This is a butterfly wing inside Pyrex (plastic). It was custom made. I started stretching my earlobe when my six year old daughter died back in 1992 ; out of mourning . Our society does not allow sackcloth and ashes , but I can stretch my earlobe .It was done very slow so it does not bring pain like imagined . Now I am over my mourning period ; I am stuck with the earlobe and must enjoy and use it to the best I can . It works great for people to remember me ,especially for customer service. If I do a good deed ! I cannot do a bad deed or am remembered more. I did this before stretching the lobe was so called (a fad) in body piercing . I now have a collection of ear plugs that are from different parts of the world and custom made from different artist . With all my education I will have to work on my own I doubt if too many organizations would hire me . Buddha took his plug out it was against his belief of materialism that he left behind . Some tribal cultures have it for different reasons . Hindu statues their Gods in the Kama Sutra have stretched lobes ;maybe for sensual reasons there is still feeling in there .