It was about four months ago that I looked at flesh tunnels with envious eyes. I knew that it was something that I always wanted but knew it would probably never happen. I hadn't even had the standard lobe piercings by 15.
At A Glance Author Katrina Contact dead--baby--kickball@hotmail.com When N/A One day I just walked into a piercing studio and got my ears pierced with a gun (yes i know). They had to shoot it twice and after changing guns and still no sucess, decided that they would have to push the stud through the last layer of skin. Mind you this wasn't too bad except they had to do it with both ears.
It was about a month later and my badly pierced ears were finally healed. I was browsing through a shop when I saw a pretty little taper. I knew NOTHING about sizes, and felt that one would be easy to push through.
If you didnt know this already, the holes that a piercing gun makes aren't very big, and after buying an 8g taper, I went home egar to push it through.
After one bloody, torn, swollen ear I tried the left one, and after slowly pushing it through within the course of an hour it was quite swollen. Now that I look back I feel foolish. I didnt use any lubrication and because of this my right ear was harder to stretch due to the tearing and scar tissue. [Please don't do this if you want to stretch your ears. Its very painful if you stretch this way.]
I decided that this looked pretty nifty, and browsed on ebay for some more. I bought a stainless steal taper kit and couldnt wait for it to arrive. When it did I was a little dissapointed, because it only came with a set of four tapers, (12g, 10g, 8g, 6g) and I could only stretch my left ear up one more size. (I still had no idea what size I had just stretched too)
After getting my left ear to 6g and my right to 8g with no problems I purchased yet another kit of ebay. This one was bigger and better. It had six black acrylic tapers (8g,6g,4g,2g,0g,00g) plus a pair of matching plugs for each size. I highly reccommend you buy this kind of kit. It only cost me around $20AU (aprox. $14US) and was packaged very hygenically.
Finnaly it was time to stretch up to a 00g. I dipped the end of the taper in vasaline (I found this works better than lube, but if you want to use lube only use a WATER based one) and started to slide it through my ear. Like always, it slid in smoothly and with no resistance up until that horrid 'hump' in the taper. (where it suddenly goes from cone shaped to smooth. I have no idea what it is really called or if anyone else has trouble with it.) I always popped it in by force but that hurts alot and can cause the core of the piercing to blow out (resulting in surgury for most cases. Vitamin C should fix minor ones as it did with mine.) Also if you stretch too fast your ears will look like cat bums because of scar tissue. (Also another thing I did)
I slid it in as far as it would go and grabbed an O ring from a 0g taper and pushed it up the cone till it reached my ear. (If that makes sence). I used the internet for a while, frequently pushing at the O ring.
After a while I felt it was time to go to bed, and the familiar warmth (I guess you could say slight burning) of stretching was evident. I decided to try to stretch it over the 'hump' later, but when I went to take it out I realised that it had already passed it. I was so happy I couldnt stop grinning, and I re-lubricated the taper and slid it back it. It swelled only slightly and I slept very well that night.
I should tell you, like piercings, stretching is addictive. I have done alot of stupid things with my ears that I shouldnt have. (Such as stretching 1 day after I did before). I read somewhere to treat stretched ears like a new piercing and it's true. Clean them and dont stretch with dirty hands. Always sterilize your equiptment. I dont mean to sound preechy but its better I do than you get an infection.
I hope that this has been helpful. And remember not to do what I did because I was very stupid. Learn your sizes before you stretch.
I might go a bit bigger than 00g but I havent really decided. Maybe later on.
Thanks for reading :D :D
xoxo Katrina.
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