The many Piercings of Happiness...

Many of you may not like either piercings or tattoos.  More of you may not like them specifically on women.  Tough.  I adore both. So much so that I have pierced myself three times (for the experience).  Firstly I need to state that self piercings should not be done in a dirty environment.  Nor should they be done with unsterile equipment.  So if you have the IQ of an amoeba and think its okay to stick a manky old safety pin through bits of yourself.  Its not.  Its stupid and you may end up with an infection.  Worst case scenario is you get septicaemia and die.  So don't be a MORON.

OK got that out of the way.  I'm not going to go into the ins and outs of best practice for self piercing here.  My mentioning that I have done it was to illustrate how obsessed I am with the piercing art.  I have several piercings and have retired two:

• 8 x lobes: 4 on each ear; 3 each side at 14g; 1x6g on left ear and 1x2g on right ear (both of these are stretching projects in progress and I will keep this blog up to date as and when interesting milestones are reached)
• 2 x helixes: one on each ear
• 1 x tragus (right ear)
• Double nostrils (14g)
• Cyberbites (this is a central labret at 16g and a medusa at 16g)

I have retired: bridge (14g) and septum (14g).  These were two of my self piercings but once I had them in I just didn't like the look of them on my face.  They are the kind of piercings that only suit certain features. Pictures below:

My plan next is to get a scaffold piercing in my right ear (this is usually called an industrial for our friends across the pond in North America).  I would really like to get an unusual one, there are some very interesting scaffolds around.   This one was done at Skinsations

This next one was done at Flaming Gun Tattoo Studios

There are some amazing online shops that sell great body jewellery.  My favourites are:

JoBananas (UK) - free delivery over £10
Wildcat (UK) - free delivery - no minimum order
Body Jewellery Shop (UK) - free delivery over £10
Crazy Factory (EU & Thailand) - standard delivery €4.90 (but the jewellery is really cheap)
Body Art Forms (US) - various post options to UK - cheapest is $3.50 surface mail (takes about 2-3 weeks)

As I'm currently stretching my lobes there is some amazingly droolicious jewellery at Body Art Forms.  They are a bit more expensive but they stock the higher end jewellery.  Below are some flesh tunnels and plugs that I'm currently lusting after:

But one of my current faves that can be bought in large gauges and is so reasonable. From JoBananas it starts at £2.99 here:

So my work in progress looks like this at the moment (helix out of shot) :

I lust after so much for my piercings that I shall write more soon. Ah and as for tattoos...watch this space