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Piercing Filter
The best way to meet your next piercing before the needle: see the hoop, helix or lobe stack on your own face, choose the look that feels like you, and walk into the appointment without the fear of picking blind. No app to install.
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. Use this real Kavel run as your benchmark, then upload your own photo and turn the piercing you have been imagining into a look you can finally judge on yourself.
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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
Turn one photo into the placement you walk into the studio ready to ask for.
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 you only spend credits on the placements that actually come back.
Who previews first
Locking in the placement before booking, designing a whole curated ear, or proving you can pull off a septum ring — on your own face before the needle comes out.
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 shows exactly the part that is hard to picture — how a placement sits on your face and how a set spaces out. Bring the look you want into the studio and start the conversation from something concrete; your piercer confirms the cartilage and the gauge that suit your anatomy.
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.
No. The pass adds the jewellery and the light it reflects, with the face, skin texture, hair, clothing and background as the anchor of the shot — naming them in the prompt locks that in even tighter.
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.
Yes — bring the render straight in. A photo of the placement on your own face takes the guesswork out of describing it, and your piercer builds the plan for your anatomy from there.
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
- 9,600 Credits Per Year
- Up to 960 videos
- Up to 1,920 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 38,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 3,840 videos
- Up to 7,680 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 86,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 8,640 videos
- Up to 17,280 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
Free plan
- Get 100 credits a week with check-ins
- 20 Free Credits with login
- Up to 2 videos
- Up to 4 images
- No Card, No Account
- A Free Video With Every Check-in
- Free Engine Every Day
Pay safely and securely with
Payments are processed by Stripe over an encrypted checkout. Your card details are handled by Stripe and are never stored by Kavel.
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. Free to start, with enough balance on a new account to compare a few placements — upload one photo and meet the piercing you will be glad you previewed before booking.