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Finally back up at a 0g. Did them in 24 hours, slowly, not using a taper. Lots of vitamen e oil and massaging. So far, everything looks promising

quick update : went up to 0g and my ears took a definitive turn for the worse. So i downsized back to my 4g and left them for about a month, and today I got back up to my 2gs, and everything looks good. Thanks for all the advice guys!

thanks for the info...I didn't know that I was doing it wrong :/ well, no help for it now I suppose, I'm currently just waiting on being able to fit my 2g double flare plugs in. I did switch the tapers between front and back so that the hole would stretch evenly...not sure if that would have helped ...

this site
http://www.arka-shop.co.uk/acatalog/ear-stretching-kits.html
is where I got my information on ear stretching from...they say to use tapers that way. I think everyone is different in the way that they get up to the next size. My ears definitely would not have tolerated going through an ...

The thing is that really isnt how you are supposed to use a taper . A taper is a tool meant to guide in a plug . The taper should fit all the way or your ear wasnt ready . It should only take a min or 2 to slide a taper thru , Its a common miss conception that you should work a taper in over hours ...

Thing is, I started at what I thought was a 10g, but when I tried to go up to 8g it slipped completely through like a 10g would, so I just went to my 6g. I'm thinking I either got 8g mislabeled as 10g to start with, in which case no I didn't skip sizes, I just started larger than I thought I did, or ...

my ears never hurt, and they aren't sore at all, so I thought I was ok. I'd prefer not to go down a size, but I'm not going any further anytime soon either. my goal size was 2g.

what are some warning signs if it is in danger of snapping?

I recently decided I wanted to stretch my pierced ears.
I started at whatever size the piercing gun (bad choice I know, I was 15 and didn't know better) does it it, so like 18g.
I went to a store and got what I *thought* were 10g tapers, figuring I could start there safely.
I had those for about 2 ...