Eterna
By Michael Mueller
Eterna has changed its name and moved uptown, but its history goes back to Steel of Doom, the studio Tony Black founded on Sant Pau back in 2015. Piercer Laura Blu joined him in 2019, and two years later the business opened a larger, second space near La Boquería, with a host of tattooers and piercers. The Sant Pau studio closed in 2023, but in 2025 they reopened under the Eterna name on Carrer de Reus in la Bonanova.
Laura has a deft touch with the slightly nervous, soon-to-be pierced. She works freehand with needles and uses internally threaded, implant-grade titanium jewelry that meets stringent ASTM F-136 standards. Her work ranges from ear, facial and navel piercings to nipple and genital work, microdermals and inverted-nipple correction. The studio sends written care instructions afterward and responds to any follow-up questions.
On the tattoo side, Tony works in realism, with portraits of people and animals as well as full sleeves. He also will handle cover-ups of old tattoos. Both tattooing and piercing are by appointment only.