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Tagged barbell, Body Jewelry, Cartilage Piercing, discount, Discounts, Ear, Ear Lobe, ear piercing, helix, industrial, Jewelry, Labret Piercing, lip, Lip Piercing, santa cruz, WAY Body Arts
First things first! If you haven’t “Liked” us on Facebook yet, you probably should! Once you do, you’ll be automatically updated whenever we post to the blog, have a new sale, are having an event…pretty much everything! Just click on the badge below, and you’ll be taken to our page.
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Now…we know it hasn’t been long since our last piercing deal, but this one is special. We plan on participating in the Second Harvest Holiday Food Drive every year.
So here’s the sitch: You bring in any non-perishable food items you have hangin’ around, and for every item you bring, we’ll take $2 off your piercing fees! We’ll allow you to take up to $20 off your piercing fees (we’d give you the last $5 too, but sadly we need that to eat, ha!) , and you just pay for the jewelry. So clean out your pantries, save on piercings, and give to a charitable cause! This special will be going on until just before Christmas, and we want to fill two whole barrels this year, so spread the word!
In other news…we have pictures of piercings to share! Read on! And leave comments if you like what you see. 
Fresh 14g Vertical Lip Piercing with Mint Green Gem
12g 3/4" Surface Piercings (healing)
Fresh 12g Navel with Princess Cut CZ set in Gold Anodized Titanium!
Another view of that awesome navel piece!
Fresh 14g Cartilage Piercing with 5mm Synthetic Sapphire Cabachon
Side View
14g Surface Anchors with 3mm Synthetic White Opals
Close Up
14g Nipple Piercings
16g Anti-Eyebrow Piercing
…all right, that’s all for now! We hope you enjoyed the latest post. If you did, let us know by leaving comments/reviews, and “Like”-ing us on Facebook! Big love until next time! <3
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You have less than one week to figure out what you want to get pierced. I say this, because if you don’t figure it out by then you’ll miss out on an outrageously good deal! This coming Friday, August 13th, we are doing piercings for $13 + cost of jewelry! That cut/hack/slashes the piercing service fee in half! Get going while the going is good!
This deal will only be available 12pm-8pm on August 13th, 2010.
After that…you’ll have to wait until the next Friday the 13th
Now, on to recent works!
Fresh 6g Ear Lobe Piercings with Amber Purple Glass Colorfront Plugs
Above is a pair of 6g ear lobe piercings, fresh and swollen already. They have since healed beautifully, and the owner of these piercings is currently sporting some pretty fancy hanging jewelry, as well as some glass rings we got for her! I will try to snag a photo of the healed piercings next time I see her!
Fresh 16g Industrial Piercing
Now here is something I’ve been wanting people to get, and I finally have a photo to share of it! Above is a 16g industrial piercing. Typically, these are done at a standard of 14g, which is thick and stable and wonderful in many ways…but every once in so often someone wants something a little less beefy in their ear. This thinner gauge barbell is also pretty handy if you are an individual who wants this piercing, but the curl of your ear is not prominent enough to support something as thick as the standard 14g barbell.
16g Snug Piercing with Double Gemmed CZ Curved Barbell
Next…another snug piercing! I posted one a little while ago, but the jewelry was much less flashy than this clients choice. So for those of you who feel like you want to splurge on something nice for your eyebrow, rook, snug, or other piercing that requires a 16g curved barbell, we have this style of gemmed curve available in a small selection of different colors!
14g Helix Piercing with 3mm White Synthetic Opal Top
This helix piercing came out so perfectly I just had to take a picture of it. For those interested in industrial piercings, this is an ear that can’t really support the traditional size or placement of a typical industrial piercing. This client would have to get a bit more creative in order to execute a piercing like that, but this helix looks wonderful!
16g Tragus Piercing with 2.5mm Synthetic Amethyst Prong Set Gem End
Pictured here is a simple tragus piercing, wearing a pretty prong set amethyst gem end. I try to encourage our clients to play around with different color combinations. It can be fun, and the different colors and gem settings definitely set certain piercings apart from the rest of the piercings like this you have seen before.
16g 1/2" Surface Piercing
We’ve had the pleasure of doing quite a few surface piercings with this particular placement lately. It looks so cute! We use a substantially thinner and smaller barbell to do this surface piercing in order to give the client a piercing that won’t leave behind too much scarring, and will allow them to wear really small gem ends without issue. Most other surface piercings are done at 14g or larger in order to increase stability, but on the face, these little 16g barbells work so well!
Nape Surface Piercing
I’m not entirely sure what the size and dimensions of this particular piercing is, since Mateo did this one while he was down in Monterey, but it is likely a 14g+ surface barbell. Please excuse the redness around the entry and exit, as the piercing is definitely fresh in the photo.
14g Nape Anchor
Following along in that same theme, here is a 14g Nape Anchor that Mateo also did while at Gold Coast Tattoo in Monterey, CA. It’s pretty flush to her skin right now, but once the swelling subsides it should be sitting at the perfect height.
4x 14g Navel Anchors
I got to snag a photo of this fancy little navel project Mateo did a couple of days ago. All four of these surface anchors are perfectly well healed, and are sporting some really pretty 3mm prong set CZ tops!
12g Tongue Piercing
Last but certainly not least, we have a pretty standard tongue piercing. As you can imagine, it’s usually pretty difficult to get a really nice looking picture of a tongue piercing. The photos tend to look awkward, but these came out great, so we just had to share!
