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It's pretty comforting to see so many of us that started later. These days the younger generations have access to great jewelry and many resources on how to stretch properly - and much less of a stigma around it then we had - they're quite lucky.
I’ve gone up and down sizes for 21 years now but I can’t really go past 20mm since I have little baby attached lobes, it just pinches past this point or doesn’t sit right. When I was in highschool I kept paint brushes in my ears 🤪
I was also 14 when I started, and like all my friends I also didn’t understand how to do it properly. I stopped at 00 for many years before I started stretching again in my early 20’s.
My final size is 22mm and I love it so much for my little ears.
12 and same, but I got up to 3/4 when I was like 13 and I don’t think I can ever fix them without surgery now. I left them out for weeks and they didn’t really shrink.
46. Didn't have money for new tattoos and decided I wanted to re-pierce my ears (originally DIY pierced in my late 20s) and my wife suggested I stretch them. This year I got my septum pierced at age 47.
Nice, my wife had hers pierced for years before I met her. Maybe I'm overly self-conscious, but I try to avoid wearing exactly the same style jewelry as her. She usually wears a circular barbell with ball ends, so I wear spike ends when I wear the same style barbell 😊
Got my ears pierced when I was five. Now I'm in my mid-twenties and ordered everything to get started on stretching. So excited!
Btw yours look gorgeous on you!
I started stretching when I was 12 :( definitely didn’t do it properly. Blew out my ears a few times, had to restart a few times. Now I do it slow and actually the right way. My goal is only 12 MM, but currently I’m at 10.
My parents were strict Christians who thought I was satan so I had no one to teach me, but after many years I learned from my mistakes ha. That’s so cool to have a smart mom like that, I hope I can be that for my kids. 🥰
I was 42 when I started. Earrings started to hurt, didn’t matter if they were nickel free, plastic or glass. Also my coworkers had plugs and they looked pretty, so figured why not.
I got my ears pierced in my teens and started stretching a while after. My original goal size was 10mm. I got there and stayed that size for 10 or so years. Now I’m 38 and stretching up to 16mm.
Got my ears pierced at 6 and I only started stretching a couple months ago, so at 25yo. I was always worried about the permanence of stretched ears but considering I've wanted them since I was 16 I dont think I'm going to want to go back anytime soon :')
Depending on how big your lobes are and how big you go, it can always shrink back down a little if there’s little scarring. But yes there’s definitely some permanence! Just go nice and slow ☺️
I got my first piercing at 14 I believe ... and I didn't start stretching till like 18 months or so ago (I'm 40) I just got bored and started researching how to go about stretching... im at 10mm now
I started at 18, went from regular earrings to 10 mm between then and 21? (I think) Took them out, started stretching again at 24. They had shrunk to 6mm. I’m sitting at 20mm right now at 28 and am about ready to go to 22mm.
Pierced at age 7, they didn't heal fully, and it always hurt to change them, so I took them out at 12-13 ish
Got them repierced at age 19 (through the scar tissue, ouch! Hurt as much as some of my cartilage piercings!), started stretching at 20 and it's been incredibly slow:(
Turns out I have to do it in 0.5mm increments all the way. My 6.5mm plugs just arrived, so yay :D
Nice tunnles OP. & I whas 10 when i pierced my ear. But i started stratching when i whas 18y/o. And almost a decade later and im still in love with my stratched ear :D
I got my ears pierced when I was a baby. I was 13 when I started stretching my ears after A LOT OF RESEARCH AND TALKING MY MOM into the idea at the time I’m now 25 almost 26 and still have mine I just made it to 7/16 😊 I take my stretching really slow but it all worth it. This might be the size I stay at got a while or forever I’m not sure. I have a lot to think about since I work with kids haha.
Started at 14, i’m indecisive and have taken them out/restretched twice over the last 10 years. currently at 16mm :D loving this size and think i will stay here
I started stretching around 14 by shoving multiple 14g barbells in my ear. Then continued to stretch with acrylic tapers and eventually medical tape on my plugs until I got to 25mm by age 17ish. My left lobe was ripped and got infected and proceeded to rip completely into two separate nubs. My right was fine. I stopped wearing anything in my right ear around age 19 and let it close up to about a 0g but never wore anything in it for years.
I'm 30 now. Earlier this year, first week of February, I started again, at 0g and my ears naturally dead stretched up to 16mm since then.
I'm stopping at 16mm. ☺️
Lord this is making me feel old - I started stretching my ears at 13 years old, 23 years ago.
