If you’ve had your ears pierced in the United States, then most likely the Earrings that were installed during your Ear Piercing are a 18 or 20 gauge, unless you specifically requested a larger gauge from Select Ear Piercing Professionals.
The gauge refers the the thickness of an Earring in the area that enter the Ear.
Keep reading to find out all about traditional Indian Earrings for Ear Piercings.
Indian Earrings for Ear Piercings are made of 21k, 22k or 24 karat pure gold, which is malleable, meaning Pure Gold is extremely soft and can bend easily.
22k and 24k Quality Gold Earrings are crafted from a heavy gauge of gold.
This also means a thicker Earring to support the style design that can range from daily wear like petite and conservative, to vary large, ornate and fancy styles which are popularly worn for best events, like a wedding or other special celebrations.
Since these Earrings are made from soft gold, the integrity of these Earrings must be durable. Thicker styles can be more durable than thinner styles,
but how the Earrings are made plays a huge role in durability.
On the flip side, there are also economic styles of high karat gold that are made available and affordable for many statures that may not usually be able to afford the thicker heavier Traditional Gold Earring styles. Often the Ears are actually pierced with these styles which is called Golden Thread and then is shaped into a hoop or stud and the end is coiled.
Since these styles are made from extremely thin High karat Gold and lack durability additional dangers can arise from wearing these styles.
22k and 24k Earrings can damage, bend or break more easily then 18k or 21k Gold.
Here are 4 of the most common styles of Traditional Indian Earrings:
1. Tube style with a flat or domed screw on backing.
These earrings consist of a Gold Tube with some type of gem or Gold decor attached to the tube. The tube is internally threaded and is hollow. The backing component can be flat or domed with the security screw protruding off of the backing. The two components adjoin together by screwing the backing onto the hollow tube.
The tube size tends to be very thick. A 14 gauge gold tube is the most commonly made.
Precautions Include:
You can't just push a 14 gauge thick tube into every Ear Piercing hole.
Especially a newer Ear Piercing.
Doing so can be very painful and result in possibly damaging the Ear Tissue.
When attempting to transition from a 20 gauge post Earring to Traditional Tube Style Earring, if the installation procedure is abandoned midway due to bleeding, pain, failure and the original Earring is not installed back into the Ear Piercing, shrinking and closure may occur. Don’t panic, your Ear Piercing can be Re-opened, here at Baby Ear Piercing.com.
We offer installation services for these types of Cultural Traditional Earrings.
We have developed techniques to install and enlarge an Ear Piercing
in order to wear thicker Traditional Earrings.
When it comes to Traditional Indian Tube Style Earrings the Ear Piercing Professionals at Baby Ear Piercing in San Jose, CA. prefer Flat Backs as opposed to the Domed Backing.
Domed backings, should only be worn for short term and only by those whose Ear Piercings are completely healed, which is one year or longer after an initial Ear Piercing.
The reason being is, these domed backings are just that, they are domed, and they hold the dead cell waste and debris causing prolonged and sometimes unsuccessful healing.
These Earrings are made in different lengths.
Make sure that an Earring is not too short.
Any Earring that is too short can damage ear tissue by cutting or embedding into the Ear and may make cleaning or removal difficult.
2. Threaded Posts are often called Screw Back Earrings and are made in various sizes of post lengths and gauge thickness ranging from thick to thin.
These Earring Styles have fine or coarse external threads on the post and then a backing component that may be open or covered.
Precautions include: Do not attempt to put an Adult Screw Back Earring into a Child's Ear Piercing. Keep Children’s Earrings simple and light and at least 20 gauge in thickness. No thicker or thinner. Have patients when moving towards fancy Earrings too soon. Do Not wear an uncovered open screw backing too tight.
This can permanently stretch out the Ear tissue.
Another issue arising from tight, small earring posts is the potential for an Earring to embed into the Ear.
Baby Ear Piercing provides Professional Removal Services for these types of situations.
3. Stud Style of Golden Thread with coiled end.
These styles are often used for the actual Ear Piercing and are usually
made from 22 gauge Golden Thread wire which is very thin. The Golden Thread stud style may have a decorative end or gemstone setting. Gemstones set into golden Thread Setting are very weak and break easily.
Precautions include: Post length must be predetermined and bent to fit Ear leaving about 1/8 on straight for the Ear to be cleaned efficiently. Directly after an Ear Piercing the end of the post must be coiled in a manner that is does not snag. To remove this Earring style the Golden thread must be unwound or cut off with a tool.
Usually, these Earrings cannot be bent even a few times because
the Golden Thread Wire becomes weak and then breaks very easy.
At Baby Ear Piercing in San Jose, CA guests often seek our services for Earring removal of for Earrings like these received in India. These urgent removals are due to these Earring becoming embedded into the skin or caught on various fabric and clothing which result in the bending, unwinding or kinking of the Golden Thread wire.
Worst cause scenario is when the thin Golden Thread Wire
causes tearing and damaging precious Earlobes.
4. Hoop Style, Golden thread with coiled closure.
These Hoop styles are often used for actual Ear Piercing and are usually made from 22 gauge Gold wire which is very thin.
Precautions include: Hoop size must be predetermined and bent to fit Ear. After Use this Earring style is actually used to Pierce the Ear. Directly after the Ear Piercing, the end of the hoop must be a joined and coiled in a perfect manner so that is does not snag on clothing and bedding. This maneuvering on a tender new Ear Piercing can take a few unpleasant minutes on a moving Child.
For removal, these Earrings must be unwound or cut off with a tool.
22 Gauge Golden Thread Wire usually cannot be bent or be reformed several times over.
This will surely weaken and break the Golden Thread very easily.
Guests often seek our professional services at Baby Ear Piercing for Earring removal of these types of Earrings received in India. These urgent removals are due to these Earring becoming caught on various fabric and clothing resulting in bending or kinking the Golden Thread wire.
Worst cause scenario that can and it does happen,
is when the thin Golden Thread Wire cuts and damages precious Earlobes.
Most of these Indian Cultural Earrings are made completely by hand and can often can have visible dents, burs, nicks, threading failure and weak gemstone settings. There is definitely a viable a difference in quality. Notice the irregular setting of the gemstone. The pinch in the tube indicates the tube is frail and flimsy and most likely loosens easily and doesn't tighten well or hold the tight position. The dome backing thread has been cut but then left sharp and unfinished with no filing or smoothing.
Be sure to shop for Indian Earrings for Ear Piercing thoughtfully and especially carefully.
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