How much can you stretch your ears before they will not grow back to "normal"?

I personally have not let my ears close. So I do not know the answer.  I always tell people 00g is a safe bet, but we want to hear what you have heard is the "point of no return?" 

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I had my ears stretched to a 00 for about a year, I had to take them out because I had developed a skin condition that grew to my lobes so it was too painful to wear any jewlery. After I took them out it only took maybe 4 months for them to be at 14 g, almost a normal earing size!

Erika Thorn

00 is about as big as you can go and still be able to go back to normal.

Nicole

Honestly, idk if you can say there is a point of no return. I started stretching my ears in 6th grade, and was at 5/8ths by my freshman year and kept them in all the way until I graduated and then decided I’d try to see if I could size down, and it worked. I sized up and instead of keeping them in, I took them out & while the skin was raw, I just let it start closing and it actually closed pretty fast, and it looks fine. It closed all the way back to where I could wear normal earrings again. Made me feel really good to rub it into a bunch of my family members faces haha but my love for streching ears is too strong so here I am 3 1/2 years after taken them out, starting up again, currently at 8s!

Kaylyn

i think 00 would be the one because thats how big mine were when i accidentally left them in the shower at a friends house. i just didnt think to put them back for a while and they closed. kind of. is been 3 years and i can fit a screw in there still. its not a huge hole, noone ever really notices but i do

Jonnie Olsen

When it comes to stretching your ears and then taking them out to shrink back down there’s no such thing as normal. Once you pass a 10 gauge your holes never close again. It also depends on the body my husband was at an inch and let his gauges shrink he got down to a 0. I also think it depends on how you got pierced in the first place my husband was pierced at an 11 and immediately stretched to a 10 and in his process of gauging was so smooth and fluid he jumped gauges at a time whereas I had my ears pierced as an infant and wasn’t in a rush to gauge so I slowly gauged and never jump sizes.

Katherine

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