Since my 7th grade year at my school, I have always been fascinated with earlobe stretching. My friend has had his stretched since the 7th grade, and is now a sopohmore in high school, along with a hole in his ear that is one inch long. Seeing this in his ear, it made me become obsessed with the stretching.
At A Glance Author EthanS Contact EthanS@bme.anon When A year ago Artist Me Studio At home I had went over to his house one day my freshman year of high school, and we got to searching around and found a pair of his old plugs. I had then got an idea, let's gauge my earlobes. He was cool with it, and gave me his 12g plugs. It took me a few hour to build up the nerve, but I finally got there.
I was ready now, to have my earlobe stretched. We now set out to find something to stretch it with. After about 30 minutes of searching, we finally had some luck. We ran into a nail lying on the carpet, it was a bit rusty but we used it anyways. Once we found it we quickly stuck it in fire and alcohol to kill the germs. All though this wasn't the best of choices, but it's all we had.
My friend had went and lit him a cigarette before we went on with the stretching, he said just to calm him down a little bit, because has HATES the sight of blood. About several minutes had passed, he was done smoking. We had discussed for about 10 minutes how it was going to work, how long it would take, and where we was going to do it at.
Once we worked all of this out, we had made our way to the bathroom, which was the best choice because it's in a quite spot, and with a lot of antibacterials around(such as alcohol!). We had poured some alcohol into a lid, and soaked the plug. Although we was only going to gauge one of my ears, it still gave me the adrenaline rush.
He had then told me to stand straight, bite my lip, and be still. I had followed the instructions well. He had then stuck the rusty nail up to my earlobe, and shoved it with everything he had in him, slowly, but surely. It was finally done. Not much blood at all, and I felt very little pain, mostly my earlobe throbbing, I had finally had my earlobe gauged.
We than cleaned up all the materials we used(tissue, alcohol, nail.. etc) and turned the bath room back into a sterile environment. We had went to bed about an hour later, and I woke up the next morning with NO swelling what so ever. Later that day we had went to workout at our local gym, and there is where I caught my dad and got a ride home.
Later that night, I decided one didn't look right, and I HAD to have the other one done. I took the other plug he had gave me, soaked it in alcohol, found my own nail(a clean one this time) and made me way to the bathroom. I lined it up the best I could with my other earlobe, and shoved the nail through. No pain this time at all, then again I knew what to except. Once again no swelling.
I was curious as to why of no swelling either time for my earlobes when they were stretched to a 12guage. I had then become addicted to stretching my earlobes. I would then do this the safe way, and I have ordered tapers and plugs(new) directly from an eBAY shop. Although I had stretched too fast, but within months I had 00g plugs in my earlobe. My earlobe did become infected once I got up to around a 2g, I had than went to the local tattoo shop, and ask the artist and he recommended me H20cean(which was sea salt) and it had cured my infection.
I am now a home schooled student, and getting ready to graduate my home school, I am looking forward to making more stretches in the near future. My goal would have to be over a half an inch, which I will hopefully obtain soon.
My advice to anyone who does this is to do it the safe way, safe is always better. Go to a local tattoo shop, or on eBAY and order stretching tapers, or pincers along with the direct plug size. Tapers not be exactly wide enough with the plug, but it's still worth it. Always make sure you are in a sterile environment when doing this as well, and clean all products before making holes/putting them in your body.
You also don't want to stretch too fast (like I did), because it can and will damage the tissue in your earlobe and will not heal up right, and it will most likely become infected, or something along the type. I would recommend you do it, one size at a time until you reach your destination. If your earlobe does become infected, I would also recommend using H20cean or some other form of sea salt to soak your earlobe in.
-EthanS