Labret and Monroe Piercings

Piercings and Style: a Little Love for the Upper Lip

If you’re looking for a unique new facial piercing, why not try a Medusa or its vertical counterpart the Jestrum?  Medusa piercing is also called philtrum, divot, or upper piercing.  It’s a facial ...
Body Art and Extreme Modification

Body Modification Trends: Mouthy Multiples

These days a lip piercing is pretty, interesting, but it’s not really anything to balk at anymore.  Facial piercings are common place, and lips are one of the most popular locations.  The growing a...
Body Jewelry Information

Quick Take: Monroe Jewelry Sizing and Styles

So you have this amazing new monroe piercing that you’ve been checking out in the mirror every morning for the past few weeks and are super psyched about, but now it’s healed up enough to finally c...
Crash Course

Crash Course: Lip Piercing Jewelry

Depending on the type of piercing, there are four basic styles of jewelry generally worn in the lip.  Those are: the stud, the talon, the curved barbell, and the circular.   For those who have a ve...
Labret and Monroe Piercings

Rising Stars of Modern Piercing: the Vertical Labret

Location: Through the bottom lip, normally in the center, but on an angle so that both ends are visible, one atop the lip and the other just underneath it. Alternate Names: vertical labret piercing...
Body Piercing Interviews

Video: Cat’s Monroe Piercing – Up Close and Personal

Get ready for a special insider look at our own BodyCandy team member Cat getting a Monroe piercing.  Unfortunately, our bodacious burlesque beauty had to appear sans her signature retro red lipsti...
Body Piercing Interviews

Video: Jojo’s Lip Piercing – Up Close and Personal

Get ready to meet beautiful and fearless burlesque artist, Jojo, and watch as she gets a cool new addition to her flirty retro pinup style: a labret lip piercing.  Jojo performs live on stage, as w...
fashion

How very Marilyn: Lip Piercing and Va-va-voom Vintage

Everyone is familiar with style icon Marilyn Monroe, perhaps even more so since the recent release of BBC Films’ much anticipated cinematic portrayal of her inner life, “My Week with Marilyn.” But ...
Labret and Monroe Piercings

Modification Around the World: Lip Stretching in Ethiopia

In the United States, the UK, Australia, and other Western countries, the stretching of lip piercings is something fairly new, but in other areas of the world, lip stretching has been practiced for...