Industrial Piercing

Industrial

The industrial piercing is highly visible and never goes unnoticed, but it has to be earned!

It is the most painful and the slowest to heal of the cartilage piercings, for the following 3 reasons:

• The cartilage is pierced in two different places
• It is pierced with a larger diameter (1.6 mm instead of 1.2 mm for other cartilage piercings)
• The jewellery forces the piercing to heal in one very specific direction

Healing takes 3 to 12 months. You will need patience and must be rigorous with your aftercare.

The jewellery fitted on the day of the piercing is a long straight sterile titanium bar with a ball at each end, as in the photos. The bar is deliberately longer than the ear because some slight swelling can occur during healing, and to leave you room to carry out the aftercare needed for the piercing to heal properly. During healing you need to take particular care not to catch it on your hair, clothes, helmets...

It is important to point out that not every ear shape is suitable for an industrial. To find out whether it can be done on your ear, and where, you will need to ask our piercers in the shop for advice directly.

As you will have gathered, the industrial piercing takes a little more commitment than other ear piercings. But it is also the biggest and the most impressive!