Rant

[twosharks]

My piercer knows quite a bit about stretching but I'd still rather do it because she can't feel my pain; I can stop and wait a few weeks if it hurts or is too difficult.

This is exactly why I'm pretty much against anyone else stretching a piercing for you. A piercer is used to causing someone pain for a living. So to ask them to do a procedure that isn't supposed to be painful or invasive is a little strange. No one else knows when it starts to hurt but you, so you're the best person to stretch your own piercings.