That’s all I have for now! Mateo is still working up to posting a big entry about large-gauge piercings, and I’m sure he’ll get crackin’ on that once he gets back from traipsing around San Diego. If you’re down there, be sure to swing by and say hi to him while he’s working at Enigma Professional Piercing! If you’re stuck in Santa Cruz just like me (Sammy), then come by and take advantage of the Friday the 13th sale! See you soon!
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Tagged 16g, 6g, amber, amethyst, anchor, belly button, Cartilage, diamond, discount, Ear Lobe, enigma professional piercing, Friday the 13th, glass, helix, industrial, Nape, navel, Neck, piercings, Plugs, Sale, san diego, santa cruz, snug, Surface, tongue, tragus
Long time no photo! As promised…a new post, FULL of great piercings Mateo and I have done the last couple of weeks. We’ve been pretty busy, and if you’ve come into the shop recently you’ve seen why. We’ve revamped the front desk area at the shop, and we’re not even done yet! We’ve got a brand new jewelry case that we’re going to try and fill with many pretties, and we’re going to build some new bench seating for the waiting area. Come in and check out our progress!
ON TO THE PHOTOS!
First up, an industrial Mateo did while he was in San Diego. This photo was taken the day after the piercing was done.
This industrial is fresh. The client chose to have the bar and ball ends anodized a nice solid blue color!
This industrial is also fresh. We did not do the tragus!
Above are all great examples of what your ear should resemble if you want to get a traditional industrial piercing. The last photo is an example of what I consider to be OK, but not optimal anatomy. The fold of her ear drops off pretty dramatically, and this means that the angles are much more limited. If you want an industrial with a more extreme angle, you must have enough ear to support it!
Above is a photo of two cartilage piercings. We only did the lower one. I like taking photos of piercings we do that have to match another pre-existing piercing, because it is sometimes pretty darn difficult to get them to match up perfectly. I think this match came out very nicely!
The piercing in the very center of this photo is called a Snug. These piercings are also very anatomy dependent. If you do not have a very defined ridge to pierce, it can make the attempt to heal this piercing very difficult. This client does not have an incredibly prominent ridge, but she was dedicated to making it work. This photo was taken a week or so after the piercing was done.
It is a bit hard to tell in this photo, but the barbell this client had us install in her navel is a gorgeous chocolate-y bronze color!
This double navel is on another of Mateo’s clients from when he was in San Diego. Big CZ gems on top, and plain balls on bottom…super cute!
This hip surface piercing was a re-do! The client had healed the piercing previously with a curved barbell, which is pretty miraculous considering that surface piercings done with appropriate jewelry (surface bars) don’t always work out! The piercing was done with intention to hide the old scars, and it succeeds pretty well.
This facial surface piercing was also a re-do! The scarring is a bit more prominent on this one, but the jewelry hides it relatively well. There are two different sized discs for added awesomeness!
This client was awesome. She came in wanting this piercing, and I needed to order the jewelry for it. The jewelry showed up a couple days later, and we did the piercing! It came out awesome, and I am excited to see how well it heals.
This client took a shine to Mateo when he was working up at Cold Steel in SF! The thumbnail is a close-up of his eyebrow piercing, done with gemmed curved barbell!
Now here…a rarity in terms of requests from the average walk-in client. A 4g tongue piercing! From what I know, this client wanted to gear up for an eventual tongue splitting. I (Sammy) am interested in the same procedure, and I had Mateo do a 4g tongue piercing on myself a couple weeks ago. I will have photos of that later! Meeeep!
This double nostril was done with a more atypical placement, with one above the other as opposed to the more common one behind the other.
One of the nights Mateo was in San Diego, he hadn’t done many piercings until this young lady walked in the door and asked for an 8g septum piercing!! Super awesome! We are always super stoked to have people ask for non-traditional piercings, or things done larger than 14g!
Like a unicorn, this piercing is extremely rare. It’s called an “ashley” piercing, or in more obvious terms the inverse vertical lip piercing. Imagine a vertical lip piercing…turned around so the bottom end rests inside of the mouth as opposed to outside of the mouth. They are harder to heal than a traditional vertical lip piercing, but for the work it takes to heal…it pays out in novelty and uniqueness!
Last but not least, an old client of mine who has been getting pierced by Mateo each time he goes down to San Diego. The new piercing in this photo is the philtrum piercing. We LOVE doing these. I may be biased, because it was the first piercing I ever got, but these almost always look gorgeous…especially on ladies, where it accentuates the upper lip and draws attention to the mouth.
PHEW! I think that’s it for now.
Remember: We want to meet yo mama! Bring her in with you when you get pierced, and we’ll give you both $5 Off whatever piercings either of you get!
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Yesterday I did quite a few piercings! So here are photos of most of them…
Above are two photos of the same 18g nostril piercing. We used an 18g Neometal threadless mini-barbell with a little CZ gem!
Here is a 16g tragus piercing, which outfitted with a 16g Neometal threadless discback with an Emerald gem!
This client had their tragus pierced before, and it had been forcefully torn from her ear! Instead of piercing in the same central location so close to the scar tissue, I suggested doing two piercings above and below the scar! This piercing also has 16g Neometal threadless discbacks with one Emerald and one CZ gem.
Lastly, we have a simple 16g helix piercing. I also used the same style Neometal threadless barbell, and her requested plain ball end. I included a side view of the angle that the piercing was done at, so you can see it is completely perpendicular to the ear!
That’s all I’ve got for today. Hopefully I will get finished editing the Grand Opening photos sometime soon, so I can post those for you all to see!
Until next time…
