Get a fantastic fake plug with a star if you want to follow the gauge fashion but you don't really want to stretch your earlobe. This plug is made of surgical steel, and you will only need to have a 16 gauge (1.2 mm) piercing to wear it. 

The front part has a five-pointed star in a black circle. The star has a silver-plating color that contrasts with black and gives it a radical effect.

Both the front and back parts have a black surface. In the world of ear gauges, o-rings make sure the plug won't come out of the stretched ear, and these black surfaces look like those o-rings. When you put this item on your earlobe, it will look as if you had a real plug; it's actually very difficult to see the difference.