Piercing Fashion

Here’s another instance to how fashion can be breathtakingly beautiful or blisteringly bizarre. Sunday Mid Day, weekend edition of India’s leading tabloid Mid Day, published a story on a new craze called Corset Piercing in UK. 

Yes, it’s as painful as it sounds. Laura Hunt offers corset piercing at her Tattoo and Piercing Studio based in Southampton called Dragstrip. She charges £5 per hoop. 

But the 25 year-old insists, “It isn't dangerous”. She points out that corset piercing is becoming more popular since everyone wants to be different. It involves sticking hoops into the skin by hand and threading them with ribbon to give it a corset effect. No points for guessing which popstar first embraced this verging-on-masochistic trend – Lady Gaga sported flesh-coloured horns on her face during a television interview in February this year.

Laura Hunt at her studio in Britain with an example of her work, 
a corset piercing on a client's back. 

Corset piercing craze sees 
a ribbon 'sewn' onto backs, ribs and throats. Pic courtesy/ Sunday Mid Day

Shweta Shiware