In Dublin, if you're looking to get pierced or any other body modification, get jewellery or ask advice about a modification - healing or otherwise. Body Shock is the place to go.
Aside from offering piercing, Body Shock also offers a range of other modifications from scarification to suspensions.
Body Shock has been around since 1997 - the owner, Paddy has some twenty, twenty one or more years in Piercing and Body Modification. This is the cleanest and most professional piercing studio in the city.
There is a wealth of knowledge here. From helping the National Museum of Ireland identify the purpose of dig finds to helping the rest of us find our way in the world of body modification and tattooing. I am very grateful to have had a place like Body Shock, I know I would not have any of the mods or ink I have without Body Shock and the tireless support and advice of Paddy O'Donoghue. Without the likes of Paddy and a very small number of others - body modification in good old Catholic Ireland would have been a much darker, less informed, cowboy ridden place and I'd probably have had to have my face amputated and or be sporting the words Satan's Disco Manatee tattooed on my chest. In neon Pink.
For visitors to Ireland it is worth noting. Unlike the UK and elsewhere, Ireland remains a country that has no specific licensing or health and safety legislation for Piercing, Tattooing and other Body Modification. Paddy O'Donoghue has long championed this cause and has constantly been on the forefront of the fight to get the Irish government to legislate regarding the industry. He is a founding member and on the board of directors of ABMAI (the Association of Body Modification Artists in Ireland). That should dispel any quibbles on Yelp about the cleanliness and safety of Body Shock.
Any information for visitors regarding the Dublin Tattoo Convention (which Paddy organises) or other Irish Conventions can also be found here.
Nothing bothers me more when I'm skimming Yelp and see reviews like the ones below. I'm not sure the point of them. A kid complaining that safe good jewellery is two euros more than his birthday voucher and so insults the safety of a place he didn't get pierced in? read more