..I have one and planning to get another one on the other side. Many say its the most painful in the ear, I swear it did not hurt, but it did bleed. For the first week the swelling might annoy you rubbing against the shaft but you ll get used to it =P just clean 3 times a day with salt water and you ll be fine.
i had an indistrial make sure you have the right ear type tho, the piuercer failed to tell me i didnt and it got badly infected and just wouldnt heal.. rooks and tragus's are sweet
some people don't have a nice ridge at the top - their ears are kind of flat, and that isn't friendly for this piercing.
Seg - just make sure your jewelry fits! please!! I see too many people with ill-fitted jewelry walking around who then get bad scarring or prolonged times of irritation and healing.
dude all i can tell ya man is fuckn go for it bro. I got a shitload of metal in me including 1 inch lobes, 00gu nostrils, 8 gu lip rings (3), 6 gu nips, 2 gu PA , 8 gu frenum an 4 gu cbr in my ball bag. chicks love metal in a dude....once ya get it man...youll fuckn get more
I think he said:
his ear lobes are stretched to an inch
nostrils are 00 (stretched, 00 gauge/ga)
3 8ga lip rings
Nipples 6 ga
2ga prince albert (genital)
8ga frenum (genital)
4ga captive ring in his scrotum (also genital)
no industrial..I've also read some locales call it a scaffold piercing.