[citation needed] Angel has been involved with the crafting of regulatory legislation regarding body piercing in Louisiana, as well as the training of the professionals who enforce those laws.

[citation needed] In this capacity, Angel distributed the research study for the University of South Alabama on the relationship between female sexual satisfaction and vertical clitoral hood piercing.

[7] While in New Orleans, she established, with Justine Roig, a store catering to accessories for small dogs called Chiwawa Gaga.

Although Angel lives in Mexico, she works primarily internationally as a guest body piercer and piercing educator.

Since 2005, Angel has been writing a column on piercing for the body art industry trade publication, Pain Magazine.

[13] After receiving the service mark for this design, the circled "R" was added to her right buttock by tattooist Joey Galiger at the advice of her attorney.

Her image is well known in the community from an uncredited photo by Sheree Rose featuring her then incomplete wings, in the seminal publication Modern Primitives, published in 1989.