So You Want A Surface Piercing. Surface piercings generally suck because the piercer performing them is an idiot that doesn’t care enough about their client to do the piercing correctly (not helped by the fact that every tattoo magazine and piercing website out there, desperate for attention of their own, will gladly reprint their “freaky” photos and hold them up as “artists of the month”). In the following article I will try and explain why surface piercings fail, and how they can be coaxed into properly healing. There is absolutely no excuse for surface piercings not having at least an eighty percent success rate.

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