I LOVE bodyartforms, I have a collection of their stickers from all the times I've purchased there. I have one ear gauged to 5/8ths but the other fell out during gauging process when I got it to 00, but since it was my trouble ear I didn't bother trying to do it again, because it was a PAIN and I got tears when I was doing it before =[ So I just have the one. I also have my lip pierced that I wear a tiny star in. I had self pierced a monroe and next to where my normal lip piercing is now but I took them out, the monroe due to it swelling(cause I was dumb), and the normal because my mom found out (I was 15 when I did it) and then for my 16th birthday she took me to get it done professionally. I also pierced my septum but i pierced it with a sterilized safety pin and couldn't find a ring small enough to fit in it, so I took a picture of me with a safety pin in my nose and then took it out, wish I had the picture still. I also have 6 tattoos so far, I've mostly been sticking to 1 a year since I turned 18 but for my 21st I got two tattoos.
I plan on getting many more tattoos throughout my life. I also hope to get my septum professionally pierced and get my ear that isn't gauged pierced up with a few other piercings since it's just a normal hole now. I know for sure I want an industrial, but don't know where else on it I'll get pierced, I like to keep a "symmetry" to my body mods.
Your stretched ear is one size below mine
If you want to stretch your trouble ear (I always called it my b**ch ear xD) then take the largest size no flare plug you can fit in your ear (double flare steel tunnels also work, just make sure the wearable area is wide enough not to pinch your ear) and tape up. Taping up is where you use PTFE tape (the white, soft teflon tape plumbers use to seal leaking pipes) and wrap one or two strips a week around your jewelry. The tape doesn't have any kind of adhesive, and it's non-porous, meaning it won't harbor bacteria that can cause infection. This method provides a very gradual, painless stretch (waaaaaay better than using tapers to stretch up) and I used this method for stretching up my last four sizes :3
You can get PTFE tape at wallmart, lowes, home depot, or you can order it online.
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