Surgical-quality stainless steel is a good choice for piercings because it has low nickel content. Allergic reactions usually cause redness, itching, and swelling at the piercing site. If you realize ...

The piercing enchantment in Minecraft allows the arrows to pass through and damage multiple entities in a line. This enchantment ignores shields, can pass through up to four entities, and is required ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A piercing pattern is a two-day candlestick pattern that signals a potential ...

Even in the cleanest, safest piercing studios, piercers have seen things that would make anyone’s stomach turn. Think severely infected jewelry, piercings filled with pus, piercings lost in someone’s ...

Claire Gillespie is an experienced health and wellness writer. Her work appears across several publications including SELF, Women’s Health, Health, Vice, Headspace, and The Washington Post. Susan Bard ...

POV: You finally got that cartilage piercing you’ve been thinking about. You picked out the perfect starter stud (but have big plans to level-up to a hoop when the ...

With any new piercing, aftercare is key for preventing infection and scarring. According to experts, you don’t need a ton of products to keep your new bling clean and help support healing — in fact, ...

Hypertrophic piercing bumps and keloid scars can look similar. However, there are various ways to differentiate them. Skin changes can occur at the site of piercings. Knowing how to tell the ...

As one expert said, multiple piercings and jewelry styles are “a way to switch up your aesthetic.” By Libby Banks In the mid-1990s, getting my ears pierced felt like a sizable check on my to-do list ...

People have pierced their ears for thousands of years for ceremonial, cultural, religious, and decorative purposes. The oldest known example of ear piercing comes from “Ötzi the Iceman,” a man who ...

When you get a new piercing — whether it’s in your lobes, cartilage, nose, or bellybutton — you’ll want to enjoy it, take pics, and show all of your friends. But that thrill can come to a screeching ...