The Designed Ear
The ear you have in mind, designed with Tom and built one piece at a time in BVLA gold.
“It starts at the table, just the two of us. Bring the pictures you have saved, or nothing at all. I will look at the shape of your ear, and we will hold gold up to it until we can both see where it is going.”
Tom
Then the whole ear is drawn
Every spot, the order they go in, and the BVLA piece for each. You take the drawing home.
First pieces
The first piercings, the same day or at the next visit, in the gold chosen for the plan.
Building
You come back as each one heals, and the next goes in beside it.
The finished ear
The whole ear in BVLA gold, built with Tom from the first drawing.
BVLA is certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council for how it makes its jewellery.
Why the order matters
An ear built one piercing at a time, each decided on the day, tends not to hang together. Not because any one of them was wrong, but because none of them knew about the others.
Three things go wrong without a drawing.
What he is looking at
Ears vary more than people expect, and the variation is what decides the plan.
You leave with the drawing. It is yours whether you have anything done that day or not.
How long it takes
Longer than most people expect, and that is the point of the drawing rather than an argument against it.
Lobe tissue is soft and well supplied with blood, and heals in three to six months. Cartilage is dense and slow, and takes nine to twelve months to stop being reactive, longer again before it will take a jewellery change without complaint. A whole ear, each spot healed before the next goes in beside it, runs from about a year and a half to about three years.
Healing is not a calendar. Two people with the same spots, the same aftercare and the same dates can be at different points at a year. Readiness for gold is assessed in the room, not counted off a diary.
Your checkup is at four weeks, when the post is shortened so the end sits close. It is free for everyone we pierce, and skipping it is the most common reason a cartilage piercing takes longer than it should.
Why it holds together
An ear reads as one thing because of four decisions, and they are made at the table before anything is marked.
Everything is BVLA. An ear built from one house holds together: the same gold, the same finish, the same standard, across pieces added years apart.
Begin with an hour at the table
One on one with Tom. $150, taken off your first piercing, and every piece after that priced as you choose it.
Book with Tom Or call Tom on 09 949 0940.389 Parnell Road, Parnell.