First: HEEEEEEEEEEE THEY ARE GORGEOUS, AREN'T THEY? I LOVE THEM SOOO MUCH!!! Also, I like to make people obsessive over things I'm obsessive over, so basically: \m/
Now, for the actual info:
Yeah, most gun piercings are around 20/18g. If you've had piercings since you were a kid, and actually wore/wear earrings, your holes might be able to accommodate a 16g already. For the smaller sizes (up to 12g, maybe 10g) you should really just be able to buy the next size jewlelry, and just shove them in (with lube, e.g. olive oil, jojoba oil). Ahahahah, oh god, this sounds way more sexual/violent than I intended....
After that, it's kind of still the same, though-- warm water to loosen the skin, use lube and basically push a taper through to stretch to the next size.
You can certainly use tapers for the smaller sizes, and I think I did for 10g and 8g, but it might be a waste of money; you'd be better off getting stainless steel talons in those sizes because they're tapered at the ends too, and then you can just wear the jewelry instead of buying tapers AND jewelry. I guess that goes for the bigger sizes too, actually.
I used heavy jewelry to weigh down and stretch my lobes from 6 to 4 because they were just so tight. And I think that's inadvertently what happened to go from 4 to 2 so "quickly" (it's been a few months), but it's not the smartest way to do these things as it tends to stretch the skin downwards, meaning if you go into the bigger sizes your lobes might be thinner at the bottom than you really want them to be.
I'm going to try not wearing heavy jewelry now (even though I actually LIKE it), and just grit my teeth and stretch the smarter way to go from 2 to 0 and then to 00. (00 is my goal and stopping point.)
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Date: 2011-08-19 04:18 pm (UTC)Now, for the actual info:
Yeah, most gun piercings are around 20/18g. If you've had piercings since you were a kid, and actually wore/wear earrings, your holes might be able to accommodate a 16g already. For the smaller sizes (up to 12g, maybe 10g) you should really just be able to buy the next size jewlelry, and just shove them in (with lube, e.g. olive oil, jojoba oil). Ahahahah, oh god, this sounds way more sexual/violent than I intended....
After that, it's kind of still the same, though-- warm water to loosen the skin, use lube and basically push a taper through to stretch to the next size.
You can certainly use tapers for the smaller sizes, and I think I did for 10g and 8g, but it might be a waste of money; you'd be better off getting stainless steel talons in those sizes because they're tapered at the ends too, and then you can just wear the jewelry instead of buying tapers AND jewelry. I guess that goes for the bigger sizes too, actually.
I used heavy jewelry to weigh down and stretch my lobes from 6 to 4 because they were just so tight. And I think that's inadvertently what happened to go from 4 to 2 so "quickly" (it's been a few months), but it's not the smartest way to do these things as it tends to stretch the skin downwards, meaning if you go into the bigger sizes your lobes might be thinner at the bottom than you really want them to be.
I'm going to try not wearing heavy jewelry now (even though I actually LIKE it), and just grit my teeth and stretch the smarter way to go from 2 to 0 and then to 00. (00 is my goal and stopping point.)