I've always known I'd be heavily pierced. I remember seeing scene queens on MySpace and Tumblr with fun earring styles and placements that were far from basic, and knowing I had to be that girl when I ...

I started getting piercings at age 17 after my parents begrudgingly signed off on my industrial. Since then, I've been pierced over 20 times and have only taken one out. Pain is highly subjective, but ...

Ah, the classic, standard lobe piercing. Stone and Strand head of piercing Janeese Brooks says, "We all know and love a good lobe piercing. I encourage these constantly. The easiest part of the ear to ...

A snug piercing is a horizontal ear piercing located along the cartilage between the mid-helix (outer ear ridge) and the inner conch. Snug piercings can be especially painful and may not suit every ...

When I got my ears pierced, I believed that after three months, everything would be fully healed. The outside looked fine. There was no pain, no swelling, and no redness. So one day, I removed my ...

This year, we took our 6-year-old to get her ears pierced. My husband and I agreed early on ear piercings were an important part of bodily autonomy and would be the determination of our children. If ...

It’s been a minute since I’ve gotten a new piercing — but when Studs invited me to visit their Nolita studio in downtown NYC and design my own curated ear (or “earscape,” as they call it), I jumped at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janeese Brooks is the head of piercing at Stone and Strand. She frequently runs the Piercings Y’all pop-up events and is based in ...