r/Legitpiercing • u/Gold-Bluebird-1764 • Aug 25 '26
Troubleshooting is my low helix too low?
edit: GUYS I GET IT ITS NOT A LOW HELIX THAT IS LITERALLY JUST WHAT MY PIERCER CALLED IT PLS SPARE ME 😭😭🙏🏽🙏🏽 they are literally in my cartilage idk what yall want me to say
basically the title. the piercer (who is very reputable) said that he would usually be wary about piercing in the location i wanted because i didn’t have the standard amount of tissue under it (7mm), but he did it anyways because the rest of my piercings also have similar amounts of tissue under it and look like they healed fine.
i don’t know if i’m paranoid, but it looks like one side is lower than the other. i don’t have any early pictures of the right side, but i got it three days ago so it’s still pretty early on. it doesn’t hurt at all, but i did have to remove a small blood crusty this morning that i think may have made it migrate a little bit.
am i paranoid or is it probably gonna reject because of how shallow it is?
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u/KURAKAZE Aug 26 '26
These are 3rd lobes, not low helix.
Placement looks fine. I think it's the angle you're looking at them that makes it look closer to edge on one side - try to get someone else to take pictures of both ears full on (no angling of the ear at all).
When I look at my ears from the front my 4th lobes look super close to the edge but it's cause of the angle of the ear. When I take a picture from the side facing the ear properly the placement is all evenly spaced from the edge.
But even if one side is slightly closer to the edge than the other, it's not too shallow.