Helix piercing placement

An increasingly popular place to get a piercing is the helix. Helix is an original Greek word meaning spiral, and a helix piercing is therefore placed in the spiral-shaped outer part, or the folded upper edge of your auricle. Of course, the ear is an ideal place for piercings, but the helix piercing has been on the rise recently. We would therefore like to tell you a little more about what to expect when considering getting a helix piercing.

First of all, it is important to know that the helix is composed entirely of cartilage. The spiral end of your auricle is made of somewhat harder tissue than, say, your earlobe, which consists mainly of fatty tissue. The cartilage is what makes the helix such a nice place to get a piercing, as the hard tissue ensures that the spiral shape keeps its shape nicely. As far as setting helix piercings are concerned, you should keep in mind that setting a piercing in cartilage requires a different approach than setting a piercing in fatty tissue as you might be used to from piercing your earlobe. Therefore, setting a helix piercing is not done by shooting a hole, but by piercing with the help of a needle. This is to avoid damaging the cartilage in your earlobe by shooting a hole. Initially, the helix piercing can be made using a thin needle, after which the piercing can be made larger later on. However, it is important to do this gradually, so that the hole in the cartilage has ample time to heal and is less likely to become irritated or inflamed.

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We also often get asked whether setting a helix piercing is more painful than setting other piercings. In general, piercing in cartilage is more sensitive than piercing in fatty tissue, as is the case with your earlobe. How much pain you experience when getting a helix piercing, as with other piercings, depends largely on your own experience of pain. Experience shows that for most people, getting a helix piercing is not that much of a painful experience, but it is a bit more sensitive than shooting a hole in the earlobe, for example. In addition, when it piercing in the cartilage such that a little more pain and sensitivity is experienced a while after the piercing.