Know Before You Go
Piercing Info
Everything about our jewelry, policies, and healing standards. Bringing ID? See our ID Policies. Ready to get pierced? Join the queue or check the Price List.
Policies & Standards
We will use sterile, high quality implant-grade (ASTM F-136 Titanium, Niobium, or solid 14k gold) jewelry from our APP Verified suppliers for your initial piercings.
Bringing Your Own Jewelry
You are welcome to bring your own jewelry to be installed in a healed piercing, provided it is an appropriate size, material, and quality.
Jewelry Sales Are Final
Once it has been installed in your body, or you have opened the sterile package, that jewelry is yours to keep — minus breakages, of course! All of our jewelry comes with a lifetime warranty for breakages.
Sterile Gloves
While everyone in our studio uses single-use disposable nitrile gloves for tattoo & piercing related services, our piercers use sterile, polychloroprene gloves for each piercing to maintain sterility while avoiding latex allergies.
Post vs. Ring
Most fresh piercings will be performed with a straight post to ensure the best and safest healing, with the exception of daiths and septums. We recommend waiting 8–12 months before installing rings in most piercings.
Downsizing
Downsizing is an integral step for most piercings, with the few exceptions of things like dermals, septums, daiths, and rooks. For all other piercings, we give extra room on the jewelry so you have room to swell, and recommend returning to have your jewelry downsized to help further your healing process, and to prevent snags, bumps, migration, and injury.
At Lumen, we really care about you and your healing process, which is why we removed the financial burden of downsizing by making it completely free.
