Jessica Harrington is the senior beauty editor at PS, where she writes about hair, makeup, skin care, piercings, tattoos, and more. As a New York City-based writer and editor with a degree in ...

Many traditional cultures embrace diverse forms of body piercings, such as those in the ear, face, hand, legs, and other body parts. Getting them done is primarily painful and requires time to heal.

So you've gotten a new piercing. But what do you do afterwards? It is a hole that's punctured through your skin, after all, so there is some healing involved. If you need pointers, Bustle reached ...

Personal adornment has been documented as far back as 12,000 years ago. But the objects interpreted as piercings hadn’t been directly associated with body parts — until now.