03/10/2026
Here's what I want you to know.
The price of a piercing isn't just the piercing. It's the jewelry that's going inside your body, the grade of metal, what’s inside the metal, whether it's implant-grade tested, whether it's safe to sit inside a healing wound for months. Whether it’s made to be lived in and healed with. It's the training and experience of the person holding the needle. Its how they hold the needle and how the take it out. It's their knowledge of anatomy, of angle, and of placement that accounts for how your body will heal over time, not just how it looks the day of.
It's the sterilization standards in that room. Where their needles are made. What class of autoclave is being used. Whether instruments are single-use or reprocessed. Whether surfaces are disinfected between clients, and what’s being used to disinfect. Whether the studio follows Universal Precautions, if they use Aseptic Technique and know Bevel Theory, or whether you'd have to ask and they wouldn't know what that means.
It's the aftercare plan you leave with. Not a printed sheet from 2012, real, personalized guidance based on your piercing, your lifestyle, your skin. It's follow-up. It's accountability. It's someone who stands behind the work because the work was done right.
When those things aren't part of the price, you don't save money. You just pay for them later, in longer healing times, in complications, in jewelry swaps, in starting over with someone new and wishing you'd started there in the first place.
I'm not here to tell anyone where to spend their money. But I do think you deserve to know what you're actually comparing when you compare prices. Because it was never just about the piercing.
We're here when you're ready. 🤍
