1.291 equals 16 Gauge.
None, 23 gauge is used for injection medications and is too small for any type of piercing.
Decimals are more commonly used.
A rain gauge used to have inch as its measuring unit when it was made into use. Nowadays the unit has become millimeter & cintimeter.
It is normal for a lobe piercing to be 16 or 18 gauge... but it is normally 18. A 16 gauge is normally used for tragus piercings :)
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A stream gauge is the instrument which is commonly used for the measurement of velocity stream.
Plugs are different from regular body piercing jewelry because they are intended to "plug" a space. Plugs are used when people gauge (stretch) their piercings. Plugs are most common on lobe piercings, but can be used on virtually any piercing, as long as there is room to gauge. Plugs can be hollow or solid and come in a variety of sizes.
The abbreviation "mm" can have many meanings. Perhaps the most commonly used meaning for this abbreviation is "millimeter."
Frank used to have 12mm gauges but took them out permanently along with his lip and nose piercings in 2007. He said he did this because they were starting to annoy him.
A millimeter is one thousandth of a meter, thus one hundred of them equal one-tenth of a meter, called a decimeter. It is not a commonly used unit of measure.
Labret can be used to describe any lip piercing but it's most commonly used to reer to center lower lip piercings. Labret post jewelry can be worn in any lip piercing and even ear piercings.
Well actually a lot of difference 18g is the smallest gauge, then 16g is the next biggest gauge followed by 14g being the largest gauge normally used for oral piercings on a male. Female lip piercings are normally 18g or 16g, 14g is too large and looks silly in a female lip.