Finally, after owning so many weird Subarus, the 90s XT6, multiple SVX and brats. I finally found a Baja for a killer deal. This will be the forever daily. H6 plans down the road, but for now I just want to enjoy it for what it is.
Revamping my office building structure to keep track of everything. Decided I would be nice and give the pioneers a break room to relax in. Needless to say, no one is happy but ADA.
Hungover, barely any sleep, migraine front and center. It was fucking AMAZING. Running all my adult errands since I have the day off, still in full festival attire and keep forgetting I'm walking into "normal" places and everyone wants to stare. 😂 Ugh, come on INK27, this normal version of life sucks.
But I do believe im finally done. Opened it yesterday and heard a crunch. I had 5 razrs, the flip 5/6/7, and this was the toughest of the all so far, but they all met the same demise. I'll be taking the offer on the 26 ultra for free once insurance fixes it. Godspeed and happy screens brethren.
I'm going to heavily preface this post. I very wrongly stretched my ears as a teenager and dealt with scar tissue for the last 15 years negating any attempts at restretching. I ignored pain and used tapers, and all the bad things.
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On May 6th, 2026, I finally had my appointment to get my ears scalpelled and the scar tissue removed. The process was amazingly easy, healing was quick and oh boy did my ears turn into rubber bands. We started at a 8G(3mm) initially. After a week of leaving them alone, I removed them to clean and found perfectly healed little cheerios.
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Since that time, I've showered with them empty, and just tested plugs when I was done. Whatever gauge went in with no pain and was snug, was where I was at.
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Today June 14th, 2026. 14mm went smoothly into both ears. For now I'm done, time to naked train and keep them healthy.
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I do not condone what I've done in any way shape or form. However, I did use dead stretching plugs and listened to my body. So take that for what it's worth. My almost perfectly round lobes are happy and healthy. (and no, the industrial isn't touching the flat, it's just VERY close.)
I've got multiple large caliber firearms. (50 Deagle, M107a, 45-70 bond arms cyclops, 45-70 lever action, etc) but holy geez is this thing on another level. Grabbed 100 rounds when I picked it up, didn't realize that would be enough 500 mag ammo for the rest of my life.
Had everything out cleaning before people scream about irritation.
First picture is day of punch and irritated. Last 2 are today, or 14 days later.
Got my lobes punched out to a 2G (scar tissue from my teenage years) at the beginning of May, the 6th to be exact. There was very minimal blood, if any at all. Healing was crazy quick and very simple. In just 5 days, (5/11) the 2g glass plugs were loose and I hated the o ring against my ear, so I swapped them out for some titanium tunnels. When I removed the original plugs, found very healed perfect little cheerios, so yay.
On 5/15 I lost a tunnel in the shower. It didn't unscrew, it fell through my lobe. So I tossed in some 7mm tunnels, which were a little more snug, but not falling out. (zero pain through all this or I wouldn't have done it.)
Today I've found my lobes attempting to eat the tunnel again. Put in a 7.5mm dead stretch plug and it was already way loose. Went to 8mm and finally had a snug fit that didn't want to move around.
Obviously I understand that sizing up this quickly isn't the proper way to do it. But no pain and loose jewelry this quickly? Guess wondering if others who have gone the cut/punch route have also experienced rapid upsizing.
Got to meet the highly recommended Shawn O'Hare today. Shawn and Frankie are awesome people and extremely professional. Couldn't be happier to be rid of the scar tissue and able to continue my stretching journey!