body piercer

Makes decorative holes

A body piercer is someone who punctures holes in people's skin to insert jewelry—through earlobes, nostrils, navels, nipples, eyebrows, tongues, and other body parts.

Professional body piercers work in tattoo shops or piercing studios, using sterilized needles and following health codes: My body piercer recommended titanium for the initial jewelry.

Related
  • needlePointed implement for sewing
  • tattooPermanent dermal design
  • jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
  • studUpright wall framing
  • nose ringOrnament through nasal cartilage

sterile needle · ear lobe · lobe · navel · belly button · septum · cartilage · gauge · stretched ears · sterile · parlor · ink · aftercare · hoop · barbell · antiseptic · salon · tongue

Categories
Opposites
body modification practice

body piercerreconstructive surgeon

Doctor restoring form and function

dermatologist · plastic surgeon · tattoo artist

Family

body, pierce, piercing, pierced, piercingly, bodies, bodied, bodily, embodied

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG