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Im Back!

{ May 6, 2009 @ 2:48 pm } · { Piercing }
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Hello there,

Man it must have been about a year since I have last checked up on this blog. I suppose I could say I am spontaneous and flaky at times. Anywho, Im back and with some interesting thoughts and stories.

I pierced my lip just a couple weeks ago, and since then quite a few people have wanted new piercings. . . lips, belly buttons, tongues, nipples, the whole lot you name it!

I was speaking to a friend the other day and she brought up an amazing new idea that I hope she gets done soon! If you have heard of anchors, they basically plant a gem in your skin. to best describe it here is a picture, Anchor Jewelrybasically the part on the left goes inside your body and as your skin heals it rebuilds in those little wholes, therefore anchoring the metal literally into you body/scar tissue.

You can get anchors literally anywhere (even though I can think of a few places not to). A very popular place these days is either on your wrist or on your temple.

Now back to what my friend would like to get, she wants to get around 6 or 8 anchors next to her temple (kind of like permanent glitter). Personally talk about a very sexy idea, seeing someone turn their head and right next to their eye lays a flow of stars shining in the light. Hopefully she will get it done and I will post a picture.

That is all for now! More later

DJ SnowFire

Ruben’s bows!

{ April 17, 2008 @ 1:27 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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My oh my I can just go on and on about random stories involving piercings from way back when I started to now. Yesterday I just ran into a friend in which I have not seen in about 2 years and I had forgotten that I had pierced her tongue freshman year. I am thinking back now and I have pierced many people throughout the years and have become good friends with many individuals because of my piercing.

Side Note: Colorado weather is pretty much the most ridiculous and unpredictable weather… EVER! I swear this weakend it snowed . . . A LOTTT! then monday. . . HOTT! Wed, Cold as ICE, and now it is decievingly sunny but cold. I mean like seriously Northern Colorado would you make up your frickin mind.

Alright back to what is important… Piercings. Well let us just delve right into it. Ruben’s fabulously pierced elbows. I am not going to lie it has be one of if not the most interesting trade off I have ever done with someone. Now, Ruben, this guy it tatted up (lingo for has many tattoos) which you will see in such photographs when I get a chance to post them later. When Ruben said he wanted these piercings because he had no where left to pierce. This is because of the simple fact that he was in the Navy and not allowed any piercings (as long as he does not get caught). Well strangly enough he has two huge lip rings that he takes out everytime he goes on ship. I started thinking to myself that those things are gonna fall out or get caught very very quickly. But then I came to my senses and realized he did not want them directly on the elbow and actually it made sense to put them slightly above the moving joint.

So as I get ready to pierce I noticed that this is actually going to be really radical. He has these tattoos that line up with the elbows pretty well and the piercing seem to connect his tattoos to the rest of his body (almost like some kind of mythical joint or bridge).

Enought of me talking here is a crazy video of the piercing taking place and a few photos of the event:

This and That. . . Summer’s end

{ April 15, 2008 @ 4:15 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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So to continue with my fabulous summer stories, I had an adventure meeting a bunch of people which became friends who also shared this culture of tattooing and piercings with me. After all my crazyness with crashing on couches, eating Little Ceasers, and playing Guitar Hero, I planned on heading to Newport Beach California to spend a week on the beach just letting loose.

However not before my man Ruben gave me a tattoo. It was one sunny afternoon in El Cajon, the day before I left Newport, I had just met this new lady friend, Dawn, a week prior and we hit it off right away. She had several piercings and quite an elaborate tattoo of butterflies flying up her back and side. Can you say attractive? Oh yeah! She also had a tattoo of a dragonfly on her foot. In my history with tattooing, some artists will not tattoo feet or hands because of the incredibly copious amount of tendions and nerve ending exist in those areas.

Anywho back to that sunny afternoon. I had been pondering a design of a tribal moon for quite some time and drew several sketches prior to showing Ruben what I wanted. After several corrections (and some editing from Ruben) my final piece was constructed! The masterpiece was drawn on the most expensive piece of parchment you can think of, a used envelope! So Ruben set up as my other newly aquired friends watched. As we smoked the hookah, we decided the best lighting would be from the sun coming in from the front door of the apartment building. If you were wondering how much he ended up charging me, lets just say I pierced his elbows and gave him a ride to his Navy ship at 5 AM after a long evening of partying. Well enough said here is a couple pictures one of the process and one of the finished product.

