Plugs, Tattoos, & Piercings Thread

I've had my ta-tas, lip, labret, and navel pierced. All are taken out right now but the lip will be getting re-done as soon as school starts up and I start working again.

The stud I had in my lip happened to fall out at a funeral >.< and by the time I got home (2 days later), the hole had closed to the point I didn't want to mess with it to get another ring through.

Piercings I have- an industrial in the left ear, left lobes are guaged a 00 and a 4, right lobe has a 10g hoop in it, eye brow done once, lebret, tongue, the web (its that lil piece of skin that hold your tongue down) 2 in each nipple they make a + pattern, and down there:P

As for ink here are some pics :D some are a lil fuzzy I did them all myself (the pics tha is)

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...digicam638.jpg
HOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!!!! this was my 3rd or 4th tat I think..

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...digicam636.jpg
this was done at 20 years old, it's now in the process of gettin covered up.

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...digicam635.jpg
got this done at INK STOP in nyc.

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...digicam634.jpg
I'm a TOOL fan and there will be more work done to this as well, when done it should cover my whole ankle and calf.

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...digicam633.jpg
my daughter Iliana

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/100_0892.jpg
this was new at the time of the photo, it is gettin worked into a sleeve.

http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/a...DSC00491-1.jpg
And the new addition :D the start of my winter sleeve, I'm goin to get more done in about 3 weeks YEAHHHHH!! OMG BATMAN I CANT WAIT!!!! John at Rotten Ny Tattoo Parlor ,is doin the ink and he is SICK!!!!!!!!

I have 3 other tats but not worth puttin up, one was a free hand someone did and they messed up BAD. and the other 2 a the first ones I got ever, they are flash art.. lol
Cheers

By the way...


It's stretching, not gauging. And they're called plugs, not gauges.



Plugs:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=117edkh&s=5


gauges:

http//www.ravspeconline.com/images/stri/dsd-install-pic.jpg

Just 6 ear piercings and my navel. :) I plan on getting a tat on my lower back once I find the perfect design.

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Originally Posted by python1024

I have my tongue pierced. I have had it since 2003 and I love it!

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I really want my tongue pierced LOL, how bad did it hurt when the needle went through?

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Originally Posted by FIEND_FO_LYFE

By the way...


It's stretching, not gauging. And they're called plugs, not gauges.



Plugs:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=117edkh&s=5


gauges:

http//www.ravspeconline.com/images/stri/dsd-install-pic.jpg

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Thanks! Hopefully someone will chime in and change the title:)

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Originally Posted by FIEND_FO_LYFE

By the way...


It's stretching, not gauging. And they're called plugs, not gauges.



Plugs:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=117edkh&s=5


gauges:

http//www.ravspeconline.com/images/stri/dsd-install-pic.jpg

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It depends on where you come from. In the US, at least around here in Chicago, all the earrings come in "gauged" sizes. So, 6g, 4g, etc. I use the word gauge when talking about the size of the earring/hole, because that's what they come in. I've friends in other places that use measurements, 3/4, etc. But if I'm just referring the that fact that the piercing has been enlarged, I use stretched.
Although I don't think it really matters, everyone usually knows what you're talking about :)

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Originally Posted by musicalKeyes

It depends on where you come from. In the US, at least around here in Chicago, all the earrings come in "gauged" sizes. So, 6g, 4g, etc. I use the word gauge when talking about the size of the earring/hole, because that's what they come in. I've friends in other places that use measurements, 3/4, etc. But if I'm just referring the that fact that the piercing has been enlarged, I use stretched.
Although I don't think it really matters, everyone usually knows what you're talking about :)

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Actually, gauge in the US only goes up to a certain point 00g(10mm or .375 inches) being the largest, and then switches over to inch or mm measurements from there. It was really a matter of the way they started listing the sizes, obviously once you get down to 00g yet the sizes continue to get larger just adding more zeros until you have 00000000g wouldn't make much sense since the smaller the gauge number the larger the size. So it was easier to stop using gauge as a term of measurement above that size.
It's more a matter of people simply using the wrong term as gauge refers to the size and stretching is the process and then of course you have tapers, plugs, earlets, tunnels or even weights as far as "jewelry" to wear in them.
I myself was misinformed when I first began stretching 10 years ago and referred to it as "gauging", but was eventually corrected by those in the modding community as to correct terms.
So, overall, it's not really a locality, just misinformation passed around by a large number of people.
Not much different than those people that call BPs bald or balled pythons instead of ball pythons.

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Originally Posted by Aleria

Actually, gauge in the US only goes up to a certain point 00g(10mm or .375 inches) being the largest, and then switches over to inch or mm measurements from there. It was really a matter of the way they started listing the sizes, obviously once you get down to 00g yet the sizes continue to get larger just adding more zeros until you have 00000000g wouldn't make much sense since the smaller the gauge number the larger the size. So it was easier to stop using gauge as a term of measurement above that size.
It's more a matter of people simply using the wrong term as gauge refers to the size and stretching is the process and then of course you have tapers, plugs, earlets, tunnels or even weights as far as "jewelry" to wear in them.
I myself was misinformed when I first began stretching 10 years ago and referred to it as "gauging", but was eventually corrected by those in the modding community as to correct terms.
So, overall, it's not really a locality, just misinformation passed around by a large number of people.
Not much different than those people that call BPs bald or balled pythons instead of ball pythons.

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yup 20g 18g 16g 14g 12g 10g 8g 6g 4g 2g 0g 00g 7/16ths 1/2 inch ...thats where i stoped at 1/2 inch and oddly my ears went back to normal for the most part u cant see the difference unless u pull on them then my ear opens up to about a 6g ive had them out for about a year now. ive tryed to restrech them but after all the time it took for me to get to 1/2 inch i dont have the patience to do that all over again last time i tryed to do it all over again i wanted to skip right back to my 1/2 inch and ended up with a blow out so i give up. i put to much time pain and effort into the first time and cant do it again

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Originally Posted by Bpmike1208

yup 20g 18g 16g 14g 12g 10g 8g 6g 4g 2g 0g 00g 7/16ths 1/2 inch ...thats where i stoped at 1/2 inch and oddly my ears went back to normal for the most part u cant see the difference unless u pull on them then my ear opens up to about a 6g ive had them out for about a year now. ive tryed to restrech them but after all the time it took for me to get to 1/2 inch i dont have the patience to do that all over again last time i tryed to do it all over again i wanted to skip right back to my 1/2 inch and ended up with a blow out so i give up. i put to much time pain and effort into the first time and cant do it again

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I had my top holes up to 1/2" and the bottom ones to 9/16" and finally had to give up the top ones because my lobes are just too small to handle that much pressure. The skin between the two started to split and if I tried using soft plugs then they would just get squished by the pressure.
So I gave up the top holes and continued stretching the bottom. In about 6 months I went from the 9/16" all the way up to the 1 1/4" I've got now and the 1/2" top holes have shrunken down to 0g but don't seem to have gotten any smaller over the last 6 months.

Ya i noticed some peoples holes dnt close so well they say after 4g theres no going back but i was luck like i said u cnt even tell i had my ears streched unless u pull on them