A piercing question

[d000hg]

Is there a special name for jewellery you'd wear in a piercing through the cartilage at the top of the ear? Looking at Body Jewellery Shop - Belly Bars, Nose, Lip, Eyebrow Rings I never heard of most of these things... Labret Studs, Bananabells, Large Gauge Plugs (!)

Is it just an "ear stud"?

Ladies? Xen?

[MaryPoppins]

My sister has all sorts of gubbins like that. She says it's helix jewellery (i.e. a helix piercing), sometimes called pina.

[al_cam]

Without knowing exactly what you are talking about - you could wear a variety of jewellery.

Assuming you have a "proper" piercing (i.e. done with a needle) which is why you are asking, you could wear any of the following -
- Captive bead ring (a hoop where the gap between ends of the hoop is closed with a ball which is pinched by the hoop
- Circular barbel (a horseshoe shape where balls screw onto the ends of the horseshoe)
- barbel (a straight bar where balls screw onto the ends of the bar)
- curved barbel (as it sounds)

These are the common ones. There are other strange variations.

Al.

[suityou01]

I think it's called a Prince Albert.

HTH

[Scrag Meister]

My son has a "scaffold" which is a bar that goes through 2 piercings in the cartilage in the upper ear.

ala

[Mich the Tester]

My ear cartilage has been repaired due to cauliflower ear.
Cauliflower ear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very succesful surgery; you'd never think there'd been anything wrong.

[MarillionFan]

Is there a special name for jewellery you'd wear in a piercing through the cartilage at the top of the ear? Looking at Body Jewellery Shop - Belly Bars, Nose, Lip, Eyebrow Rings I never heard of most of these things... Labret Studs, Bananabells, Large Gauge Plugs (!)

Is it just an "ear stud"?

Ladies? Xen?

To be fair, a lot of IT people have these piercings and tattoos.

I'm client facing and so cannot afford to look like a reject from Mad Max. But as you work on the phones, knock yourself out! (as they say he's got a great face for radio).

[cailin maith]

My ear cartilage has been repaired due to cauliflower ear.
Cauliflower ear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Very succesful surgery; you'd never think there'd been anything wrong.

My Dad has abit of his ear missing from someone biting it off in a scrum

[Mich the Tester]

My Dad has abit of his ear missing from someone biting it off in a scrum

That happened to a chap at our club. Some twat bit his ear and stood there with the blood running out of his mouth, then got sent off and banned for a season (should have been life). We punished him doubly by telling him his victim was HIV +. He wasn’t, but the guy’s face went white, and we heard he´d had a few sleepless nights before getting the test results.

[oracleslave]

My Dad has abit of his ear missing from someone biting it off in a scrum

Probably a saffa. Dirty barstards!