About a year and a half ago, I became very interested in stretched ears. I really wanted to stretch mine too, but since I live at home with somewhat conservative parents, I was not able to do so. I figured I could wait, but I'm not very patient. For my very first stretch, I went from not wearing earrings at all to 12 gauge. It didn't hurt, not really, there was a slight burning sensation, and I think even that would not have been there had I used some type of lubricant. Then I stretched my second holes from 16 to 14 gauge, which didn't hurt at all, not even that slight burning sensation. My mother was upset, said it was gross. Personally I didn't get it, 12g isn't big enough to be gross.
At A Glance Author CeJä Contact candy_delight69@hotmail.com IAM CeJaJoSCeLyNe When A year ago Artist Me Studio Numerous Places Location Also Numerous Places I wore my ears like this for months, until I happened to walk into LOOKING WITHIN and I had some money. I was looking at the jewelry, when I saw a pair of neon green plugs. The plugs themselves were UV reactive, and the o-rings were glow-in-the-dark. They were a little long, but I didn't really care. They were cute, and I wanted them. I was supposed to be going to Erieau that night to see my best friend, Sherika, so I figured I had a whole weekend to stretch my ears and get the plugs in. I had long hair at that point, so I was planning on just wearing my hair down for a while, my parents probably wouldn't notice.
Little did I know the pain it took to stretch one's ears. As soon as I got to Erieau and showed Sherika the plugs I bought, she was lubing up an 8g taper. This way the first little stretch wouldn't be as much of a shock as just shoving a 4g taper in. We managed to get the taper in, almost all the way, but we couldn't get it in the rest of the way. Sher then got a very good idea. What if we took a long paintbrush and shoved it in? That would take me right to 4g, but it would stretch more gradually than an actual taper. I agreed, and we lubed up the paintbrush. We both pushed it in as far as it would go, which was about 4g, maybe half of a millimeter off. I fell asleep like that, and I had to go home the next morning. Actually, Sher's mom was driving us right to school.
Anyway, in the morning, I couldn't get the paintbrush out. I had been hoping to get the 4g plug in before I got to school (it was a 2 hour drive away) but I couldn't get it out! I started to panic, what if I had to go to the emergency room or something to have the paintbrush taken out? My parents would kill me! I put 2 fingers in front of my ear to hold it while I yanked the paintbrush out. As soon as I did this, I regretted it. My ear immediately started bleeding, and all over my favourite shirt! I blotted the blood, but I didn't have another shirt to wear, so I resigned myself to wearing it to school. It was my own fault after all. I put my 12g earring back in and put my plugs away. I was so disappointed!
Once my ears were healed again, I tried to stretch once more. This time I was slightly more wise about it, and I emphasize the"slightly". I put first a 16g and a 12g in my ear. Once that healed, I put a 14g in place of the 16g. Then another 14g. Then I took everything out and put an 8g taper and a 14g ring in. Then I replaced the 14g ring with a 12g ring. Then I added 2 14g rings. When that was healed, I shoved a 4g taper through, and it went in perfectly. Through this, however, I learned that my ears were easier to stretch from the back, rather than from the front, as I had tried in Erieau. Once I put my first plug in, I was so happy, I couldn't stop looking at it. It was quite sore, but I didn't really feel it. I kept walking up to the mirror and pulling my hair back. It was so beautiful! I couldn't wait until I had both plugs in.
I immediately started stretching the other ear. This time I jumped in with just an 8g taper. When that was healed, I put in my 12g ring. I was impatient, I was no longer waiting for the stretch to actually heal, just until the pain subsided enough to stretch again. When I had an 8g and 2 12g rings in, I shoved the 4g taper through. There was a little blood, but not enough that I was worried. There had been a little blood with the other ear too, and that one was doing just fine, thank you very much. I put the plug in, and once again I couldn't stop looking at it. I was calling everyone telling them, I was so excited!
My parents never noticed, not until I actually told them, and they didn't really do anything about it, just said "ew" and "when did you do that?" Stretching to 2g a few months later didn't hurt at all. I felt the stretch, but there was no pain. I loved my ears at 2g even more than I did at 4g.
I've let my ears shrink back to normal. I regret it, but it's something I had to do in order to achieve my goals in life. I'm considering stretching again. Yes, going through all that immeasurable pain again, and buying short flared plugs so that my stretch will be less obvious to those who would bring me down for it. But I promised my father I wouldn't stretch again, so I'm going to wait. I will be patient. I WILL STRETCH AGAIN!