Ear Stretching? Your Opinion?

What the **** is ear stretching or an ear gauge?

 

Not for me at all.

To each their own though. I have a lot of tattoos personally.

 

With all respect, I think its disgusting.

 

Oh that. I've met some tribespeople who had those - and hipsters. Not my thing.

But they're your ears, you do what you want with them.

 

To each their own. I wouldn't do it, but I don't care if others do. Seeing their ears without the stretcher after they've been stretched freaks me out a bit though.

 

They look like cats' anuses when the stretcher is taken out...

If you do it, do it forever.

 

I honestly think it looks pretty gross.

When the gauges are in the ears, it doesn't look too bad, but my God when the gauges aren't in it's just disgusting.

Although a 00g isn't too terribly bad. The pic you showed is somewhere between a 5/8" and a 1" I'd imagine, well past a 00g. But just semantic nitpicking, a 00g is 4 sizes bigger than a 6g, not 6 sizes.

(Sorry, I work at Hot Topic and I'm OCD)

 

With less respect, so do I.

 

My friend had the brilliant idea of running up to someone with large gauges, locking a padlock on their ear, and running away

 

I think it's absolutely ridiculous and some people stretch their ears to the point where they tear apart because they're stretched so thin.

 

For once, I think that a form of self expression is stupid. Once you get rid of them your ear lobes look absolutely ridiculous.

To me ear gauging is a fad...like slap bracelets.

 

Yeah, I also think it looks horrible, but to each their own.

 

looks awful and quite painful

 

Yeah, but slap bracelets didn't leave a part of your body scarred for life. At a certain point the ear doesn't return to normal right? I think it's stupid, of course, it's your body and you can do what you want though. Also I'd think about what you want to do in the future, I'd imagine you'd have trouble getting hired for most office jobs with mutilated ears. Doesn't exactly scream professional.

 

This. Heck, one of my retail co-workers says that management doesn't like her face piercings and stretched ears, and that is just working in Starbucks.

And you'll look ridiculous as an old person.

 

I once worked for a company that wouldn't let male employees wear our earrings at work. This one dude clearly wore ear plugs outside of work, because his lobe looked weird and floppy without them in.

Otherwise, I don't mind them. I wouldn't do it, but then I wouldn't do a lot of things that other people do that don't bother me.

Speak for yourself. We made a contest out of who could inflict the most pain with those things. Many deaths.

 

Huge gauges honestly do more harm than good. They hinder your chances in the professional world. Self-expression doesn't mean anything if you can't find that well paying job you seek. Unlike most tattoos, you can't cover up your deformed, floppy ear lobe. I can't see many people who have those huge gauges and keep going bigger won't regret their decision in ten years.

Foresight.

 

People are always saying stuff like that, but not everyone is trying to get an office job. Do you think anyone gives half a crap if truck drivers, fishermen, construction workers, janitors, carpenters, farmers, warehouse workers, or mechanics have giant ear plugs?

 

Honestly, all of those depends on who and where.

I mean my post strictly on those I see around my college campus. Some are smart and have the drive. However, you have gauges and are trying to enter the medical field...superficiality is just another way to weed out the competition. I'm not trying to justify the prejudice, but that's the way it is. Get in where you fit in.

 

.................why? Just why?

 

That's just asking for trouble if you get in a drunken fight.

 

You can give plenty of other reasons for not hiring someone to skirt that law.

I could actually see with some of those jobs the huge gauges being a large liability. I wouldn't want a construction worker with huge floopy earlobes on my site. A fisherman the same thing, all it takes is for them to get caught in something and you've got a potentially very serious accident on your hands.