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Hi!

I'm new here, I'm sorry if the question has been up before.
You may also excuse my very bad english.

I'm wondering how far you generally can go when stretching a helix piercing before it gets deformed?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Helix_piercing.jpg

I have reached a modest 8ga/3.2mm. How big do you think I'll be able to go before I have to get i dermal punched?

Sorry I couldn't post a picture with my own ear... Those pictures are in a other computer's hard disk.

Thank's!

Emmely

If I were you, if you want to go much bigger, I would just get the dermal punch. Stretching cartilage is so painful and time-consuming for most people, and a dermal punch will allow your ear to keep its shape.

corazon_de_oro wrote:If I were you, if you want to go much bigger, I would just get the dermal punch. Stretching cartilage is so painful and time-consuming for most people, and a dermal punch will allow your ear to keep its shape.

Thank's for answering.
Painful, quite. Time-consuming, indeed. But so fun if you have the patience!

I've already made a punch in my other ear, so been there, done that, or what to say? I want to stretch this one, not punch it.

I really don't want to go BIG as in 1-2 centimeters. There's not enough room on the rim of the ear for that. But I want to take it as far as I can go. So an litte estimation? How big can a person go with stretching the outer cartilage, before deforming?