Lobes - Ear Piercing
Lobes are one of the most versatile parts of your body to modify, and often disregarded as 'true' body modification. This comes from the fact that its 100% Mainstream appeal from youngsters as young 9 months old being taken to a hair dressers while on holiday in Blackpool before being masscred with a blunt force trauma piercing gun. Almost anyone can be trained for about £100 including the piercing gun and basic kit to pierce peoples ears. Altho the Ear Piercing gun was designed purely for lobes, it is often misused to pierce other parts of the ear, and in some cases other parts of the body.
When people say Ear Lobes it conjures up one of two things, 1, a romantic thought of them being kissed, carressed or even being nibbled by a mysterious lover in a graphic trash novel or memories of the above mentioned burning ear from the hit and runwith a piercing gun. However there are over 2 dozen named and known piercings for the ear as a whole and a good proportion are for the ear lobe area.
The known and named piercings for the ear are:
  1. Helix (Top of the Ear)
  2. Lower Helix (also part of an industrial).  
  3. Anti-Helix aka Rim (Lower Helix to Lobes). 
  4. Snug (Technically this is an Inner Anti-Helix, but not all people have the anatomy for it). 
  5. Ragnar (Also Transverse Snug, The inner rim of the ear). 
  6. Transverse Snug (See Ragnar)  
  7. Industrial (generally any 2 Piercings that join Helix to Lower Helix or Anti-Helix).
  8. Vertical Industrial (Similar to Industrial only joins Helix to Snug, Helix to Rook, Helix to Conch, Snug to Anti Tragus etc)  
  9. Daith (The bit that joins your helix to your head). 
  10. Tragus (near the Daith the nobbly bit of skin that connects behind your cheek). 
  11. Anti Tragus (Nobbly bit near your lobes). 
  12. Conch (Flat cartilage of the ear). 
  13. Inner Counch (The hard bowl shaped cartilage in your ear). 
  14. Outer Conch (The hard flat bit at the top of your ear). 
  15. Deep Conch (This the upper hard flat bit opposit the inner conch). 
  16. Orbital (Often referred to any 2 piercings in the conch with a ring thru them). 
  17. UFO (A form of orbital that joins the Rook to the Helix in the fashion of an Orbital).
  18. High Industrial (Both piercings are in the Helix).
  19. Ear Project (Collective Name for a Complex Series often mutiple joined to make a pattern).
  20. Lobe (Any Piercing in the the fleshy part at the bottom).
  21. Transverse Lobe (Any piercing horizontal of close to across the lobe).
  22. Vertical Lobe (form or Transverse Lobe only Vertical, Anti-Tragus to Lobes).
  23. Stapled Lobe (Almost an Orbital in the Lobe).
  24. Front Lobe (This is the standard lobe).
  25. Back Lobe (Second set behind the front lobes).
  26. Surface Lobes (Any piercing that enters and exits on the same side).
As you can see the options for the ear alone are Vast, with over half a dozen for the lobe.