No, that's wrong. Cartilage takes about a year to heal completely. I had my rook done a month and a half ago and I changed it. And then it got infected:/ Kinda sad. Anyways, my rook also closed in about 10 minutes cause I had to take it out.
The tragus piercing has a smaller cartillage when pierced while the rook piercing has a bigger cartilage. So rook has to be the much more painful type of ear piercing.
Consider a Helix Crus / Daith piercing or you may want to consider an Antitragus piercing to compliment the rook piercing.
The word rook does not mean anything I don't think. A rook piercing is located on the ear. Where your cartalidge ends and it is that little (hard you cant move it) flap of skin between the ear cartalidge and your tragus (that hard flap of skin on the inside of your ear in front of the hole)
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It could go anywhere. You could have an industrial, conch, tragus, lobe, helix, rook daith, or anti tragus piercing with a barbell in it. But I'd say that industrials are most known for their long barbells.
It may but you can always get the piercing tapered open again so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
i'd suggest rook or tragus..unless you're not opposed to having a second lobe piercing on each ear
Depends on your body, the size of the piercing, and how old the piercing heals. Everyone's different so theres no way for me to give you an accurate length of time for that. If you want it to close, you can try massaging it with vitamin E or jojoba oil to speed things up :)
You have to be 13 years of age with parents consent.
It depends on how long you've had it in previously. It could take anywhere from (when you have just got it done) 1 day - 2 weeks.
Pain is relative. So theres really no definitive answer I can give you. They're both cartilage so they'll feel pretty similar but I imagine that the anti-tragus would be harder to heal. The rook is set farther back in your ear so you wouldnt hit it as much and it wont be as big of a deal to sleep on it :)
No, Clarie's don;t offer hoops as an ear piercing option because they don't do ear piercings. What Claire's use is a piercing gun which is more like cattle branding than a piercing, because they use a gun they have to use studs that fit into the gun. If you go to an actual piercer they can use hoops.