You’ve definitely seen regular earring holes – just in the earlobes – in which you can wear standard sized earrings. These are the most common for women. You’ve probably also seen spacers, which are earrings – or more very large round circles – that make huge holes in the earlobe. You start small and you’re your way into larger spacers that create larger holes.
More than likely, you have probably also seen cartilage ear piercing where the outer rim of the ear is pierced. However, have you ever seen a barbell in someone’s ear extending from one side of the ear to the other (from the outside to the inside close to the head)? If you have then you may have been wondering what it is. If that is the case, then we are fixing to tell you!
So, What Is It?
Industrial bar piercing is a specific type of body piercing. A body piercing is when an opening is created on the body in which a piece of jewelry – be it an earring, barbell, etc. – can be worn. Also known as ear cartilage piercing, industrial bar piercing goes an extra step, as it consists of two connecting holes that have been pierced with a long barbell, which is just a long piece of jewelry similar to what you might see in a belly button piercing.
Known most commonly as industrial piercing in the States and scaffold piercing or construction piercing in IRL and the UK, this type of piercing consists of two holes being connected that have been pierced with a lone straight, long (more…)