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gauged jewelry, anyone?
So... you guys have first dibs! Whatever's left will get posted on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
gaugetrade, I guess.
All the CBRs, plugs, and tapers are FREE!
Please, just take them; I want to clear out the space in my jewelry box!
As for the rest, shipping is included in the asking price:
4.5mm wood talons $6
4g stainless steel talons $6
6g glass dichro rainbow spirals $20
(These rainbow spirals have never been worn, still have the box they came in, originally cost $35.)
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gaugetrade, I guess.All the CBRs, plugs, and tapers are FREE!
Please, just take them; I want to clear out the space in my jewelry box!
As for the rest, shipping is included in the asking price:
4.5mm wood talons $6
4g stainless steel talons $6
6g glass dichro rainbow spirals $20
(These rainbow spirals have never been worn, still have the box they came in, originally cost $35.)
CLOSE-UPS:
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UGH SARA. I don't know anything about gauging but I want to wear ALL OF THEEESE. ;_____; So pretty and swirly and METAL and and.
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Well, if you ever get into stretching, you'll know who to call to get supplies from. They're like tats, though, omg SUPER ADDICTIVE. Hahaha, I said, way back when I started, that I'd stop at 6ga. Even though I stopped there for a couple of years, you can clearly see how well that worked. I mean, I've gone a couple years without getting a tattoo, too. =/
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(Goddamn your gorgeous earrings, making me all obsessive out of NOWHERE. Fffffff. :X)
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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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How long did it take you to get from a standard piercing to your current gauge?
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Uhhhhh, it's hard to answer that second question. I started stretching my first holes (which were pierced originally when I was 12) when I was maybe 19? [ETA: Oh yeah, and I'm 30 now, so approx 11 years and 3 years of that was when I stayed at 6ga because I just wore glass plugs to work every day and they are suuuuper light.] But I took waaaaaaaay longer to go from size to size than you really have to and it was mostly because I'd just stretch whenever I felt the urge to get another ear piercing because it was all sore and basically took the place of getting another piercing without the cost. I mean, I realized pretty quickly that I only had a certain amount of space on my ears, you know? So I had to pace myself.
Um, why no, I don't have... a pain/piercing fetish or anything.... Um.In a general sense it's recommended that you wait at least a month between stretches. But I know that (even past a month) my ears' sensitivity have flared if I randomly slept wrong on my jewelry, and I took that as an indication that they weren't completely healed. So, I'd just go with at least a month between stretches, but also whatever feels right thereafter.
BTW, clearly I am totally cool with answering questions regarding stretching if you ever need it -- even after you do more proper research. <3
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THIS IS MORE OR LESS WHAT IS REALLY PIQUING MY INTEREST. :| Can't afford the tattoos, can afford but can't justify the industrial I want to re-pierce, aaaaand I figure I can do the majority of the initial stretching without actually spending much money at all. I just need the piercing ache back, okay. /0\ My tongue healed too damn fast.
I am likely going to bug the shit out of you once I get my bearings enough to start. :D
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...you know that oral and genital piercings heal fastest because of the amount of blood flow to those areas is higher than other areas?
Yeah, I remember a lot from when I started researching piercings way back when.
BUG ME BUG ME. ILU. =D
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I'm not sure why I haven't seen more piercing kink stories around fandom... I assume MCR fandom has more tattoo kink stories? *jealous*
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I AM ACTUALLY REALLY BITTER THAT THE ONE THING (in my mind) THAT PREVENTS SPENCER SMITH FROM BEING THE ACTUALFAX MOST PERFECT PERSON (despite the fact that he's already flawless) IS A SEVERE LACK OF INK. WHAT THE HELL, MAN? YOU NEED TO BE INKED. YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT BUT YOU DO.
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I kind of want to start piercing again, though...
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OMG that looks so awesome.
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Check these out -- no actual stretching necessary! That whole shop just makes me salivate.
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I really, really want your 4g & 2g tapers, if they're not claimed. I'm going up at least two more sizes and this is perfect timing. This way, I can just get only two pairs steel plugs in those respective sizes. :D
I'd want the 4g talons too, but. I'm broke. I don't even have $6. :( They are gorgeous though.
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Oh, and if I put those three pairs up on
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Hopefully I can come up with a few extra bucks this week for those pairs... and you said the price includes shipping, right? That's not bad at all.
Oh, are the 6g CBR's on the heavy side? If so that's fine, I can wear them around the house before I stretch to 4g to loosen them up a little bit more. I do see a small gap when I pull on my ears (~gently), so I'd hope I'm ready to go up. It has been 4 months after all. :)
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The 6g CBRs are not all that heavy. I didn't use them as weights; I used the 6g helixes (pic in comments above), but they're definitely heavier than glass plugs if that's all you've been wearing. Let me know about those too. =D