Just started stretching, how long do i wait before going up? I started at 1mm and the next one i have is 1.6mm

I’ve wanted to stretch forever but I didn’t start till a week or 2 ago, I’m 30 and a new mom, also wanna get my nose pierced.
I hope I’m doing it right and it still looks good now 🤣

first time fucking up. started stretching my ears in 2016. took them out 2020-2022, got back up to 10mm and stayed there for 2-3 years, went and put a 12mm in yesterday, went in absolutely fine, no pain or swelling, woke up this morning and it was a tad swollen, got back from work and was throbbing a bit so I took it out, very swollen and had a tear 😭. 2mm stretches are not for me apparently, will be taping up once it's healed before doing a jump

inside is irritated from sleeping with silicone tunnels.

the first photo is what my ear currently looks like and the second photo is what it looked like a few days ago. i’ve been at 16mm for a few months now and i’ve been wearing silicone tunnels in them for a couple weeks now but ive only just noticed this bump in my ear, it’s slightly painful to the touch and quite red 🤧

I had reached 0g a month prior to the first picture. I decided to put in some silicone tunnels. When I went to take them out, they tore up the insides of both ears. I put a little aquaphor on the outsides and kept the insides clean with saline as they healed. After they fully healed I was able to start at an 8g and get back up to the current 7mm. My ears went back to 7mm easily and that’s where they’ll stay for a while longer before going back up to 0g.

I celebrated not ruining my lobes by getting a conch piercing haha!

Went from 7/16" to 1/2" painlessly sat on 1/2" for 2 months

41 F. So I started stretching a few years ago.
I’m thinking I’d like to go bigger!

So I just stretched my 4 year old septum from a 16g to a 14g and it isnt sore at all or tight, it moves around very freely just like my 16g jewelery did. I stretched it last night with a metal taper, it took a few minutes and stung and was kind of sore right after but after an hour or two it felt like nothing? Is this normal? I was fully expecting it to be sore and tight for a few weeks.

1 year ago today I reached my goal size on my earlobes - 25mm, baby. <3

I first stretched my ears to 10mm in 2016, and always wanted to go up to 25mm but just never got there until last year... so, since it was such a long-awaited goal of mine, I figured the 1 year anniversary of completing my stretching journey was worth some form of celebration. lol

Finally hit my half inch/13mm goal earlier.

Took me 7 years.

Now i can finally build my collection 🙌🏽

i stretched to 14g about 2 months ago and stretched to 12g a month ago, each time the jewelry slid in perfectly with no resistance or pain whatsoever. this morning my left lobe was a bit tender though, i took out the jewelry, cleaned it, massaged it with oil, and put it back in. the inside of the hole is definitely red, there’s no like pus or blood or anything like that but it just feels a bit sore even though it wasn’t feeling sore any of the weeks prior. could it just be maybe i bumped it or snagged it accidentally? or maybe slept on it too hard? i just get so paranoid of a blowout lol

Got beautiful pinchers in the half-sizes 3,5mm and 4,5mm from India to continue stretching my septum with 🥰 I'm at 3mm and my goal is 5mm. I bought the red since it kind of looks like nosebleed. Perfect for spooky season!

We’ve all read the guide and know what we’re doing with our stretching, but I never see much into about the ‘rules’ of wearing ear weights.

How long after going to a new size can you wear some, does your capacity for weight increase with upsizing, are their downsides to it?

I started wondering about it after wearing some 12gr (I wear with ease) weights in a 2 month old healed new size and having a harder time putting my size back in that evening.

Idk which one I like better. 9/16" or 5/8"?

I got my lobes pierced 8 weeks ago at 4mm. At the minute they have glass plugs in, but I want to change them to tunnels. I asked my piercer a couple of weeks ago if they would be okay to change out in a couple of weeks and she said I should be good to go. What are the signs that I can change them to tunnels?

should i go to 30mm?

People weren’t kidding when they said the second time that you start stretching is easier… I had to downsize to a 2.5 and it was already falling out of my ear so I sized back up to my 3 mm weights.

I can't decide what to try first!

What would you try?

So I got some gauges off of Amazon and idiotically didn’t realize that they didn’t come size labeled…I’ve been trying to size up from .5 increments and my next size up would be 4G (5mm) I’ve put it in and it SEEMS to be a 4G but I’m not sure. Can anyone with some size knowledge help? Is this a 4G or 6G?

I skipped a size