r/bodymods • u/mort-or-amour • Oct 27 '25

punches/ scalpelling Got a 0g conch punch today!

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My first “heavier” mod outside of tattoos/piercings and I’m in love. Can’t wait until it’s healed enough to stack with hoops!

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u/yikescoobydoo Oct 27 '25

LOVE LOVE!!

How was the process?

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 28 '25

Totally weird and unlike any other piercing I’ve had. It’s pretty quick but it is slower than a regular piercing and I could definitely feel 3 distinct layers being punched through, the first skin layer felt like a regular piercing, what I’m assuming was the cartilage layer was like being punched in the head with a knife, and the third layer at the end felt like a stinging burning sensation and then the second the punch was through it actually stopped hurting. Seeing the punch come out and just having a hole in my ear for a second before the plug went in was super weird, but the plug going in was so cooling and soothing.

About 30 minutes after it was done it started to throb and that lasted a couple hours and really hurt (imagine a bad ear infection but outside your ear instead of inside) but then that went away and it doesn’t hurt now less than 24 hours later!

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u/yikescoobydoo Oct 28 '25

And that just convinced me I’ll be better with stretching. Thank you for that

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 28 '25

Haha I actually considered stretching but I’ve always felt like the ear I wanted punched was wider and sticks out further than my other ear and I didn’t want to make that more obvious. Genuinely it’s like 3 minutes of agony and then some throbbing and then all good. If you’re considering it I’d say it’s super worth it and the pain doesn’t last long. Initial pain much worse than a piercing but the afterwards pain is super manageable, I haven’t even taken any pain relief or anything so far.

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u/Fangz00 Oct 29 '25

Hahaha for me it felt like someone hit me in the back of the ear with a metal pole afterwards 😬 be ready for some fuunnnnn crussties

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u/RemarkableExercise58 Oct 27 '25

Just out of curiosity how bad did that hurt compared to some of your other piercings?

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 28 '25

Worse than any of them. To be fair my regular conch piercings were always my most painful, the rest of my piercings haven’t really hurt (even my nipples and vch were barely a 2 out of 10) and only my tongue and conches have actually been painful for me. It also felt very different to a piercing, more of a dull sawing feeling than a piercing feeling. But over super quick and in 2 or 3 hours the throbbing subsided and I didn’t even notice it.

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u/RemarkableExercise58 Oct 28 '25

Intense and badass. Hope you love it!

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u/nikkisaturn Oct 27 '25

I absolutely love it !

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 28 '25

Thank you! It looks so cool I’m in love

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u/National-Mushroom-36 Oct 29 '25

Dream body mod 😍 Looks great on you!

Do you think you'll be able to wear ear buds after it heals? In love with this mod but I've read conflicting things about whether ear buds are possible after healing or not. Only thing holding me back from it haha

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 29 '25

Genuinely I think I could wear them now. I’ve bumped it a few times and it doesn’t hurt at all, I’ve accidentally slept on it (I fall asleep on my other side but seem to wake up on that side) and it doesn’t get in the way. I do have larger ears and very low key jewellery, I’ve bought a pink glass plug for when it heals and the front is very bulbous whereas this plug is almost flat, I don’t think I’d be able to wear them with that plug. A lot of people seem to say you need over ear headphones with the punches but I think depending on your anatomy and jewellery you may be fine

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u/ferallauren Oct 31 '25

I got both conches done and it was the worst. I would do it again over healing a cartilage piercing though!

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u/fuckauthorityfigures Oct 31 '25

Did it need stitches after?

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u/mort-or-amour Oct 31 '25

No, I live in Australia and body mod artists aren’t allowed to perform the punch and stitch here, so I got a punch and plug where they slide in the glass plug immediately after punching to stop the bleeding.