At age 15, Cody Selga joined the wave of teenagers inserting gauges or plugs into their ears to stretch their earlobes. "I liked the look of it, and a bunch of people in the bands I was involved with ...

Piercing rejection may occur due to a combination of factors, including genetics, the material of the jewelry, or the location of the piercing. While you can’t prevent rejection in every case, ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and over the last 20 years, nothing has changed so much in our culture as the beauty standards for body art and augmentation. What was once only within the realm ...

Ear stretching (also called ear gauging) is when you gradually stretch out pierced holes in your earlobes. Given enough time, the size of these holes could be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil to ...

Ear stretching is the process of expanding an earlobe piercing hole over several months. This is a type of aesthetic body modification. Many people stretch their ears so they can wear gauges — ...

People have pierced their ears for thousands of years for ceremonial, cultural, religious, and decorative purposes. The oldest known example of ear piercing comes from “Ötzi the Iceman,” a man who ...