One photo in · Metal that sits on your anatomy · Nothing to install
Piercing Filter
A nostril hoop, a helix, a stack of lobe studs — placed on your own face before anyone picks up a needle. Free to start, no appointment yet.
Bare face, three placements
A real run on Kavel. Drag the divider and watch the nostril hoop, the lobe studs and the helix arrive while the skin texture and the light stay exactly where they were. Every output is AI-generated, so your result varies with your photo — treat this as a guide to what the tool does, not a fixed result you will get back exactly.
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What does a piercing filter do?
It adds body jewellery to a photo you already have, so you can see a placement on your own face before booking a studio. It is a preview of the look, not of the procedure.
Placement is the entire job, and it is where cheap overlays fail. Real jewellery is a three-dimensional object resting on a curved surface: a nostril hoop passes through the wall of the nose and disappears behind it, a helix follows the fold of the ear rather than lying flat on it. The pass runs on the Nano Banana editing model in the browser with free credits to start.
Drop in the photo, name the piece, and the credit estimate settles before you commit; a failed run is refunded automatically unless it broke the content policy.
Creative engine
How the placement works
Upload a photo where the spot is visible, name the piece and the metal, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
Anatomically placed
Metal that follows the curve it sits on, with matched highlights and a real contact shadow — not a sticker dropped near the face. Zoom in on where the metal enters the skin: that junction is the one thing an overlay can never fake.
Nothing to install
It runs in the browser with free credits: no camera app, no studio appointment, no account wall before you see a result. Naming the exact piece — septum clicker, helix barbell, double nostril — does more than any other word in the prompt.
The rest of the try-before-you-book shelf works the same way: ink placement in the tattoo try on tool, a band on your hand in the virtual ring try-on, and cover-up planning in the tattoo cover up generator.
Preview a piercing in three steps
From one photo to a placement you can look at properly, with the cost shown before you commit.
Shoot the spot you mean
Straight on for a septum or nostril, three-quarter with the hair tucked back for a helix, tragus or a lobe stack. In focus and evenly lit.
Name the piece and the metal
Hoop or stud, gauge and diameter, silver, gold or black titanium, one piece or a curated ear. The more specific you are, the closer the preview.
Check credits and generate
Generate, then compare placements side by side. A failed run is refunded unless it broke the content policy, so trying three positions costs you nothing.
Who previews first
People about to book, people planning a whole ear, people who just want to see it on their own face.
Before the appointment
A hole in cartilage takes months to close and does not always close cleanly. Seeing the placement on your own face first is cheap; changing your mind afterwards is not.
Planning a curated ear
Spacing is the hard part — which lobe, how high the helix sits, whether a conch crowds it. Lay out the whole plan in one image before the first appointment, the same way people plan ink placement.
Settling an argument
Someone in your life has opinions about a septum ring. Show them the version on your actual face instead of a stranger's.
Jewellery preview FAQ
Common questions about previewing body jewellery on a photo with Kavel.
No. The usual route is a phone lens you install and shoot live through, which shows a moving overlay you cannot keep or compare. This runs in the browser with free credits to start, on a photo you already have, and returns a full-resolution image you can put side by side with the alternatives.
Anything you can name and see in the photo: nostril, septum, bridge, lobe stacks, helix, forward helix, industrial, tragus, conch, daith, eyebrow, labret. What limits it is the angle — a spot hidden behind hair or turned away from the camera cannot be previewed, however clearly you describe it.
Yes, and it changes the result more than people expect. Silver, gold, rose gold or black titanium, hoop or flat-back stud, plain or set with a stone, a heavy gauge or a barely-there one. Say it in the prompt and each variation is a fresh run that takes seconds.
It is a good preview of how a placement sits on your face and how a set spaces out, which is the part that is hard to picture. It is not anatomical advice — whether your ear has the cartilage for a specific placement, and what gauge suits it, is a conversation with a piercer, and they will tell you things no image can.
Usually the source photo. A soft, low-light or heavily compressed image gives the pass no clear edge to attach metal to, and a spot lost in shadow gives it nothing at all. Reshoot the area in even light, in focus, with the site clearly visible, and it lands.
It should not. The pass adds the jewellery and the light it reflects, and leaves the face, skin texture, hair, clothing and background alone. If a result comes back with the nose reshaped, run it again — the model is not deterministic and a second pass usually behaves.
The estimate appears before you press generate and moves with the format and resolution you pick, so the number is visible first. Failed runs are refunded unless they broke the content policy, and a new account starts with enough free balance to compare a few placements before spending.
It is a useful reference for what you are going for, in the same way people bring photos in already. Bring it as a look you like rather than as a spec — the studio will tell you what the anatomy actually allows, and that conversation is the one that decides the placement.
Kavel pricing — pay only for what you generate
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
Free
What's included
- 15 credits before you sign up
- +50 a week from daily check-ins
- = 232 a month — 46 images or 5 videos
- No card, no account
- Unlimited free engineGrok Imagine
- Photo editingNano Banana 2 Lite
Secure checkout by Stripe. Card details never touch our servers.
Starter
What's included
- 3,150 credits per month
- Up to 630 images or 78 videosGrok ImagineNano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlockedVeo 3.1SeedanceNano Banana
- Cost shown before you generate
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Creator
What's included
- 7,200 credits per month
- Up to 1,440 images or 180 videosGrok ImagineNano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlockedVeo 3.1Seedance 2Nano Banana 2
- No shared queue
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Studio
What's included
- 13,200 credits per month
- Up to 2,640 images or 330 videosGrok ImagineNano Banana
- Clean downloads, no watermark
- Every model unlockedSeedance 2.5Kling 3.0Veo 3.1
- No shared queue
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Charges appear as “KAVEL AI” on your card statement. You can cancel any time from Settings → Billing; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you already paid for. Operator details, the full model list, and the refund window are on the about page.
Other try-before-you-book previews
Other passes that put something permanent on your own photo first.
See it on your own face first
One photo in, jewellery placed on your own anatomy — hoops, studs and a helix that sit where they would really sit. Nothing to install and no appointment to book yet.