Body jewelry

Saturday, April 12, 2008

The body is the medium

Nae Morris was 5 years old when she had her ears pierced.Now 20, the University of Michigan student has 13 piercings, stretched earlobes with half-inch holes and several tattoos. She also has scars in the shape of flowers along the side of her torso that were created by having her skin cut with a scalpel, a process known as scarification.

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New California law gets the lead out of piercing jewelry

That’s the message from the California Department of Toxic Substance Control, which is enforcing a new state law that regulates lead in jewelry, especially piercing jewelry.

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Body Piercing: Don’t Get Stuck With a Toxic Stud

If you need more ammo to convince your teenager that body piercing has its downside, consider these two words: lead poisoning.

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Parents want curbs on teen body piercing

The State Government has been urged to pass laws to prevent teenagers from getting intimate body piercings, after a controversial tattoo artist started a campaign to give teenagers the right to pierce without parental consent.

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Parents want curbs on teen body piercing

The State Government has been urged to pass laws to prevent teenagers from getting intimate body piercings, after a controversial tattoo artist started a campaign to give teenagers the right to pierce without parental consent.

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Piercing the fog of education budget wars

California’s perennial debate over how much it is and should be spending on its largest-in-the-nation public school system has escalated sharply this year as the state faces a whopping budget deficit and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes - whether seriously or not is uncertain - to take a big bite out of the schools’ money to close it.

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Man charged with tattooing, piercing underage teens

A Hawkins County tattoo business operator has been charged with giving tattoos and body piercings to underage teenagers.

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Jewelry on the nose, lips or tongue can be a piercing

In my opinion, there is nothing that says, “Look at my NOSE!” like a glittering gemstone in a pierced nostril.

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Friday, March 14, 2008

Exotic Ear Piercings

The boom in body piercing popularity gave birth to whole new piercings. You may have pierced ears, but what kind of ear piercings do you really have? A tragus? Conch? Helix or Industrial?

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Why The World Needs A Freak

The Lizard Man on piercing, body modification, being green, and how putting power tools up your nose improves the world.

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Gwen Stefani

“I’m just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It’s not really that big of a deal. Writing songs is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.”“I’ve never considered myself a great singer. To be honest, it’s kind of nasally and piercing and I have no range.”

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New California law gets the lead out of piercing jewelry

Hipsters beware: That naval piercing or nose ring may be hazardous to your health.

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State Inspects Bay Area Body Piercing Shops For Lead

State inspectors paid a visit to Bay Area body piercing and tattoo shops Thursday to enforce a new law that bans lead from all jewelry sold in California.

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New Trend in Body Piercing All the Rage

There’s a popular new trend in body piercing. It’s called micro-dermal anchoring and it’s all the rage.

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Body Piercing: It’s all about attitude

A tiny blonde with blue eyes and baggy blue slacks sits inside Painless Steel Tattoo and Body Piercing waiting to have her belly button pierced.

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News flesh: piercing age may drop

The popularity of piercing has forced Auckland City leaders to rethink restrictions on the age at which teens can get their first studs and sleepers.

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Ear-Piercing Sirens Used to Drive Teens Away

The so-called "Mosquito" device emits high-frequency noise which is audible — and annoying — to young ears, but generally not heard by people over 20.

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Secret to Sexy Saxophonists Revealed

John Coltrane and other famed jazz saxophonists hit piercing high notes that amateurs can't by expertly changing the shape of their vocal tracts, research now reveals.

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Cosmic Bullets Pierce Space Cloud - Amazing Picture

Astronomers just got their most detailed look yet at supersonic “bullets” of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula.

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Karl Roves father's pierced penis exposed on BoingBoing

It appears Karl's dad had some interesting hobbys.

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The World's Most Pierced Woman [Picture]

All I can say is WOW

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PICTURE: Wristwatch Piercing

"A la the pierced eyeglasses, here’s a pierced watch that Spinknas had done with 14ga surface piercings by Peter and Brad at Central Body Art in chilly Thunder Bay, Ontario."

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Pierced Eyeglasses

Pierced Eyeglasses - Can you believe in that or not? This man did it and it doesn't looks bad at all.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Permission for piercing

A Geelong piercing operator is backing plans to ban intimate piercings for under-18s, as the State Government calls for public comment on the proposal.

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Teenagers asked to team up with State Government

TEENAGERS will be asked to help the State Government develop laws banning them from getting intimate body piercings.

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Her nose piercing leads to job loss, hurt feelings

She wanted to get her nose pierced with a tiny diamond. She checked the dress code at work. It discouraged “extreme” jewelry. She checked with her supervisor. The answer, Mixon said: “It wouldn’t be in my best interests.”

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Branding a painful path to 'body beauty'

Body modification aficionados, bored with regular piercing and tattooing, are increasingly turning to an ancient practice more often associated with torture than decoration.

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Death toll due to piercing cold wave touches 100across India

The nationwide death toll due to piercing cold wave have touched 100 with three fresh deaths reported from Uttar Pradesh and one from Kashmir.

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A hole in rules for body piercing?

Call it the cartilage wars. In one corner, Claire’s Stores and other piercers of adolescent ears. In the other, hard-core body piercing shops.

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City’s health department investigates body-piercing salon

Toronto - The city’s health department has been investigating a piercing salon for improper sterilization.

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City’s health department investigates body-piercing salon

Toronto - The city’s health department has been investigating a piercing salon for improper sterilization.

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Karl Rove's Father was Gay

"Karl Rove's father was not only gay, but a part of the early body piercing scene and a regular at 70s piercing parties... There are pictures of him on BME."

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Popular tattoos and piercings

Now more and more people like to put tattoos on their bodies, no matter waht ages. What are people looking for on tattoos and piercing? Find out from here...

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Basic Procedure for Piercing

What is the standard piercing procedure? How body piercing works.

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Nose Studs & Screws

Nose piercing is popular amongst the industrialised nations, as other forms of body piercing. Nose piercing is a body piercing practice often associated with India. In India the outside of the left nostril is the preferred position of the piercing as this is supposed to make childbirth easier.

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