Ear Gauge Sizes With Pictures
Stretching your ears too far or too fast.
Ear gauge sizes with pictures. Ear gauging is done by pushing a plug or a insertion taper in a completely healed piercing as far as possible. Find plugs tunnels by size 16g up to 50mm. Shop for plugs by size.
The next size up 14 gauge measures about 1 6mm. 16 gauge 1 2mm 14 gauge 1 6mm 12 gauge 2mm 10 gauge 2 5mm 8 gauge 3mm 6 gauge 4mm 4 gauge 5mm 2 gauge 6mm 1 gauge 7mm. It is important to stretch slowly to safely stretch your ears so only increase your ears one gauge at a time and only when your ears are fully healed from their most recent stretch.
Gauge sizes are a little counterintuitive at first because they re literally backwards. The smaller the number the larger the size. The gauge size chart is a handy tool for anyone stretching their ears.
A 12 gauge plug is 2mm in diameter and a 10 gauge plug measures 2 4mm and is twice as big as a 16 gauge plug. Standard ear piercings are usually pierced at 20g or 18g. A 16 gauge ear plug measures about 1 2mm in diameter.
Gauge sizes go up or down depending on how you look at it in even numbers from there so the next largest size from an 18g is 16g then 14g then 12g. Filter out the sizes you don t wear and get right on to the ones you need. The 0 gauge plug which measures 8mm in diameter is twice the size of the 6 gauge plug.