How to hide your gauged ears

with the growing trend of ear stretching and other forms of body mods, more and more people are stretching there ears. Stretching your ear lobs have been in many societies and cultures and it has recently been brought in to the USA. it started in the punk scene and when the punk scene evolved into the hardcore scene we started seeing more people with stretched ears. it recently hit the main stream and the conformists eat it up.

well i have had my ears stretched many times, let them heal, and had countless blow outs (like the one to the left) and rips through out my 4 years of stretching and the great thing is, i know how to hide it from your parents.

First and foremost if you decide to stretch your ears that's your choice and you need to realise every one's ear lobes will close to some degree, whether it be and size under 00 witch can( but not a guarantee 0 will close to a normal piercing, any thing after you will have a "butt-hole" on your lobes for the rest of your life enjoy!

now the smaller you keep your ears the easier it will be to hide, i don't suggest going full tribal like this man has, but go as big as you feel, body mods are about self expression, if your doing it to look cool or fit in, dont bother or get the fake outs like this and leave the real body mods to the kids who are doing it cause they enjoy it and that's how they express themselves.

so if you are doing it for the right reasons then here are my methods of hiding.

1) Grow out your hair, its one the most simplest methods, i have a girl friends who all she did was hide with her hair and her parents didn't notice until she was 18 when she showed them. but with the hair method there is still a risk that your parental might see it.

2)Where beanies like you live in antaricca, this method worked great for me, all you need is a beanie, almost any one will work as long as it can cover up you ears beanies like the one to the left work great due too the fact that they are made to cover up your ears, but the only down side is it can get hot and your parents may ask why you have a beanie on when it is 100 degrees out.

3)this method is allot like number 2, where a hood, but again it looks a little strange that your always covered up.

4) a great idea of someone that will work wonders with number one (if you get the right shade) is Skin tone Plugs, these, again if you get the right shade, are great and i have personally enjoyed using them in the past at work , now of course the bigger you go the more obviously that you have something in you ear, for example don't try hiding you 2 inch stretched lobes with skin tone plugs, it wont hide anything, but for any size up to about 3/4 it works, but be careful at some point your parents might see them.

5) this method is my personal favorite and has worked the very best for me, but it only worked after your parents find out your ears have been stretched, where them at night and when ever your not around your parents, now this method can be painful if your a mommas boy or daddy's girl (and if you are don't stretch your ears)cause if you have them out for two days, your gonna feel it when you put it back in, but be warned, i have gone a moth with out my plugs and i lubed up my ears and dead stretched shoved them in and got a hardcore rip and blow out and my 3/4 of a inch lobes shrunk down to a 6, and took a couple weeks to heal, and now i have hair growing out of the middle of my lobes, so be careful.

STRETCH AT YOUR OWN RISK DONT CONFORM!