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meet james

Bio

My earliest memory into the piercing world was around 6 years old downstairs of my parent’s basement looking thru the pages of National Geographic, thoroughly amazed at what was being introduced to my eyes. Throughout the years life passed without much thought and it wasn’t again that my passion for jewelry and body art surfaced until the impressionable age of thirteen, the family summer trip to Cedar Point amusement park, it was this year waiting in line for the Gemini roller coaster with my father that I saw what would soon shape my future.  A guy with his pink mohawk and his dangling skull/dagger earring that I could not stop staring at even if I wanted to, I was amazed by his appearance but this time it was different and I realized I needed to experience something, little did I know that this would become my true passion.

I officially took my apprenticeship for body piercing in 1993 at the Amulet in Grand Rapids with further involvement in 1996 at The world recognized Gauntlet studio in San Francisco for basic technique along with health and safety seminars. Further education has been my continued attendance at the Association of Professional Piercing conferences since the year of 2001 which eventually would lead Holeybody to becoming a member of the APP in March of 2005. This along with continual training daily I wake most days living the best accident job of my life: to pierce and design all our bodies in the safest, best atmosphere that we can create and feel comfortable in.

meet katrina

Body Piercer and Jewelry Specialist

Bio

Growing up I spent an unusual amount of time with my childhood friend at her dad’s tattoo studio. We would sit around drawing or playing barbies but I was always more fascinated with the people coming and going. Everyone had piercings and all I can remember is thinking – How do I get those? Soon after that I was begging my mom for a navel piercing and on my 14th birthday she granted me my rite of passage. I patiently waited four long years to be professionally pierced again. On my 18th birthday I started getting pierced and I couldn’t stop. By mid-2015 I was getting pierced so frequently that I was beyond just a client and a dear friend pointed out I should look into working in a studio. Something that had never crossed my mind even in my most far-fetched fantasies. I sat on that conversation for a while thinking of all the ways that was unrealistic for me. No matter how unrealistic, I couldn’t let the idea go.

Fast forward to the end of 2015, I had completed my first CPR and blood borne pathogens courses that allowed me time inside Holeybody. I spent my time cleaning and soaking in any knowledge any of the artists were willing to give me. Much time later I was presented with the opportunity to accept a formal apprenticeship with Jim at Holeybody. Today I continue to shape and perfect being the best professional body piercer and jewelry specialist.