r/Stretched

27yo F. 3/4” (19mm) Started stretching my ears at 13 in 8th grade strongly against my mom’s wishes lol

Never was able to wear regular earrings when I was younger as they always seemed to make my lobes hot, red and itchy. Always thought they looked funny too bc I felt my lobes were too big 😆

Initially stopped at 00g in 9th grade. Being young, stupid & not knowing how to correctly stretch my ears, I did it pretty quick & idk how I didn’t end up with a blow out esp going from a 2g to 0g🤧
Thought 00g was my goal size.

Eventually decided to size up in 2017 to 19mm. Almost 15 years of being told I’ll regret it. 🤪

I definitely plan on going to at least 57mm on the bottoms, and have a set of 20mm ready for the top. I’ll probably chill out here for a month or so, going to hit the 3” mark in my own way

Not sure how big I wanna go yet kinda just play it by ear, at 14G now

I noticed that when I take my jewelry out, my piercing hole has a little circular indentation at the upper-right edge (visible in the photos). The hole itself doesn’t hurt, isn’t irritated, and stretching has been going fine.

Is this just normal anatomy or the way the piercing tract healed? Does anyone else’s lobe look like this, or is it something I should keep an eye on?

I did stretch my ears in highschool (very badly) and blew out my ears and got an infection. Is this remnant scar tissue? I’m over a month out from my last stretch and I had no issues with it when I sized up.

Reached 7mm couple days ago, started from 10G in february 😬 . I used half size plug that slipped in without any effort. I know that's sketch but i'm Slowing down from now (hated how it looked when it was smaller)

I’d really love to stretch my ears but I have a feeling my piercing is too low( got it pierced as a child) is it too low to stretch it safely?

I'm so sad, I dropped my stone and it broke! Any advice on how to avoid losing it? It's 36 millimeters.

I have my nostrils done few days ago (yay! still surprised there’s no pain at all, septum was much worse). In the future I probably plan to stretch them to like 12-10g. It seems to me that it has no sense to punch with such a small stretch and I hardly imagine dead stretching (especially having experience with any O-rings absolutely not staying at place with septum).

So the question is if it’s possible to stretch gradually with just tapers? It works with bridge so far (14g now), but I don’t have any experience with cartilage piercings at all.

PS obviously I won’t do anything like stretching for at least half a year, I just prefer to prepare way in advance 😅

This is by no means me trying to romanticize stretching too early. But some have been where I’m at. That itch to get to your goal size or close to it so we look cool. This pic was when I was at maybe 20mm after sizing down from a 30mm

The blowout does not go away. If anything, it made my stretching journey WAYYY harder. Tried the natural stuff like hemorrhoid cream and being naked for a month or so. Daily massages, etc. Though I saw some improvements, it didn’t fix the actual issue. It also made it harder to buy standard size plugs/tunnels because one of my lobes were dipping or eating the jewelry. So that was a huge issue. It costs money to custom make your jewelry, which I’m now stuck doing.

This is more of a visual PSA to newcomers wanting to join the stretching party. Please do your research, learn from others, and don’t be impatient. Basically, don’t be like me. I might have to do surgery to correct my ear, but that’s the price you pay for not doing it right the first time.

About to go up to my final goal of 2g in roughly a week. Super excited for the next size up and happy so far with where I'm at now

Lobes 30mm

Upper lobes 8mm

Nostrils 6mm

High nostrils 14g

Septum 9.5mm

What do yall think of my ear stretch

Funny that I can stick my finger through now. Getting closer to my goal of 24mm

16mm + 5/5mm 🥰

Thinking about stretching the bottom one to 6mm but def not the top. The top one sucks lol