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.

Proper placement of surface piercings are vital for the correct healing process. Many times with a surface piercing the body rejects the jewelry as a foreign object. When this happens the jewelry is pushed to the surface, causing the piercing to grow out or be pushed out.

Common surface piercings include:

• Wrist/Forearm piercing
• Madison piercing
• Corset piercing
• Nape piercing
• Hip piercing

Here are some pictures of some new and healed surface piercings.

Hip surface piercing. A Hip piercing is a piercing in the pelvic area through the skin near the hip bone. Usually hips piercing are done one for each hip.

Hip piercings are becoming very popular among women and look very sleek when done properly.

Usually hip piercings done with long surface bars are better because more skin is pierced and the piercing is less superficial and that reduce the risk of rejecting.

Neck Piercing: A neck piercing is a series of surface piercings done to emulate the appearance of a bite on the side of a person’s neck. A barbell is placed in the skin of the side of the neck.

When the earring/barbell is removed it looks like a vampire bite.

Surface bars and microdermals are the jewelry for the neck piercing, with microdermals being the best.

Madison Piercing: The madison piercing is a surface piercing that goes through the skin at the front of the neck.

Some piercers prefer to do these piercings with microdermals, which is a single point piercing jewelry. Microdermals are used in locations that may become irritated.

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