About The Permanent Jewelry Guide

Permanent jewelry went from a niche to a national category in a few years, and the way to find it didn't keep up. Search your city and you get a Yelp page with a handful of names, a few studios' own sites, and Instagram. None of them tell you the things you actually want to know before you go: what it costs, what chains they stock, whether you can walk in, and whether they'll come to your party.

So this is a directory of 1245 studios across all 50 states and DC that answers those questions on every listing where we could establish the answer.

How it's built

Studios are found through Google Places, across metros and the suburbs around them — which matters here, because this is a suburban business and a city-centre search misses most of it. Every candidate is then checked against its own website before it's published.

That check is the whole point. Searching "permanent jewelry" in any city returns plenty of ordinary jewellers that have never welded a chain, and listing those is the fastest way to make a directory worthless. Most of what the search returns gets discarded. The full method, with counts.

How it makes money

Three ways, all of which you can see: display advertising, studios paying for a labelled Featured slot on their city page, and affiliate links in the studio-owner section, disclosed at the top of any page that carries them.

The ordering of studios inside a city list is not for sale. It's sorted by how much we could verify and how complete the listing is, and paying changes neither. A directory that sells its rankings is worth nothing to readers, and shortly after that it's worth nothing to advertisers either.

What this isn't

It isn't a review site — we don't rate studios and we don't collect reviews. It isn't affiliated with any studio, brand or equipment manufacturer listed. And it isn't complete: there are studios we haven't found, especially mobile artists who work mainly through Instagram. Tell us about one.

Contact

hello@thepermanentjewelryguide.com for anything — corrections, complaints, or a studio we've got wrong.