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Editorial team of Needle & Pigment

Nora Whitlock

Editor in chief

Nora Whitlock is the editor in chief of Needle & Pigment, and follows aftercare, skin healing, piercing and jewelry materials.

Topics covered

Nora Whitlock leads the Aftercare and Piercing desks. She writes about how skin heals after a tattoo, the general principles of care, and the materials used in jewelry for piercings. Each page starts with the main answer, then gives the reasoning behind it in plain words.

Her pages avoid jargon unless a term is explained on the spot. She keeps the tone calm and concrete, and she reviews every page of the journal before it is published, checking the structure, the wording and the sources at the foot of the text.

Desks in the journal

  • Aftercare
  • Piercing

How the work is done

Nora Whitlock reads published material on each subject, including public health institutions, museums, libraries, encyclopedias and specialized publications. A fact appears only when a source cited at the foot of the page supports it, and she checks that the source says what the sentence claims.

As editor in chief, she reviews every page of the journal before it goes live.

Pages in the journal

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