He cuts around the hole -- "you're almost taking out the core," he explains. Then he slices the earlobe into two pieces, trims away excess skin and sews the pieces back together. He says the surgery leaves a scar down the earlobe right to the edge of the lobe.
He adds: "A lot of these kids are smokers, and smokers tend not to heal as well, just to add insult to injury. But regauging their lobes is out of the question: "They'd run the risk of literally tearing their earlobe apart. Given enough time, the size of these holes could be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil to that of a soda can. Ear stretching takes time and effort.
Many people are regretting ear stretching and are seeking to reverse the process , so think about this carefully. Ear stretching began thousands of years ago as a form of beauty enhancement. The first thing to do is get an ear piercing.
This is as simple as going to a reputable piercing shop, getting your ear pierced, and letting the piercing heal for a few months. Choose a piercer with a license to pierce in your state. Tattoo artists and estheticians often receive extra training on piercings. After the piercing has fully healed, then you can get all the equipment you need to increase the size of your piercings.
These are the long, spiky things you put into your piercings to start stretching out the skin. They come in various sizes or gauges , depending on how much you want to stretch out your piercing. Most tapers are acrylic or steel. Many people recommend steel tapers because they slide through the piercing easier. He says it used to be associated with hippies, punks or the rock crowd but now it is "all walks of life and not just students".
It can be discreet and people can hide it behind their hair in work. Ear stretching is in vogue, says Alix Fox, who writes the body modification section in the British alternative magazine Bizarre. Prof Victoria Pitts-Taylor, from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, says ear stretching has become popularised in the same way as other sub-cultural practices, such as tattooing and piercing.
The sociologist, who wrote In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification, says it started in the s and s with the rise of the body art movement and the "modern primitives", who appropriated practices from the "global supermarket" for various reasons such as showing solidarity with other cultures or to set themselves apart. Ear stretching has became more mainstream in the last decade and different people have become attracted to it because they see it on the catwalks and celebrities.
Hard-core modifiers have to up the ante to defy the commercialisation of the practice, Prof Pitts-Taylor suggests. The more you stretch the skin, the more commitment you are expressing to a counter cultural look.
People who are obsessed with getting the largest stretch possible are known in the business as a "gauge queen" or "gauge king", according to Fox. There are many ways to stretch ear lobes. You can gradually stretch the skin using different sized tapers cone-shaped pieces of jewellery. This requires patience. There is a YouTube video that comes to mind where a girl is stretching too fast and manages to rip her earlobe in half — yikes!
This, again, can cause painful tearing with potentially irreversible results. By Phoebe Avison. Frederick M.
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