About Soda Pop Piercing
Soda Pop is a warm and inviting studio located on Historic N. Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Our studio is solely focused on body piercing, and we strive to create a safe and inclusive environment for clients from all walks of life, backgrounds, personalities, and styles. We take pride in our timeless aesthetic, and meticulous attention to detail.
We believe it is our responsibility to guide you through your piercing experience with patience, compassion, and understanding. Whether it's your first piercing or you're a seasoned enthusiast, we treat every client with the highest level of respect and care. We welcome questions, so please don't hesitate to ask.
Our main focus is to ensure the health and safety of our clients and staff. We achieve this by implementing the latest piercing techniques and state-of-the-art sterilization practices. We only use single-use and sterile tools and implements that are immediately disposed of after each use. In addition we adhere to a comprehensive aseptic technique using sterile skin prep products and sterile surgical sterile gloves for all of our initial piercing services to ensure the highest level of care. You can rest assured knowing that our piercers are members of the Association of Professional Piercers and continuously educate themselves to stay at the forefront of the industry's advancements.
When it comes to jewelry, we offer a wide range of pieces sourced from trusted makers around the world.Our jewelry is made from the finest materials, including 14k Solid Gold, Platinum, Implant Grade Titanium, Stainless Steel, Niobium, and Borosilicate, Soda-Lime or Quartz Glass. We want our clients to feel comfortable and informed about their jewelry, including how it works, what it's made of, and even how to insert and remove it if they choose to do so. We provide a range of tools and comprehensive tutorials for safe self-removal and insertion, but we are always more than happy to assist you with it as well!
We take great care in curating the individuality of each piercing and each piece of jewelry to your personal aesthetic. Whether you lean more minimal and subtle, or you’re a maximalist through and through, the Soda Pop crew will help you find the jewelry of your dreams.
The Soda Pop Crew
Billy
OWNER/PIERCER
PRONOUNS: HE/HIM
Employing an eye for aesthetics, a pleasant bedside manner, and knowledge of precious metal and gemstone pairings, Billy strives to connect with clients, fitting unique jewelry combinations tailored to their individual personalities, anatomy, and aesthetics. To create something beautiful and functional that is uniquely their own while honoring the art, energy, and tradition of the craft.
Originally from Massachusetts, Billy has been piercing professionally since 2006 but has worked in the industry since 1998. Billy has worked full time at renowned shops his entire career including Rockstar Body Piercing in Providence, RI where he apprenticed under Jef Saunders, 23rd Street in Oklahoma City, and Saint Sabrina’s in Minneapolis to name a few. He has also traveled traveled extensively from coast to coast doing guest spots in some of the finest shops in the country where he learned, collaborated, and shared information with some of the most knowledgeable piercers in the industry.
He has held body art licenses in multiple states, is a graduate of the Fakir Musafar Advanced Body Piercing Intensives in San Francisco, CA, a Business Member of the Association of Professional Piercers and relentlessly continues his education on body modification to soak up knowledge on every aspect of the art. He attends the Association of Professional Piercers conference in Las Vegas yearly teaching and taking classes on all aspects of body piercing.
When not at the shop you will likely find him working on civics projects, at a live show, wandering a museum, enjoying some aspect of the culinary arts or sipping whiskey and believe us it’s not hard to find him… You can hear him from blocks away!
Seth
PIERCER
PRONOUNS: HE/HIM
Seth is a passionate, professional, and dedicated piercer who is esteemed by his peers - clients and industry co-workers alike.
He started piercing professionally in 2005 and has continued to challenge himself by learning everything he can to be the best piercer possible. He attended the Fakir Body Piercing Intensives - Basic (2006) and Advanced (2008). He both takes and teaches classes annually at the Association of Professional Piercers Conference in Las Vegas and he has been a member of the APP since 2011.
Since moving from Tennessee to Oregon in 2010, he has been very active in the local body piercing community. He is a founding member of the Oregon Professional Piercers (OPP). He also served on the State of Oregon's Board of Body Art Practitioners from 2012-2017. During that time, he was on the team that helped institute some of Oregon's best regulations to help keep all Oregonians as safe as possible.
Seth is also the Piercing Director for The High Priestess Studios managing 10 studios up and down the west coast!
Seth loves working with gold, opals, and helping you find the best jewelry for your piercing. His favorite piercings to perform are kid's lobes, nostrils, daiths, conches, nipples and genitals and making sure all clients leave feeling excited and confident about how to take care of their new piercings. Seth is currently licensed in Oregon for all standard body piercings, as well as both specialty level 1 (all basic genital piercings) & specialty level 2 (all advanced genital piercings).
You may find him out and about mountaineering the PNW with his fabulous wife Chrystal!
Phebe
STYLIST
PRONOUNS: SHE/HER
Hi I’m Phebe Rue! I’m 29 years old and I’ve been immersed in the piercing world my whole life due to my parents being professional piercers since I was a baby. Throughout my years growing up in their shop Jewelry Zan’s (Jori Zan’s), I have developed a passion for body adornment and fine jewelry. When I’m not at Soda Pop, you can find me slinging tickets at Alberta Rose Theatre, playing music, or cozied up at home with my two cats. I’m very excited to be a part of the Soda Pop team, and I’m looking forward to helping make your jewelry dreams come true!
*Fun fact, Phebe has been to the Association of Professional Piercers Conference in Las Vegas more times than all of the rest of us!
