One of my most distinguishing features is my stretched earlobe piercings. I often wonder why people seem to remember me after having met me only once, and my friends tell me, “It’s because you have huge holes in your ears, DUH!”
My parents have never understood why I got into body modification. I’m not sure I know why, either. Maybe it was because the Spice Girls had tattoos and body piercings and I was FASCINATED by them. Then I discovered BME and it was all over. I fell in love with stretched lobes and decided I had to have them.
I started stretching my ears when I was 14, about halfway into my freshman year of high school. At this point, my parents were unwilling to sign for any additional piercings (probably because I was convinced I needed my tongue pierced…glad I changed my mind on that one). I figured I could stretch the lobe piercings I already had.
My lobes were pierced when I was an infant with a piercing gun at some random place in the mall (I know, for SHAME! Blame my parents, not me). Luckily the placement of my holes was decent.
And now, I present to you my pictorial ear stretching timeline, which spans approximately 7 years.
I have been sitting at 5/8″ for about 2 years now. I have quite the collection of plugs in this size, which you can check out on Flickr.
This is how I hide them when I need to:
Perhaps I should add a disclaimer here indicating that ear stretching is, for the most part, permanent. I can’t imagine life without my stretched lobes. People often ask me what I’m going to do when I’m older. Well, let me tell you, I CAN’T WAIT! My ears are going to stretch out on their own without me doing any work — it’s going to be awesome. I’m going to be old with saggy 2″ holes in my ears, and I am totally okay with that.
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You should totally include your massive skin-tone plugs for SMB. Those always cracked me up!
Just for you!
They also work for drum corps. ;) There are 5 concealed holes in that ear….can you tell?
Thanks for sharing!
I too have been fascinated by body mods. My fascination started when I was a kid watching all of the interesting ethnic cultures on National Geographic TV Specials.
At the moment I am up to 00g for my ears and would like to find some silicone hider plugs to use.
Thanks Again for your “Timeline”!
I definitely recommend the Kaos silicone hider plugs, which you can see in the last picture. They are carried by Bodyartforms: http://tinyurl.com/plgnhu
Nearly a year since a comment was last posted on here, but out of curiousity, how well do you think a 3/4″ kaos hider plug would work?
I think they would work pretty well if the color is close to your actual skintone (they come in 3 different shades, I believe mine are the medium color). They would probably look similar to mine since the size is fairly close.
I should also add that it depends on who you don’t want seeing your stretched lobe piercings. The Marines, for example, would probably still notice.
I’m sort of upset because i can never find any hider plugs in an African-american skin tone. Do you know where i can find some???
I can’t speak from experience, but depending on your skintone, have you thought about solid wood plugs?