SOPHIE MORGAN The sports presenter has many tattoos, including this intricate one on her back
New year,newtattoo
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(and a piercing or three while you’re at it!) AFTER A YEAR on maternity leave, slumping around in leggings, I was feeling distinctly unglamorous. My clothes didn’t fit but, with the pandemic raging, I had nowhere special to be and couldn’t quite make myself buy any bigger ones. However, I did make one style upgrade and it proved to be more of a mood-booster than I could have predicted. Inspired by Instagram images of influencers with pretty jewels snaking up their ears, I decided to get myself a new ‘stacked’ ear wardrobe to distract from my new eyebags. Bling instead of Botox, if
you will. Two more piercings in my left ear and one in my right won admiration from my five-year-old, as well as a trio of mum friends who signed up for their next piercings, too. Traditionally, extra holes and inkings were something done – and regretted – by rebellious teenagers, but in recent years, they’ve crept towards the mainstream. Now, the pandemic seems to have pushed the trend fully centre stage. In 2022 getting a new hole doesn’t need to involve a trip to an intimidating piercing studio, thanks to a glut of luxe piercing bars popping up in department stores and boutiques. Upmarket London piercing parlour
LUCY LIU The Hollywood actor shows off her earring stack STELLA | 16 JA N UARY 2022
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Extra piercings and inkings? They were once so very unrefined… until high-end jewellers and our nation’s respected dames started getting in on the act. Jessica Salter explores the rise of body decor
