The other day I seen a customer over at Twilight Dreamz Tattoo and Body Piercing come in with a Nape surface piercing. It looked terrible. The bar was already starting to push put like the majority of the piercings usually do. I asked him how long he had it in for and he said the bar was only in for 6 months. Surface piercings have a very high rejection rate. Now ad days its easier and safer just to put in two Micro Dermals. Dermals have a very high success rate and barely have any problems healing unlike the surface bar.
Surface bars at both Aberration Pro Custom Tattoo in South Beloit and our newest addition Twilight Dreamz in Poplar Grove still carry the surface bars and will pierce with them, but we really lay out the advantages and disadvantages of both to the customer. 9 times out of 10 the customer opts for the Dermal because of the advantage of cleaning and low rejection rate. Personally I see Surface Piercings becoming a relic in the industry with very few being seen on the scene. Who wants to pay over and over again to get the piercing done because of it's rejection rate? Not many people that I know.