Has anyone seen people wearing what looks like buttons in their ear lobes.

[funnygirl]

It fills up all of the lobe and some are even bigger.

I saw a guy and his lobes were massive from this ear thing he was wearing.

It looked horrible.

How do they do it, to get the hole that big??

[mccfluff]

they start with a small one and as the lobe stretches they increase the size of the earing

[Jillius]

You see these tribal people wearing them ! And in their lips ! Looks painful !

[~max~]

They stretch it by putting in bigger and bigger plugs in the holes. Makes even me feel a bit squeamish!

[4getmenot]

Yes it is so wrong, but then that�s the fashion in some youngsters and there were things I did to follow fashion although imagine it when the get old, big saggy earlobes

[Ethel]

It's called gauging. There is a lot on the net about it.

[redcrx]

might come in handy if they cant afford swings for the grandkids 4get :)

[~max~]

True, I'd forgotten the name Ethel It comes from "gauge" which is the diameter of the plug.

[Ethel]

They use this sort of thing:

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[tiggerblue10]

Its not just earlobes in some parts of Africa!

[Ethel]

Or the UK, tigger.

Prince Albert has a lot to answer to.

[tiggerblue10]

Ewwwww that is gross. Why anyone would want to mutilate their privates is beyond me

Wonder why its called Prince Albert though!!

[andy-hughes]

It's called a 'Prince Albert' because it is rumoured that the husband of Queen Victoria sported one.

[tiggerblue10]

I did hear that rumour.

[theprof]

We were in McDonalds in Aberystwyth last week with the children when a teenager of around eighteen walked in with his girlfriend. Virtually the whole restaurant turned around to look at him and not because of his nose piercings or green hair.

He had plastic hoops embedded in both his ear lobes. The hoops must have been around 5mm thick and 5cm diameter and we could see right through the centre of each hoop.

It looked horrific and quite a few people in the building looked aghast.

[4getmenot]

Or if they want to become a circus performer and make lions jump through hoops :-)

[Lakitu]

It's minging is it, but not as bad as a girl who used to work with me, she had a piercing in the nape of her neck, it just made me shudder to look at :o/

[funnygirl]

Imagine when you're an oap and you have great these great big whacking holes in your ears!!!


Not a good look!!!!

[LoftyLottie]

This thread has put one pensioner completely off her tea!!

Even ear piercings make me feel queasy if I think to much about them, let along having dirty great holes in your ears that you can fit your fist through.

OMG!

[Eve]

I friend of mine had one and used to say he daren't take it out as it stank so much, the thought if that just used to make me feel ill.