We strongly believe that the desire to modify one’s body is something that is natural and instinctual, not limited by race, gender, culture or……species.

And it was with that belief in mind that we helped this very enthusiastic and surprisingly civil, gorilla find his way in the world with a nipple piercing. As with all things cutting-edge these days, there was video documentation. We hope to be able to provide that to all of you at some point.

We put this up a while ago on our Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter pages. Seems like this would be a good place for it too.

triple forward helix done by Derek

UPDATE
We’ve been getting a lot of emails and questions about whether these are “dermals”, microdermals or some kind of surface piercing. No. These are just standard forward helix piercings done with standard piercing jewelry.

While we don’t wish to speak ill of anyone, if you consult a piercer about these piercings, and they tell you that they are some sort of dermal anchor piercing, or that the jewelry to do these as a regular piercing doesn’t exist or something similar, we would strongly encourage to find another piercer. While this particular configuration of piercings has recently become very popular, it isn’t “brand new” or overly advanced. If a piercer can’t figure out what is going on by simply looking at the picture, it probably says something about their experience and/or understanding of basic body piercing.