/adv/ on ear stretching

Agreed or the material could be bad. Crappy jewelry from Spencer's and hot topic will do this even eBay

gold is usually safe

Well nickel based things make me break out in a nasty painful as hell rash (think bad sunburn rubbed with heavy sand paper and soaked in lemon juice, you'd be close) which pretty much makes buying belts from any store but one local to me pointless and also any watches from walmart or other 'cheap' stores. So they could have a similar condition