Tragus piercing size guide

In order to best choose the size of your future jewelry, here is a size guide providing useful information for comparing, measuring and choosing the right size jewelry.

PLEASE NOTE: This size guide is a general suggestion based on our experience with piercings. Please note that depending on individual body shape and the conditions under which the piercing was performed, it is important to consider that the length and/or choice of jewelry may vary from person to person.

 

1- General information

2- What is the size of a tragus piercing?

3- How to measure your tragus piercing?

 

General information

Tragus piercing allows you to wear a variety of jewelry:

The screw-on labret or clip-on labret

Particularly appreciated with a small brilliant or with a real diamond (diamond tragus piercing), the most common jewel is the labret which is composed of a flat platform which will be at the back of the tragus and at the other end there is a screw thread to screw in a ball, brilliant or diamond.

 

Certainly the most common type of jewelry for tragus piercing, the bioplast (bioflex) labret with a "clip" insert compatible with clip-on jewelry: this type of jewelry has the advantage of being comfortable while being easy to remove and replace and offers a very large choice of gold clip-on jewelry (infinity tragus piercing, snake tragus piercing, cultured pearl tragus piercing, etc.)

The ring or horseshoe or spiral for the tragus piercing

 

The ring is the trendy jewelry for tragus piercings. However, it is important to wait for complete healing (approximately 6 months) before wearing this type of jewelry.

What size is a tragus piercing? 

The tragus piercing has a bar (and screw) thickness of 1.2mm, this is the standard size.

This allows you to wear all kinds of jewelry, from the smallest and most discreet to the most sophisticated

For a fine and refined gold jewel, the 1.2mm screw is perfect for tragus piercing (gold pendant tragus piercing, emerald tragus piercing, white gold tragus).

The tragus piercing can also be pierced with a thickness of 1.6mm, but this remains uncommon.

How to measure your tragus piercing?

It's important to have a piercing jewelry with a barbell that's the right length. A barbell that's too short will compress the cartilage and can be painful, while a barbell that's too long will cause snagging.

To measure a labret, measure the length of the bar excluding the platform and excluding the screw thread as follows:

Note that for the clip-on bioplast bar, as there is no screw thread, you have to measure from the base, excluding the platform, to the end of the platform.

To measure a ring for a tragus piercing, you can simply take a ring you already own and measure its internal diameter:

For tragus piercing, the most common ring size varies between 6mm and 7mm.

For example, if you want a ring close to the ear and tragus, opt for 6mm, if you want a more pendant ring, opt for a 7mm tragus ring.

However, if you are still unsure about the size of the ring you need for your tragus piercing, we recommend asking your piercer for help.

 

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