Frequently Asked Questions

Upload a clear photo in the PiercingAI app, pick a placement, style, and metal, and the AI renders the jewelry onto your photo with realistic lighting and shadows. Your face, skin, and features stay untouched — only the jewelry is added.

Yes. The AI keeps the photo photorealistic — same pose, lighting, and background — so the result looks like a photograph of you wearing the piercing, not a cartoonish filter.

Nose placements (nostril, septum, bridge and more), every ear placement (lobe, helix, industrial, conch, tragus, daith, rook), lip, tongue, eyebrow, tooth gems, and body placements like belly and dermals — in gold, silver, titanium, rose gold, black, or diamond.

Yes — you can build combinations like a curated ear or paired lip piercings and see the whole composition on one photo, which is the best way to plan a multi-piercing look before booking.

A sharp, well-lit photo where the placement area is clearly visible: straight-on or profile shots for face and ear piercings, torso photos for belly and dermal previews. No filters or heavy editing.

It shows you the look with high accuracy, but final placement depends on your individual anatomy — a professional piercer confirms the exact spot that works for your ear or nose in person.

The app is free to download and you can generate your first piercing previews for free. Pro unlocks unlimited generations, premium jewelry templates, and priority rendering via an auto-renewing subscription billed through your Apple ID.

PiercingAI is currently iOS-only. The guides, quizzes, and planning tools on this website work in any browser on any device.

Photos are uploaded only to generate your preview and are never shared publicly or used to train models without consent. You can delete your account and data from inside the app at any time.

Subscriptions are managed entirely by Apple. Cancel from your Apple ID settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions) and Pro stays active until the end of the paid period. Refunds follow Apple's process at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Earlobes are the gentlest common piercing at around 2/10 — quick, soft tissue, and healed in 6–8 weeks. Among cartilage options, the helix is the mildest at around 5/10. The full ranking is on our piercing pain chart.

Cartilage and body piercings are the slow ones: industrials and nipple piercings commonly take 9–12 months, and most ear cartilage runs 6–9 months. Soft-tissue piercings like lips and tongues heal in weeks. Our healing time guide lists every placement.

Typical US studio prices range from about $20–$50 for lobes up to $50–$100+ for cartilage, with jewelry quality driving much of the price. Use our cost calculator to estimate a single piercing or a full curated ear, and budget around 20% for the tip.

Look for APP membership, single-use sterile needles (never a piercing gun for anything but maybe lobes — and ideally not even those), implant-grade internally threaded jewelry, a portfolio of healed work, and a piercer who checks your anatomy before agreeing to a placement.

The modern consensus is simple: rinse with sterile saline twice a day, keep hands off, never twist the jewelry, and skip alcohol, peroxide, and ointments. Cartilage also means not sleeping on that side for the first months. Our aftercare guide covers the full routine day by day.

Lobes if you have none — cheap, gentle, fast-healing. For a first 'real' step up, the helix and nostril are the classic choices: big style payoff with manageable healing. Take the what-piercing-should-I-get quiz for a pick matched to your pain tolerance, job, and style.

Every piercing guide carries a structured facts panel, and the pain chart, healing table, and cost calculator are generated from those same numbers — so the tools and the guides always agree. Figures reflect typical experiences at reputable US studios.

Every guide shows its review date, and corrections ship with the next site update. If you spot something off, tell us through the contact page — include the page URL and what to fix.

Each quiz scores your answers across factors like pain tolerance, healing patience, workplace rules, and style, then matches them against real placements — and every result links the full guide plus an instant preview in the app.