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 — ...

As one expert said, multiple piercings and jewelry styles are “a way to switch up your aesthetic.” By Libby Banks In the mid-1990s, getting my ears pierced felt like a sizable check on my to-do list ...

Like tattoos, ear and body piercings are not as controversial as they were anymore. You can see regular people in public with jewelry sticking out of their eyebrows, or your favorite K-pop idols with ...

People have pierced their ears for thousands of years for ceremonial, cultural, religious, and decorative purposes. The oldest known example of ear piercing comes from “Ötzi the Iceman,” a man who ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and over the last 20 years, nothing has changed so much in our culture as the beauty standards for body art and augmentation. What was once only within the realm ...