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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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Piercing Bump: Granuloma, Keloid or Infection?
How to tell an irritation bump from a keloid or an infection, what causes a piercing bump, and how to make it...
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Piercing Meanings: What Each Placement Symbolises
What does a tongue, conch, tragus or daith piercing mean? Origins, symbols and myths, placement by placement.
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How to Change or Remove a Piercing (Nose, Ear, Navel)
When to change your piercing, how each type of jewellery opens, and how to put the new piece in without hurting yourself.
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How Much Does a Piercing Cost? Prices by Placement (2026)
Typical piercing prices by placement, from earlobe to industrial, what's included, and why the jewellery changes the bill.
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Piercing Pain Chart: Which Piercings Hurt the Most?
A realistic, no-drama pain ranking by placement — what decides it, how each spot feels, and how to make it hurt less.
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Infected Piercing: Signs, What to Do and When to See a Doctor
How to tell if a piercing is infected, belly button, ear or cartilage: a comparison table, what to do step by step...
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Types of Piercing Jewellery: Labret, Barbell, Ring and More
Piercing jewellery comes in a handful of core styles, each with a job it does best. Learn these and you'll know exactly...
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How to Build a Curated Ear
A curated ear isn't built in a single sitting. It grows one piercing at a time into a balanced arrangement that looks...
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Piercing Gauge and Size Explained
Ordering piercing jewellery for the first time can feel like reading a different language: 16G, 1.2 mm, 8 mm bar, 8 mm ring. Each number...
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Piercing Aftercare: How to Clean a New Piercing
Most piercing problems come from doing too much, not too little. A new piercing heals best when it's kept clean, left alone,...
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Which Material for Your Piercing? Titanium, Gold and Steel
When a piercing is new or your skin reacts easily, the metal touching you matters far more than the shape or the...
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