Will your ear holes go back to normal if you gauge them?

Question

my parents are freaking out that my gauges wont go back to normal size even though they are only size 8. can someone give me like a website or something that medically or like actually says that they go back down?

Answer 1

They might go back, depending on several factors.  See

http://tattoo.about.com/od/piercefaq/f/s... or

http://www.onetribe.nu/catalog/stretchin...

To quote from the OneTribe site, "There is never any guarantee that your ears will shrink back up. If you are going to stretch, please make sure that you will be comfortable at that size as an old wrinkly person, and with having your children and grandchildren ask you why you have huge holes in your ears."  (The responder above apparently didn't read it all.)

No matter how small the piercings, there is never any GUARANTEE that they will go back.  So the decision to stretch must be made with the assumption that it's a lifetime decision.  That advice is coming from proponents of the practice, so you know the medical community isn't going to give better news.

Unless you want to spring for plastic surgery.

Answer 2

i don't have a web site but i can tell you they will um my cousin had gaged ears and they were huge like this size of a quarter and then a girl was dancing with him and was playing with the hole because he didn't have a earring in at the moment and someone surprised her and she riped his gage so there was like a tear in his ear but it grew back to normal it just took a while and if you don't tear yours it will probably grow back faster

Answer 3

it will  go back 8 is really small.

http://www.onetribe.nu/catalog/stretchin...

Answer 4

Usually 2g is the point of no-return. So as long as you don't go past 4gs then you're okay.

P.S. the term is "stretching" not "gauging"