When I made the decision to quit my studio, pack up my life into a friend’s closet, and hit the road to travel and pierce, I was terrified. Probably more terrified than I’ve ever been in my life about anything. But I was coming up on my eighth year of piercing and I figured now was the time to do what I always wanted to do, and that was to see the world. Two adventure-filled years later, here I am, a little more wise about life, piercing in general, and a whole hell of a lot happier. I’ve also found a niche with other traveling piercers who feel the same way I do about the whole thing. It’s a rad life. I was asked a good question recently though and that was “why do you think there are so few female traveling piercers?” I won’t lie. At first, my mind went blank. I felt like there were so many of us. But then I realized that really, we are few and far between and that got me to thinking. Why?

Well, I racked my brain trying to figure it out. I came up with some negatives of course. Women shouldn’t travel alone because it’s scary (heads up, it’s not). Women are matriarchs of their households and can’t be gone for long, etc. And then it hit me out of nowhere.

Female piercers are  too  busy  holding  it down in this industry to be traveling piercers. Now, more than ever, there are so many amazing, talented ladies who are running the show! There are some incredible studios popping up all over the place that are owned and/or run by badass women. Women who are holding their noses to the grindstone with a vengeance, sometimes juggling a family in there too, and unfortunately, that doesn’t leave much time for traveling to do guest spots.

But is that really a bad thing? Absolutely not. Watching my female friends and peers rock this industry down to its core is inspiring on a whole other level. So, while we have a bunch of different angles to consider (ha, angles. See what I did there?), we should focus on the fact that we’ve got some fierce women piercers who are changing the face of who we are and what we do; they’re simply too busy to travel. For now.