Ear piercing is considered to be the most common, liberal and even banal piercing type which was widely spread even during the ancient times. This sort of piercing is not just puncturing of the ear-lobe, there are lots of ear piercing variations. As any other type of body piercings it's advisable to do it by traditional medical needle method. Undoubtedly this method is always recommended, the idea is that puncturing is made by needle which is hollow. The needle is used to make an opening which should be made by a needle which is a bit larger than the jewelry and the needle is taken out only when jewelry is already inside.
Nowadays there are lots of variants of ear piercing:
1) Industrial piercing. Two punctures made in a outside cartilage and connected with one jewelry which is located bias from the top to bottom of the helix. Barbel jewelry which is used for this sort of ear piercing is to be worn during the whole healing period as far as it's very often it can be rather painful and long.
2) Tragus and anti-tragus piercing. This type of ear piercing presupposes puncturing of tragus which is a small cartilage which is situated in front of ear canal. Anti-tragus is considered to be more painful as far as puncture is made right above the ear-lobe.
3) Helix piercing. The outside of cartilage and outside of curly rim are pierced. Notice that helix can be done only by a professional piercer in no circumstances by piercing machine.
4) Conch piercing. The conch, namely central cartilage near the ear canal.
Undoubtedly there are many other types of ear piercing such as orbital,vertical, daith, anti orbital and so on due to the fact that practically parts of the ear can be punctured. However before you make unique sort of ear piercing or extreme piercing, you are to consult a reliable professional and be aware of all existing piercing risks in order to choose the place of minimal risk.
Healing period usually depend on a certain type of piercing and personal reaction of every organism. Basically the average minimum period is one month and the maximum is three month. To pierce ear is as painful as to hurt big toe but still everything depends much on your organism. Notice that no matter whether you are just going to pierce your ears or already pierced that, you are obliged to know everything about piercing care procedures as far as a lack of attention paid to your puncture can cause serious problems. |