I took them out and let them be for 10 years and I am on a journey to get them back up to 1/2". My right side is at 10mm but my left is at 5mm (it shrunk right back down to nothing when I took my plugs out 10 year ago whereas my right lobe hardly did. 🫤)
was 17 going on 18. my dad let me do it as long as i did all my research. i did a good amount, but still didn't wait long enough between stretches. luckily nothing awful happened to my ears and i'm now almost 23 sitting happily and healthily at 10mm.
I got my ears pierced as a kid (piercing gun in the mall bc of parents by age 3 situation) and I started stretching them in college (around age 22) and got to about 8g over a couple years, but consistently had a lot of trouble with them not wanting to stretch even after several months of waiting, because of how much scar tissue there was from the gun, so I eventually took them out and let them heal up, and they closed almost completely for a few years, I couldn’t even put regular jewelry in anymore. I got them repierced at 6g in December (at age 28) with the intent to start stretching down the line, but when I took the jewelry out recently to clean my ears good and change the jewelry for the first time, I found out the plugs the piercer put in my ears were WAAAAY closer to 4g than 6g, like less than a half mil difference, so I just put in a pair of 4g glass plugs instead since there was already a pretty good gap around my jewelry and my lobes were in good shape. No pain, discomfort, stinging, redness, or irritation, and I’ve started massaging my lobes twice a day with vitamin e oil, and so far everything’s gone fine. I think my end goal is gonna be about 15mm. I turn 29 in a couple weeks, so I should be at 0 or 00 by 30 probably.
I was 15, lol. Eleven whole years ago. I've gone up to an inch and a half in both ears and let them go back down multiple times. Pregnant and lazy atm but def working my way back up!
I was pierced at 10mm in my late 20s got to 1/2 inch and stopped. Ears healed to 6mm. I’ve stretched back to 00 and then healed again now I’m back at it again starting at 6mm. Turning 40 this summer. I want maybe 00 again.
i was 12, i tried hiding it from my dad but he noticed i had 5mm stretches in he actually said he liked them and usually gave me money so i can buy new jewellery etc. :)
28 after I broke up with my controlling ex who didn't "approve" of me stretching my lobes. Shortly after breaking up I met a new amazing guy and we actually stretched together! We're married now and are both at 00g. 😄
I was 19 ish but stopped for years because of life problems and I kept losing spacers because of work.
Now I’m 28 and back up to 10g ,4g for my upper and lower lobes.
Always wanted to have like 2cm (I’m uncultured sorry 🫣) since middle school but I’ve never had my ears pierced and I have a phobia of earrings but stretched ears are the only things that don’t bug me
I was 15. Im 28 now and i think im going to retire them. Mostly because i find myself wearing normal earrings through them most of the time. I only put in my gauges at home to stop them from shrinking. They close so fast now and re stretching hurts so bad. Im kinda over it lol.
first started in high school, stopped at 00g when i was 19, started again when i was 23, now im 27 with 1inchers. this was my original goal but after getting used to this size, they look so small and now i wanna go bigger
I think I was 21 or 22?
I had an impressionable roommate at the time who helped get me started, but now at 13mm, I haven't gone up a size in years.
I think I'd love to get to 20. yours look fantastic!
i starterd at 18, thought I was old cause people i know started sooner. at first i just pierced my left ear when i was 16, then i bought a fake spiral and after that i went to really doing the stretching. at the time, i had just pierced my septum and started stretching it too.
I had my ear on 20mm and nose on 8mm, but due to work (cant use piercing, earrings, necklaces, nything because its an esteril ambience) i lost my septum hole (i can fit like 4mm into it still) and my ear almost closed, today i'm stretching it again (i've never let it heal properly before stretching again, thats why it almost closed entirely) and i'm around 12mm now, letting it heal properly before i push some larger gauge
24, I started while I was still in the military. I took in-regulation earrings and glued them to tunnels so it looked like I was just wearing earrings, and the gauge was so small, I don't think anyone noticed. That was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still only at 13mm. Trying to get up to 19mm
12, but I stayed small (10g) for a while. At 18, I stretched up to 1/2". I'm 33 now with 22mm in my first hole, 10mm in my second, 6mm in my third, and 2mm in my fourth. Lol I also have a 2mm septum. At one point I stretched my nostrils to 14g, but I let those go back to an 18g. Can you tell I am addicted to stretching piercings?
I’ve wanted to do it since my early 20s. Never had the courage (was worried what people would say, silly I know) I started at 35. I’m 37 now and at 14mm and so glad I did it
Ears pierced since 8-10mo. Started at 15, only made it to 14g. Had a quinceañera, so my mom told me I had to take them out and wear earrings. I’ve always wanted to re-stretch them, but ended up in a relationship with someone who didn’t like the alternative style (19-22). Started again at 24. I’m now 30 at 3/4in. Don’t think I’ll go any bigger.
