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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. Body jewelry sizes - Wikipedia

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   A gauge number denotes a thickness on a standardized scale which, for most purposes, starts at 20g (0.812 mm thick— often used for the posts for nose studs), and increases in thickness (as the gauge number decreases) to 0g, then 00g, and rarely goes any further as these thicknesses come closer and closer to 1 ⁄ 2 ″.

4. 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.

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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   On 4 March 2006, the record was overturned by Kam Ma, who had 1,015 temporary metal rings inserted in 7 hours and 55 minutes. [98] The record for most body piercings with surgical needles was set on 29 May 2008, when Robert Jesus Rubio allowed 900 18-gauge, 0.5 centimetres (0.20 in)-long surgical needles to be inserted into his body. [101]

7. Ear piercing instrument - Wikipedia

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   Another design for a hand-pressure ear-piercing instrument is Coren, [8] which comprises a small U-shaped plastic holder pre-loaded with a standard 16-gauge ear-piercing stud in one arm of the device and the clasp in the other. To pierce the ear, the operator closes the instrument around the earlobe, aligning the point of the stud with the mark ...