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Kylie Jenner couldnt wear just any earrings to the make-upMet Galaheld in September 2021.
Jenners stylists (and sisters)AlexandraandMackenzie Grandquistwanted Jenners ears to drip with streams of floating diamonds.
In their case, Tashs work withRihannawas the main draw.
She made us all of these custom pink floating diamonds that stuck with a magnet to the ear.
There was one catch.
The earrings wouldnt actually make it to the red carpet, due to a change in RSVP.
To paraphrase summer 2024s biggest saying, shes your favorite artists favorite piercer, anyway.
Momentum hasnt slowed in 2024, shortly after Tashs thirtieth business anniversary.
I like to think about how I can create an effect you haven’t seen before.
She also pierced herself from time to time.
I think it was a lot more cowboy than it is now.
Then and now, Tash has treated piercing as both a science and a mode of self-expression.
“I love the idea of like emergence,” she says.
I’d always known early on that was a goal.
Tash had the opposite of overnight success: the kind that’s a slow, but enduring, burn.
Booked and busy weekends piercing at Venus Modern Body Arts turned into some press in print fashion magazines.
Those stores fueled enough business to open another store in the States, and so on.
Plenty of jewelry designers work with diamonds.
Plenty of parlors pierce.
It’s the way Tash considers each individual jewelry setting with each individual’s body that set her apart.
I like to think about how I can create an effect you haven’t seen before, Tash says.
In other words, Maria Tash was earscaping years before it became an industry verb.
I’d always known early on that was a goal, she says.
Maria Tash’s studios are designed with comfortable seating areas and luxury furniture.
These days, her schedule resembles one of a corner-office CEO instead of a renegade earring artist.
And, she clarifies with a husky laugh, she would not pierce herself today.
The slow-and-steady, word-of-mouth growth that took Tash international wasnt just celebrity-driven.
You could have them for probably one hundred years, and they would still look amazing.
Tash took initiative tinkering with her piercings in her apartment all those years ago.
You could have them for probably one hundred years, and they would still look amazing.
When Tash then tells me shell never get tired of her jewelry, I believe she means it.
I still find that very intriguing.
And were always like, its Maria Tash.
It’s a straight line to her nearest studio from there.
Inquiring minds can find one in an instant, since Tash’s name is on the door.
We are starved for more flirting.
Celebrities will carry this bag truly anywhere.
The infamous Y2K trend is making a comeback with millennials, Gen Z, and their favorite celebrities.
There’s more to great piercings than adding a new hoop.
“Ive never liked the idea of having to change my body for fashion.”
