It was an unremarkable afternoon in the Noughties, and I was working a slow shift at my Saturday job. There I was, behind the tills at Matalan, waiting for my next customer to appear, when I felt it.

Jasmine, 28, faced a variety of health complications after piercing her belly button over a decade ago and her nipple more recently In an April TikTok video, she recalled running into a "cancer scare" ...

Among frosted lips and barely-there brows, belly button piercings were one of the most distinctive beauty trends of the ‘90s and early ‘00s. Icons like Britney Spears and Beyoncé rocked the popular ...

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"Life lately" for the SKIMS founder includes a new body piercing Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The ...

Worried you'll have to ditch your belly button piercing once you're pregnant and your tummy starts to bulge with baby? Not necessarily. As long as your piercing is healed — for example, you didn't get ...

After years of high-waisted pants, bare midriffs have been making their way back into the fashion world, with models and guests at fashion week strutting their abs in low-rise bottoms. It only stands ...

As a teenager, the coolest thing you could do was to get your belly button pierced. Unfortunately, with a strict Zambian mother, I was forced to skip that edgy phase, and more than a decade on, I find ...