Lobe Piercing Action…

Marking Up George.

Marking Up George.

George had never been pierced before, so decided on getting his lobes pierced with the idea to stretch them in future…

Here’s El Capitan VS. George w/some ear lobe piercing action.

  • Blue pen out, marking up; all important to get the positioning aesthetically pleasing as well as level and straight.
Literally Lobe Piercing!

Literally Lobe Piercing!

For a first piercing, George looks pretty relaxed.

  • Clamp the lobe with a mini clamp and pierced w/1.6mm needle.
snip n' smiles...

snip n’ smiles…

Now all smiles…

  • After removing the needle from the canula, snip the canula down at an angle to bite the jewellery thread.
Ear Lobe Piercing w/1.6mm.

Ear Lobe Piercing w/1.6mm.

Right side done. Now for the pair…

in n' out swift...

in n’ out swift…

Lobe Piercing ⚡ George & El Capitan

Lobe Piercing ⚡ George & El Capitan

Left side done.

  • Fit the jewellrey into the suspended canula and ease through the pierced lobe leaving just the bar, thread fix the ball on to finish.
Lobe Piercing Right

Lobe Piercing Right

George's Lobe Piercing Left

George’s Lobe Piercing Left

George was pierced w/1.6mm x 8mm blackline titanium labret bars w/5mm balls.

George is pierced!

George is pierced!

All in all, George took it well and enjoyed his first piercing experience ~ no doubt, no less @ Shiva Piercings w/El Capitan.

Special Thanks to Kelly Fitzsimmons for taking the photographs.

Edits by El Cap.

Tongue-Web Piercing Action…

work is like a Tarantino movie for Miss Jones

work is like a Tarantino movie for Miss Jones

So one Sunday the crew decides to go for some piercings after work, whilst we’re still in the old studio, no.24 Church St.

Here’s El Capitan VS. Miss Jones w/some tongue-web piercing action, which is the frenulum under the tongue.

  • Open wide and use a mini-clamp to grip the frenulum.
  • I used a 1.2mm needle, for which went through above, note my girl is ice kool.
Say "Aaaahh" one way or another...

Say “Aaaahh” one way or another…

Familiar to me because it’s what I do and I’d also pierced Shanice’s smiley at some point, the year before…

  • Removing the needle and cutting down the canula.
Ninja Dexterity

Ninja Dexterity

I’ve pierced I think five of Shanice’s twelve piercings so far, so I am told…

  • Fitting the jewellery, a 1.2mm x 8mm curved bar.

El Cap Vs Shanice IV

I usually pierce tongue-webs with a straight bar, the curved bar was a bit of a swerve ball angle wise and it’s a tricky piercing regardless.

  • Trying to keep the bar steady when the mouth is filling up with saliva, to put the ball on; is a challenge.
Miss Jones & El Capitan

Miss Jones & El Capitan

The bar actually slid out at least twice due to the saliva drool build up, but Shanice was calm as standard.

we tight like that

we tight like that…

  • Once threaded, tighten that ball real good; so it doesn’t come off.
Shanice's Tongue-Web Piercing

Shanice’s Tongue-Web Piercing

The tongue-web is the lower bar on show, 1.2mm x 8mm. The snake eyes/scoop piercing above; was not pierced by me. ✌

Special Thanks to Kelly Fitzsimmons for taking the photographs.

Edits by El Cap.

Throwback XXXmas XIII

Modified Daily Dream Print check out www.dailydream.com

Modified Daily Dream Print check out http://www.dailydream.com

2013 was another busy year of piercing for me, more so for finally setting up a gallery @ instagram.com/el_capitan_body_piercer and of course managing Shiva throughout a period of transition whereby the shop and studios were moved after an incredibly successful fifteen years located in Church St as a thriving independent business.

The move was planned since July 2013 and thus it was a long six months in re-working what was the old Emporium, vintage clothes shop for 30yrs; into the new slicker Shiva.

We didn’t move until January 2014 and a big shout out to all the current Shiva crew members who oversaw it all.

After workin’ it n’ workin’ it, here’s a few random shots (literally) of some of us before it got messy…

Archie. Jake. George.

Archie. Jake. George.

Shottin' so to speak...

Shottin’ so to speak…

No matter what the rota, line up, substitutions, changes over the years at Shiva, always been lucky to work with and meet some wonderful people.

We all different, we all the same, we all whatever.

Always love though, for which I’ve been fortunate to make some good friends… and family, we work together.

My crew hold it down, whatever the weather; no matter what given line-up… this crew gon’ run from who?

Miss Jones

Miss Jones

Illin', Trillin', Chillin'...

Illin’, Trillin’, Chillin’…

Lip & Eyebrow…

also pierced Rick's eyebrow & lip...

also pierced Rick’s eyebrow & lip…

Here’s a shot of Rick’s lip (labret) and eyebrow piercings and his review on Google:

“⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have had a few piercings done there now, Tragus, rim, transverse lobe, labrerte and eyebrow. Staff were brilliant, I am just figuring out what to have next.”

Skullduggery

Captain's Skullduggery Up Close

Captain’s Skullduggery Up Close

Close up of a trio of Rick’s piercings. 1.6mm top ear (which he later stretched to 4mm) with a tragus ring and a 1.6mm industrial bar in a translobe/industrial lobe bit of custom work.

Early Daze Work…

Long shot of work on Rick...

Long shot of work on Rick…

Here’s a long shot of some early daze work on my old friend Rick. A collection of tragus, top ear and some more custom work with my first translobe/industrial lobe piercing(s).