Ear Gauges

Young people are nowadays finding it hip and fashionable to have piercings all over the body. Most of the piercings they prefer are thick, as well as decorative. If you currently have a normal size ear piercing, you can now have them stretched gradually. Most people call this process gauging. Stretching your ear lobe piercings will take time, but it will ensure that you maintain your earlobes health, and you will also be able to wear newer styles.

Normal gauge for ear lobes are usually 18 or 20 gauge. This is used to pierce most people. The sizes of gauge are usually even numbers, ranging from 18G to 00G. The size of the gauge will increase as the number of the gauge decreases. If you have an lobes that are large, you may not be able down size them later because you already stretched a big part of your ear lobes.

If you force your skin to stretch to your desired size, your lobes will most likely never heal back. 2g-00g is the general point of no return area, however everyone's body heals differently.

The website ear-gauges.com will teach you several ways of stretching your earlobes. Before trying to stretch your ear lobes, make sure that you ask a professional on how to do it. Different stretching techniques may have different effects among different people. Not all people may also like one technique, but it may work for you.

When you are stretching/gauging, it is important that you take it slowly. Change your gauges at a slow pace so that your piercing wound could heal properly before you try to change to another gauge of another size. The site of your piercing may result to a scar if you change your gauge in a fast manner.

The best choices of things to use when stretching ears are the stainless steel plugs & glass plugs, a kind of jewelry. Visit our other articles  for more reliable and interesting information on ear gauges.

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