They are plugs that get charged by the UV rays of the sun and will then glow in the dark much like the cheap stars and moons that you would put on the ceiling of a child's bedroom.
The difference is mostly we use spacers for our car wheels but use ear gauges for ear.
chester ear guage is a 7/16.
12mm :)
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Yes, you can get a sunburn in your ear if your hair doesn't cover it.
Solid silicone plugs.
very tacky.....
They're called plugs, not gauges. You can paint the front or back of them but not the part touching your ear. If you do paint the outsides, you'd have to wear silicone earskins around them so that the paint doesn't touch your ears.
Not as long as you're responsible enough to clean them and care for them. Also, they aren't gauges, they're just stretched lobes.
ear guages.. No actually it's actually called expanded ear jewellery (plugs, tunnels) the phrase "ear gauges" is wrong.
yes he appears in a picture with the ear pierced http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4175hjkln.jpg ^ yes he has his ears pierced, but the aren't gauges, its just the earring's he wears that make it look like he does