Initial jewelry · Piercing service
What goes in, and nothing else
A fresh piercing is an open wound with metal in it. What we put through you is not a matter of taste. It is a matter of what your body will tolerate while it closes around it.
So the list is short, and it is the whole list. Everything below is what we install. There is nothing behind it.
The standard we hold
- Material
- Implant-grade titanium — Ti-6Al-4V ELI
- Certification
- ASTM F-136 — the medical implant specification
- Sterilisation
- By the manufacturer, ethylene oxide gas (EtO)
- Packaging
- Sealed individually — one pouch, one piece
- Traceability
- Every pouch carries a lot number and a sterilisation date
- Cost
- Included in the piercing fee. Not an upsell.
These are not our words for it. They are the printed specification on the box, and you are welcome to read it before we open it in front of you. What the terms mean →
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Titanium
Included
Nine forms. Between them they cover every placement we pierce. Which one you get is decided by your anatomy at the appointment — not by a picture you chose beforehand.
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Threadless labret post
16g · 7/16", 3/8", 5/16" · 5mm, 4mm, 2.5mm backs · also 18g · 5/16"
The workhorse. Lobe, helix, flat, tragus, conch. The end presses in — no threads to turn against a fresh wound.
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Internally threaded labret
16g · 5/16" · 3mm back
Where a threaded end is the safer mechanical choice. The thread lives inside the post, never against your tissue.
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Straight barbell
14g · 5/8"
Industrial, tongue, nipple. A straight bar through two points, or through one thick one.
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Curved barbell
16g · 5/16"
Rook, eyebrow, daith. The curve follows the fold of the cartilage instead of fighting it.
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Threadless curved barbell, fixed flat disc
3/8"
A curve with a flat back that sits close and does not snag. Chosen when the anatomy is deep.
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Hinged segment ring
16g · 5/16" and 3/8"
Septum, daith, helix, nostril. It closes seamlessly — a continuous circle, no visible join.
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Circular barbell
16g · 3/8" · 4mm beads
The horseshoe. Septum and nostril, when you want the option to flip it up and out of sight.
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Threadless flat disc end
3mm
The quietest end we make. Flat, low, nothing to catch on a pillow or a jumper.
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Bezel-set CZ navel ring
14g · 7/16" · clear CZ
Navel. The stone is bezel-set — held in a rim of metal, not on claws that lift.
One exception
Captive bead ring
16g · surgical steel · pre-sterilised
The one exception on this page: steel, not titanium. Offered when a captive bead is the right call for the placement.
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Solid 14kt gold
Upgrade
The post stays titanium. Only the end that shows is gold — solid 14kt, pre-sterilised, threadless. Six of them. This is the entire selection, and it is added to the fee.
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Tier I
+$60
CZ prong pin · Opal cabochon
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Tier II
+$80
Gold disk · Hammered disk
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Tier III
+$120
Ceres top · Trinity top
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Tier I · +$60
Gold CZ prong pin
14kt yellow gold · 1.5mm · clear CZ
The smallest light you can wear. Reads as a single point of white.
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Tier I · +$60
Gold opal cabochon
14kt yellow gold · 2mm · opal
A dome, not a facet. It shifts colour with the angle of the room.
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Tier II · +$80
Gold disk
14kt yellow gold · 2.5mm
Plain, polished, absolute. The end that never goes out of date.
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Tier II · +$80
Hammered disk
14kt yellow gold · 3mm
Struck by hand so the surface holds light unevenly, like water.
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Tier III · +$120
Ceres top
14kt yellow gold · pear + round amethyst
A drop and a point above it. Worn vertically, it lengthens the ear.
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Tier III · +$120
Trinity top
14kt yellow gold · three stones
Three stones in a trefoil. The most light on the smallest footprint.
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What it costs
The fee covers the consultation, the piercing, the titanium, the aftercare instructions and your first check-up. Gold is the only thing that is extra.
| Placement | Titaniumincluded | + Tier I+$60 | + Tier II+$80 | + Tier III+$120 |
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| Lobe · second lobe · high lobe · stacked lobe | $80 | $140 | $160 | $200 |
| Helix · flat · forward helix · tragus | $85 | $145 | $165 | $205 |
| Rook · daith · conch · snug | $90 | $150 | $170 | $210 |
Prices in US dollars. Anatomy decides what is possible; if a placement will not heal on you, we say so and we do not take your money for it.
Why the shop is not on this page
Fresh
Titanium. This page. Nothing else.
Sterilisable to a medical standard. Non-porous. Inert against a wound that is still deciding whether to accept you.
Healed
Horn. Bloodwood. Brass. Stone. Resin.
Everything in the shop. Beautiful, alive, and utterly wrong for an open wound — porous, reactive, impossible to sterilise. Wear it once you are closed, and it will be worth the wait.
This is not a rule we invented to sell you titanium. It is the reason the titanium exists. How healing actually works →
Truckee, California
Come and be pierced
Choose the placement. We choose the metal that will survive it, and we open the pouch in front of you.