Daith piercing in Auckland
A needle, never a gun, at 389 Parnell Road. Open seven days.
How much is it?
titanium
a gold ring
The piercing and the jewellery, both in the price.
Either way it covers the piercing and the jewellery together, and the aftercare. Nothing is added at the chair, and there is nothing to pay when you book.
Where it sits
The inner fold of cartilage above the ear canal. A ring, fitted to the curve, so we look at the fold first.
We hold pieces up against your ear before anything is marked, so you see which ones sit right.
How deep that fold runs decides whether a daith works at all. Where it is well formed, a ring sits in it as though it belongs there. Where it is shallow, the ring has nothing to sit against and presses on whatever is nearest instead.
Every spot on the ear
Does it hurt?
It takes a moment longer than a helix: sharp pressure, then sore for a few weeks.
Who pierces it
Tom or Kat, one client in the room, forty-five minutes. Sixteen and over. Everyone brings photo ID.
TomWednesday to Sunday
KatSunday to Tuesday
How long does it take to heal?
Nine to twelve months
- Day onePierced, and your checkup booked before you leave
- Four weeksYour checkup, free. A daith usually needs no downsize
- Nine to twelve monthsHealed
Use a travel pillow while it heals. Once it has healed, around nine months, you can sleep on it.
Sleeping on it is what turns a nine-month daith into a much longer one. It sits deep in the ear, so even lying on the other side can push the outer ear down onto it. A travel pillow with a hole in it, so the ear sits in the gap, is the change that helps most. Keep in-ear buds out of that ear for the first three or four months.
Warm water in the shower once a day is the whole clean. Turn your head so it runs into the fold, then let it dry, because water left sitting in there causes its own trouble. No cotton buds inside the fold, and nothing else goes on it.
Any problem with a piercing we did, the look is free.
What goes in it
A ring sits best. Gold can go in from the first day.
A bump beside a healing daith is the usual complication, and it is almost never an infection. It is pressure, and taking the cause away is most of the fix. Come in and we will look at it: if we pierced it, the look is free, healed or not. Meanwhile, leave the ring where it is, do not squeeze it, and keep tea tree oil, Savlon and antiseptic away from it.
In the case nowpierced, in the price
What happens at the appointment
Forty-five minutes, one client in the room.
It starts at the low table with a mirror in your hand. We look at the fold and hold rings against your ear so you can see which ones sit right on you. Then the mark, which you see and agree with before anything else happens.
The piercing is one pass of a single-use sterile needle, following the angle of the fold, and the ring goes in at the same moment. A needle, never a gun.
Does it help migraines?
There is no good evidence that it does, and we will not pierce you on that promise.
The idea is that the spot sits on a pressure point tied to migraine. Some people say theirs improved afterwards. Those are accounts, not trials, and nothing published shows a daith reliably reduces how often migraines come or how bad they are.
If migraines are affecting your life, start with your GP. If you want the piercing because you like it, that is a good reason, and it is done to the same standard either way.
Book a daith
$150 in titanium, or from $500 with a gold ring. Nothing to pay when you book.
389 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland. Open seven days, by appointment. Directions