Tragus piercing

Tragus piercing

People tend to choose their ears as the most important targets for body piercing. It seems like every single ear part was designed for various kinds of shiny decorations. Small ear sizes are no obstacle because their curvy tangled look and form allows piercing fans to decorate themselves as much as possible. Moreover, the ear piercing is probably the most noticeable like any other head-facial earrings.

 In spite the fact that tragus takes just a small part of your ear, it is constantly winning customer recognition due to tragus piercing elegant designs and originality. Perhaps, tragus piercing is quite popular because of the global wave of body piercing fashion trend. Tragus is situated near the opening of our ear canal. It serves as a protective wall for unwanted part or pieces to penetrate inside our ear.

 Tragus piercing is habitually done with 18 gauge hollow needle or curved one. A tiny cork is put upon the frontal part of your ear canal. This measure is necessary to prevent small parts from getting inside. The small protective cork allows catching the needle tip while passing through the cartilage of your tragus. The thickness of the tragus cartilage requires special pressure to stick the needle comparing to any other body part stabbing. Until the piercer says the tragus procedure is over you need to keep calm, quiet and motionless. That is the major reason why you need to lay back on a special table because you don’t want any traumas or additional injuries done while your tragus piercing didn’t end.

 Just as the tragus piercing hole is made, your ear will be supplied with jewelry earring of your choice. You may both purchase some at the piercing saloon you visit or buy the tragus piercing earrings elsewhere. The choice is very diverse and can suit any taste. It’s important that you pick up save and sterile materials for your tragus piercing embellishment. Anyways, your qualified piercing master will most likely offer you proper and convenient tragus earrings. Beadwork enjoys great popularity with customers. They add smart and stylish appearance and additional glitter to bright up your pretty ears.

 But before you decide to make your tragus piercing, you should be well-informed about some unpleasant consequences. They might be provoked by wrong piercing master approach or your own careless treatment after the procedure is done.

 First thing is tragus piercing procedure. Logically, tragus is harder to pierce because it’s a lot harder that, for instance, the lobe of your ear. You’ll have to sit or lie comfortably for tragus piercing.

 Before you start the operation, you need to learn more about your piercing master’s accreditation, skills and experience. The place where you start your tragus piercing should also be clean, sanitary and trustworthy. The instruments should be processed in thermically or with special sanitizing lotions.

Tragus piercing pain

 Speaking about tragus piercing pain, it largely depends on your personal sensitivity to the cartilage wound. It is supposed to heal faster that regular earlobe piercing, but still has some peculiarities. Tragus piercing pain is not something unnoticeable but on the other hand it’s quite bearable. If you take proper care for your ears your cartilage wounds will be healed in a couple of days.

Most people who applied tragus piercing claim that it’s not very painful. Cartilage zone doesn’t have a lot of nerves in it, and lower blood circulation level too. That’s why it is more likely to have higher healing speed than any other body part. On the other hand, your piercer should apply much power to make a hole in tragus. Slight discomfort is unavoidable here. Your pain levels will completely depend on your strict adherence to the ear care guidelines. Some of them will be listed below. Any omissions here will result in unexpected pains and long-lasting damages to your fresh tragus piercing wound.

Tragus piercing infection

 Tragus piercing infection happens when you are careless about the rules of tragus piercing after-treatment. That makes tragus piercing quite similar to any other body puncture operations. It’s vitally important to clean your fresh tragus piercing at least 2-3 times a day with special lotions that should have been prescribed by a professional piercing master. Sea salt solution will work perfectly. Many new pierced customers totally forget about the obligatory cleaning procedures demonstrating their new embellishment to everybody around. That will inevitably lead to infections. On the other hand, if you repeat the procedure too often it might also result in tragus piercing infection. A lot of infection cases are connected with wrong jewel materials that cause irritation and allergy in your tragus. Platinum, silver, golden and titanium earring will be suitable for you to wear (at least while healing period didn’t end). Your master’s level is also deciding to prevent such painful tragus infections.

 The symptom list of them embraces redness and conflagration. They may be accompanied by stabs around the wound and pustule creation. In severe instances you may also experience some yellowish or greenish liquid with a bad smell to come out of the wound. It is pus that informs you about the need for urgent reaction.

 Emergency treat for your infection in tragus piercing prohibits jewel earring removal. This unhealthy measure will just close the infection inside your tragus because of the piercing fast close. First thing to do is consult your doctor or piercer at once. Before they prescribe you some individual relieving measures, continue on steeping the piercing wound in sea salt. Monitor the proper seas salt levels not to burn your injury even more. Peroxide and alcohol application will kill the bacteria, but as well irritate your piercing to a larger extent. Your piercer is most likely to advise you some antibiotic or antibacterial creams. Don’t touch your injured area except for cleaning. Your hands have to be soap washed before you clean the tragus piercing.