I’ve wanted a hidden helix for MONTHS and I finally got it yesterday, but it didn’t turn out the way I expected :( It looks great from the side, but I kind of hate the way it looks from the front (second photo). I was envisioning it being pierced closer to the center top of my ear, rather than down to the side, although my piercer said this is the best placement and it leaves plenty of room for me to wear sunglasses without bumping it. I don’t know if I don’t like the placement, the jewelry, or both, but something’s gotta change! The only problem is that this jewelry is white gold so it was too expensive for me to just give up on right away 😫 Any advice? Is this just the secret about hidden helix piercings, that they don’t look as good when looking at them straight-on, or is my ear not as well-suited for it as I thought it would be?

Moonstones and sandblasted swiss blue topaz, mostly. The orbital has a teeny little mercury mist topaz and the rest is CZ and white sapphire.

I special ordered a Tiny Sara to put in my helix/flat area and am so excited! It’ll be an arc of light amethyst marquises and moonstone cabochons.

I know it’s highly recommended and the gold standard and whatever and I use it but it suuuuucks. Sucks to remove, sucks to put back in. I haaate when I order a threadless piece and the pin is pre-bent because then I have to unbend it just to be able to insert or remove it from my bars 😭.

Signed, someone that just replaced their high nostril jewelry and had to straighten pins.

Edit to clarify: the SLIGHTEST bend is okay but I find the pre-bent pins are at too severe of an angle and are just so mfn hard to insert or remove. I know they’re ~supposed~ to be bent and I’ve never had an issue with losing my tops or having any unwanted movement/looseness. I’d really rather not struggle w my finger up my nose to stabilize the already slimy post enough to shove the pin into it). Yes I have a threadless taper, forceps, and a little grabby tool thing (which honestly is kind of useless bc it is too weak and big to remove the tops so I just use my fingies). Just here complaining because I’m annoyed with a recent purchase sorry 😭

i just got this done yesterday, idk if the bar is too short or something!! any advice helps! i use saline solution for the outside and salt water/ alc free mouth wash, ive also been putting ice on it

Would you change anything about it?

16g & 20g stack

Previously posted other piercings of mine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/piercing/s/eQnP6jZCKG

https://www.reddit.com/r/piercing/s/qdeiekVC9I

3-day update on my double orbital conch

Thought I’d share a quick healing update.
They’re 3 days old with titanium horseshoes for both orbitals. The swelling has gone down quite a bit compared to the first day, although they’re still pretty tender if I accidentally touch them.

The piercing itself was brutal—I bled quite a lot during the procedure and they were extremely sore afterwards. Thankfully, the pain has improved significantly over the past few days.

For aftercare, I’m doing saline rinses and applying the antiseptic cream my piercer provided. I have a follow-up review scheduled one week after the piercing so they can check the healing and make sure everything is progressing well.

Overall, I’m happy with how they’re looking so far and hoping the healing continues smoothly. Any tips from people who’ve healed orbital piercings are always appreciated!

This is the snug I got i recently posted about it on here I have posted it on other places and they tell me it looks bad its crooked shallow its going to reject and some tell me its good I dont know what to believe or not i dont know anymore

So much pain but it’s so worth it. More people should get orbitals I’m obsessed. I plan to get a second one around my helix and maybe a forward helix one on the other ear 😛

Update/edit: hi all! Thank you so much for all the info and support. I contacted the piercer on insta and she is shocked and offering to swap it out with something else and take this one so she can use it as evidence to dispute her purchase. Based on some comments neither her nor I should be all that surprised they are bad quality given the price point!

I had to get my jewelry taken out for an MRI recently and decided to treat myself to some new jewelry when I came back to the piercer to have everything put back in. Any of the jewelry I got from the tattoo shop is holding up great and is titanium. The piercer said she had some jewelry she bought on her own and I got this one (pic 1). It’s a titanium post but a month in and the end/charm looks like this (pic 2) and is turning green (pic 3).

How do I bring this up to the piercer? Or do I just not and call the 30 bucks a waste and buy something else online? This was my first time going to this piercer so we don’t have a relationship and she hasn’t actually done any of my piercings just jewelry swaps.

I’m 40 y’all, and recently got my conch (7-8 weeks ago) and then a double helix (almost 4 weeks ago) so 3 total, and my piercer thinks it would be ok to add a tiny stacked lobe so I can heal at once. I know this might slow healing time, but I feel like it will be easier than waiting 4-5 years since I only ever want to do one side…picture of my ‘results so far’ but do you think I can handle a stacked lobe this week? I am mostly a tattoo girlie, and I usually do 5-7 small ones at a time, so I heal those well and my conch is mostly ready for a downsize, if those things matter.

I got my flat pierced in mid May and I’m worried about what looks like a lump of piercing crust underneath the front of my piercing. It’s very hard and takes up a lot of my bar length, which is causing the back of my jewelry to be very tight against my skin. It won’t budge no matter how many times I let warm water run over it and spray it with saline.

I’m not sure what to do other than to try and break it off with a tool but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea because I don’t want to touch it and cause an infection.

I am an hour and a half away from the nearest (good) piercer so I would really like to avoid having to make a trip if I don’t absolutely have to.

Thanks for any help!

2 months old
Titanium flat back labret
Threadless
Spray twice a day with neilmed

(Ear is only red because I was struggling to take the photos)

I’m still healing so not getting anything soon but what should I add next? I think I want to add two more on my right ear and maybe one more on my left (my ideas are in purple). Also, ideally I don’t want to buy much more jewellery but can move around what I have once healed (third photo shows the rest of what I have)

Note: I have had anatomy checked for the ones I’ve drawn on. I don’t have rook anatomy.

Also, my first lobes are healing from being stretched and I think I’ll stack rings in them but not 100%

My daughter first had her ears pierced when she was 5 and they would never heal and stayed infected. We took the earrings out and let them completely heal. She’s now 11 and one year ago we took her to a professional piercing studio to have them pierced again. It has been nothing but a headache again. She wears medical grade titanium studs with flat backs. Since she has a thicker lobe we went with a little longer post so there would be plenty of room. She keeps getting these pockets on the backs of her ears beside the piercing site. I can’t understand why after a year we are still having these issues. Her mother cleans the piercings routinely with H20 Ocean Piercing Aftercare Saline spray. Can anyone offer any insight? Why wouldn’t these be healed a year after being pierced?

Finally got my nose pierced after taking all my piercings out (& not putting them back😂)

I’m just starting out on piercings and I really want a conch but I read somewhere that some people don’t have the anatomy for it. The area where it’s to be pierced is quite hard and the space between the end of my ear and my head is quite small. I’m planning to have a ring one too

I just got my tongue pierced today. It’s a straight barbell, classic piercing, obviously not downsized.

I am getting mixed information. My piercer advised 800 mg ibuprofen if needed for pain/swelling and alcohol free mouthwash.

Any other tips/concerns about ibuprofen after piercings?