General Body Jewelry

The Power of Healing Stone Jewelry

Jun 28, 2015 / laura
For thousands of years, people have used healing crystals and stones as mental, physical and spiritual aids. Each stone's unique composition imbues it with powerful energy that can be utilized for specific purposes, such as to protect, heal, release spiritual blockages, energize, provide mental clarity, and more. Physical contact with a healing stone is often the key to unlocking its power, which makes healing stone jewelry a valuable tool. It's important to understand the powers of each stone before you choose healing crystal jewelry, which is why we've prepared this guide...

Compatible Jewelry

May 14, 2015 / laura
There are many different, attractive body jewelry ends that can be paired with a variety of shafts, dermal anchors, surface barbells, and other body jewelry core components. You just have to pick ends and shafts or anchors with matching threading types and sizes to ensure that all the component parts will be compatible with each other. In this guide, we walk you through how to pick compatible jewelry ends for your body jewelry shafts and anchors.

Push Pin Threadless Jewelry

Mar 01, 2015 / laura
Push pin jewelry, also known as push pop, push fit and threadless jewelry, is a popular style of labret jewelry. These threadless labrets make great jewelry for lip, cheek, nostril, and cartilage piercings. They're incredibly easy to insert and remove once you know how to bend the push pin tops just right to lock them securely into their matching threadless labret posts. Read this article to learn how to insert push pop jewelry easily (diagram included) as well as to discover our full selection of push pin jewelry, helpful add-ons and other styles of threadless labret jewelry...

Body Jewelry Color Chart

Feb 07, 2014 / melissa
Check out all the different colors and patterns you can choose from when purchasing Painful Pleasures body jewelry balls, jewels and other special ends by reviewing our body jewelry Color Charts.

How to Measure Organic Body Jewelry

Feb 05, 2014 / laura
How you measure organic body jewelry depends on the style of jewelry you're measuring. This article covers how to measure the size of plugs and tunnels in different shapes, as well as organic body jewelry in other shapes like spirals, talons, hooks, pinchers, and so on.

How to Clean Jewelry

Feb 04, 2014 / laura
It's important to clean your jewelry before inserting it or re-inserting it into a piercing. In this article, we talk about how to properly clean body jewelry made from different materials. using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean your body jewelry, and more...

Threading

Feb 04, 2014 / melissa
Body Jewelry that has an end ball that screws on and off have threads. This body jewelry includes straight barbells, curved (bent) barbells, circular barbells, and labret jewelry. A thread is a spiral ridge that winds either internally or externally around the metal like that on a bolt or the inside of a nut. Learn what a thread is, the difference between internal and external threads, common thread patterns, and more.

Piercing Retainers

Oct 10, 2013 / laura
Body piercings are more accepted now than ever before, but there are still times when you need to make a piercing or two more discreet. Maybe you're visiting grandma and don't want to offend her with your new nose ring, or maybe you're worried your lip ring might jeopardize an upcoming job interview. You could even be looking for a non-metal alternative to hold your piercings open while you have a medical procedure. Whatever the case, we have the perfect piercing retainer recommendations for you!...

Measuring Body Jewelry

Oct 07, 2013 / melissa
Have you ever wanted to know more about measuring body jewelry? This article outlines all the basic questions you may have about measuring body jewelry, including standard body jewelry sizes, length and diameter conversions, gauge conversions, ball size conversions, and threading.

Body Jewelry Display Cases & Jewelry Display Ideas

Sep 25, 2013 / laura
Whether you're a piercer who travels the convention circuit and needs portable jewelry display cases, a new tattoo and piercing shop owner looking for body jewelry display cases for your store, or an established shop owner who wants to spice up your existing jewelry displays or just keep your shop well stocked with body jewelry, we have everything you need! Check out some of the jewelry display options discussed below for ideas on unique jewelry displays, jewelry display sets and more...