How to Body Jewelry is Sized/Measured When shopping for body jewelry, you’ve probably noticed that it generally has 2 measurements, one for its thickness (aka gauge) and one for length. It’s crucial for your comfort and the health of your piercings that your jewelry is properly sized for your piercings. Gauge/Thickness For jewelry like barbells […]

We don’t use piercing guns for several reason. The first and most important is that they can be a source of infection transmission. Piercing guns get a certain amount of blood and other body fluids on them during a piercing. As they are generally made of plastic they cannot be sterilized since they would melt. […]

Threadless jewelry uses tension between the end and the post to stay together. How does it stay together? The removable end has a small insertion pin (see picture above), which is slightly curved on all straight-shaft threadless jewelry, or unbent on all curved-shaft threadless jewelry. When inserted into the shaft, the curvature between the insertion […]

First, we want to assure you that we have done our best to minimize the risk of a piercing rejecting through years of research and observation. We have researched and developed our techniques and continue to improve upon them to rule out negative side effects clients have experienced. A mixture of simplifications, precautions, and better […]

We are limited in what piercings we can and will offer to those under 18 (minors), for legal and other reasons. ** Due to time and paperwork requirements, we can no longer accept walk-ins for minor piercings on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Please schedule an appointment online or call us at 404-378-9100.** For any minor […]

We’re contacted about this constantly. The good news is that the Association of Professional Piercers (APP) recently established guidelines for apprenticeships. These guidelines establish fundamentals that you should learn, an outline of how many hours and procedures you should expect to observe and then be supervised performing, as well as establishing criteria for potential mentors. Apprenticeships […]

One important safety consideration is that we are not permitted to pierce anyone while pregnant or for the first 6 months of breastfeeding. This is due to changes in your immune system as well as rare potential complications to the fetus/baby. For existing piercings, pregnancy and breastfeeding can have the following effects on your piercings. Pregnancy […]

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) is an organization that has industry specific committees to create standards for everything from toilets to hip replacements. For the purposes of body jewelry, we’re interested in their standards for materials for human implant. Body jewelry should meet ASTM standards for human implant (such as ASTM F136 […]

The Association of Professional Piercers (APP) is an international health and safety organization dedicated to disseminating information about body piercing. You can read more here. Even non-piercers can help the organization by becoming Patron Members.

The quick answer is yes. One of the many advantages of titanium jewelry, on top of its biocompatibility, is that it is completely nonmagnetic. This means it’s completely safe for MRI scans, X-rays, CT scans, PET scans, etc. The only time it could be an issue is when the jewelry could block the view during […]