It's STRETCHED, you sillies. :3 [PICS]

Which is your b***h ear?

Right.	18.9%	[ 10 ]
Left.	28.3%	[ 15 ]
Both.	9.4%	[ 5 ]
Neither! (the "lucky b*****d" option)	17.0%	[ 9 ]
idk what ur talkin bout.	26.4%	[ 14 ]
Total Votes:			[ 53 ]

[Lestranged Lithium]

Eerekai

Lestranged Lithium

I have my ears at a 6g right now, Im stopping at 4 I think...
I already have my fours, but I barely put my 6s in like about a week ago...

My septum was pierced with either a 12 or 10 I believe though....ring wise, the needle was a 12.

I'll post pics up soon....

Septum:


Ears:

Septum piercing! I want one! Stupid question, I know, but how much does that hurt? The nose, or at least that middle chunk, seems like a rather odd and painful spot.

Well it depends.
They can pierce the cartilage in your nose or they can pierce the skin right before it.
Mine is pierced in the little amount of skin before the cartilage...
Its going to hurt like every other piercing, but there isnt that much pain.
The only thing thats kinda annoying is the fact of having to clean it really well twice a day. And than getting small crystals of plasma between the ring and your skin...that hurts way more than the piercing....So make sure that you clean it really well before you put antibiotic ointment on it and twist the ring through.
The one thing that you should consider though is that the nose and the brain share a bloodline so if it gets infected, the infection can go up to your brain. I was willing to take that chance because I love the piercing so much...But yeah, mine barely hurt. Like I would go through that pain again if I had to...

[(citykill)]

i just stretched my bottom/first lobe piercing on my left ear to 0g today. :B
the second hole is still 16g (i'm leaving it unstretched).
and on my right ear, the first one if 4g, the second is 6g, and the third is 8g. c:

i likethem uneven~

[Monstryk]

Everyone's got tiny lobes.

[-] Porcelina [-]

I heart dangle-y chandelier earrings too much to stretch my holes.

[Quixoticcy]

I don't like the look of stretched piercings, so I've just got whatever you start out with. I'm guessing that would be 0 or 00 or something. sweatdrop

[princessyoru]

Alot of my freinds have those >___<; i think it would be scary.

[robots at the disco]

Hi! I don't know if I am aloud to post this in here??? (?)

Mmk.
So I have a couple questions <33

* What is the process of starting off? Like, do I start off with normal peirced ears, ect.?
* Does it hurt alot?
* How big will they get, and then grow back?
* They won't stay there forever, right?

My cousin wants to get them done, and he won't ask himself. -.-
:]]

[Extensive]

@Forgotten Penny: If you mean just the average, normal piercing size, then it's probably an 18 or a 20. Bigger numbers = smaller hole, and they're normally only in even numbers. I have a 6, but mine aren't stretched, I got them pierced. :3

@robots at the disco: I'm going to tell you what I did, as I don't have experience with other methods. I did NOT stretch my piercings--I had gotten my ears pierced around 4th grade but let them close up, so that has nothing to do with what I did, really. I got my ears PIERCED with a 6G needle (meaning, they basically took a chunk out of my earlobes using a sharp, hollow needle at a professional tattoo and piercing shop). It cost me $25 for each hole (yes, expensive--but much safer than getting pierced with the gun at Claire's or something). It hurt to have them pierced, but it's not like OMFG AGONY, y'know? It just hurts for a bit. They told me to soak my earlobes in a mix of water and sea salt for a while, and I had to buy this other anti-bacterial thing, I forget what it's called.

As far as stretching goes, I know that the most common form of doing it is using tapers, but this works best if you already have larger-than-average piercings (like, 10g and up). I'm fairly sure that most smaller gauges (holes, whatever) will close up if you leave the earrings out for a while. This is more likely to happen with stretched earlobes than with ones like mine where I actually got skin taken out, so I would be less worried about the holes staying there later in life if I had stretched them rather than pierced them. But, again, if the size is small enough it will probably close up either way if you leave them out for too long.

Hope this helps. If you have any more questions feel free to PM me, but keep in mind I didn't stretch my lobes like most of the people here did. xD

[Khymaera]

-] Porcelina [-

I heart dangle-y chandelier earrings too much to stretch my holes.

Lol, "dangley chandelier" earrings tend to stretch lobes if you insist them to be a long-term fashion philosophy. I know a lot of East Indian girls who could easily fit a piece of 10g jewelry because their earrings are so long and so weighted.

[Captain Grey]

i have 00g i beLieve....9.5mm?...
think that's about right...
i have siLicone tunneLs that are squidgy and Look Like there's nothing in them...
Love em

[Itzy-Ate-You]

I've never heard of this ear stretching-thingy...... sweatdrop
And honestly, i don't really like how it looks. No one where i live does it, which is probably why i've never heard of it before. Though i'd never do it my self, and i think it looks kinda....odd-- It looks kinda cool! Kinda.... Does it hurt?? 'Cause it looks like it does.

