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Here you will find material information for the stone jewelry sold at Painful Pleasures.

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 explaining the benefits and meanings of healing crystals used in our organic stone jewelry.

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.

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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.

Whether you're an experienced piercer or someone just beginning to explore the world of body piercings and other body mods, you're sure to learn something new in this piercing glossary. It's filled with common piercing terms and definitions ranging from explanations of what different piercing tools are used for to piercing safety terms to types of body piercings and beyond. We've also included a few definitions related to extreme body mods that some piercers perform, like scarification, branding and human suspension. View definitions sorted alphabetically.

If you're thinking about getting an eyebrow piercing, but you aren't sure what style of jewelry would be best or you don't know anything about proper eyebrow piercing aftercare, no sweat! We'll cover these topics and more in these Eyebrow Piercing FAQs, like what gauge to start with, how to identify and deal with any post-piercing problems that arise, the coolest eyebrow rings on the market, and more.

If you're interested in getting a lip piercing but you're not sure where to go, or you're looking for lip piercing aftercare tips, check out these helpful frequently asked questions and answers about lip piercings. We cover everything from how to turn a captive ring into a fake lip ring to stretching your lip piercing, where to find cool lip rings, and much more.

Some of the most popular types of piercings people get now are surface and dermal piercings. But why? Are dermal, microdermal and surface piercing all names for the same type of piercing, or are they actually different piercings? If they aren't the same, then what makes them different from each other? Can I get a surface or dermal piercing anywhere on my body? Aren’t dermals and surface piercings highly prone to rejection? Read on for the answers to these questions and more.

Here you will find the Material Safety Data Sheet for Kaos Silicone Ear Wear.

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!

Lip piercings have been historically common in many African tribes and South American cultures. The jewelry worn in such lip piercings ranges from rings to decorative lip plates that are typically worn in the lower lip. Lip piercings, like many other types of body mods, have become increasingly popular in mainstream culture over the past couple decades.

Whether you're about to get your nipples pierced or already have pierced nipples, we have some basic nipple piercing tips and info that you're sure to find useful. In our <em>Basic Nipple Piercing Info</em> article, we cover aftercare, what to do if a problem arises, how to navigate our awesome selection of nipple piercing jewelry, dealing with piercing retainers, and where to find other great resources like how to put on a drop-down nipple shield vs. a circular one.