All three piercers we questioned agree that titanium is the metal of choice for this task. “Titanium is the purest material you can put into your body,” says Dowdell. “It is hypo-allergenic, and o… 展开

Always go with a sterile needle instead of a piercing gun. That means, generally speaking, don't go to the mall to get pierced. “A piercing gun cannot be properly sterilized, and th… 展开

Most people assume that a septum piercing drives right through the hard piece of tissue at the base of the nostrils. But this is not true: “There is a ‘sweet spot’, a gap, in your nose between th… 展开

Eyebrows are one of the slowest-healing piercings, Indy says. This is because they are surface piercings and can catch on things or easily react inversely to tattoo care products, di… 展开