Visit a proper piercing shop full of heavily pierced experts who are invariably obsessed with their art
In recent years, it has become mainstream for women (and often men) to wear multiple ear piercings – and not just in their lobes. Helix (the upper ear), daith (the knobbly bit, halfway up), tragus (between the daith and lobe), conch (the ear’s recess) piercings and many more, can now be seen on bank managers, executives, stay-at-home parents and even one vicar I met recently. As the owner of six (and counting) ear piercings myself, I’m all for it; but they must be done properly to be a pleasure.
I feel strongly about piercing guns, in so far as I loathe them, utterly. In my considerable experience of hearing readers ask how to treat skin allergies caused by nickel or piercings, I’ve found that the sticky, icky, sore and oozy-eared have almost always been pierced with a gun.
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