With the abundance of quality information available to body piercers these days, it is disheartening to see the quality of work coming from some of these people. In no other area of piercing do I see such shoddy craftsmanship as I do in the area of surface piercing. Surface work is an advanced art of piercing, and shouldn't be attempted by those who don't have the training or experience to perform them properly. To do so makes you a hack, and we have plenty of hacks in this industry already, everyone of them dragging down the advancement and public acceptance of the industry. Horror stories travel faster and farther than anything else, and some of you could give Stephen King a run for his money as fast as you are pumping them out.....
Surface piercings are extremely difficult to heal if everything is done correctly. To utilize inappropriate jewelry, to pierce high motion areas, to fail in recognizing anatomical requirements, all go to make healing a surface piercing a lottery like statistical probability....... and is a serious dis-service to your client who trust you do things correctly, and seldom know when you aren't.
BME has already taken the time to document the essential information on surface piercings, so I will spare the rehash in this post, but for those of you who are working on other people, or those that are interested in knowing the PROPER way to do surface piercing, please take a moment to at least familiarize yourself with the info. We abandoned the old methods for surface piercing years ago, because quite frankly, they NEVER WORKED, and WILL NEVER WORK. If you are doing surface piercings, please don't be playing catch-up, your clients are counting on you.........
Surface Piercings
Surface Piercings rejection
Surface Bars

the large gauge madison in the rejection page looks like it was a stupid idea in the first place.

punch and taper...learn the "proper" way to do it folks..
see you in a couple weeks tana..

                                                                                   cheers..john

Unless the PTFE is bent with 90 degree risors into a surface bar shape (this is a tricky practice to get them to stay bent, and requires heating them at the bend to the point of nearly melting and then letting them cool in that shape), then they are as useless as curved barbells. Any piercer who knows their shit gave up on PTFE for surface piercings years ago.... so more than likely she is just full of shit.....

if the jewelry doesn't look like the ones pictured above, its wrong. Here is a series of photos from BME of nape piercings using the type of bars that piercer is talking about.....as you can clearly see, they don't work




Edited by MontanaPiercer

Hmm, i did not know that