Daith Piercing

Because it's tucked deep in the ear, the daith sounds intimidating, but most clients rate it 4–6 out of 10 — a firm pinch that's over quickly. We pierce it with a single-use needle and receiving tube for a clean, accurate pass; we never use a gun.

Plan for 6–9 months, sometimes up to a year. Like all cartilage, it heals from the outside in, so it needs to be left alone well past the point where it looks healed. A downsize visit keeps the jewelry seated as swelling resolves.

You may have read that a daith piercing relieves migraines. We want to be straight with you: there is no clinical evidence that it does, and we won't promise a medical benefit. If you'd like a daith for how it looks, we're glad to do it — but for migraine treatment, please talk to your doctor.

We start a daith with a hoop, clicker, or heart-shaped ring in implant-grade titanium or solid gold, sized to your anatomy. Aftercare is sterile saline twice a day, no sleeping on that ear, and hands off the jewelry — full routine on our piercing aftercare guide.

Every piercing at our Santa Monica studio is done with a single-use sterile needle — never a piercing gun, which can't be sterilized and crushes cartilage. We install only implant-grade titanium (ASTM F-136), solid 14k/18k gold, or niobium, placed and checked by a Fakir-certified senior piercer. Your fresh jewelry is sized long for swelling, and a downsize follow-up is built into every piercing so it settles cleanly.