Gwen Stefani Piercing

Gwen Stefani is the beautiful lead singer for No Doubt and has had a successful solo career.

We’ve all had that moment when we sense that things are about to change. For Gwen Stefani that epiphany occurred as a high school senior in Orange County.

‘I remember being this 17 year-old girl, in love and really excited about my future with the boy that I thought was going to be my husband and we’d have babies and that, ‘she pauses, ‘was my passion. Then I learned that I could write songs and that is when my life changed. I went from being this really passive girl to ‘Oh my God

This makes me feel so powerful when I write these words.’ It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.”

Gwen Stefani was married at a London church for her September 14th 2002 nuptials to Gavin Rossdale, but arrived an hour late.

“I’m just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It’s not really that big of a deal. Writing songs is super intimate. It’s a bit like getting naked.”

“I’ve never considered myself a great singer. To be honest, it’s kind of nasally and piercing and I have no range.”

State Inspects Bay Area Body Piercing Shops For Lead

State inspectors paid a visit to Bay Area body piercing and tattoo shops Thursday to enforce a new law that bans lead from all jewelry sold in California.

Mike Berriesford, supervising investigator with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, employed new x-ray equipment at Zebra on Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue.

“We have a new law to enforce and we’re here to make sure that the standards are adhered to,” said Berriesford.

Not a problem for Kerri Naslund, who was performing a nose piercing. She has run a lead-free shop for 16 years, she said.

New Trend in Body Piercing All the Rage

There’s a popular new trend in body piercing. It’s called micro-dermal anchoring and it’s all the rage.

“A micro-dermal piercing, instead of going through two sides of a body part or tissue, it only goes through one part,” says Matthew Marter, a piercer at Club Tattoo in Tempe.

“The backing is underneath the skin, whereas a backing would be normally be on the other side of the ear or inside the nostril or inside of a lip.”

Harter says dermal anchoring has revolutionized the industry and over the past year has become incredibly popular.

“In the last two weeks I think I’ve done 50 of them or so.”

A single micro-dermal piercing will set you back about $50.