NEW YORK (WABC) -- Ear gauging is a trend that involves stretching an ear piercing to accommodate a large plug, sometimes a half inch or wider. While it is popular with teens, some are realizing that ...

While popular with teenagers and young adults, ear gauging is not something that you may want to have for the rest of your life. Ear gauging leaves a stretched hole in the ear from a half inch to much ...

Kids gauge their ears now. Do you know the term “gauge” in this context? It refers to the process by which you gradually stretch a “regularly sized” pierced earhole into a larger one. (I’m nothing, if ...

AJ Rafael, a Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor, underwent earlobe repair and reduction surgery after wearing ear gauges for 18 years He posted a transformation video to Instagram ...

The 28-year-old has stretched earlobes from past earring gauges, a style choice he says he's "regretting" now Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

Ear gauging involves not just piercing the earlobe, but also stretching the small hole, making it larger and larger. In his mid-teens, D.J. Della Pia, age 19, noticed a body piercing that caught his ...