Random Friends

{ April 3, 2008 @ 7:46 pm } · { Piercing, Tattoo }
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Well, enough about me, lets talk about some really close friends of mine who also enjoy the feeling, the idea, and the culture of tattooing (and body art for that matter). I have met many people down the road who have had some wild types of tattooes and piercing together and seperate from eachother. I remember just last year I remember seeing someone I knew of in Waffle House showing his back piece to his friends. It was wild and oh so very intriquite, there was a very large tattoo of a gray and black cross with a scroll flowing through it. He had somewhere between 17 – 19 piercings around it to accent each border of the cross.

Another close friend of mine I met this summer had huge blue hot rod flames up one of his forearms. The reason for this was because he loves classy cars and decided before he was shipped off into the Navy he needed the experience of a tattoo. One of my floormates has a very very intriquite back piece with tree branches stemming out of parchment. The parchment is a qoute in which he chooses to live his life by. More on that and a picture later. Another one of my close friends has all color tattoos all over his body. He is very proud of all the art work that is done to his body and his most recent, also a tree, branching all across the back of his body. This tree will be a constant work in process and I have not seen him for awhile. However I will also be getting a picture of his whole back and possibly his front to show ya’ll how intriquite the design is.

Oh the stories go on and on, many of the tattoos I know of are chinese symbols or other symbols meaning qoutes that influence or have influenced their lives in some way. One really cool example is I have a friend who has a brail tattoo on his forearm so you can not really tell it is there unless you look pretty hard. The brail states “STRENGTH” influencing him to be a better person not just a stronger one.

My Personal Story

{ February 28, 2008 @ 9:10 pm } · { Piercing }
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It all started long long ago about . . . oh I would say four (ish) years ago when all I wanted in life was to get my tongue pierced. I was pretty internet savy at the time and my favorite website was, you guessed it, ebay. One day I had this bright idea (light bulb) to look up tongue rings online. I found a wholesale deal of five stainless steel tongue rings (don’t ask why I needed five) and ordered them. At that moment I thought, “what is the point if I can not put them anywhere. So I ordered myself a 14 gauge (remember from my previous blog) needle. When they came in the mail I chickened out and had my friend pierce my cartiledge. In thispictur, it shows all the different areas you can pierce on your ear, I had my friend pierce my upper orbital.

ear spots

Since then I became wildly addicted to piercings (although my dad did not approve in anyway) and began to pierce many other places on my body. Starting with my tongue, then my ear lobes multiple times, then on to mass ordering and starting a business. Throughout my life as a piercer I (for pleasure and practice) have pierced my tongue five times, nipples four times each, my belly button twice, my eyebrow twice, my industrial (a straight 2 inch barbell through my cartiledge), my conch, and my tragus. Sooo many interesting stories to share behind all of these piercings that shall be saved for a later date.

Proper ways to Pierce

{ February 21, 2008 @ 9:53 pm } · { Piercing }
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When piercing, one should always use sterile needles, never reuse needles, clean everything you use, and definitely wash your hands. Or if you plan on getting a piercing make sure the place you go does all this and beyond. Also, based off of a collective group of testimonies of personal experiences and stories, go to someone who makes you feel comfortable and remains friendly through the entire process (this places you at ease with the person).

With that said, there are plenty of ways to pierce and types of equipment that can be used. One of the most common ways to pierce ear lobes is by using a gun which is what most individuals (at younger ages) tend to have performed. The reason is because the gun is relatively quick and painless (well the lobe is a rather insensitive spot anyway) and very consistent. In my experiences of being a piercer I have never used a gun because forme the investment for purchasing one was worth nothing because I mainly pierced parts in which a gun was incapable of doing.

To get nore in depth about the reason for this is the concept of gauges. A piercing gun only pierces a 20 gauge size. all other places on the body (nipple, tongue, nose, etc.) require a much larger size. When talking on terms of gauges it is exactly like wiring, the lower the number the bigger the gauge. Here is a diagram of the different sizes:Gauges

To finish, 16 gauge is standard for noses, eyebrows, and lips. 14 gauge are standard for tongues, nipples and tongue. The reason for this is because bigger gauges are obviously harder to rip out. To pierce gauges, a piercer should use tri-bevel sterilized stainless steel hollow tip needles. basically, a really sharp hollow needle. There are two types, curved and straight needles. Here is a picture of the tri bevel tip:

Tri-bevel

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