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Well the phrase "gauge" refers to the AWG "American Wire Gauge" which also applies to needle sizes used in medical and body piercing applications. They range from the smallest body piercing gauge of 18g all the way up to the largest being 00g.

Now if you are in the US the sizes will be in "gauge" dimensions or in fractions of an inch. In Europe and the UK the sizes are in "gauge" dimensions or international scientific format which is millimeters.

So when you are asking about ear gauges you are talking about nothing, there are no "ear gauges" this is a screw up with language and someone was too lazy to call them by the right name and has slurred the phrase "gauge" to mean a specific type of jewellery, which doesn't exist.

The items for stretched ears would be tunnels, plugs, crescents or expanded ear lobe jewellery. The phrase "gauging" was misused to mean "stretching" ones ear lobes up a "gauge" larger than they currently have.

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