Looking for tips to wear 10 gauge earrings? You've come to the right place. Ear gauging is becoming quite the trend among teenagers these days. In fact, not just the thrill-seeking kids are getting their ears pierced and stretched and gauged these days. It's so popular everybody's doing it. Even I thought about it. Even you must have thought about it…which is a bit evident since you're reading this article. This article will tell you things you need to know before attempting to gauge your ears.
To the indoctrinated mind, piercing, wearing earrings, gauging, and stretching might all sound one and the same. The truth is, they're not. Piercing is very different from stretching. Piercing is just the simple process of "poking a hole" through your earlobes, whereas stretching and gauging are done to widen those holes. In a nutshell, you have to be pierced first before stretching. This is the part when you start to wonder how on earth it was possible for people have such huge holes in their ears. You must have seen some people with holes in their earlobes the size of a button. They do that in a process called stretching. Some call it gauging.
First things first, let's talk about holing measurements. The size of the holes is measured by gauge, a unit abbreviated as 'ga'. Therefore, 10 gauge earrings are called 10ga earrings. You might think that 10 ga earrings are already big, but wait till you hear about 14ga and 20ga earrings. Though, let's not scare the wits out of you right now. Let's talk about gauging.
It's quite hard to think how it's possible for people get very big holes in their earlobes. Does that happen overnight? For goodness' sake, do they use a puncher to…punch holes in their ears? That seems like a good fit. All irony aside, gauging doesn't happen overnight. People don't get 10ga holes in their earlobes in one night. It's a continuous process where the ears are stretched constantly, until it becomes permanent. Gauging ears can take a long time, but people do have patience. You should, too.
The most popular size for big-hole earrings, as some people call them, is 10ga. That means to be safe, pick the size of 10 gauge earrings or something near that. It's not too small and not too big either. If you stretch to 10ga, you'll be able to wear most earrings, large or small.
The next tip is to stop asking. No one is going to be able to tell you how long it will take for your earlobes to get stretched enough. Sure, they can tell you how long it took them and it will give you the general idea, like will it take a week, a month, or a year. However, no one can approximate the number in days. You will just have to find out for yourself. In this, the best tip I can give you is to have patience. It won't take very long, but you won't be wearing 10 gauge earrings as quick as you think either.