Body Suspension is a beautiful, intense, and powerful practice spanning back hundreds and thousands of years. In modern times, it’s practiced around the world, with a range of different approaches, methods, and mentalities. The online space is a powerful point of connection and community for those who enjoy suspension. And anyone who participates in the online community knows, one of the most frequently asked questions on any post or image is “Can you do this if you are bigge

Every single time we sit down to do a piercing, our goal is for it to heal well. Piercers spend hours and hours agonizing over the perfect placement, the ideal angle, taking classes on how to do better piercings. We are always in forums discussing our technique and researching how to be better. Clients often, do something similar. Following up with their piercer as things heal, being diligent about aftercare and cleaning, perhaps even being in your own forums or online spaces

Continuing our series of what's normal during piercing healing, let's talk about swelling! But not just normal piercing swelling, or even over-swelling (which we talk about here ). Today, I’d like to talk about swollen lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small bean-shaped organs that are part of our lymphatic system. They filter lymph and remove harmful substances like bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells from our system. Lymph nodes can become swollen when they are working to fight

Making mistakes. We’ve talked about it before here on the blog, and discussed the fact that piercers are only human. We do sometimes make mistakes. Perhaps we lose the transfer on a piece of jewelry, and the angle comes out less than perfect. If you are like me, perhaps you use the strength  too often and break the threads off a threaded cluster. Whatever the case, we make mistakes sometimes. The mark of a truly great piercer, in my opinion, is not never making mistakes, but