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2. Stretching (body piercing) - Wikipedia

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   Stretching, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed piercing for the purpose of wearing certain types of jewelry. Ear piercings are the most commonly stretched piercings, [1] with nasal septum piercings, tongue piercings and lip piercings/lip plates following close behind. [2]

3. Plug (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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   Surgical steel flesh tunnels in four different gauges. A flesh tunnel is a hollow, tube-shaped variety of body piercing jewelry. It is also sometimes referred to as a spool, fleshy, earlet, expander, or eyelet. A flesh tunnel is usually used in stretched or scalpelled piercings. Flesh tunnels are made in smaller gauges.

4. Body jewelry sizes - Wikipedia

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   But with body jewelry, there is a wide variety of possible sizes, and wearers generally want jewelry that is the same size as their piercing site. Some wearers want increasingly larger sizes to deliberately stretch the hole. So that wearers can choose the size they want, there are standards for body jewelry sizes, used by jewelry makers and ...

5. Earring - Wikipedia

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   An ear spiral is a thick spiral that is usually worn through the earlobe. It is worn in ears that have been stretched and normally held in place only by its own downward pressure. Glass ear spirals are shown but many materials are used. Some designs are quite ornate and may include decorative appendages flaring from the underlying concentric ...

6. Body piercing - Wikipedia

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   Mummified bodies with pierced ears have been discovered, including the oldest mummified body discovered to date, the 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman, which was found in a glacier in Italy. [5] The mummy had an ear piercing 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) in diameter. [5] The oldest earrings found in a grave date to 2500 BCE.

7. When does a pediatrician say it's OK to pierce a baby's ears?

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   But for Hammack, who was born in Mexico City, Mexico, piercing her daughter's ears had an important cultural significance. In Latin cultures, she explains, infant female ear piercing is routine.