It turns out you can get more than your ears pierced! Of course, you knew that but there’s an entire body modification community dedicated to pushing the limits of what decorating the body look like. Over the last several decades, piercers have gotten bold with their abilities and have achieved peak bizarre.
We decided to take a look at some unconventional body piercings that you might not have even known were possible. These body modifications go beyond traditional piecing techniques and utilize everything from microdermal implants and even embedding jewelry into teeth. We thought we knew everything there was to know about piercings but we were sorely mistaken. Take a poke around these 35 bizarre piercings and be sure to take inspiration from them if you’re into that sort of thing.
Microdermal piercing or dermal implanting involves making a single point perforation in the sub-dermal skin layer of the body and embedding a piece, or in this case, multiple pieces of jewelry. The neck is a popular location for this style of body mod.
You didn’t think we’d show you a pierced ear, did you? Oh no, we’ve got another neck piercing. This time it’s below the ear. We feel that a dangly earring would have given the same effect, but what do we know?
Why stop at two studs when you can have ten? This X-shaped design is neatly done and illustrates the creativity people have for their piercing schemes.
If you thought plucking between your brows was a pain, take a look at this. We’ve got a bridge piercing here through the loose flesh between the eyes. This looks very cool but we imagine it didn’t feel that way.
The smiley piercing or frenulum piercing pierces the flap of tissue that connects the inside of your upper lip with your upper gum. It sounds grosser than it looks. We find it rather cute?
If you weren’t born with dimples, no worries! You can pierce them right into your cheeks. Piercing the face isn’t going to be for everyone, but this is probably one of the more adorable examples.
A medusa piercing is a philtrum piercing that pokes through the upper lip. After a dermal piercing, it’s rumored to be one of the most painful spots to get pierced.
Subdermal piercings can go just about anywhere and this piercing on top of a black tattoo really sparkles. If there’s a part of your body that needs a little bling, chances are you can get it bedazzled.
If you’d like to look like you’re crying for the rest of your life, consider the modest cheek piercing. Prepared for your long hair to get caught around this style piercing 1,000 times a day. It is a cute little dagger though.
Here we find spiked studs lining either side of the spine. Do you know how we mentioned that subdermal piercings were the most painful? These last two folks must have nerves of steel.
Move over lower back tattoos, there’s a new body decoration in town. These back dimple piercings are not as intimidating as some of the other back piercings on this list.
Here we find a pair of matching microdermal clavicle piercings that dazzle. These collar bone piercings are a rather new innovation and they’re trending at the moment.
Sternum piercings are done just above the breastbone. These wildly popular piercings take up to three months to heal. So, be prepared for some soreness right in the middle of the chest.
Dental piercings are a trendy fad that’s taken off over the past couple of decades. They’re technically not piercings and instead are jewelry that’s embedded into the teeth. Compared to most other body modification procedures on this list, they’re relatively painless.
For those who’ve always wanted to stick a pencil or straw through their nostrils, you’re in luck! All you need to do is to pierce both nostrils and stretch them over time until you’ve got gaping holes in your nose.
This person really went to town on that bottom lip, didn’t they? We count 7 different points of piercing. Are these extreme piercings getting scarier as we keep going?
We’re sticking to the face for a moment here. We think it’s the jewelry that’s making these face piercings look so extreme. Black jewelry was definitely a choice!
Again, there are a few extreme piercings here, but we want to focus on the earlobe that is being weighted and stretched. Ear weights are a popular tool for people with extreme piercings.
Stretched labrets aren’t only for your nose! You can stretch your cheeks and even skin of the chin around them. We don’t know how these complicate eating and drinking, but there have to be some setbacks, right?
Well. We thought we knew but we were so, so wrong. Yes, people get their eyelids pierced. However, this piercing comes with a laundry list of possible complications, mainly infection. This seems like a tragedy in the making, but please people, do you.
There you go! 35 bizarre piercings that actually exist in this world. Are you ready to go under the needle?
Andrew is an Assistant Editor for Mamas Uncut with over ten years of experience as a writer in the creative, marketing, and blogging spaces. After studying Film and Art History, he developed a passion for telling stories in a variety of mediums. Obsessively making lists, reporting celebrity news, and diving into emerging pop cultural topics are a few of his interests.
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