Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Body Piercings

Piercings are one of the most common forms of alternative body modification. Tattoos being right next door. But, as for piercings, one could go with ear, facial, mouth, genital, and surface piercings. There are variants of each piercing.



Ear piercings can consist of lobe piercings, tragus, cartlige, rook, snug, daith, orbital, and industrial piercings.



Facial piercings can include both facial and mouth piercings. Facial piercings can include medusa, monroe, cheeks, labret, lip, bridge, eyebrow, nose, and septum piercings. Variants of these may include off center labret, lowbret, horizontal eyebrow, vertical labret, and vertical lip. As for mouth piercings, they include tongue, tongue web, and smiley piercings.

Belly Button (Navel) Piercings are a very common piercing amongst young females today. They belly button piercing can be the standard piercing, a bottom belly button, side belly button or true belly buton peircing.



Surface Piercings are a whole other ball game. They are prone to reject if not pierced properly. They MUST be pierced by experienced piercers ONLY! Healing time can be over a year long. The most common surface piercings can include the nape, hip, wrist, and corset piercing.

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