Stone Mountain has equipment and supplies available for sale. Both of these are popular forms of personal adornment. Tattoos are permanent skin etchings, while piercing is a hole put through the top layers of the skin, in order to slip a ring or a stud into it. These studs may be of gold, silver, diamonds or other metals. Tattoos may be black and white, or in color, and located on various parts of the body. The supplies needed for these include needles, drills, pigments, thread, alcohol etc. All of these should be surgical quality and properly disinfected, since tattoos and piercings and done on skin, and the chances for infection are considerable. Thse clean, standard equipment are available in Stone Mountain.