Sternum: This surface piercing was a lot of fun but quite difficult to perform. The jewelry used here is a 14g surface bar. This piercing can be difficult to heal if not cared for properly.
Mandible: Whenever someone asks me, what’s the craziest piercing I’ve ever done, without hesitation I answer – the Mandible. This extremely rare piercing was probably the most fun, yet most difficult piercing I’ve ever performed. The first picture is of the interior of the mouth, showing the placement underneath the tongue. The second picture shows the exit of the jewelry on the underside of the chin. The jewelry travels behind, or inside, of the mandible (jaw bone), hence the name. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! SERIOUS INJURY CAN RESULT FROM THIS PIERCING IF NOT PERFORMED CORRECTLY!
Surface Navel Diamond: I wanted to do something a little different with this navel piercing, so I suggested this particular layout. This surface navel “diamond” consists of 2 separate piercing's, running at 45 degree angles. This arrangement gives the appearance of a cross going through the navel, but, neither piercing actually penetrates the navel.
Vertical Industrial: This is a variation of a traditional industrial. The vertical variety is a slight bit trickier to pull off correctly. Mapping out the ear, and verifying the proper layout, is vital to the success of this piercing. As with any industrial, the original shape of the ear must be maintained.
Double Tragus: This particular customer came to me with a tragus that had been pierced too low. I suggested we place another tragus piercing above it, creating a pretty unique set of piercing's.
Daith: This is a fun, but tricky little piercing that you don’t see very often. It is named after the anatomical placement on the ear. The limited space available in this area of the ear can make this a difficult piercing to perform.
Snug, Conch, …: This picture shows three different piercing’s, the uppermost piercing is referred to as a snug. This is simply a barbell traveling horizontally through the cartilage of the outer rim of the ear. The middle piercing is called a conch piercing, which consists of a barbell placed in the center of the conch of the ear. This piercing gets its name from it’s anatomical placement. The lower piercing in the picture doesn’t technically have a name, it’s a piercing I came up with when a customer came to me and said they wanted something different. Looking at it from the front, it looks like a standard ear piercing, however, the jewelry doesn’t exit from the back of the ear; it travels vertically through the earlobe, exiting into the conch of the ear.
Madison: This surface piercing is placed centrally between the collar bones. The success of this piercing rests primarily on the customer. Extra care and attention must be given to the healing of this piercing, but even with everything done correctly, migration may still occur.
Hand Web: These hand web piercing's were more for fun and show than anything. Most piercing's of this nature are not meant to be left in permanently, though a few have healed completely.
4 point navel: This is simply 4 piercing's going through the navel, two vertically, and two horizontally. These piercing's are not very difficult to perform, as long as they are marked out correctly, but are fairly uncommon nonetheless.
Nape: A surface piercing placed on the back of the neck. Various lengths of surface bars can be used for this piercing. The tightness of the skin, in this area, makes this piercing difficult to perform.
Ribs Surface Piercing: The above surface piercings were performed using PTFE. PTFE is a flexible polymer, commonly used for surface piercings, that can be cut to a desired length. The image on the right is an example of one of the pieces used for the above piercing.
Hip Surface Piercing: Another example of a surface piercing using PTFE.
Dermal Punch: The following series of pictures details a dermal punch procedure. A dermal punch is a method of making a larger hole initially, as opposed to spending time stretching the hole to the desired size. Cartilage does not stretch; therefore, dermal punches are handy for acquiring large gauge piercing’s in cartilage tissue. Making that large of a hole does result in some blood flow, but that is taken into account from the start, and an experienced piercer will be well prepared to keep that blood flow to a minimum. Even though punching the tissue results in a bigger hole, the healing time is quite fast. The punch in this series was completely healed in less than 2 months.
Clavicle: A tricky surface piercing requiring extra care to ensure symmetry. A pair of 14g surface bars were used.