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Body Jewelry Update: Dazzling Driftwood

The short summer may have left us longing for a few more days of fun in the sun, but there is a way to recapture those summer feelings without freezing in crop tops and short shorts.  Organic wood ...
Plugs and Gauging

The Home Stretch: Using Ear Stretching Kits

So you’ve decided that you want to stretch your ears, but would prefer to do it from the comfort of home?  Well in that case, first thing’s first: you’ll want to get a home stretching kit. Ear stre...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Stretched

In tribal cultures the stretching of ear lobes and other soft tissue piercings is predominantly performed with a single method: dead stretching done with gradually larger pins and plugs.  In the we...
Jewelry Fashion

Stretched: the Magic of Mix and Match

Classes have started again, and with a hectic schedule, unseasonable weather, and some major first day fashion scrutiny, you’re looking for something new and fresh.  Maybe something fun to wear in ...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: It’s a Stretch

Even if we’re not including the earlobes, most of us can say we have at least one piercing or tattoo, but what about other types of modification?  Stretched piercings, also known as “stretch mods,”...
Body Jewelry Information

So You Wanna Be a Cheater

Love the look of stretched lobes but don’t have the time or effort to put into the process?  You can still get the look that you’re after, without ever having to size up.  You just have to be willi...
Body Jewelry Materials

Stretching Fashion Fix: Finding Your Flowers

Today may be Water a Flower Day, but we’re about to introduce you to some posies that don’t need sunshine and H2O.  Say hello to the fabulous flowers of stretch mod. Organic wood is incredibly heal...
Body Jewelry History

Modification History: Pierced Like an Egyptian

Today is a fun little holiday known as “King Tut Day,” that celebrates the day back in 1922 when Howard Carter and his team of archeologists and Egyptologists uncovered the entrance to King Tutankh...
Body Jewelry Materials

Quick Take: Living in a Material World

For those who have stretched ears, it can sometimes be “interesting” when you’re trying to figure out what’s going to work with your particular ears and what’s not.  A huge part of that boils down ...