Wear your Tunnel - A New Aesthetic Vision
Many no longer wear their tunnels with the same feeling as before.
Not because it was wrong – but because they have changed.
Some see it as a youthful indiscretion.
Yet it was often an expression of courage, freedom, or the desire to find oneself.
If the tunnel remains, questions arise such as:
How much does a tunnel close up again?
Have a tunnel stitched up?
Reconstruct earlobes?
Surgery, costs, scars?
I know these thoughts from many conversations and my own research.
I felt there should be another way between "leaving everything as is" and "surgically reversing it."
The desire was to detach the tunnel from its original piercing aesthetic
and bring it into a timeless, wearable context.
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I myself decided very spontaneously and emotionally to get a tunnel in my early 40s and wear it at 10 mm. Until then, I had lovingly worn many different earrings, but was increasingly annoyed by my stretched earlobes.
The decision wasn't difficult for me, also because my earlobes are naturally very small and my ear shape is now much more harmonious. And yet, I quickly longed for more variety, which I couldn't find in the classic piercing segment. I like the aesthetic of precious metal framing the earlobe, but less the mere hanging of jewelry pieces into the earlobe. Also, with standard tunnels, everything always slipped around, and with longer wear, the edge of the earlobe peeked through.
Macramé meets tunnel
Then came my burnout – and with it a journey of self-discovery to Mexico.
In the streets of Tulum, I encountered my first micro-macrame jewelry.
I had been knotting macrame for many years and was immediately captivated by this delicate,
fine variation of the ancient knotting technique.
A few weeks after my return, I was lying in my Mexican hammock,
with a subtle Afrodite buzz, and suddenly it was there – the idea. – the inspiration.
Like a lovingly knotted gift.
I started to knot.
Around a tunnel.
And transformed my old earrings into a new, wearable form.
Perhaps sometimes it's less about undoing something –
but about embracing everything, accepting it, and letting it continue to grow.
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My modules are for everyone who wants to wear their tunnels again today consciously, aesthetically, and timelessly.
Also, and especially, as an alternative to earlobe reconstruction or as a transition,
while one's own path is still forming.