Body Shock

In Dublin, if you’re looking to get pierced or any other body modification, get jewellery or ask advice about a modification — healing or otherwise. Body Shock is the place to go.
Aside from offering piercing, Body Shock also offers a range of other modifications from scarification to suspensions.
Body Shock has been around since 1997 — the owner, Paddy has some twenty, twenty one or more years in Piercing and Body Modification. This is the cleanest and most professional piercing studio in the city.
There is a wealth of knowledge here. From helping the National Museum of Ireland identify the purpose of dig finds to helping the rest of us find our way in the world of body modification and tattooing. I am very grateful to have had a place like Body Shock, I know I would not have any of the mods or ink I have without Body Shock and the tireless support and advice of Paddy O’Donoghue. Without the likes of Paddy and a very small number of others — body modification in good old Catholic Ireland would have been a much darker, less informed, cowboy ridden place and I’d probably have had to have my face amputated and or be sporting the words Satan’s Disco Manatee tattooed on my chest. In neon Pink.
For visitors to Ireland it is worth noting. Unlike the UK and elsewhere, Ireland remains a country that has no specific licensing or health and safety legislation for Piercing, Tattooing and other Body Modification. Paddy O’Donoghue has long championed this cause and has constantly been on the forefront of the fight to get the Irish government to legislate regarding the industry. He is a founding member and on the board of directors of ABMAI (the Association of Body Modification Artists in Ireland). That should dispel any quibbles on Unilocal about the cleanliness and safety of Body Shock.
Any information for visitors regarding the Dublin Tattoo Convention (which Paddy organises) or other Irish Conventions can also be found here.
Nothing bothers me more when I’m skimming Unilocal and see reviews like the ones below. I’m not sure the point of them. A kid complaining that safe good jewellery is two euros more than his birthday voucher and so insults the safety of a place he didn’t get pierced in?

Body shock have perhaps the worst name in Dublin piercing studio history. Every time I hear Body Shock I just hear ‘toxic shock’ which is what your body goes into if a piercing goes wrong. The staff here (or at least the guy I was dealing with) aren’t the friendliest bunch and aren’t that accommodating. I was given a 20 € voucher for here for my birthday last year, and found that I couldn’t actually buy anything with it as their cheapest piece of jewellery was 22 €.
I’d recommend you go elsewhere. You’ll save money and feel appreciated.

Body Shock is the kind of piercing place you step into and there isn’t much to look at. This is a good thing, because it means that they focus on one thing and one thing only — piercing. It also means they are likely to do a good job.
I stopped in one day and asked a few questions regarding a piercing I need to have looked at. The guy working was professional and really informative, and he let me know that the kind of piercing I had had in my ear was basically a novelty piece and was the reason my ear kept reacting badly to it. He said they had the right kind of barbell I needed. I bought the piece and he put it in for free.
It also should be mentioned that they have weekly specials. When I stopped in, you could get your nipple pierced for a mere 25 euros! Not bad.