Picture this: You, a stylish person with cool friends, decide that you want to get your ears pierced to celebrate your birthday. Do you go to a body piercing shop where the piercers are expert but the customer base is, too? Or do you drag a group of adults to the nearest mall for a Claire’s throwback?
This was the essential dilemma behind the founding of Studs, a millennial- and Gen Z–marketed piercing studio that opened its first PNW location in Capitol Hill on July 28. It’s the brand’s 13th store in its seventh state—numbers I’m choosing to see as lucky, for the purposes of allowing a stranger to punch a
→ Continue reading at SeattleMet