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Guides
The Aurea guides: materials, healing, sizing and styling. Everything to choose and care for your piercings with confidence.
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Ear Piercing Chart: Every Placement Named and Numbered
An ear piercing chart with every placement numbered, from lobe to helix, conch, rook, daith and tragus, with pain, healing and usual...
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Types of Nose Piercings: Every Placement Explained
Types of nose piercings on one diagram: nostril, high nostril, septum, bridge, rhino and nasallang, with pain, healing and jewellery.
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Implant Grade Titanium: What ASTM F136 and G23 Really Mean
What implant grade titanium really is: ASTM F136, G23, F67, hypoallergenic claims, PVD gold and how titanium compares to surgical steel.
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Piercing Healing Time: Chart for Every Placement
How long each piercing takes to heal, from earlobe to cartilage, nose, navel, nipple and tongue, and how to tell when it...
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MRI with Piercings: What to Know Before Your Scan
Getting an MRI with piercings: why metal matters, what titanium changes, and how to prepare. The imaging team always decides.
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Internally Threaded vs Externally Threaded vs Threadless Jewelry
How internally threaded, externally threaded and threadless (push-pin) jewelry work, and which closure suits a fresh piercing.
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How to Put In a Nose Ring: Studs, Hoops and Every Closure
How to put in a nose ring step by step: when it's safe, hygiene, every stud and hoop closure, and what to...
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Irritated Piercing: Crusties, Swelling, Bleeding and What to Do
How to tell normal healing from an irritated or infected piercing, what causes crusties, swelling and bleeding, and how to calm it...
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Piercing Gun vs Needle: What's the Difference?
How a piercing gun and a needle really differ: tissue trauma, sterility, jewellery, cartilage, pain and price, and what to do if...
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Piercing Rejection: Signs, Causes and What to Do
How to recognise a rejecting or migrating piercing, which placements are most at risk, why it happens and what to do.
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Belly Button Piercing and Pregnancy: Keep It or Take It Out?
What happens to a navel piercing during pregnancy, trimester by trimester, when to remove it and how to wear it again after...
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Daith Piercing for Migraines: Does It Really Work?
An honest look at the daith piercing for migraines: where the idea comes from, what the research says, and the risks to...
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