Mic Rawls has been piercing professionally for more than 20 years. He has been the studio manager at Cold Steel since 1999.
Originally from Louisiana, Mic trained under Paul King while at Gauntlet, the first professional piercing shop in the Western world. Mic eventually obtained the level of Gauntlet Senior Piercer. Having worked in New York, London, Hawaii, Los Angeles, and Australia, he happily calls San Francisco home. Mic is proudly a recommended piercer by Elayne Angel, author of The Piercing Bible. Mic is a member of the Association of Professional Piercers.
Mic is in the studio every Friday - Tuesday.
Follow Mic on Instagram @drm_drmmr
Becky Dill started her body piercing career in 2003, and has been with Cold Steel America since 2009.
She is a proud and active Business Member of the Association of Professional Piercers (APP).
She is a senior instructor for the APP, and teaches classes at their annual educational conference. Her courses have included topics on; working with children and how to guide them through the piercing process, advanced piercing techniques, fundamentals of nipple piercings, and community over competition.
In 2009, she founded the Bay Area Piercer’s Group. This groups focus is to keep positive communication and offer continuing education to all piercers and studio owners across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Becky is also one of the instructors for the Fakir Intensives School of Body Piercing. This school is the legacy of piercing pioneer Fakir Musafar, and teaches skilled, safe, aesthetically pleasing, and sophisticated body piercing.
She is proudly a recommended piercer by Elayne Angel, author of the The Piercing Bible.
Check out Becky's awesome reviews on Yelp!
Becky is typically in the studio Thursday-Sunday.
Christopher Garcia bio and portfolio coming soon!
Christopher is typically in the studio Wednesdays and Sundays.
Danny has worked for Cold Steel since August 2008, and plans on staying for as long as they'll have her.
You can find her in the studio Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday, ready to answer your questions and help guide you to your next (or first!) amazing piece of jewelry.
Danny keeps the behind-the-scenes of Cold Steel running smoothly, managing all of our Internet Stuff; answering your emails, running our social media, website, and online store. She's also behind all of our jewelry photos and most client photos - if you're ever in the neighborhood and want to show off something you've gotten on one of your visits to the studio, pop in and have her take some glamour shots!
She is an associate member of the Association of Professional Piercers.
Devin is our resident San Francisco native.
She was a frequent customer for years and is extremely stoked to have joined such a fabulous crew. In addition to gold body jewelry, Devin is passionate about walking dogs, especially her own pit bulls, Luna and Stella, as well as cooking/eating all the vegan junk food possible.
She would love to help you pick out the jewelry of your dreams so come in and visit her on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays!
Follow her on Instagram @devinmichal
She is an associate member of the Association of Professional Piercers.
