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I personally am against skipping sizes at all. I would say that the MINIMUM you should wait to go to your 12g jewelry is 2 weeks. As you put it, erring on the side of safety is always best. Listen to your lobes! Also, what exactly do you mean by "pre-sterilizing?"

this is the best expailnation I have heard about why not to skip sizes......... The general reasoning behind why you should wait a minimum of a month or so to stretch all boils down to collagen and skin elasticity. Sort of long story short when you stretch your ears you are stretching out the spaces between the collagen molecules of your ear skin, your body needs time to fill back in those gaps with more collagen, when you rush and stretch before your ear has had a chance to replace those molecules you then make the gaps bigger, in turn making the areas weaker and thinner, this is what causes thin spots and weak spots, that’s why it’s imperative you do not stretch faster than your ears want you to go, and you don’t skip sizes. In the same respect when you skip sizes you are stretching those spaces out so far it takes the body wayyy longer to fill them in and sometimes just can’t at all, which is again where you get thin spots.

That being said if you have had your ears pierced for so long it would probably be ok to "skip 14" but why risk it like you said you have all the time in the world . i generally say wait 6-8 weeks between stretches but I think 2-4 would be ok for this one

If I were you I'd wait about 6 weeks before trying the 12G. Give your ears some time to get used to the 14G.

To answer your question, even when you have no pain or resistance whatsoever it is still a stretch. It's just a lot easier on your body than if you were to skip a size/rush into it. So you still need to wait the full 6-8+ weeks even if your stretch went very smoothly.

I'm glad you're willing to be patient. Good luck!