Variations

Unlike several other piercings in the ear cartilage is the punching or stretching a Snug piercings unusual.

Ragnar piercing

One special form is the Ragnar piercing dar. Here, only one table body is within the Knorpelauswölbung the ear. The branch canal extends much further than ordinary Snug piercing and will not enter the ear edge off. This variant is often a combination between a Snug and the cross described by extending the earlobe, called Transverse-lobe piercing.

Due to the length of the needle tract, the healing process usually be associated with more complications. Whether the Ragnar piercing a piercing is possible depends largely on the anatomy of the ear, since this is in part very different.

The first known implementation of this piercing was done by the U.S. Piercer John Lopez on Thure Ragnar Stedt whence is derived the name of Ragnar piercings. The first photographic documentation of this variation is due to be published in 2002