The tragus has become one of the most fashionable ear piercings since it has turned into a new way of placing a piercing. Although it is not as popular as other piercings, the tragus is becoming a great piercing since it really looks very beautiful. The tragus piercing is a piercing that is made in the part that is known as the tragus and which is located on the outside of the ear. As you can imagine, its name comes from the area where the piercing is performed.
As we always say when faced with this question, pain is very subjective and very different for each person since each one has a tolerance for pain in particular. Even so, we can affirm that in the case of the tragus, it is not a type of piercing that causes a lot of pain, rather, we could say that it is more uncomfortable than painful. The tragus is considered a piercing with a lower pain level since, in the area where the piercing is performed, there are not many nerve endings or blood vessels. This makes the piercing process very easy to do and very painless. As we have said, even if it is a piercing that does not hurt too much, you will feel discomfort when you get a piercing in any area of the ear.
As a result of the tragus becoming fashionable piercings, different types of tragus have developed over time. Next, we will discuss the variations to the traditional piercing:
The vertical tragus is undoubtedly one of the most common variations. It is done simply by piercing the tragus from the top to the bottom, that is, in a perpendicular direction to the normal tragus. This variation is considered to hurt more than the conventional tragus shape, and your ear can cause jewel rejection.
Another variation that this piercing presents is known as antitragus, this is an alternative that is performed in the area with more cartilage and that stands out above the earlobe. That is, it would be located opposite the traditional tragus piercing. This variation is considered painful since the piercing is done on the cartilage. In addition, it is important to mention that healing is slow and the entire healing process must be completed perfectly. This is possibly the variation that takes the longest to heal since it can take up to a whole year.