Yeah, but my ex had gauges and they leave a indentation on yer ear for like a really long time.
they will never close back up completely, the smallest they may go back is 0 gauge.
Ear gauges can indeed close. I have head several stories about peoples' ear gauges closing over time, some even being near size 00. Ear gauges can close over time if you don't wear a plug or tunnel in it. If the gauge is small, it will take less time for it to close, unlike BIG gauges - which could take around 2 months. One secret is to rub hemerroid cream on your ears about twice a day first your ears will swell but later when your lobes go back to normal the holes will be smaller. However, if your ears were gauged above a 00, they will never close entirely without surgery, which currently runs about $800 an ear.
A little over 1".
i believe its a 18 gauge or 16 gauge.
No, oil dead skin would not affect an ear piercing. Sometimes people just have hole that don't close over time, even ten years.
From experience, if it does get infected, it will close, or at least try to. If you decide to keep your gauges out for a while, yes the hole will shrink. It depends on how long you keep the gauge out of your ear.
Simply remove the jewellery and let the tissue shrink on it's own, it will take time but the piercings will recede over time.
Use oil and massage them. Vitamin E oil and Emu oil are pretty good. depending on how long you've had them and what gauge they are, they might not close completely.
Normal ear piercings are 18 gauge.
Well there actually is no such thing as an ear gauge. However there is such a thing as a jewellery gauge which is the thickness of the of the jewellery based on either Millimeters or AWG (American Wire Gauge as used in the professional body piercing industry.
the biggest size you can gauge your ears is as big as you can make it with out snapping your ear. gauge size goes from: 18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2,0,00,7/16,1/2,9/16,5/8,11/16,3/4,13/16,7/8,15/16,1" and so on. It is really endless in stretching, but take your time. and clinical studies have proven tat in 98% of the time your ear will heal as long as you don't stretch past double zero gauge size
a lot if u want to get size 10 gauge u should get the normal ear piercing size which is a size 20 or 18 gauge and slowly gauge it to a size 10 gauge