Tragus

The tragus is a small pointed protrusion of ear cartilage which is attached more to the side of your face, rather than your actual ear. Tragus piercings are one of the more common ear piercings, but do require appropriate anatomy. They are a little pinchy, but not generally too painful or throbby to get done.

Sleeping on the piercing isn’t recommended while healing as it will drastically reduce your success rate, as well as increasing your chance of scarring. Because of this, we will not perform a cartilage piercing on your ear, if you have a piercing healing on the opposite side.

Headphones/ear-buds and stethoscopes also can not be used on that ear for the entire healing period.