"Statement piece” is an overused term in fashion. Idly click on Net-a-Porter’s “What’s New” column this week and you’ll be met with hundreds of them, all vying for a slice of your new season budget.

Facial piercings are often just outside of mainstream fashion, save for the occasional nose hoop or eyebrow piercing. (Side note: Please stop with the latter, I beg you.) But in the past few years — ...

'Statement piece' is an overused term in fashion. Idly click on Net-a-Porter’s What’s New column this week and you’ll be met with hundreds of them, all vying for a slice of your new season budget. Top ...

Once only seen on punks and cartoon bulls, the septum piercing — which goes through the fleshy tissue between your nostrils — has become slightly more mainstream, partly thanks to celebs sporting them ...

But now I feel really old. I was 16 when I had my first piercing. It was a bejeweled belly-button bar, and for the most part, nobody ever saw it – which was, well, boring and pointless. As I hit ...