Industrial piercing
Industrial piercing can be made by both men and women. It is quite popular nowdays. There are two most important things to consider doing industrial piercing - the gauge of jewellery and the placement of it.
Commonly industrial piercing takes place throught the cartilage at the top of the ear - from one side to another.
Vertical Lobe Piercing
A vertical lobe piercing is simply that ; a piercing, customarily employing a straight barbell, travelling from the apex of the lobe ( ie. The anti-tragus ) down and exiting at the base of the lobe.
It is largely a cross lobe piercing turned 90.
Vertical Tragus
Vertical Tragus employing a curved barbell ( or other jewellery ), the tragus might be pierced vertically. This piercing was first popularized by piercer Luis Garcia. Many piercings that seem to be a vertical tragus piercing are essentially surface piercings located right away in front of the tragus.
These can be done with a curved barbell too but are susceptible to refusal. The possibility of refusal can be reduced by trying surface bars, as well as having the piercing done by a seasoned piercer. Even under perfect conditions of Vertical Tragus though , they can still reject.
Transverse lobe piercing
A transverse lobe is an earlobe piercing turned ninety degrees such the length of the piercing is parallel to the sagittal plane of the earlobe.
Most frequently, it runs as near to horizontally as the ear will permit.
snug piercing
This cartilage piercing passes thru the vertical ridge that "outlines" but doesn't edge the ear. Speaking technically, this is an "anti-helix piercing," though snug appears to be the term in commonest circulation. Many folks find it highly agonizing, as well as troublesome to fix, principally because many piercers insist on putting little diameter, thin gauge rings into them. These aren't like tragus piercings.
Rook Piercing
The rook piercing is an ear piercing thru the fold of cartilage between the inner and outer conch ( the anti-helix ).
Care must be taken with it during healing, as it is simple to contaminate ( and damage ) from stuff like phones touching it. The Rook Piercing was first popularized by Erik Dakota ( featured in Body Play four ), who is alleged to have named it after a shortened version of his first name.
Ragnar Piercing
The Ragnar piercing is a local term for a "deep snug" piercing ; kind of halfway between a snug piercing and a cross lobe piercing. As you can see from the picture, the jewellery enters into the body within the ear approximately where a snug would start, and then exits on the fringe of the lobe / helix. Because this piercing travels thru a great amount of cartilage it is in danger for complications like ear collapse and attention should be paid to taking good care of it both during healing and after.
Ragnar Piercing history
The 1st known photographs of this piercing using this name were revealed in 2002. In this case the Ragnar Piercing was done by John Lopez on Thure Ragnar Stedt ( shown above ) ; therefore the name
Inner Conch Piercing
The inner conch piercing is a piercing thru the innermost shell of the ear, next to the ear canal itself. Piercings thru the outer casing are called Outer Conch Piercings. Historically it was performed by the Mangebetu of Zaire and the Gorakhnathis. While this piercing is typically done as a standard piercing, a lot folk opt to Dermal Punch this piercing right away to a larger gauge.
Inner Conch Piercing information
It ought to be mentioned that making major changes to the construction of the conch could cause minor loss of hearing. Most of the people pronounce this piercing with a soft "ch" ( ie. As in "cherry" ), though the "official" ( and less common ) pronunciation is "konk" with a tough "k" at the end of the Inner Conch Piercing.
Helix Piercing
The helix piercing is any piercing thru the edge of the cartilage ( therefore making it subject to complications like Ear Collapse if care is not brought to use correct tools and procedures ; as an example, Piercing guns have been shown to be capable of causing cartilage to break ). The innermost part of the helix ( nearest to the head ) is frequently called an Ear Head Piercing. In the West the helix piercing is regarded only as decoration. However, helix piercings are found on each continent and in numerous normal cultures have great significance.
Ear spiral piercing
An ear spiral is a coiled piece of jewellery arching thru multiple ear piercings. From a piercing viewpoint, they are little different than standard piercings.
Having said that, the location of the piercings should be Precisely lined up with the spacing of the coil, and this spacing should be consistent from start to finish, allowing the jewellery to be "screwed" ( as in revolved ) into place. Customized jewellery is sometimes used on existing ear spiral piercing.