Plugs, Tunnels, and Spirals: New Body Piercing Trend

Do you know gauge your niece has? The general rule of thumb is as long as they're under 0g, if you take them out, your ears will heal back to normal. Any bigger and your lobes are likely to look like buttholes for the rest of your life. Don't worry it does heal.

And would I ever get this? I already do. I have both my ears pierced and stretched to 8g with flared flesh tunnels. I love it. No it didn't hurt, and I've got to admit, I do like having it for a nack or uniqueness. I'm actually stretching down to 6g next week. I have one friend whose lobes are stretched to an inch and a half. She has no qualms that they'll never completely heal.

If it makes a person happy, let them do it. Its not permanent if you don't want it to be. I know eventually I'll probably grow up, and then want to take out my plugs, but until then, I'm enjoying them. It gives me something to play and tug around with.
 
Yeah, I already have ear pierce on both ears but I will get ring pierce on near to lower mouth.
 
It's been around for years -- saw those happening in L.A. back in the early 90's. More of gay and lesbians at the time. Am used to seeing it.
 
Absolutely NO peircings for me, anywhere! I did have my ear lobes double peirced, but that got to be too much of a pain for me to deal with. I kept losing earring/earring backs. I also have an allergy to metals, so it got quite expensive to maintain peirced ears. I am not able to wear anything but real 14K gold, or real silver. I was losing earrings left and right until finally, one day, I got fed up and said "F it". I took my earrings out and let the holes close up. Mommy Dearest isn't happy, but too bad. She's the weird one in this family! NOT ME!! I'll stick to not having peirced ears. Much easier for me to deal with as I have no expensive jewlery to worry about losing! :lol:

I've been able to save a fortune in earrings this way. :)
 
The link failed for me so I had to search for the article by using the search in the newspaper.

The plugs have been around for a long time like Dawn said. I remembered seeing a picture of an African woman with a HUGE plug (i would say it is 5 inches disk) in her lip. It was considered as a sign of beauty in that certain tribe. (I googled and foung this image which is a resemblance of what I saw:
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'Pre-Columbian Peruvians wore copper ear spools as decoration and early Native Americans, such as Mississippi mound people, wore pottery and stone tunnels that look eerily similar to the styles popular with gaugers today."
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I wouldn't mind to have plugs in my ears but I knew I won't keep it so that is why I am not running to the salon and stretch out my ears... yet. ;-) I think if I got plugs then took it out which resulted in a small hole... my husband would be totally turned off. He is already queasy with my piercings... JUST REGULAR EARRINGS, and he starts to gag and shudder if I put in an earring in my ear (the normal type of piercing-- the one that everybdoy get ontheir ears.) He squirmed when I got helix piercings-- he said "as long you don't change your earrings in front of me, i am O-K with 'em..."
So can you imagine his reaction if I un-plug my ears and show him the HUGE holes in my ears???

:BARF: that would be his reaction.

I wouldn't mind to get the jewelry that resembles a spiral (not a twist, or a plug with an image of spiral in it....) I LOVE 'EM! I thought they were So pretty.. and I already love spirals so it is like merging my favorites into one! but I wouldn't gauge my ear. I would get a THIN spiral...
I am not sure if I was using the right term. Usually you will see them in black, dark red, or jade green-- they are tribal-type jewelry that loops through your ear and it looks like a spiral if you look at its profile...
 
R3na3Blyth3 said:
It's been around for years -- saw those happening in L.A. back in the early 90's. More of gay and lesbians at the time. Am used to seeing it.
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You're gonna make me cry :tears: . I'm going to go pick out some new 8g plugs tomorrow and I'm excited! I'm really considering getting my libret pierced now.
 
I was fooling around with my friends bag of old plugs and tapers, and found out he had an old set of steel 6g plugs and one taper plug, and I decided to see how easily I could squeeze it through. I was able to pull it through, no problem, and no pain, so now I'm down to 6g. Just 3 more gauges to go before 0g!
 
I've had mine stretched out but not very far. Since I worked at a bead store that sold body jewelery, we had a body jewelery manager. She told me if I went up to about 8g or 6g, I could probably take them out and never really have a problem with my regular earrings. I went up to 8g for a year, took them out and decided to stay with my 16g rings. :)
 
I'm stopping at 0g. Like I've said before, rule of thumb is if you go any farther, and then decide to take them out, your lobes will end up looking like buttholes for the rest of your life. My friend is giving me some 2g plugs tomorrow.
 
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