Ear Gauging: Personal Experience with This "Holey" Hobby

The decision to gauge your earlobe to larger sizes is a choice that is often made without enough thought or patience. Sometimes the decision to do so can turn out to be a bad thing especially when the proper care isn't administered afterwards. Other points to consider are a method of safe stretching, how long you want to wait before moving up again, and the some of the down sides to ear gauging.

When I was about eight years old, a friend of the family introduced me to her friend who had a hole in his ear the size of a pencil. The fact that the had taken it upon himself to make a hole big enough to see straight through it truly fascinated me. As soon as I turned thirteen and was in middle school, I talked my parents into letting me get my left ear pierced. As my years in middle school progressed, I went on to pierce my other ear and left one a second time. 

By the time I was ready to go into high school, I had stretched each earlobe to around a six gauge. I went on and on until I reached my limit size of one and a quarter inch in my jr. year of high school. Though I have passed the limit of many peoples likes, the hobby itself did a lot for me personally to be more confident about myself. Through the past six years I learned a lot of things that made the process an easier less painful experience. The following are a few of those things for anyone making the decision to move up to a larger size gauge provided that all the consequences have been well thought out.

To begin with, never rush the process. Gauging your ear at a slow steady pace is the only way to insure the best care for you ears. Also, trying to force the next piece of jewelry in can result in the ripping of the hole. When this happens the ear hole is torn through instead of slowly brought to an extent to where to next gauge can pass through. This is a key-point to remember for anyone going past a zero gauge because serious damage can be done to the earlobes that can't easily be fixed.