Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewlery Update: Good with Wood

We all know that wooden body jewelry looks cool, but did you know that there’s other benefits to wearing wood?  In stretched piercings, organic wood jewelry is ideal because it’s naturally porous. ...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Having the Hots for Tea

It’s no secret that the pierced and tattooed community has the hots for that wonderful beverage called tea.  In fact, the month of January is Hot Tea Month, and around the western world people are ...
Body Jewelry Information

Modern Modification Vocab: Plugging Away

Even if you happen to have your own piercings, tattoos, or stretch mods (or all of the above), chances are that at one time or another you’ve had a conversation about plugs in person or on an inter...
Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: for the Love of Bubbles

Today is known as Bubble Bath Day, a fun quirky holiday that celebrates one of the warm and wonderful things that gets us through the biting cold of continental winter.  While there’s many ways to ...
Jewelry Sizing

Body Jewelry in Depth: Anatomy of a Nose Ring

First things first: there are five basic types of nose ring.  These are the nose bone, nose screw, l-shaped nose ring, nose hoop, and fishtail.  Of these five types, the first four are ready to be ...
Oral Piercings

What’s That Called?: Amazing Oral Piercing Index

Tongue: the standard tongue piercing is fairly well known and consist of a single piercing vertically through the center of the tongue.  Because of its location, this piercing is worn with a barbel...
Jewelry Fashion

Body Jewelry Update: for the Birds

  Tomorrow is National Bird Day, and who knows more about celebrating birds than the modified?  Swallows, songbirds, chickens and more have all been common tattoo elements for almost a hundred year...
Jewelry Fashion

Piercing Fashion Flash: Killer Ice Queen

  Everyone knows that Winter is all about being cold.  It’s mostly snow, ice, and miserable weather that causes even more miserable things like brushing off our cars every morning, getting stuck in...
Modification Culture

The Modern Modification Lifestyle: Ahead of the Game in 2014

It’s official; 2014 has begun.  For a lot of us the new year marks not only the end of one natural cycle, but more notably the beginning of another.  This one time of year, at the very beginning, i...