When thinking about gauged ear piercings, you might conjure up images of alternative folks who are members of a musical subculture, like pop punk fans. Unless you're interested in getting your ear ...

Ear stretching is the process of expanding an earlobe piercing hole over several months. This is a type of aesthetic body modification. Many people stretch their ears so they can wear gauges — ...

Anyone who's made it through an evening wearing hefty, dangling earrings knows the feeling: raw, sore lobes the next morning. In a worst-case scenario — as TODAY's Tamron Hall recently experienced — ...