An industrial piercing is is any two pierced holes connected with a single straight piece of jewelry, though the term industrial piercing generally speaks of upper ear cartilage piercing. The piercing is also called scaffold piercing or a construction piercing. Same piercing just a different name.
The industrial ear piercing is done by creating two piercings with a hollow piercing needle. One piercing is close to the head or the top of the ear with the second piercing further down on the cartilage, on the opposite side of the ear. A …

A nape piercing is a piercing through the surface of the back of the neck (or nape). As with any surface piercing, the nape piercing does come with a high rate of rejection.
Special jewelry should be used for all nape piercings to minimize the risk of rejection. Tygon or teflon are used with surfacebars and barbells for long term and short term nape piercing jewelry.

The latest body piercing craze is the corset piercing. I have to admit, that the corset piercings are very sexy in the way they emulate the appearance of the corset with a series of bilaterally symmetrical piercings. This piercings consists of several surface piercings with rows pierced down the back (normally). Each piercing generally consists of rings and ribbons are laced through each bead ring to mimic a tied corset.
I have saw corset piercings done on legs and on the side of the body as well.
Most corset piercings are for …

The Monroe piercing, which is also known as the Crawford piercing, is named after Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford because the piercing is located in the same area as their beauty marks. This piercing is placed above the upper lip and is meant to resemble a beauty mark and is generally filled with 12, 16 or 18 gauge labret. AS you can see by the monroe pictures below, the piercing can be on either side of the lip and also varies in height above the lip.
The monroe piercing/crawford piercing is …

For those of you that are new to surface piercings, Surface piercings are piercings that are placed on the surface of the body. Unlike a nose piercing or a belly button piercing that goes entirely through the skin, surface piercings is pierced on a surface flap of skin, rather than running completely through a piece of body tissue from one side to another.