In a viral TikTok, with over 9 million views, a professional piercer recorded her niece’s reaction to getting her ears pierced for the first time Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Too much earwax can cause rubbing of the ear or poking in the canal. A piece of ear wax can become dry and hard in the ear canal. This creates a feeling that an object is in the ear. Complete blockage ...