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2. Stretching (body piercing) - Wikipedia

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   Stretching (body piercing) 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. Body jewelry sizes - Wikipedia

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   Both AWG and SWG express sizes as a gauge, but the numbers are different. For example, AWG 12g is 2.1 mm, but SWG 12g is 2.6 mm. AWG 8g happens to be the same as SWG 10g. AWG 000g is 10.4 mm, but SWG 000g is 9.4 mm. In most discussions of body jewelry, sizes are specified by giving the gauge, usually abbreviated by the suffix "g", the same ...

4. Tragus piercing - Wikipedia

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   A tragus piercing is the perforation of the tragus, which projects immediately in front of the ear canal, for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry.The piercing itself is usually made with a small gauge hollow piercing needle, and typical jewelry would be a small diameter captive bead ring or small gauge post style piercing jewelry.

5. Plug (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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   Totonac figurine wearing prominent earspools. A plug (sometimes earplug or earspool), in the context of body modification, is a short, cylindrical piece of jewelry commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings. [1] Modern western plugs are also called flesh tunnels. Because of their size—which is often substantially thicker than a standard ...

6. Ear piercing instrument - Wikipedia

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   An ear-piercing instrument (commonly referred to as a piercing gun or an ear-piercing gun) is a device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed starter stud through the lobe. Piercing guns are typically used for ear piercing in mall jewelry shops, beauty salons, pharmacies, and doctors' offices. Piercing guns have been widely criticized ...

7. Piercing migration - Wikipedia

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   Piercing migration. Piercing migration is the process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location. [1] This process can be painful or go unnoticed, until it has progressed. Given enough time, a ring may migrate entirely outside of the skin, although it may only migrate a small amount and come to rest.