Piercings By Nicolle

09/27/2026

🤠✨ WE HAVE A WINNER! ✨🤠
Congratulations to Michelle Lowry you won our Cowgirl Ear Curation! 🐎💎
We’re so excited to design a western-inspired ear just for you and bring the whole look together with the perfect placements + jewelry. 🤎
Thank you to EVERYONE who entered, commented, shared, and showed us love. Y’all made this so much fun, and we definitely want to do more curations like this!
Michelle, message us so we can get everything set up. 🤠✨

09/27/2026

09/27/2026

09/27/2026

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09/26/2026

Sometimes I wish people could see what it really means to be a piercing apprentice.
Last night, my apprentice got a lot of hate over their very first set of angel fangs.
“Yikes.”
“You should quit piercing.”
“You should start your life over.”
And yeah, I’m upset.
Were they perfect? No. Some things didn’t come out the way we expected, and we can acknowledge that. We looked at what could have been done differently, talked about placement and technique, and we’ll learn from it.
That is literally what an apprenticeship is for.
What people don’t get to see is everything behind that one picture.
They don’t see the hours of studying anatomy.
They don’t see the practicing, marking, measuring and re-marking.
They don’t see how excited an apprentice gets when they finally hit that dot perfectly.
They don’t see their face light up when a technique they’ve been struggling with finally clicks.
They don’t see them staring at a piercing afterward, picking apart a millimeter that most people would never even notice.
They don’t see how hard apprentices already are on themselves.
They don’t see the questions they ask because they genuinely WANT to become better.
They don’t see me standing beside them teaching, correcting, explaining and making sure every experience good or bad turns into education.
Every experienced piercer you admire today had a first nostril. A first septum. A first industrial. A first set of angel fangs.
Nobody was born knowing how to do this.
And somewhere along the way, every great piercer has had a placement they would change, an angle they learned from, a technique they stopped using, or a piercing that humbled them.
The difference between becoming great and giving up is being willing to learn from those moments.
Constructive criticism? Absolutely. We welcome it. Tell us what you see. Explain what could be better. Teach. Educate. That’s how this industry grows.
But telling someone who is actively learning to quit, that they’re terrible, or that they should “start their life over” doesn’t teach them anything.
I wish people could see how much courage it takes for an apprentice to put their work out there knowing hundreds of experienced people may pick it apart.
I wish they could see how proud they are when they improve.
I wish they could see the disappointment they already feel when something isn’t exactly where they wanted it.
And more than anything, I wish people remembered what it felt like to be new.
My apprentice is going to make mistakes. So am I. So will every piercer who continues learning.
Our responsibility is to recognize them, protect our clients, correct what needs correcting, learn from them, and do better the next time.
I will never teach my apprentices that they have to be perfect on day one.
I’ll teach them to be safe.
I’ll teach them to be accountable.
I’ll teach them to ask questions.
I’ll teach them to take constructive criticism.
I’ll teach them not to let one imperfect piercing convince them they aren’t capable of becoming an incredible piercer.
Because if people stop trying the first time they aren’t perfect, there would be no great piercers.
Be the experienced person you wish you had standing beside you when you were learning. ❤️

09/25/2026

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