Education // training Continued

Mahalia attended to the Association of Professional Piercing conference of 2018 and 2019. For her first two years she signed up for the mentor/mentee program and was graciously shown the ways by Jane Marie of Miami Tattoo Co. and Shawn Porter of Sacred Debris & Occult Vibrations.

Mahalia has received a certificate of education in the following classes accredited by the APP:

Talk APP: Gold Sales, Going Disposable, Metal Fundamentals, Above the Neck

('Oro-Facial') Anatomy for Piercers, Needle Theory, Photography For the Modern

Studio: Crop it like its hot! (B), Maintaining Control in the Piercing Room:

Strategies for When Things Go Wrong (Round Table Disc.), Tools: You Use Them

More Than You Think - B, Piercing in Performance: Recollections from Five

Artists, Sterilization - From Start to Finish (B), Microbiology

For Piercers

What Every Piercer Should Know About Below-The-Neck

Anatomy, Trauma Informed Body Modification For Professionals,

Nipple Piercings: Basic & Advanced Theory, What Piercers Need

To Know About Wound Healing & Aftercare, Body Piercing

Complications & Considerations, The Magic of Grounding &

Bedside Manner, Safe Practices In The Piercing Room (B),

Honing In On High Nostrils