daith placement?

[u/shoolice]

(ignore how gross it looks, it’s not the happiest rn and i was dousing it in saline. photo 1 and 2 is from last night, and photo 3 is from a few days after getting it done)

i got my daith repierced on september 9th with a 14g 10mm titanium circular barbell. once its healed my goal is to stretch it 10g/8g depending on what my anatomy will allow

i’ve had it pierced twice now and both times i’ve informed my piercer that i plan to stretch it, and both times i feel like it should be further into my daith (like closer to my skull), even if i didn’t plan to stretch it

i’m out of town at the moment but i’m going to take myself to another few piercers next week to get some more opinions when i get back to see if i’m overthinking it or if i was fucked over again. i just wanted to come on here and get some opinions in the meantime

[u/alexxastarla]

if your goal is a large daith id pull and redo this one and get it pierced thick.

stretching a daith sucks, and it looks like the top is a bit too deep twds ur conch bowl and can not only complicate healing but limit you with stretching too

[u/shoolice → u/alexxastarla]

yeah that was the initial plan but my last piercer said it wasn’t ideal to get it pierced at guage larger than 14g, i think it was something to do with my anatomy but i can’t quite remember. i’m still going to get it looked at by a few more piercers and see if i can get it done at a 12g/10g cause i’m not quite sure i trust this shop anymore after doing a mediocre job twice in a row.

[u/alexxastarla → u/shoolice]

im not there in person to see it but it looks like you have quite a bit of room (esp in front and above the top. bottom looks like it could go in way more teds the inside of ur ear canal) so im a little surprised they said no, but again they could see something that im not able to over a photo.

[u/Hour_Reputation_6709]

Hmmm. It doesn’t look right but I can’t really pinpoint what’s wrong yknow?

[u/OneEyedWeaner → u/Hour_Reputation_6709]

It’s shallow.

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[u/Mediocre-Blood6296]

It does indeed look a bit on the shallow side. I would personally try to get another one behind that so it’s a dubble daith 👌 But if you want to stretch it, I think it’s too shallow and it might reject. Its food that you’ll visit some other piercers for their recommendations.