Hello All, My name is Claire I am a body piercer in North Carolina. I have been piercing for some while, having completed my apprenticeship about seven years back. I am competent and capable with basic piercings, most genital piercings, surface piercing and dermal anchoring. I am currently training a piercer for a friend’s tattoo shop and am pleased with the process, a person who is intelligent and eager to take the time to learn correct methods and procedure is a pleasure to work with. After I feel that I’m leaving our friend with a well trained piercer I will return to a tattoo apprenticeship under my husband, who is a tattooist at a different shop.

I have been scrubbing tubes, lining out stencils and doing all the apprentice work for my husband for the last two years (spoiled!) and I have learned a lot from him, but, due to the fact that he is my husband he has the tendency to take me for granted in a way that a more formal arrangement wouldn’t. I am not here to try and pry technical matters or technique out of any of the professionals here, as I know this is not the place for it, nor can internet discussion take the place of one on one training. but I look forward to finding discussion starters, and good questions to ask that will help me make the most of my learning process and help me develop into a quality tattoo artist.