i started stretching my ears one day while being subjected to extreme bordum at the fault of my art teacher. while she babbled on about how i have the attention span on a pea during class time i found myself making bracelets using a smaller yarn needle to thread
At A Glance Author anonymous Contact fingahleven@hotmail.com Artist self done! Studio my bathroom! Location brampton/ontario them. i decided out of nowhere to take out of my bottom left earing and see if i could fit the yarn needle through. with little pain i managed to slip it in. when i got home i shoved my sister who's ears were already somewhat stretched (6 and 2) she told me the yarn
needle looked about 12ga or a bit bigger, she was more than happy to let me borrow her 8ga stretchers.
the next day all the redness had gone away and on april the 20th (rick jackett's 27th b-day... from finger eleven!) my friends greg and susie were over and i decided to *try* to put the 8ga in. and i got it in in one shot, then i moved the knitting needle to my other ear because my sister had let her friend borrow one of the 8ga stretcher. i then went to the mall and bought two 4ga stretchers. my sister told me that it might be too much to go from 8ga to 4ga so she let me borrow her 6ga stretchers. i had them both in by the next week they stayed at 6ga for two weeks. i had then stretched one of my ears to 4ga when i realized my sister had decided to stretch her smaller hole to a 4ga with *my* earing.
after weeks of my nagging she went out and got a 0ga stretcher and upsized from 4ga-2ga and 2ga-0ga so the 4ga earing was free for me to use. i stretched my earings from 6-4 and then my left ear to 2ga shortly after. however because my sister was still wearing her 2ga stretchers i couldn't stretch my other ear. i had lost one of the o-rings off the 2ga earing while staying over at susie's house, i decided to leave the one that i had on the back of the earing. although i lost that one shortly after aswell. i replaced them with elastics but the earing ended up finding it's way out of my ear anyways and was forever lost. afraid my ears would shrink i rip apart my room looking for the earing. but found a pile of wendy's straws instead. i put one through my ear and trimmed the sides to avoid looking like a compleat moron, however being me the situation was unavoidable. =(
i continously changed straws, it was much easier than cleaning them everyday i found. i asked my sister if i could use her 2ga stretcher for just an hour so i could wear straws in both ears but of course she said no... grr... i decided then to cut a straw at an angel and see if it would work as a stretcher, and it did! i now had straws through both my ears. while on vacation a few weeks later i went to lunch with susie's family at a harveys on the long way(2 hours) to her cottage. after i finished my drink i looked the straw up
and down while listening to tool on my diskman. while playing with the straws in my ears and drinking my pop i noticed a small size difference between the two. i held on to the straw with the intent of later using it to stretch my ears.
when we'd finially gotten to her cottage i decided to do it. i got the straw though on the first try altough i hadn't managed to cut the edges so smoothly so there was some discomfort. i splashed some cold water on my ear and sucked it up my ear was at 1ga . while sleeping two nights later my 2ga straw in my right ear fell out. i didn't noticed until sometime after eating breakfast the next day when susie asked me what happend to my other earing. my hole had shrunk just so slighly that i couldn't manage to get the straw back in. lucky for me susie had just recently bought a pair of 4ga stretchers. i slipped them into my ear easily and then placed the straw around it. while pulling the stretcher down i managed to pull the stretcher/straw combination all the way thorough. i put elastics on the end of the straw and made sure it wouldnt come out again.
right now i'm wearing a 1ga(straw) and a 2ga(straw) in the near future i plan on getting my ears up to a 000ga. although my overall goal it to go to 1" or more. my expreince with ear stretching has been quite fun. i have never had any problems with infections or kelioids, and after seeing pictures and hearing about both from friends and bme i'm sure glad i haven't ever had to worry about that, but i still make sure to keep my ears clean and smell free all the time! And there's my story! Bye bye! =)