[IN VEGAS]

MediaclCunt

Well, we use "gauges" meaning the jewelry and "gauged" meaning the peircing in Philly,plus the verb "gauging",but, whatever. I honestly want to start doing it,but,my mom's not gonna let me most likely, because school is gonna get on my a** about until I get regular earrings.

i can't see how they would have an issue with your ears at first. the larger sizes, yeah mebbe. HS is dumbass like that. but 16 or 14g CBRs are no big thing.

risking sounding like a creepy, how old are you?

oh and i just gotta correct the verb usage. gauge just means the size of the jewelry. like 12g. it's a unit of measurement. stretching is the proper verb, as its the act of stretching the lobe/whatever piercing. </naziing>

[IN VEGAS]

Extensive

@Forgotten Penny: If you mean just the average, normal piercing size, then it's probably an 18 or a 20. Bigger numbers = smaller hole, and they're normally only in even numbers. I have a 6, but mine aren't stretched, I got them pierced. :3

@robots at the disco: I'm going to tell you what I did, as I don't have experience with other methods. I did NOT stretch my piercings--I had gotten my ears pierced around 4th grade but let them close up, so that has nothing to do with what I did, really. I got my ears PIERCED with a 6G needle (meaning, they basically took a chunk out of my earlobes using a sharp, hollow needle at a professional tattoo and piercing shop). It cost me $25 for each hole (yes, expensive--but much safer than getting pierced with the gun at Claire's or something). It hurt to have them pierced, but it's not like OMFG AGONY, y'know? It just hurts for a bit. They told me to soak my earlobes in a mix of water and sea salt for a while, and I had to buy this other anti-bacterial thing, I forget what it's called.

As far as stretching goes, I know that the most common form of doing it is using tapers, but this works best if you already have larger-than-average piercings (like, 10g and up). I'm fairly sure that most smaller gauges (holes, whatever) will close up if you leave the earrings out for a while. This is more likely to happen with stretched earlobes than with ones like mine where I actually got skin taken out, so I would be less worried about the holes staying there later in life if I had stretched them rather than pierced them. But, again, if the size is small enough it will probably close up either way if you leave them out for too long.

Hope this helps. If you have any more questions feel free to PM me, but keep in mind I didn't stretch my lobes like most of the people here did. xD

cheers fer the help!

@robots at the disco: just to add, starting out i just used CBRs (those are capture bead rings) and shoved them through. like, had my lobes gunned at 11 (boo i know, but that was 11 years ago) so it would've been an 18g. i just popped in a 16g CBR and let that heal like a normal piercing (i'd say 2 months minimum to be on the safe size. you stretch too fast and you could get blowouts/tear/cat a**. NO ONE likes cat a**.)

but whatever you do, DO NOT put in acrylic, silicone, bone/horn, wood in new piercings/stretches. they're porous materials and make you more vulnerable to infections.

and as far as them closing up is concerned, i've been told to consider stretching as permanent. people's bodies differ so much: what could close easily for me, may never completely close up for you. <3

oh and make sure when you buy the jewelry, you have the right size chosen. most (as in i haven't found one yet who will) won't let you return body jewelry, for sanitary reasons.

[IN VEGAS]

Eerekai

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!


I forgot where I read this, but I do remember it. There has been studies done on the qualities of coral. Body artists are thinking of using on customers that do implants (horns, spikes, bumps). Coral's tissue has qualities that lets it graft with human flesh over a long period of time, making the implant permanent! This thread is not about implants, but permanently having a specific piece of jewelry BIOLOGICALLY GRAFTED to your flesh may not be your cup-O-tea.

random, but appreciated. :3

[IN VEGAS]

itzita_02

I've never heard of this ear stretching-thingy...... sweatdrop
And honestly, i don't really like how it looks. No one where i live does it, which is probably why i've never heard of it before. Though i'd never do it my self, and i think it looks kinda....odd-- It looks kinda cool! Kinda.... Does it hurt?? 'Cause it looks like it does.

oh stretching has been going on for EONS. indonesian tribes and such have been doing it way before we thought it was trendy, and they're awesomely hardcore!

and no, it shouldn't hurt when you do it correctly. it does take a long time tho, so it's not really for someone with little patience. unless you want to go through scalpelling. but regular ol' stretching proper with tapers should not hurt at all.

new things always seem strange to us at first. my best suggestion for you if you're at all curious is to immerse yourself in it a little.

if you're on Livejournal, i suggest watching a community called stretched. they're a bunch of camera whores who love to show off their pretties. :3 i'm on there too.