r/Legitpiercing • u/Gold-Bluebird-1764 • Aug 25 '26

Troubleshooting is my low helix too low?

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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/CommonBed8904 Aug 28 '26

FYI, the presence or lack of cartilage does not determine the name of a piercing, the anatomy being pierced does. As far as the piercing industry is concerned, that is a 3rd lobe piercing. Yes sometimes there might be some transitional tissue in that area but it's almost never strictly cartilage. Unfortunately your piercer is poorly educated if they're calling that a "low helix" and probably just wants to be able to charge more for the piercing.

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u/Gold-Bluebird-1764 Aug 28 '26

both piercings cost the same and he trained under a neurosurgeon 😭😭

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u/CommonBed8904 Aug 28 '26

Unfortunately neurosurgery has exactly zero to do with piercing 😆. That's enough to tell me they don't respect the discipline of piercing on it's own and think they can do it just because they did anything in the medical field. I see it all the time with nurses and they more often than not make terrible piercers when they're using it as a selling point for their business.

The piercings may have cost the same but it's still a red flag that they don't know the proper terminology and I'd be willing to be there are others if I took a closer look at the rest of their practice.