Healthy Ear Piercings

The following set of photographs illustrates successful healthy ear piercings.

Ear lobe piercing with a captured bead ring. Image of a captured bead ring ear lobe piercing.
Tragus piercing with a captured bead ring. Image of a captured bead ring tragus piercing.

Ear helix piercing with a stainless steel barbell through two holes.

This is often called an industrial or scaffold piercing.

 Image of a simple industrial upper helix piercing.
Upper helix circular barbell piercing with gold jewelry. Image of a pair of gold upper helix ear piercings.

Industrial upper helix.

Stretched lobe eyelet piercing.

A clever choice of jewelry enhances these simple piercings.

Image of wonderful complex ear piercings.

Industrial upper helix

Orbital conch

Horizontal lobe

Stretched lobe eyelet piercing

 Image of wonderful complex ear piercings.

Industrial upper helix piercing

The bars are bent slightly, so as not to distort the helix but rather to accomodate its natural curves.

 Image of industrial upper helix piercing.

View of a highly stretched earlobe piercing.

This took a lot of time and patience to achieve.

 Image of highly stretched lobe piercing.
 
 
 

Revised 3 February 2003
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