Editors Note: This story was written before COVID-19 had an impact on Iowa City. The piercing shops mentioned are temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Are you ready?” he asked me, ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Whether it’s the location, number or type, piercings are becoming more intense with the years. It’s evolved from simple ear piercings to nose and navel piercings, to various ...

The tattoo industry in Iowa is held to high safety, sanitation, training and operational standards, but the same is not true for body piercing - a service that many tattoo establishments provide. In ...

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

Tattoos cover much of her arms, and she has nine piercings on her face alone. She is known by her clients only as “Boge,” a nickname that stuck with 30-year-old Andrea Gonzales since childhood.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- To most people, flesh is just flesh. And then there are the body piercers. To them and their clients, flesh is a blank canvas, ripe for the kind of creative expression ...

Changing up your look is like a summer tradition. But, body modifications are arguably the most exciting ways to celebrate the summer with style. Of course, they might mean you have to avoid the pool ...

A health expert expressed his opinion about the 'risky' body modification preferences of Kim Kardashian's 12-year-old ...

In a previous PT blog-post, I challenged you to consider whether body piercing and tattooing are forms of self-expression or self-mutilation. I would now like to focus on an even more fascinating (pop ...

In Kisby's portraits of APP Conference attendees, individuals show off their body modifications — including tattoos and piercings and implants — and their personal styles. "The point of this project ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On a projector screen at the front of the Michigan Union’s Pond Room, a woman dangles inches from ...

An extreme body modification fanatic and OnlyFans model who simply calls herself "Fidelium Succubus" has implanted horns ...