When Daniel Bocchino was 16, he started stretching his ear lobes, expanding them until he had an inch-wide hole in each lobe. But by the time he was 19, he was so over the piercing trend known as ear ...

Move over Botox. Take a hike face lifts. There’s another beauty fad to make you look younger – and it involves your ears. Earlobe reduction surgery is here for people who want “younger” looking ears.

One thing that makes me feel really old is the trend in the last 5 or so years of expanding ear lobes, and throwing plugs in those massive gauges. Some people take it to such an extreme that I really ...

While tattooing may seem like the only permanent transformation a person can make to his or her body, some choose to adorn their bodies with ear gauges, which can stretch the pierced holes in a person ...

There are two things known to be true about body modifications: pain and permanence. They're part of what makes piercings and tattoos so exciting — and yet, the more you look into it, the less painful ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Landon Rochat-Boeser has decided it’s time to grow up. Soon, the 24-year-old is going to have plastic surgery to repair the earlobes that he has spent 10 years stretching through the ...