No household object is an entirely safe substitute for a plug or tunnel. The best plan would be to use a smaller sized plug/tunnel wrapped in Teflon (PTFE) tape to the appropriate size. Alternatively any sort of pipe/tube (pen lids can often be the right size) wrapped in teflon tape will work just fine in the short term.
Instead of making tapers, you could just use the taping method. Buy a plug and then put a layer of ptfe tape around it. Add 2-3 layers a week and eventually you'll get to whatever size you want. Its way easier than trying to measure household objects to determine what gauge they are. Do some more research on taping!
if it's 14-gauge then it's 14-gauge.
The 12-gauge is thicker.
Both 31 and 32 gauge are close:31 gauge = 0.0105"32 gauge = 0.0097"
16 gauge steel is 0.0598in. (1.52mm) and 16 gauge galvanised steel is 0.0635 (1.61). The easy way to remember is 16 gauge is 1.6mm
A normal earring is 18 gauge. I'm not sure of the mm..
Most earlobe piercings are around 20 gauge to 18 gauge. The average stud earrings are size 20 gauge.
Well, the average earring gauge is 18g and the average lip gauge is 14g-16g so I wouldn't suggest using an earring for your lip because it'd look pretty funny in my opinion.
Use a taper or have a shop taper it out.
0 gauge is the largest.
the average size is a 14 gauge
Either by the gauge size or using millimeters.
No. The common, plain old, earring size is almost always 22 Gauge. 16 Gauge is just a bit smaller than the common piercing size of 14 Gauge. The size chart goes down in increments of two from 22 usually down into the negatives of 00 gauge, and then breaks down into diameters.
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If your child is gauging their ears it will heal back if they do not go past a 0'0 gauge.