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 — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How bad are heavy earrings for our ears? Delmaine Donson via Getty Images If you’ve ever worn a pair of heavy earrings, you know ...

Earrings can be a beautiful, bright addition to any outfit—but they can also be quite heavy. And if you regularly wear heavy earrings, over time they can potentially do some gnarly things to your ...

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 — ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have an ear lobe inferiority complex. That’s not a medical assessment, but an aesthetic one. It means that by ...

Stretched ear lobes are becoming an increasingly common sight in the street. But why has creating a large hole in the ear lobe started to appeal to more and more people? Ear stretching goes back a ...

Susie Mazur went to 20mm and is now at 8mm a few years later The Magazine's recent article on ear stretching prompted many emails. Here are 10 of your stories. Stretched ear lobes are becoming an ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. “I’m going to come out and say it. My earlobes sag and it just gets worse when I put ...