The first impression that our client gets, when entering the shop, is an overall feeling of cleanliness in a pleasantly subdued setting. Here, you can make enquiries about your desired piercing or purchase new body jewellery. We recently had a bench installed so clients can relax whilst waiting.

Beyond this area area lies the piercing room. The cabinets inside the room are finished in a pastel turquoise which is very restful to the eye. This theme is continued with a surgical floor in mottled green and black.

These colours are chosen to make you feel more at ease, and this philosophy certainly seems to be effective judging by our clients who return time after time.
Strategically placed (safely) on the ceiling is an abstract art hand painted canvas that helps to distract the client from the piercing procedure.
There is also a double sided cute animal picture on the wall opposite to the couch, where our younger clients sit to have their ears pierced. This helps to keep the head in the correct position so that the positioning of the earrings are spot-on!

Behind the sales counter is another room that houses one of the latest Eschmann sterilising autoclave machines. This is where a lot of hard work is performed behind the scenes when the studio is closed.

The sterilised equipment is Ultrasonically cleaned, rinsed and dried on our second floor, then heat sealed by hand for the final Vacuum sterilising process when it’s put back in the autoclave. Steve also cuts the sterilising pouches by hand to ensure the most economical fit for the jewellery, tools & needles. This takes a lot of time & effort so we are often here a few hours, well after closing, sterilising the tools from our busy days in the studio & getting ready for the next day!

There is another room on the second floor which is Steve’s workshop. This room is where most of the Research and Development is carried out working on new ideas and projects.

Right at the top of the building is the office where Steve does the book keeping. A necessary part of the whole business!

THE STUDIO

Our shop floor was dramatically altered years ago, by changing it from a sleepy dark old time jewellers into a clean and vibrant modern piercing studio and sales floor.

Our wheelchair friendly main entrance door is now kept closed (by a simple bolt able to be used by customers) to keep a more calm and relaxing vibe in the studio. As of 2022 the three tall jewellery display units in the front window have been removed and in place, there is now a low bench for clients to sit and wait before their appointment is due.

The main shop floor gives a slightly warmer feel but is still efficiently clean. This is where the piercing requirements are discussed and the obligatory consent forms are completed, plus aftercare advice is given.

We now try to keep less clients in the studio at any one time to keep things feeling calmer & quieter. Gone are the days of clients queuing up inside the studio (out onto the street!) and being jam packed in like sardines! Our clients now prefer a less crowded studio, they say it feels more private with a more personal touch, without a big crowd of other customers being able to listen in on their conversation. That being said, there are often hefty queues outside with excited customers waiting to come in!

Our studio now focuses more on body piercing & sells only a very small amount of body jewellery, less stock is kept because over the last few years it is the piercing that is now far more popular, body jewellery sales seem to have taken a step down. The main business operates on more of an appointment only basis where, to reserve a space, a non refundable booking fee is required, rather than a walk in set up. Walk-ins are still sometimes possible but never guaranteed & based purely on luck. . . A first come, first served basis.

There is one piercing room & a second back room.

The main piercing room has a pair of independently manoeuvrable daylight magnifying lamps situated above an electrically operated Teal coloured surgical couch. This couch is fully adjustable to cater for the full range of standard and exotic piercings on offer.

There is an elbow operated tap/sink unit situated in the far corner of the room where surgical gloves can be put on out of sight of young people about to undergo their first ear piercing experience. This helps to keep the atmosphere at a calm and friendly level which is helped greatly by spectators not displaying negative body language. The door to the studio is a large wheelchair friendly construct and once in the room there is ample room for an electric or manual wheelchair to turn 180 degrees. The floor is fitted out with a surgical grade covering in a pleasant speckled light green effect. The overall impression is clean but friendly with that hint of efficiency that our clients have come to rely on.

The second room is used for the first stage in the sterilisation process of piercing equipment. This is carried out prior to ultrasonically cleaning. The next process is heat sealing all the equipment in special pouches. The final stage is the vacuum sterilisation.

In the second room I, Eleanor, can carry out that all important admin work emailing customers back & forth plus making phone calls to book appointments in. There is no online digital booking system available, it’s all a bit old school regards that & appointments are made verbally over the telephone or in person, in studio.