![]() Once your piercing is fully healed, enjoy experimenting with different jewellery.Ī Helix will take a long time to heal, and you will not want sleep on it for some time. While the piercing is fresh, I am clipping my hair back on one side with hair pins behind the ear, to keep the hair out of the way (and show it off.) As the bead screws off, I can replace it with another bead of a different colour if necessary, though I would wait a while to do that as it would irritate the area. The bead in my piercing is not a real pearl, as genuine pearls, being organic, do not survive cleaning well. I went with a straight bar with a screw on pearl-look bead to match the pearl studs my late mother Janni got married in, as I wear them often. Some prefer the round ‘sleeper’ style that hugs the edge of the outer ear, as it is less likely to catch on hair and clothing, while others advise against a curved earring in a straight healing piercing and instead like the straight bar or long stud style, making sure it is long enough to give the piercing room to breathe and to avoid problems during the expected initial swelling. There are various views on the best style of jewellery for a Helix, so tell your chosen piercer what you like the look of, and take their advice on board. The jewellery the piercer places in your fresh piercing will keep it from closing up again, and should not be removed during the (long) healing process. The jewellery should be high grade piercing jewellery. (They look like this.)ģ) CHOOSE YOUR JEWELLERY WISELY, AND DON’T CHANGE ITĪ professional piercer will have a range of appropriate jewellery available for your fresh piercing, and will put the jewellery in once the piercing is made. ![]() If they want to use a gun, think again about how experienced they are.Ī professional should make your piercing using a sterile hollow gauge needle. If you go to a piercing professional, they will not use a gun. ( Reports also suggest ear piercing guns may have sterilisation issues, and can therefore potentially spread serious infections.) In short, they are not recommended for this type of piercing. (Or leaving you with a very sharp, pointed backing on your earring, which for obvious reasons is also problem.) They also commonly give you a shorter length studs, which in some cases can cause the earring to be ‘swallowed up’ by your ear when it swells during the healing process. As a professional, your piercer should be able to explain the pros and cons of your choice and all aspects of aftercare, and you should be able to return if you encounter any problems or need to change the jewellery for any reason (which is not recommended during healing, ideally, as changing the jewellery can re-traumatise the wound).Įar piercing guns are often inaccurate and are known to cause unnecessary blunt trauma, forcing a blunt-ended stud earring through your ear, resulting in tearing and scar tissue. Cartilage piercings are notoriously tough to heal on some, while others do well with this type of piercing.Īs I am being asked a lot about this piercing and my experiences with healing, I thought I would share some of the best pre-piercing and aftercare advice/research I’ve come across so far, in the hopes of good healing. I hope the following info is helpful for those of you who are considering a new piercing or are having troubles with old ones:Īll piercings should be carried out by professionals – including the common ear lobe piercings – but it is especially important that cartilage piercings, and piercings on other sensitive body parts are carried out by trained professionals who do such piercings for a living. This type of piercing goes through the cartilage of the ear, and therefore takes much longer to heal than the ear lobe. I recently had my ear pierced in what is most commonly known as a ‘Helix’ piercing (to denote the outer ear) and is sometimes also called a ‘Pinna’, or the more anatomically specific ‘Scaphoid Fossa’.
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