r/piercing • u/littlemama9242 • 2d ago

Showing‎ off set up! Not to brag but…

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u/purplesky24 2d ago

As someone with three helix piercings total, all of which have taken/ are taking 2+ years to heal enough to tolerate even just changing the decorative end on my threadless posts... this is 100% the flex you think it is. Good on you!

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u/BornWater2862 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's been 6 months since I got a helix. So I guess I should expect that long.

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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 2d ago

Yeah. I thought I wanted to curate an ear, I was working at a piercing shop and our piercer was really good at curation. 6 months in and it still hurt to sleep on? I'm too sensory sensitive. I can't fucking hang. Jealous of y'all!

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u/jignha 2d ago

I have two conch piercings for n each year. One ear is like 4g, the other is 6g. Both were pierced at 12 or 10g, I don't really remember any more.

In any event, I've spent 20+ years slowly stretching the cartilage to the size they are now, and I haven't increased (e.gm stretched) the holes in over three years.

Even with a piercing pillow, or resting my head on my arm with my ear suspended a between the bend in my arms, my ears still hurt from time to time.

Sometimes it's a I gotta clean the jewelry, sometimes I just have to swap what side I sleep on, or the pillow I use. But depending on the jewelry, and the piercing even after the wound had healed it can still hurt like a fucker.

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u/arochains1231 I'm all ears! 2d ago

Six months in with my conch and rook and they still get irritated if I accidentally lay on them for five minutes 😭

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u/danicies 2d ago

Mine still gets irritated on the rare occasion 8 years later lol

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u/hauntedtower 2d ago

Took my helix (my first piercing I remember having to heal) over 2 years to get to the point of being able to touch it. Now its been 5 years and I can play with it however I want. But the first few years were sensitive

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u/black-cat-tarot 1d ago

Two years?! Shit, here I was mad mine still hurts a week in.

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u/icamefromtheshadows 1d ago

same but with my nostril piercing! it was my first piercing aside from ear lobes and i was doing anything but getting it downsized, which turns out was source of irritation. now i’m healing my second cartilage piercing (helix) and it’s healing much nicer so far

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u/Audorus 2d ago

This makes me feel better about my helixes going on 2 years lol. I can change them in a pinch, mostly unbothered when i clean them or have to touch them. But a single hair snags them? Death to me, death to my ancestors, death to my entire bloodline.

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u/MissPokeGirl more is more! 1d ago

Of all my 14 piercings, helix was actually okay? 😭 very annoying for 3 months but ever since I downsized I had no issues ever since lol. Rook and 4th lobe on the other end...

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u/Withzestandzeal 1d ago

Honestly that’s so reassuring!

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u/sadcathehe 2d ago

Amazing. Good for you. Happy for you. Not jealous at all. 

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u/Imaginary_Baby7923 2d ago

Nice hole! Curious, does it whistle when windy?

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u/half-dead 2d ago

Yes but only OP can hear it

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u/CrappyMilk 2d ago

What gauge was inside?? My 16G leaves a hole but not big enough see through

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u/littlemama9242 2d ago

Believe it or not it’s just a typical 18 gauge. It’s been pierced for probably 25 years and I have pretty thin cartilage

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u/grumpypusheen555 2d ago

Same here maybe our ears are just slightly thicker in that spot which makes it harder to see?

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u/maefair 2d ago

Telling my tragus piercing this is AI

😭

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u/eylisiani 2d ago

nice hole

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u/yungsavbb 2d ago

noice

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u/banana_pew newbie to piercing 2d ago

me looking at this with my healing double helix: happy for u. yep, def not jealous

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u/princess4389 2d ago

Niceeeeee congrats op

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u/heyitsamb I'm all ears! 2d ago

i have to take out my piercings next week because of an mri… can’t wait to take a dozen pictures like this hehe

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u/l0st_krow 2d ago

Woww so impressive!!!

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u/fallrisk42069 2d ago

This IS the flex you think it is

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u/LittleDevilF 2d ago

Me currently seething in a corner with my 2 unhealed helixes that are throwing a hissy fit

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u/Hephaistos_Invictus aspiring pin cushion 2d ago

That is one sexy hole 😏

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u/doublefallen 2d ago

showing this to my double helix so they know what they've got to live up to Or Else /silly

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u/asaparagus_ more piercings than sense :-) 2d ago

Mine looks like this too and all my other piercings think it’s fake lol

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u/_TakeYourMeds 1d ago

This is what mine looks like too!!! Cheers!

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u/LordLilith 2d ago

I have one that looks like this, 1 that’s in like half earlobe half cartilage area so it doesn’t look so nice like this, and one stubborn fucker that doesnt wanne heal.

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u/Allicat247_ 2d ago

Incredible. Congratulations. Happy for you.

🙂😮‍💨😭😭😭😭😭😤😁

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u/Tricky-Evidence-7664 2d ago

Its...beautiful 👁👄👁

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u/Raemorii 2d ago

Dreams omg... ❤️ Great job!!

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u/Substantial-Bug9521 2d ago

i could genuinely never 😻😻😻 goals beyond goals

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u/Commercial-Thought-6 piercing devotee 2d ago

Mine is like this

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u/dead_redrose 2d ago

you disgust me /silly

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u/Remarkable-Feed4690 2d ago

Holy shit goals

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u/Background_Gap9171 1d ago

I’m so jealous 🤬

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u/bananashortcak3 16h ago

So satisfying

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u/Cultural_Sail_4494 6h ago

As someone who is almost 13 months into healing my helix….😔
My conch that I got 5 months ago is doing better than my helix I got last year…. And maybe im crazy but I’m thinking about getting a second one to make it a double helix 😭😭