ear gauging, yes no? Options

[yupimchuck]

Eh, I wasnt sure where to put this.
But I think its fashion.

Do you like when people gauge their ears?
I think it's nice when somebody has like 1/2" or somethign and thats all.
Makes them look nice.

&mine are at a 2., but im going to 5/8"

[madchenallein]

I think ear gauging is kind of gross, personally. It can look cool on a young person, especially with a neat colorful titanium ring, but with body alteration I can't look at it without seeing the whole picture and considering the alteration in light of aging or a change in personal circumstances, eg. a really great job that doesn't mesh with a piercing or tat, or getting really fat and stretching something out, or surgery and having part of it removed... I have my tongue pierced and it's a small gauge, a 14. I like that if I decide I don't want it anymore (I've had it for 2 years) I can take it out and it will heal up almost as if I never did anything to it. When you stretch skin though, it doesn't shrink back. I can't imagine being 50 or 60 years old with saggy earlobes that a person can see through. Saggy bubbies are going to be bad enough, lol!

But, to each her own, if we were all the same, it would be an awfully boring world.

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[yupimchuck]

I thought about all that.

Being 60 with huge saggy earlobes.
But then I thought, im a kid. and im only gonna live once. so who cares.

[kill me please]

oh i know what you mean.. my friend did that. i think it looks alright on some guys, if its not too big. girls though, uh no.

[*mzkandi*]

I think it looks neat as long as it is not to big. I wouldnt do it to myself though.

[miss barnes]

umm.no i dont think it looks right at all

[yupimchuck]

Some people thou, like mine, you can barely see.
Ive always got my ears covered so you never would know.

But sometimes Ill carry my eyeliner in an ear :/

[ItzOnlySydney]

i think gauged ears are okay when done right but remember if you don't like it the only way to fix it is sugery to get the hole sewn up. if it's big enough to stick even your pinky through it won't close up on it's own like a regular one would

[MetalChick77]

I think it's okay as long as theyre not HUGE. I gauged my cartilage from a 20 to a 14 but that's about it for me..

[wokeupinadream]

I had my bottom holes at 8g but i made a deal with my parents that i would let them go to 14's if they let me get an industrial. so now i have 2 holes in both bottom lobes that are 14s and an industrial which is a barbell that connects two cartilage peircings that are both 14s, so nope i have no problem with gauged ears <3

[yupimchuck]

^ I have an industrial.

I promised my parents if they let me get my lip I wouldnt ask for anymore piercings or gauge my ears more.

But Im still gauging them more.

I feel kinda weird. because I liek when peoples ears are gauged really big :/

[wokeupinadream]

I like lip piercings. i dont really like tounge or nose piercings. industrials are fun! but i got mine may 17th so its still healing and it crusts over and bleeds and ekk its just gross.

[LOVE machine x]

i think it looks cool.

[xxtaintedlips]

hmmm...i dont like it...at least high gading

[MetalChick77]

I want an industrial reaaaallly bad but i dont think my ear is shaped for it :(

[yupimchuck]

^ Ive seen peopel just get it in different places. Or lower/higher.
Mines pretty high :/

&see, I think this boy looks nice,
because its all hes got &theyre a great size.

[MetalChick77]

^ yeah it looks good on him. I think gauging is okay as long as you can't fit your whole hand the hole lol.

I might go to a piercer today for them to put a CBR in (can't find my pliers ) so I'll ask them about the industrial.

[MetalChick77]

ignore.

[MetalChick77]

dammit, triple post

[heyyfrankie]

I think it looks neat as long as it is not to big. I wouldnt do it to myself though.

ditto.

[wayne]

no.. looks.. painful...

[sunissed14127]

I think it's really weird if it's really big. I think it looks better on guys than girls, though.

[yupimchuck]

[FONT=Arial]I think its nice on girls :/[/FONT]

[FLIPxADDICTION]

i prefer small ones
those big gauges are scary

[inthemudhole]

I like it on other people, but I wouldn't like it on myself. Meh, I don't go for them when they're huge though... that's just a bit much, in my opinion.

[yupimchuck]

I think girls look nice in them..

[dreamerOi]

^ Ive seen peopel just get it in different places. Or lower/higher.
Mines pretty high :/

&see, I think this boy looks nice,
because its all hes got &theyre a great size.
http://xs32.xs.to/pics/05233/awe.png

i think those are nice. but if theyre any bigger they can look kind of strange i guess. well not currently but just when your older i guess itd look a little funny hah. but otherwise they look pretty nice. ive always thought about getting some but i just wouldnt want me to have them on my wedding or something .

[tangerineChic]

i think it just looks awesome guys or girls.

[sw33t_rouge]

i like tiny ones..those big ones look painful >< .

[angelbaby317]

My cousin did it to one of his ears. I guess it's ok, but I doubt I'd ever do it.

[yupimchuck]

i like tiny ones..those big ones look painful >< .

=o
theyre really not.

[lilliannnn]

ditto.

ditto the ditto.

[not_for_anything]

I like them, I went to...somwhere between a 2 and a 4 because i put a straw in my ears, but I eventually took them out

[xldubaliciousx]

is gauging your ear when you gradually stretch it out?

[yupimchuck]

^ yeah. theres a picture on the first page.

[starlette]

I think ear gauging is kind of gross, personally.  It can look cool on a young person, especially with a neat colorful titanium ring, but with body alteration I can't look at it without seeing the whole picture and considering the alteration in light of aging or a change in personal circumstances, eg. a really great job that doesn't mesh with a piercing or tat, or getting really fat and stretching something out, or surgery and having part of it removed...  I have my tongue pierced and it's a small gauge, a 14.  I like that if I decide I don't want it anymore (I've had it for 2 years) I can take it out and it will heal up almost as if I never did anything to it.  When you stretch skin though, it doesn't shrink back.  I can't imagine being 50 or 60 years old with saggy earlobes that a person can see through.  Saggy bubbies are going to be bad enough, lol! 

But, to each her own, if we were all the same, it would be an awfully boring world.

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well....congratulations on saying everything that crossed my mind. I just got a job at blockbuster, and they made me take out my tongue ring. I've had it for almost three years, so its no biggie. But yeah, it can be a real set back to getting a serious job. Not that blockbuster is a serious job, but if I can have peircings there, think about if I worked for a law firm or something...

[yupimchuck]

Thats true.

but you only live once.
&its in your ears. so its just like earrings.. just bigger.

&put a retainer in your tongue.

[senofed]

it all depends on who it is..

whoever said big gauges look painful... how can you say that.. i mean when you gauge it, it hurts a bit but once its healed you cant even tell..

my ears are at 7/8in right now.. one gauge away from an inch.. i cant even tell theyre in, unless i go to pull my hair behind my ears and it snags.. but other than that its no problem.

different sizes look better on different people for 2 reasons.. 1, a size may fit a person perfectly and they may like that size. 2, their lobe size.. if your lobes arent that big.. going REAL big is stupid.. you may blow them out or have hardly any skin left. and if their lobes are smaller, smaller gauges look fine.. i had considerbly larger lobes (never really noticed it) and when i was at 5/8s i still had a considerable a mount of skin left.

eh its all personal judgement really.

[angelrevelation]

err... eww? I think they look really ugly. and they stretch your ear lobes, so if you take them out there's like a saggy hole

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

Travis from GCH looks so f**king sexy as hell with his gauges. I was thinking of getting gauges, but in the long run I don't want my earlobes stretched =\ But i think its cool on most people.