What size are your stretched ears? and How long did it take you to get to your size?
We want to hear how long it took you to get to the size you wanted. We always give the advice of taking your time and taking it slow, but please let us how long it took you.
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I’m at a half inch. Probably about 6 months. I stretched my ears before you could slowly gauge. All we could use back then were plugs. No one really knew to much about gauging.
I started stretching my lobes in 1994. I stretched them on my own. I took my time and had them up to 3/4in by 2000. My lobes are still 3/4 and I am comfortable with this size. I wore plugs the whole time up untill I found y’alls site. I bought a pair of hangers and I am in love with them. I can’t wait to get another pair.
Probably close to 10 years, because I wasn’t in a hurry, and financial reasons. I also went back to regular earrings for a year after school, trying to get jobs. My 8’s went right back into my left ear, but my right had shrunk back down to 12 or 10. I thought I was done at 6, 4, and 2 gauge. I was wrong. I’m at 0g now, think I’m done, but I’ve been wrong before.
My ears were originally at a 14g before I slowly starting going up to a 2g, which is where I’m at now. All together, I spent about 3 months stretching them from a 14 to a 2g.
My lobes are at 0g. I chose this size because it has the most jewelry options available and because it’s large enough for tunnels to look good, but it’s small enough not to be noticed at work. It took me about a year to get to that size; I tried to be patient and wait a month before sizing up.