Fuck Yeah, Stretched Labrets!

Turkana adornments part 2:

1. A woman and child in Napak village. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Heliotrope adventures this month! So excited to be working with bloodstone, it’s been years since I’ve touched this material and suddenly I’m caught with some mad inspiration by it. All of the pieces pictured here are available HERE I don’t have any more of this material left at the moment, but I do plan on restocking in the near future. In the meantime I have a large selection of other materials & unique pieces of rough to choose from. This years focus is colorful agates & rich petrified woods

Raelyn Gallina has passed away.

Raelyn was instrumental in the rise in popularity of body piercing in the early 90s, making Philadelphia a main stop on her body modification tours. She helped to shape what body piercing was, and would become, on the East Coast. I was lucky to have had both piercing and branding work done by her.

She was never given the status in our community that I always felt she deserved, and when I became president of the APP in 2009, I knew I wanted to work to change that, and she was the first person I was able to honor with the APP President’s Award. (She’s holding it in her lap in the video, and you can read more about it in The Point #48, at safepiercing.org.) Of all the things I was able to do as president, this was one of my accomplishments I’m most proud of.