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I was wondering if any of u guys on here have ur ears gauged? how big?  when did u start? why?

I had my one ear pierced since freshman year of highschool... and 3 months ago i did my other ear,  I liked the way gauged ears looked ever since I had my one ear done. So 3 months ago when i did my other one, i started gauging them.  Right now I am at a 12.  I am planning on going down to a 0, which is about equivalent to that of a cigarette butt



it is a very random topic, but i am curious to see if u guys/if any have done this

i attempted to do this couple months ago when my friends started. i already had my ears pierced with 18g (your standard ear piercing size) and thought a jump to 14g would be fine. it was a bit tough to get them in but i managed. but the next days just sucked with my ear lobes still swollen and bleeding. so i decided to just stick with standard. i wouldve kept going to atleast 14g but just the fact my ears kept bleeding told made me stop.

if i was to do it over again, i wouldve just gone down slowly and not miss a size. so from 18 to 16 to 14 and so on.

I just have a regular piercing in my left ear, I would never get it gauged, I think it's just something you'll really regret later in life.

dizzle. ya u gotta do it reall slow, like i ahd to wait a month in between each stretch, and no bleeding each time, and they all just slid right in.


paulius.  yes i know i will probably regret it later on.  but the size im going to, should be able to retract back to normal. (or so ive been told)

0 is a whole lot bigger than a cig butt, more like a dime.  and no, they wont stay like that forever.  if you go gigantic to like a 00 or something they'll stay, but they should go back to normal.

i gauged down to an 8 with both my ears when i was in college.  it never hurt until i got to about a 10, which hurt/bled.  8 sucked a lot so i never went any bigger, plus that was the size i wanted.  

when you get down to that size it helps to use a slide, which is basically a long funnel shaped plug that starts at about a size 16 and gradually gets bigger.  Just slide it in as far as you can and go to sleep, when you do that every night it slowly opens it up.

I have both ears pierced with 8 gauges in the bottom holes and 10 gauges in the 2nd holes.  I had a 2 gauge in my tongue back in the day, but I took that out a few years ago.  From what I recall, if you go any bigger than 2 gauge in your ears, the holes will never completely close.  There's a guy I used to work with that had his ears gauged to like 00's and the holes never fully closed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(United_States_coin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(United_States_coin))



ok so i lied... a cigarette butt is inbetween a 00 and 000
and a dime is 17.91mm/ .7" or about 3/4"



and damn tim, i didnt know u had that many piercings... thats cool, when did u start doing them all?

and the guy u used to work with, do his ears look like shit now?

I don't really talk about that sorta stuff.  I have other piercings that I haven't mentioned.

tim we don't wanna know about your belly button piercing. :-D

Uh oh!

And Yeah they will grow back but at the moment I am quite satisfied with the earrings that I have...

(http://www.thechinainventory.com/img/uploaded/E1402a_s600.jpg)

And one just like that xept it has more tribal designs... I love tribal designs, I am probably going to get some sort of inconspicuous tribal tattoo one of these days.

I think gauges are fine as long as they're done with good taste.

Most people don't notice that I'm rocking 8 gauges and 10 gauges in my ears.

I didn't notice for some reason