Unusual Industrial Piercings
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Monday October 30th, 2006 @ 10:06 PM
Filed under: Body Modification, Body Piercing
I’ll start with one that’s fairly standard in terms of jewelry for unusual industrials, other than the wonkiness of looping it through the piercings. This custom made piece was done by Oliver at Danse Sabbatique in Tecate, California.
These next three examples using very pretty custom jewelry are all by El Verno at Holy Macherel/Visual Addiction in St. Paul, MN. From left to right they’re a three way industrial with a trillion cut stone, a 6×6mm princess cut cubic zirconia in a vertical industrial, and finally a very cool six-point custom inner cage.
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31 Responses to “Unusual Industrial Piercings”
Wow, those look amazing!
DeadTomato on October 30th, 2006 at 10:19 pmFirst tought: wauw!
Second tought: how did they get in? Especially that right one…
Third tought: won’t those impair hearing?
Krynn on October 30th, 2006 at 11:04 pmlooks amazing
commonwealth on October 30th, 2006 at 11:25 pmid imagine the one on the far right was a bitch to heal
I have a sneaking suspicion that the vertical industrial’s ’sun glare’ effect may perhaps be photoshoped. :o
Awesome stuff, I really really love the 3 point. I think its simplicity is its strength.
Keep em comin!
jOELTRON on October 30th, 2006 at 11:36 pmwow
Lily on October 30th, 2006 at 11:43 pmthose are fun :D
Awsome jewellery! Looks fantastic.
SNR on October 30th, 2006 at 11:56 pmIs the third one a trick one? Obviously the two that we can see the ball closures on are real, but I’m not sure how the hell one would put those on/take them out/etc.
Whispers on October 31st, 2006 at 12:43 amI think I’d go insane if I couldn’t q-tip my ear canals, and it certainly looks like a couple of these would certainly hinder that.
-HURLEY
jason on October 31st, 2006 at 1:16 amVerno is awesome!!!
jeni on October 31st, 2006 at 1:53 amloved the one in the middle …so delicate :)
Verena on October 31st, 2006 at 2:32 amThis post brings up an argument I started recently. I had gotten pissed off that people kept saying that they got their industrial pierced as if it was a body part. Petty I Know, but if people get bitchy about ‘gauging vs stretching’ dot dot dot. Anyway i’ve always thought of industrial as meaning your basic two point lobe piercing with a straight (or slightly curved for anatomy) barbell. I would think that all of these are pictures of ‘ear projects’. And industrials get their name from the fact its become more or less the industry standard project. Am I way of on this or what?
DeCo on October 31st, 2006 at 3:39 amMy guess is maybe the ‘bar sections’ thread into the centre-piece to get them together? .. With like a fixed ball on the end maybe.
I like the triple one but the far right one is way too busy looking. If the different sections were evenly spready it would look alot better.
Still great work though, pushing boundaries a little further.
Pseud on October 31st, 2006 at 4:56 amI’ve considered industrials purely because they can look like these. On another note, did they get them done like this, or one at a time ’til they could put in that jewelry?
CreativeNonFiction on October 31st, 2006 at 8:13 amSaw some jewellery especially for this in the latest TRENDLINE catalogue from Germany. They also did stems in PTFE to allow some flexibility with the positioning.
Giles Wallwork on October 31st, 2006 at 10:36 ami love that last one !
candycovered on October 31st, 2006 at 12:53 pmDeCo, I believe the standard, original ‘Industrial’ refers to the piercing done at the top of the ear, going through two separate holes, with one long barbell. eg. mainly what you see in here: http://www.bmezine.com/pierce/01-ear/ind001.html
Cretilda on October 31st, 2006 at 1:29 pmBut now ‘Industrial’ seems to refer to two or more ear piercings connected with one piece of jewellery (straight or bent barbell), as above. (ones connected with a CBR or circular barbell would be called orbitals).
And then when someone plans multiple piercings for one ear or body part, they tend to call it a project.
It’s all a bit technical aint it :P
That second one is just about the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I’m drooling a little, I just LOVE it.
Lori on October 31st, 2006 at 2:31 pmwow, pwetty girl… =)
but anyway… I always asumed the name industrial came from the bar resembing building scaffolding… although now I think about it I really not sure how I came to that conclusion…
I gotta say my favourite picture (jewellry wise that is :-P) has to be the third. tis well funky :-)
wish_I_were_a_dragon... on October 31st, 2006 at 3:08 pmI dunno Joeltron, it was obviously taken in some pretty bright sunshine.
AshPlant on October 31st, 2006 at 4:35 pmYou know I would love to see the nurse’s face that goes to take the temp with an ear thermometer. I just have my tragus(s) done and that is fun to catch nurses off guard with those. I can only imagine what comments those would get.
whitewolf95 on October 31st, 2006 at 5:59 pmI love the 3 point one and the middle one. Great work.
The one in the middle was altered ….not by me though! I believe this is the handy work of Shannon’s minions.
El Verno on October 31st, 2006 at 9:22 pmI have made all of these pieces out of custom pieces of opals and and white gold! I glad that every one is enjoying them! I will be bringing some more creations to life very soon!
I must ask where can one purchase jewelry like this, i know its all custom made but ive been looking to do some crazy ear projects but cannot find the right jewelry anywhere. I also am looking for a multi looped spiral if anyone knows of sites for this can you please let me know.
ModFreak on October 31st, 2006 at 10:19 pmCall the piercings whatever you like, but that’s some lovely jewelry.
brave men run on November 1st, 2006 at 2:46 amYou can get threaded ends like that from piercing studios that sell body vision gold jewelry bodyvision.net.
chrisglunt on November 2nd, 2006 at 12:58 ami just got an industrial ear piercing but i really want to know..is there a meaning behind it?
stephanie on December 24th, 2006 at 6:30 pmI can’t think of any particular symbolism…
Shannon Larratt on December 24th, 2006 at 9:14 pmLove the first pic, very pretty.
ÈMþRꧧ on December 24th, 2006 at 9:59 pmWould this be custom made jewellery, or something that can be bought off the shelf so to speak?
Oops hadnt wound the screen down, 1st pic of the little ones, silly me ;)
ÈMþRꧧ on December 24th, 2006 at 10:00 pmouch. how would you do that?
solaris on April 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 pmThose are very nice! Giving me some ideas, thats sweet.
Crazy Kay on December 21st, 2007 at 12:29 pmthose are fucking sweet i just have a normal industeral and it hurts like a b**** :) oh well nice dudes peace xox
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