The Body Art Book: A Complete Illustrated Guide to Tattoos, Piercings and Other Body Modifications - 8 pages of photos and a worldwide directory.

This is the first fully comprehensive, illustrated guide to body art in all its forms.

This is the only reference source available that explores every step of the process.

This is the definitive guide for choosing style and placement, finding the right artist, ensuring safety and proper care, and even correcting or removing unwanted body art.

About the Author
Jean-Chris Miller is the Editorial Director of Art & Ink Enterprises, overseeing production of the magazines Skin Art, Tattoo Review, Tattoos for Men, Tattoos for Women, In the Flesh, Art Alternatives, Outlaw Biker, and Girls of Outlaw Biker. She has written extensively on the subjects of tattooing, piercing, and other forms of body art. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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16 Tool Body Piercing Tool Kit - This 16 tool body piercing kit contains the following 16 tools in a zippered case: Stainless Steel Mini Standard Pennington Tip Forceps, Stainless Steel Mini Slotted Pennington Tip Forceps, Stainless Steel Standard Pennington Tip Forceps, Stainless Steel Slotted Pennington Tip Forceps, Stainless Steel Slotted Foerster Forceps: 6″ (Tongue), Stainless Steel Standard Foerster Forceps (Tongue), Stainless Steel Slotted Foerster Forceps (Navel), Stainless Steel Mini Slotted Foerster Forceps (Navel), Stainless Steel Bead Holding Tweezers, Stainless Steel Ring Closing Pliers - Large, Stainless Steel Ring Closing Pliers - Small, Stainless Steel Straight Surgical Forceps, Stainless Steel Professional Septum Forceps, Stainless Steel Reverse Pennington Tip Forceps, Stainless Steel Ring Opening Pliers - Small 5 in., Stainless Steel Ring Opening Pliers - X-Large 8 in.

Body Piercing: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References - In March 2001, the National Institutes of Health issued the following warning: “The number of Web sites offering health-related resources grows every day. Many sites provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading.” Furthermore, because of the rapid increase in Internet-based information, many hours can be wasted searching, selecting, and printing.This book was created for medical professionals, students, and members of the general public who want to conduct medical research using the most advanced tools available and spending the least amount of time doing so.

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to body piercing. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to body piercing.

If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

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An excellent article here at BME: How I got into body modification and how stereotyping is wrong!

Body modification is not a cry for attention; it is me expressing myself.

Tattooing, piercing, henna art . . . these are all forms of what we call ‘body art’. Artistic expression in the form of body art is less shocking than it was a decade ago.. less shocking than it was 5 years ago… and becomes less and less shocking to the ‘mainstream’ as time goes on. Society has begun to accept body art as a form of artistic expression - - the body as the canvas.

Acceptable art has over the years evolved from being on paper, to canvas and even on walls, through to being on the human body.

Once associated with mean bikers on mean machines, jailbirds and hardcore gangsters, tattooing is now a fashion must-have and has lost its dodgy edge.

Messages of love or hatred for your mother-in-law, drawings of insects and sentences describing your private fantasies can adorn any part of the body.

Letting your body be your canvas - Independant Online News

Allergic contact dermatitis accounts for a significant number of visits to a dermatologist’s office and is usually caused by substances that come into contact with the skin:

That itchy rash you get when you wear earrings might not be because you bought them from the sales rack; and the redness on your finger when you wear your wedding ring is not a “sign” that your marriage is in trouble. You may be one of the million of individuals who have allergic contact dermatitis. Look around you and at what you’re wearing. You may find the cause of your discomfort: you may have a metal allergy.

Read more about Allergic Contact Dermatitis here

A surprisingly moving retelling of the Bard’s famous romantic tragedy in fine Troma fashion, complete with a Manhattan setting, gratuitous violence, body-piercing, and a hard-driving alternative soundtrack. Winner of the Raindance Audience Award.

Tromeo and Juliet features the work of “Scooby Doo” and “Dawn of the Dead” screenwriter James Gunn and more tromatic obsessions than one can shake a nipple-ring at! In director Lloyd Kaufman’s hands, Will Keenan and Jane Jensen provide an intoxicating screen chemistry that has garnered critical acclaim from critics everywhere.

Featuring All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had, Tromeo and Juliet is a modern classic! Features a showstopping turn as Lemmy from Motorhead as the narrator [Source]

You can view the trailer for Tromeo and Juliet here

Kiss Me, I’m a Piercer

Who doesn’t need one of these? The perfect gift for your favorite piercer!

H2Ocean is the most effective product for cleansing and healing your body piercings. This is the only aftercare product that is natural to your body. Increases circulation to the piercing and accelerates the healing process. Will help to reduce lumps, scar tissue and itching. Ozone friendly, sterile spray is 4 oz.

WSLS NewsChannel 10 is finding that not too many public schools have policies against body piercing:

The dress code for Bedford County schools says that a student’s appearance should not distract or disrupt others, and luckily for places like Caspian, they say piercings no longer fall into that category.

Christine Alstad, Bedford Co. Student: “I never thought of them as a distraction anyway. Like I don’t look at someone’s ear and not learn anything in school.”

Hutchens: “It does give the people more choices and they can express themselves more and it’s not all about you need to wear this and you can’t wear this.”

And the piercing question is even wearing well with one local parent.

Krysti Shirley, Parent: “I’m amazed.. I’m surprised. But I think it’s a great expression of each individual’s personality, so if the school is okay with it, I think it’s great.”

Great for many students who say the new relaxed dress code gives them more room to be themselves.

Hutchens: “It’s not all about rules, you’re giving us more freedom and I think that’s better.”

Other schools in our area we called say they don’t have policies on body piercings.

Some ask students to remove piercings during gym class to avoid getting hurt.

Others have rules against spiky jewelry

Ever hear of a school having a policy against piercings?

In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification - The book deals with a myriad of social issues pertaning to the body and its modification to show both resistance and conformaty to mainstreem and subculture respectively. Through the lens of recent phenomena in body modification–from the beautifying to the erotic and grotesque–she shows how issues of subjectivity are complexly intertwined with body strategies–performances in which the actors at once gain and lose themselves. With exquisite analysis of fascinating subjects and clear-minded use of postmodern theory, her book is the epitome of rigorous scholarship, both theoretical and empirical. It is, in a word, a theory of flesh and its agencies; but beyond the body, it offers us a scaffolding from which to view the painfully complex issues of contemporary culture at large.

This is a fascinating book that is theoretically sophisticated and guides us through the body in modern and postmodern theory. Her insight into the range of body modification practices and how they are linked to broader cultural shifts in late modernity is sharp and convincing.

This book does a great job of opening up the lives of body modifiers and situating them clearly in a complex cultural context.