A rook piercing is most commonly a 16 gauge piercing. Although, depending on the ear, it can be done one smaller or larger.
gauge: 16g or 14g
size: 5/16", 3/8", 7/16"
Depends on what you ask for. Most that I've seen are 16g and any others were 14g.
You can discuss that with your piercer but ultimately the rook decides what size of jewellery it needs to fit properly and afford room for swelling and cleaning.
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.
You should wait at least 6 to 8 weeks to change the jewelry in any piercing. You can go to your local piercing place and they should change it for free. You should wait at least 6 to 8 weeks to change the jewelry in any piercing. You can go to your local piercing place and they should change it for free.
You have to be 13 years of age with parents consent.
It's not common for a properly done Rook piercing to reject. Due to this piercing being done in deep cartilage, the piercing should not reject (the cartilage won't let it reject). More often that not the problem is the method used to look after the piercing or the solutions used to heal the piercing (generally too much and not properly rinsed out). I would suggest you seek the expert advice of your local professional body piercer. They would need to see what you have going on with the piercing location. If there is enough tissue that isn't damaged they should be able to repierce the area.
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 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)
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 :)
Rook piercings are done the same as any professionally provided body piercing. Your local professional body piercer will be able to explain the procedure when you book your appointment.
Whether it is blanking or piercing, size of opening in sheet is governed by punch and size of cutout piece is governed by Die. So, for piercing, Punch size should be same as required hole size and clearance should be given on Die. For e.g for a hole size Dia 8, punch size should Be 8mm and die size 8 + clearance For Blanking, DIe size should be same as size of blank and clearance should be give on punch. So for a blank of Dia 8, die size is of 8mm and punch size is 8 - clearance.
No rook or any cartilage piercing for that matter will not reject or migrate because it's held in place by the cartilage it self. It will get annoyed and cranky if you are using aftercare products that are reacting to your body. So stop using all the woo woo magic stuff and just flush the piercing with lots of warm water daily and see if the piercing settles down. If it does then you were reacting to the aftercare stuff and the mystery is solved.
It may but you can always get the piercing tapered open again so I wouldn't worry about it too much.