How to Recognize the Types of Ear Piercings
In the old days, ear piercing was restricted to the lower lobe, with two piercings on the same lobe considered a somewhat radical practice. These days, there are a variety of ear piercing types that include cartilage piercing in such areas of the outer ear as the conch, the daith, the orbital and the rook. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Start with a lobe piercing, which you will certainly recognize as one of the most common types of ear piercings. This is the only type of ear piercing that should be performed with a piercing gun, since the blunt tip can cause trauma and damage to cartilage.
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Learn to recognize cartilage piercings, which are implemented at the ridges of the top of the ears. A pinna ear piercing involves a hoop that is placed through the cartilage at the very top of the ear, around the ridge. An auricle type piercing is placed a little further down that ridge, almost near the midway point of the ear.
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Note the types of ear piercing which pierce the cartilage at the front of the ears, just above the entry to the ear canal. A tragus piercing is located on the lower ridge of cartilage directly in front of the ear canal, while a daith piercing is located on the ridge directly above the tragus.
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Learn about the type of piercings that are applied to the cartilage folds at the center of the outer ear structure. A conch piercing penetrates the largest cartilage fold at the very center of the ear in two separate places. A rook piercing is located above a conch piercing, along the same fold to the point where it narrows behind the daith.
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Investigate more complex piercings, which may involve more than one part of the ear. For instance, an industrial ear piercing involves a barbell that pierces both the pinna and the conch, and is fastened vertically by a stud at the very top ridge of the ear. A scaffold, however, pierces both the front and rear ridges of the pinna with a horizontal bar.
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Notice the use of a simple stud piercing, as opposed to a hoop or a ring, which will help you to recognize an orbital piercing at the flat upper portion of the inner ear.
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Tips & Warnings
Stretching the lobes has become another exotic option in ear piercings. A small ring is placed in a large-gauge hole in the earlobe, and is substituted for larger and larger rings until the ring has a diameter or 2 inches or more.
