PIERCEABLE
Get body piercing right — free calculators for gauge and jewelry sizing, healing time, safe gauge stretching, and aftercare scheduling, plus plain-English guides to piercing types, jewelry, and looking after a new piercing.
From converting a gauge to millimetres and sizing the right barbell to reading a realistic healing range, planning a safe stretch, and mapping out aftercare from day one, Pierceable pairs free hands-on calculators with plain-English guides and an illustrated museum of body adornment. Get the numbers right before the needle.
Piercing Tools & Calculators
Free tools for getting a piercing right — gauge conversion, jewelry sizing, healing-time estimates, safe stretching, aftercare scheduling, and ring diameters.
Gauge Size Converter
Convert a piercing gauge to millimetres and inches and back — read the exact wire thickness behind 20g through 00g, and find the nearest gauge for any measured jewelry
Jewelry Size Calculator
Turn a measured post length or tissue depth into a recommended barbell or labret size — with a healing swelling allowance for fresh piercings and a snug fit once healed
Piercing Healing Time Estimator
Look up the typical healing range for a placement — earlobe to cartilage, navel to nipple — plus how long to keep up aftercare and when a downsize is usually due
Gauge Stretching Planner
Plan a safe stretch from your current gauge to a target size, one step at a time, with the recommended wait between sizes and the earliest week you should reach each one
Aftercare Schedule Builder
Enter your piercing date and type to get a saline-and-cleaning timeline — soak cadence, when to ease off, a likely downsizing week, and an estimated fully-healed date
Ring Diameter Calculator
Work out a captive or seamless ring's internal diameter, circumference, and a comfortable fit from a wearable measurement — in millimetres and inches, both ways
Piercing Reference Tables
Typical healing bands and downsize weeks by placement, and the full gauge-stretching timeline — computed from the Pierceable healing and stretching tools
Body Adornment Museum
Step into an illustrated museum of piercing and adornment — the piercings people have worn across cultures, the jewelry and precious materials shaped to fill them, the traditions that gave them meaning, and the metals and craft behind body jewelry, each in its own gallery. Get to know the long human story behind the piercing in the mirror.
Tour the museum →From the Piercing Journal
Fresh guides on piercing types and placements, jewelry and sizing, healing and aftercare, and safe gauge stretching, plus plain-language explainers on the numbers behind the tools.
The Aftercare Timeline Nobody Writes Down
Most of aftercare is a schedule, and most aftercare failures are scheduling failures — stopping too early, downsizing too late, or forgetting which week it is.
How to Choose a Piercing Studio
The single most consequential decision in getting pierced happens before any needle appears: choosing where to go. Almost every avoidable problem traces…
What "Implant-Grade" Actually Means
What jewellery is made of matters more in a healing piercing than in any other kind of body adornment, because it is in continuous contact with an open…
Getting Jewellery Length Right, Before and After Healing
Jewellery that is the right thickness and the wrong length causes more problems than almost anything else in a healing piercing — and the correct length…
Why Piercing Gauge Runs Backwards
Body jewellery gauge runs backwards from every other measurement people are used to: a higher number means a thinner bar. A 20g nose stud is 0.8 mm; a 0g…
Why Cartilage Takes a Year and a Lobe Takes a Month
“How long does it take to heal?” has an answer that surprises most people the first time they hear it, because they are thinking of the earlobe they had…
Keep Learning
Plain-language explainers on piercing types, jewelry and sizing, healing and aftercare, and gauge stretching — everything you need to understand your piercing and look after it with confidence.
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