When celebrity piercer Brian Keith Thompson started getting tattoos in the late 1990s, his family sat him down for an intervention...

It's Brian Keith Thompson, owner of Body Electric and piercer to stars like Beyoncé and Jessica Alba, that's one of the forces behind the trends. In fact, he'll tell you that decorating your ear is exactly what they're there for. "They need it. They want it. They were put there to hang jewelry off of," he says...

Spontaneity is cool and all, but before you go googling "Nose piercers near me," please search "Do nose piercings close up?" first. The answer might surprise you. Brian Keith Thompson owns LA's Body Electric Tattoo and counts Beyoncé, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Lawrence as his regular clientele...

Spontaneity is cool and all, but before you go googling "Nose piercers near me," please search "Do nose piercings close up?" first. The answer might surprise you. Brian Keith Thompson owns LA's Body Electric Tattoo and counts Beyoncé, Emma Stone, and Jennifer Lawrence as his regular clientele. So we asked the pro to spit some truth about what you should know before shooting needles into your schnoz.

Brian Keith Thompson gives Joslyn and Sinead custom constellation piercings on Clevver’s “Beauty Trippin”…