If you're taking a break from jewelry staples, like earrings, and adopting a more casual approach to your wardrobe lately, you're not alone. But as we begin to ease back into our old routines, some ...

Lobe piercings usually take around four to six months to heal, while cartilage piercings can take anywhere from eight months ...

People have pierced their ears for thousands of years for ceremonial, cultural, religious, and decorative purposes. The oldest known example of ear piercing comes from “Ötzi the Iceman,” a man who ...

Wondering which ear piercings hurt more than others? Ahead, our beauty writer who has over 40 piercings shares the seven she thought were most painful, complete with insights from a piercer and a ...

"Hate comments are paying my bills," Dylan Marino tells PEOPLE Angel Saunders has been a writer at PEOPLE since 2023. She’s previously worked at iHeartMedia, IndieWire, and REVOLT. Hedy Phillips is ...

While getting your ears pierced is pretty safe, there's still a chance that your piercings could become infected. An ear piercing is a fresh wound that needs to be treated as such. This means keeping ...

POV: You finally got that cartilage piercing you’ve been thinking about. You picked out the perfect starter stud (but have big plans to level-up to a hoop when the ...

Having a needle go through your ear sounds, well, like it doesn't feel great. But, of course, rocking curated stacks of earrings is on trend these days... which calls for multiple piercings. To see if ...

There are a ton of different ways to pierce and accessorize your ears. INSIDER put together a basic guide to some of the most common ear piercings you can get. Piercings on the earlobe, for example, ...

We’ve all seen adorable little babies with their ears pierced. While some parents choose to have their baby’s ears pierced shortly after birth, others wait until their baby is a little older. And ...

Dylan Marino of Jersey City, N.J., tells PEOPLE she’s used others being “freaked out” or “grossed out” by her heavily pierced ears After sharing a video with no earrings in, commenters immediately ...