Ah yes, let’s drive some nice deep solid captive bead rings up some girl’s spine. I’m sorry. I hate criticizing work that gets sent to me, because I feel like I’m like punching someone who has offered to help me in the gut and I feel all guilty, but come on piercers… it’s been well known how to do [relatively] successful surface piercings for a long time!

I sincerely apologize for using the person in the photo like this, but I really feel strongly that unless I’m misreading things and this was only meant to last a little while and leave a line of scars, it’s just so wrong to still see piercings being done like this.

I suppose that’s one place to store your keys…

I spent today walking around New York City with my favorite (former) piercer from Psycho Tattoo in Tel-Aviv, Israel, so I thought I’d share with you this photo that I noticed had come from the same shop (by Victor). Damka actually has one of the better developed third nipples I’ve seen, so I think this will last.

I don’t think our “cock locked to his leg” friend is on IAM, but the giant septum is on my old friend Babasom from Kolkata, India.

I know there are different standards and norms in different countries — this surface piercing is from Lima, Peru. You may notice that anesthetic is being injected in the first photo. What’s strange to me about this is that for almost all people, injecting the anesthetic is going to hurt far more than the actual piercing!