cat (they/them)
bodypiercer since 2018
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guest piercer
since 2022
I started piercing in 2017 after attending the international BMXnet conference and training for the first time, which I have enjoyed attending every year since then. I learnt from Andrea Venhaus at the Deep Metal piercing studio in Dortmund for four years. But you never stop learning and so I became part of the nakedsteel piercing team in Kassel in February 2022.
Since then, I have completed further training in instrument reprocessing and hygiene management in the piercing studio and also attended the largest piercing conference (APP) in Las Vegas for the first time together with our team.
Body jewellery and body modifications have fascinated me for a long time. I got my first piercing before I was even 13 years old. My parents were both more or less pierced; because of this and my love of the black scene, it was inevitable that I would get involved with body modification and piercing as a young person.
I speak German & English.
Accompaniments in the piercing room are fine for me.
hika (they/them)
bodypiercer since 2009
guest piercer
since 2021
Born and raised in Berlin, I completed my first internship in a piercing studio in 2009, learnt continuously from there and completed my ‘training’ as a piercer in 2010. From 2011 I regularly attended the BmXnet Conference, and from 2014 I also attended the Association of Professional Piercers Conference in Las Vegas every year. The contacts I made there enabled me to travel the world and look over the fingers of top piercers in their studios in order to constantly expand my knowledge.
Throughout my piercing career, I had always booked myself into studios in Berlin, but the urge to travel had always gripped me, which is why I had spent most of my career as a guest piercer throughout Germany, as well as in France and Denmark.
My interest in piercings has existed since I was 12 years old, which developed more and more into an interest in the body as a medium of art and politics, as a vehicle for self-determination and self-creation, also through my short time in the transhumanism scene and as a performance artist.
At the moment I only work outside of Berlin on rare occasions and am only active as a guest piercer, as I am concentrating more on my jewellery company Queen of the Ashes Jewelry.
I speak German and English.
Accompaniments are okay for me in the piercing room.
