Frequent questions

For rook piercing, the first pose jewel is a curved bar, called banana. The size of this is 1.2mm thick and 8mm in length. Depending on the thickness of your cartilage, the piercing can adapt the length of the bar. Once your rook is held, you can set up one of our stainless steel jewelry like rook Rebecca or a ring With a 1.2mm bar thickness and a diameter of 6 or 8mm.

As with other ear cartilages (tragus, helix, daith, conch, flat and anti-helix) the healing duration of rook is around 6 months. Of course, this is only an approximate duration because each person is different, this time can therefore be extended or decreased according to each. We always advise you to make your piercing with a professional confidence perceur. This one uses a needle rather than a pistol and sets up a titanium jewelry, the rules of asepsis in the pierceur are more important than in jewelry.

Rook piercing is one of the most painful cartilage piercings. Indeed the thickness of the area causes fairly intense pain. With the agreement of your perceur and following a medical prescription you can apply anesthetic cream 1h30 before drilling your rook to avoid lively pain.

There are still exceptions but as a general rule, yes, everyone can do a piercing in rook. This cartilage is in most cases well formed to be able to accommodate piercing.

At the top of the list we have the Daith, indeed this piercing located on a dense cartilage area, and with an inconvenient location is considered to cause strong pain. The industrialist, arrives second in the most painful piercings. It is not the location which is painful but rather the double drilling which leads to a stronger sensitivity, to be pierced two cartilages a few second intervals to place a bar which crosses the ear is somewhat unpleasant. In third and fourth position ex aequo, we give way to rook and snug, these piercings have a thick cartilage but rather easy to access. The tragus arrives in fifth position, being located at the entrance to the auditory duct, the perceur will have to drill slowly in order to ensure safety and precision. Finally, we are now coming to piercings which are less sensitive: Helix, Anti-Helix, Flat, Conch, they induce moderate but largely bearable pain.

The piercing generally corresponds to a desire to embellish your body, to stand out. However, there is also a tradition within certain people, or the means of associating with a group by differentiating itself by this accessory.