cartilage piercing

As for cartilage piercings, you have many locations. It can be in any ear, and pretty much any spot in your cartilage you can think of. I have a helix, forward helix, and one in the middle spot where cartilage meets the lobe, in Spanish we call it "Half ear" but im sure that´s not its real name.
The helix was the easiest to heal. Forward helix was fine too although I had to change my big headphones for a while cause they touched the piercing. The one in the middle was a little harder to heal since it was a tricky spot being half cartilage half lobe, although 5 years later is healthy and looking good. I have a few friends who tried the tragus but it didn´t really heal well for any of them, I wouldnt know if its something they did wrong.
Pain was pretty much the same in all of them, pretty bareable, I just close my eyes and breathe until its done, thinking about the lovely piercing Im getting. First cartilage I got  little freaked out because I heard the cartilage "pop" when the needle went through, but I have 7 piercings in my ears alone so you can guess even then it wasn´t as much of a trauma, it may bleed although I never had it happen. Just research what you want, go to  good place, follow aftercare instructions, and be patient with healing since it takes longer than a lobe piercing.