At age 15, Cody Selga joined the wave of teenagers inserting gauges or plugs into their ears to stretch their earlobes. "I liked the look of it, and a bunch of people in the bands I was involved with ...

Cool ear piercings are having a moment. Find the one for you with our guide to the trendiest types of ear piercings, complete ...

I've always known I'd be heavily pierced. I remember seeing scene queens on MySpace and Tumblr with fun earring styles and placements that were far from basic, and knowing I had to be that girl when I ...

Getting your ears pierced for the first time is such a pivotal moment in one's life. Most of us can remember going to Claire's or a stand at the mall with our parents for the special event and then ...

It seems like, these days, barely anyone has a single ear piercing anymore. We've moved on from lobes and auricles to forward helixes, conches, rooks, traguses... if there's part of an ear there, ...

A snug piercing is a horizontal ear piercing located along the cartilage between the mid-helix (outer ear ridge) and the inner conch. Snug piercings can be especially painful and may not suit every ...

WRAL contributor Amy Davis got her daughter's ears re-pierced at a tattoo parlor after a mall piercing disaster. When my now sixth grader was in first grade and turning seven, she decided she wanted ...

Ah, the classic, standard lobe piercing. Stone and Strand head of piercing Janeese Brooks says, "We all know and love a good lobe piercing. I encourage these constantly. The easiest part of the ear to ...