Claire's has up to 10g earrings, though I wouldn't recommend them. The metal content in their gauges is somewhat questionable. But after that you can get plain tunnels at Spencer's or other such stores. You can also get them from local piercing shops usually.

Then the fancy crap like Miao stuff are available online. And you can sometimes find them at vendors at events.

Well, sites like bodyjewelleryshop.com and bodyartforms.com go as low as 18g, but most reputable piercers believe 16g is the smallest gauge you can go in ears and still be safe from the "cheesecutter effect," where small gauge earrings will just rip right out of the earlobe. If you wanted to stretch big enough to wear tunnels so you could stick your "normal" earrings through them and still be safe, bodyartforms sells tunnels as small as 10g. Personally, I plan on stretching my first lobes to at least an 8g so the fit of earring through tunnel isn't so tight.

If you have had your lobe piercings for a long, long time then you can likely just stick a 16g or maybe even 14g straight/curved/circular barbell in your ear with a little bit of lube and be fine. You let your ears get accustomed to that size (at least a month if not longer) and then try the next size. You don't want to go too fast, though, because you could do some pretty gnarly damage to your ears that will set your stretching process back quite a bit. You're going too fast if you ever feel significant amounts of pain (a little discomfort/pain is normal - "HOLYFUCKINGSHITOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!" is bad), if the skin of your earlobes tears or if you start bleeding. If any of these things happens, downsize immediately and baby the heck out of your ears until they are nice and healed up.

Also, never ever ever stretch with organic materials. For one, the porous nature of organic materials means that gunk and bacteria can hide in there really easily, which can piss off your piercing. Two, your skin can actually fuse with the organic material during the healing process, which obviously is a bad thing. :)

I pimp this website like my life depends on it, but seriously, this girl knows her shit about piercings, so her website is a goldmine of great info: www.voguebodypiercing.com/stret...g.html .

ok get some stretching cresants! you can get these from a body and or a pirecing shop. BUT if you use these you will tear yor ear, so if thats a problem for you, use glass...glass stretches your skin in a non tearing manner! lol. but glass is a lot more expensive, and i recommend talking to a local pirecer if you do it that way. i used the stretching cresents, which in my area, only go up to a 0g. so from there you gotta either wear heavy earings or shove things thru.