Welcome to Virtue and Vice
Body Piercing

 ALL services and visits to the studio will be available by appointment only.

  • If you need a chaperone to enter the studio you can reach out to a friend via FaceTime or other app so long as their mic is muted. Minors, please bring 1 parent.
  • Do not come early. We will meet you at the door at your appointment time.
  • We do fit in walk ups whenever we can but there’s often a wait. 
  • “Just shopping for jewelry” is treated like every other service because it requires a dedicated staff member to price pieces and establish correct sizes. We don’t accept returns, so this is very important.
  • If you’ve shown signs of cold or flu, reschedule your appointment.
  • If you’re bringing jewelry with you to be put into a healed piercing,  bring in in a clean plastic ziplock bag.

Virtue and Vice Mission Statement:

We believe it to be a professional imperative to provide our clientele with the best possible service. We have focused on the following standards:

Sterilization

Virtue & Vice maintains two sterilizers at all times.

The large, more traditional unit is used for the first of two sterilization cycles. Once tools are properly processed and sterilized they are stored until ready for the second, final cycle.  Before each client is pierced all necessary tools are placed into the second autoclave, which is called a StatimClave. This sterilization process does not require the use of pouches and allows your piercer to maintain “point of process” sterilization. It is important to note that needles and any soft supplies such as gauze are single use.

After you have made your jewelry selection, a cassette with everything needed for your piercing is assembled and then placed within the StatimClave. Once the sterilization cycle is complete, you will witness the opening of your cassette. Along with the piercing supplies, your cassette contains an individually numbered sterilization monitor strip. This strip lets you and your piercer know that the items to be used have been properly sterilized. Both autoclaves are tested monthly by an independent laboratory and each client cassette is processed with an indicator strip to show that sterilization has been achieved.

All employees of Virtue & Vice are trained in universal  precautions to protect both themselves and their clientele.

Placement

Jewelry and placement options are selected to fit each persons’ individual anatomy. It is our great regret that many piercers lack either the experience or the training to assess people’s anatomy on an individual basis. This will often result in unattractive, virtually un-healable piercings. Starting the process with a bad or inappropriate placement can be a truly miserable experience.

Jewelry

We provide jewelry made from the purest, most well-manufactured materials available. Each material used has been painstakingly researched.

Technique

All piercer skills are technically advanced. All procedures are performed with great speed and accuracy using the most effective and efficient methods. Often the client doesn’t even realize that s/he has already received the piercing.