Alright, so I'm noticing one ear goes more easily than another - my left is easier then my right. It seems to readily expand while the right twitches and pulls for every little bit.
I can do naturals and glass, but even metal tapers for 20min make my ears throb.
What stretching oddities have you encountered?
I can do naturals and glass, but even metal tapers for 20min make my ears throb.
What stretching oddities have you encountered?
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 7:02 PMWell my right ear has a 12 gauge in, while my left ear still has a 16 gauge in.
I tried to put a twelve on the left one but the result is that my lobe is now totally red and swollen. Funny thing though, it goes in halfway but it is not coming out in the back. -
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 8:51 PMStrange thing: My right ear got freakishly infected. Like nothing I did helped. So I gauged up with glass ones. Now my LEFT ear took it ok, but the previously infected ear has room to spare. Backasswards. -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 2:11 AMMy right lobe was always difficult to stretch. The left one not a problem.
So far I have been able to take steel, miao silver, horn, wood. the only things my ears dont like is the rubber O rings.
Mind you I did read somewhere that the ears will reject anything plastic quicker than anything. -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 9:44 AMMy left ear is so stubborn, it really does not want to stretch.
Going from a 2 to a 0 was a bitch. Everything up to that point was pretty easy.
Going from 0 to 00 was even more of a bitch. Especially that left ear.
Now I'm at 7/16, and as soon as I take my jewelry out, my left ear wants to spring back. -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 11:02 AMi had problems stretching initially. when i went to a 12, no problem., 12 to 10, no problem, 10 to 8...yikes! i have a lot of scar tissue in my ear lobes from where i had to keep re-piercing my ears (lots of problems initially...but eventually it went fine). anyway, my left ear is SUPERTIGHT and does NOT like to be stretched. after i was an 8 for awhile, i took them out and went back down to probably a 16. i'm back at a 12 and would like to go to a 2 eventually, but my left lobe is, once again, protesting the changes. funny how that happens, eh? i always just assumed it was from the scar tissue, but it sounds like it might just be one of those things... -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 11:14 AMmy right ear gaged really easily, while my left was a bitch... say, i could go through a crestant ( 6g - 4g ) in a week with my right, while my left would take 2 weeks including infection. idk, altogether though, it took me less then 6 months to stretch rom a 16g to 1/2".
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 3:00 PMIm with Ms Crankypants here. 2 to a 0 was very painful and i made sure I let those heal well before going up to a 00 which hurt but not as much as the 0.
After that tho my 7/16 were fine. I had to work the right ear for a while to stretch it up (I was naughty I got some 11mm knitting needles and sat in the bath) although I cant leave anything out too long. I think its because I have left tunnels in with these and all the others have had plugs. -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 3:39 PMGauging drama for the day...
I run a lawn and garden service, and after running all kinds of errands, getting home, sitting down at the puter I reach up to fiddle with my spirals. THE LEFT ONE WAS GONE!!!
So I put down the beer I was about to open, pack up the kiddos and stuff everyone in the car for the manic run to the tattoo shop - but of course I forget my ATM, get halfway there realize, and have to turn back and go get it. Did a quick second check of everywhere in the house that it might have come out.
Get back in the car, get to "my shop" where I always go and I like the people but alas no organics, no glass. So I asked where might have the desired earring in the desired material. 20 minutes south. DAMN. So back in the car we go. I had a traitorous moment and stopped at a random shop I've seen while driving but don't like at least one of the artists at.
They have an INCREDIBLE selection of naturals in really cool colors and patterns. I'll have to go back on the lam when I get farther along.
So the guy measured the spiral I'm at, and we start looking. Then he suggest going up to a solid 8 to begin with crescent. Hmmm. alright!
Get back in the car, fight rush hour traffic, get home and lo and behold. In front of my truck is the missing spiral. DAMN! But I ran it over, and the tip is gone.
I cleaned it off and have put that one back in for now, just till that ear goes back to where it was. Next time I shower I'm going to try out the new ones - identical to the others, but BIGGER!
Yaaaaay.
and thats my drama for the day. -
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Thu, May 8, 2008 - 3:14 PMOne of my favorite earrings fell out one night (a gorgeous metal semi-hoop with a spiraled end that my friend had brought back from China), and I didn't notice it until we were in the restaurant we were going to. We looked all around; couldn't find it. On our way to the car I see something gleaming on the road...it's the earring, totally smushed by who knows how many cars. I was so sad!
But...
My now-ex (a very sweet man) knew a jewelry-maker, and she was actually able to fix it to the point where I can't tell which one was crushed! So he gave me that earring, good as new, as part of my christmas present :) -
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Sun, May 11, 2008 - 8:34 AMMy now-ex (a very sweet man) knew a jewelry-maker, and she was actually able to fix it to the point where I can't tell which one was crushed! So he gave me that earring, good as new, as part of my christmas present :)
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Happy ending!
I'm dreaming of getting farth enough to wear these really spiffy horn 'wings' that I found at the shop I got my replacements at. Kind of bummed that the replacements cost literally twice as much as the originals though.
I can't find anything online that looks like the wings. They are totally 80's, but cool. -
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Sun, May 11, 2008 - 8:37 AMWhat gets me is at night, unless I pull back my hair very tight - since with tossing and turning it loosens up; I keep getting tangled, go to roll over and it yanks.
Actually even awake it's doing that.
I like the spirals cause I can be working on the stretch, but I'm looking forward to getting to like a 4g where I can get some plugs that wont catch on everything all the time.
I don't want to invest in jewelry for gauges that I won't be at for long enough to make it worthwhile.
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 2:50 PMMy right ear is stubborn, too, which is strange considering that I'm mainly right dominant in all things. My left ear takes a new earring really easily, whereas I have to fight/lube/warm my right ear lobe and go really slowly with it. They are both fine once earrings are in, however. It's even weirder because all the problems I've had with my ear piercings healing over have been on the left and not the right... so you'd think the skin would be less stretchy there. -
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Thu, May 8, 2008 - 2:12 PMwow, Seichi--what a nightmare! i've been afraid of that very same thing happening to me, so i have a couple of extra pairs of tunnels stashed away just in case.
i lose earrings everywhere! even tunnels, unless they are the Kaos softwear ones--double flares and squishy enough to put in easily.
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Thu, May 8, 2008 - 4:00 PMAll I know is.... When standing outside in the cold weather for too long.... OooW boy, do the lobes hurt! Where can one finda the funky earmuffs? :) -
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 4:16 PMYippie I managed to get a 12 gauge in my left stubborn ear.
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