Gauging?

I don't have anything against gauging as you call it - I think we refer to it as tunnelling or something I'm not sure but havent heard that term used before. But when my brother startd expressing interest in getting it done I was like noooo! Because I've always had it in my head that one day hell be a successful business man all kited out in his suit etc. and I just can't see a 'baggy ear' (assuming he's taken it out) would look the part. At the moment he's very cool, in a band and all that, so for him its the logical progression lol. Anyway he has had it done now, in both ears. He's gone bigger than his initial limit, but he says this is the biggest, though if I believe him or not is another matter, and so hopefully this size is not to big to go back again. Fingers crossed!

I used to have my ear lobes gauged not horriably big but i was down to like a 4. i kinda sorta gauged my cartlage. I have a 14 when it started out as a stud. But i think its fun. but i will never over stretch them where they wont be able to go back

I don't have any gauged piercings, but my sister does. She quit at about the size of a dime. She had to be in a wedding that required a certain pair of earrings for the attire accents and realized she would never be able to do that again if she kept going. Personally, I don't really see anything wrong with it, depending on where they're at... Before you do it, though, I would make sure that employment would not be hard to find if your gauged piercings couldn't be covered up. Some even look really clean when the jewelry is really cool! Me, myself... no. First of all, I'm too old (j/k)... but definitely, no. I have pierced ears (4 piercings in 1, and 2 piercings in the other) but never even put earrings in them except for the one in my cartiledge that i keep there. Otherwise, they are never adorned... poor me... I'm just either too lazy or it became unimportant. I don't wear jewelry anywhere else, either. (Got rid of the belly ring during my last pregnancy...)