the thumb rather than ring finger or middle finger that had it’s day.
Now the funnest thing seems to be piercing of the hand “webs,” the areas of flesh between your fingers. Web piercings first started showing up in the large, thin area between thumb and forefinger, being pierced with either a barbell, horseshoe, or BCR.
Then they gradually made their way to the remainder of the finger webbings, and even upwards onto the area of skin between the knuckles.
Piercings at the top of the wrist or back of the hand followed as well, and there you have it.
Wanna rock the hand piercing trend without the pain and healing time? Go for the next best thing: fingernail piercings. Whether the nails are real or fake, a nice coat of lacquer and some small, cheap captive rings, and you’re in business. No trip to the piercer required.
Belly Piercings: Amazing New and Upcoming Trends
Posted by: | CommentsHas anyone seen the amazing, extreme, and brand new amendments to the traditional belly piercing? The multiple piercings trend has gone off the Richter, and these new styles of navel adornment are definitely a ten.
Top and Bottom
Check this out: less extreme than some, but top AND bottom piercings still make a statement. Some people even get both done at once!
Multiples
Even more piercings of the top rim, bottom, or both make for more fun…and some interesting jewelry ensembles.
The Cage
Not exactly sure how all four of those barbells are being held together (maybe a custom center ball?) but aren’t you itching to find out? This is amazing and sure to become a growing trend.
The Flower
Not all of us can fit this many piercings in a single navel, but the flowery design they make is sweet, simple, and definitely unique. This is another one that could definitely make it into the mainstream. So Summery too!
With Surface Accents
Surface piercings to accent a double belly piercing? Yes, please! The fresh new surface bars in this photo look a tad sore, but they say beauty is pain, and wow is this ever beautiful. The tattoo art accent adds a little something extra too.
With Dermal Accents
Skin divers and microdermals are fast becoming one of the most popular, flirty accents to a navel piercing, and it’s easy to see why. Whether above the hip or down the belly, these sparkly little side kicks turn simple into spectacular.
Belly piercings: what will they think of next?
Hot New Piercing Trends: Corset Piercings
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the newest and most controversial trends in body piercing is blowing up bigger every day: the corset piercing. The corset piercing, also called a “ladder piercing,” is a set of two or more adjacent rows of surface piercings that are then laced through with a ribbon, chains, lace, or some other material to look like the lacing of a corset.
Although corsets have been around since the 16th century, the popularity of better known traditional victorian style corsetry rose massively through the 1970′s to present with the evolution of gothic subcultures in the US and UK. And from the very first attempts, it was clear that the corset piercing would do the same, starting off with piercings of the back (where corset laces would actually be), and evolving in variation.
Eventually these unique and interesting piercings moved on to placements in the legs,
arms, hands, feet, chest, throat, and sides of the body, some even arranging their piercings in intricate designs or multiple rows.
The thing about corset piercing in general, is that for most people it’s temporary. As with any large collection of surface piercings, there’s a heavy risk of migration or rejection, and with placements in difficult to reach and hard to care for parts of the body, the instance of infection and sometimes severe permanent scarring is very high. For these reasons, most corset piercings are done with captive rings of some type, laced through for photographing, and then removed so that the wounds can properly heal.
Those who do have healed corset piercings have likely gone through a very painstaking and lengthy healing process, and very rarely leave ribbons or laces in for more than a few hours.
Some of the most successful known healing measures for people who are seriously committed to a permanent corset piercing are getting a “short corset” (four to ten piercings total) which is easier to handle, getting pierced with regular surface bars and allowing full healing before replacing them with bondage bars or captives, and getting small sets of piercings separately which can then be connected if desired.
Some experimentation has apparently been done with healing corset piercings as transdermals, which can then have a screw-on dermal top attached that is tipped with a ring, but the idea is definitely still in development. Although, with this new piercing trend, as with many others, it’s pretty obvious that the best is yet to come.
Amazing Dermal Piercings and Gorgeous New Jewelry Styles
Posted by: | CommentsDermal Implants are one of the funnest new body modifications, and now that the practice is firmly established, there are lots of trends emerging in all three major types of implant.
1. Subdermal Implants
A subdermal implant is an object that is surgically implanted beneath the layers of the skin (or dermis), with no holes or exit points left behind. Essentially, the shape remains beneath the skin so that it’s design can be seen, but no part protrudes from the skin. Because they are meant to remain underneath, these types of implants have no removable parts and must be surgically removed.
One of the fresh trends in subdermals is the hand implant. Usually in simple shapes like hearts and horseshoes, dermals on the back of the hand are becoming increasingly common among both women and men.
Amongst the most popular subdermal shapes: stars.
And the newest additions to the subdermal family: intraocular implants (shapes implanted in the cornea and visible inside the eye) and the amazing subdermal magnet. That’s right, they actually implant magnets like this one in the fingertip. Amazing, yes?
2. Transdermal Implants
Transdermals have a portion which lays underneath the skin, and also a part that exits the skin through a piercing. The anchor (the part inside the skin) is implanted through a small surgical slit made close to the place on the body where you want the jewelry to be, and then a hole is punched through the skin so that the piece that will be seen can easily protrude. Then a decorative topper is screwed onto the part of the anchor that comes through the pierced hole. Decorations can be changed for these implants, but the anchor that remains under the dermis can’t.
3. Microdermal Implants
Microdermals are the most common of the dermal implants, and involve a less invasive procedure and fewer risks. When completed, this type of implant gives a similar look to a transdermal, with small gems or decorations that are interchangeable resting above the skin’s surface and a small anchor embedded below. These commonly heal much like a standard piercing and can be placed at almost any location.
Some of the most on-trend places for microdermal implantations right now are the nape of the neck, the knuckles (or on a single finger, which is meant to represent a ring), the back, the cheeks, and around the hips or abdomen (usually as accompaniment to belly piercings).
