The flat part of the
ear above the true
conch. It is immediately below the
helix (the ridge that runs along the back and top of the ear), and it bounded on the bottom by the
rook in the front and in the back by the edge that drops down into the conch. It is composed of very thin
cartilage and thus is an easy spot to
pierce. The traditional cartilage piercing is somewhere along the top edge of the upper conch, close to where the ear bends out to the helix.
If a left ear looks something like this, the upper conch is the area denoted by the asterisks:
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