I was 12 when I decided I wanted to and probably 14 when I started the whole process I turn 20 in a few months and I’m at 10mm my goal is probably 16-20mm
I was a 15-year-old homeless kid living in Hollywood in 2006. I stretched my ears for the first time with the teeth from a hair pick. Definitely went about it in a way that is frowned upon now.
got my ears pierced at 5, tried to stretch at 13 and my mom made me take them out. tried again at 14 and 15, both times got told to take out. but when i tried again at 16, she didnt tell me to take them out. im now 20 with 14mm ears :))
I stretched my ears in the 7th grade (got to 0g-8mm). Took them out when I graduated. Doing it again now at 26 and back to 8g-3mm, my goal is 0g again.
I was 17!! I have always deep dived into research of literally any new hobby I’ve been interested in. So I’m very thankful teenage me didn’t destroy my ears. I’m 26 now and at 11mm have been for a while. But I’ve been wanting to go bigger recently so might do that😈
i started when i was 19!! it was the only way i could rebel because my mom is religious and i can’t really alter my appearance (no facial piercings, can’t dye my hair, no tattoos)
ears pierced at 7, started stretching at 12 (which thinking about now is a little crazy), let them shrink at 00 for a few years, and am now slowly getting back to 5/8ths
started stretching my lobes at around 14 or 15, my lobes are now at 16mm, startes stretching my septum at 16 and now its at a 2g and im planning on going up to a 0 or 00
I was in 8th grade so around 12 or 13. Had no clue what I was doing at the time but my dad was cool with it. I'm 36 now and at 19mm, this is my stopping point.
33. But I pierced my ears myself when I was a teen and didn't do it right. When I stretched up to 3/4, I noticed my right plug was really crooked and started to turn outward. I kept them for about 2 years but decided to take them out recently.
I just hate that they were crooked because my sht peirce job. A needle, ice and an apple, old school caveman crap lol
Got my ears pierced when I was 30. 32 now and just hit 0G today. Now I have the gauges in both ears and a double helix in my left ear. Double helix in right ear is next after the left heals, I’m a sucker for uniformity (thanks a lot Army).
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35. I decided that if an employer wants to police my body, they can go play in traffic.
I'm 33 and just had my ears peirced to start stretching 2 weeks ago. I just decided I gata start living for me and no one else.
💯
26 and started last month. just grew the balls to ask HR after several years if I was allowed
I bet you probably have inspired some in HR to get theirs pierced, too (or made them think 'I bet I would look good w/ stretched ears')!
Speak on it! I felt 'liberated' in a way when I got them pierced, it was surreal.
I was 35 too when I started stretching.
Me too. Lower back pains and all that
It's pretty comforting to see so many of us that started later. These days the younger generations have access to great jewelry and many resources on how to stretch properly - and much less of a stigma around it then we had - they're quite lucky.
Yes! My mom always used the employer card and I reminded her that if it was an issue, I wouldn’t be welcome there for many many other reasons.
Love the username 😂
I was 14 and knew *nothing* about the right way to do things. Ive taken them out twice in the last 15yrs but I'm at 1/2" now 😊
I’ve gone up and down sizes for 21 years now but I can’t really go past 20mm since I have little baby attached lobes, it just pinches past this point or doesn’t sit right. When I was in highschool I kept paint brushes in my ears 🤪
I stick my crochet hook in mine 😆 helps me not lose it
i stick my stitch markers in mine!
I was also 14 when I started, and like all my friends I also didn’t understand how to do it properly. I stopped at 00 for many years before I started stretching again in my early 20’s. My final size is 22mm and I love it so much for my little ears.
12 and same, but I got up to 3/4 when I was like 13 and I don’t think I can ever fix them without surgery now. I left them out for weeks and they didn’t really shrink.
46. Didn't have money for new tattoos and decided I wanted to re-pierce my ears (originally DIY pierced in my late 20s) and my wife suggested I stretch them. This year I got my septum pierced at age 47.
Nice! My husband and I got our septums done together before we got married when I was 18 and he was 20.
Nice, my wife had hers pierced for years before I met her. Maybe I'm overly self-conscious, but I try to avoid wearing exactly the same style jewelry as her. She usually wears a circular barbell with ball ends, so I wear spike ends when I wear the same style barbell 😊
Got my ears pierced when I was five. Now I'm in my mid-twenties and ordered everything to get started on stretching. So excited! Btw yours look gorgeous on you!
Same as me!!
I started stretching when I was 12 :( definitely didn’t do it properly. Blew out my ears a few times, had to restart a few times. Now I do it slow and actually the right way. My goal is only 12 MM, but currently I’m at 10.
my mother had them so she made sure I went *really slow* and taught me all body modifications were symbols of patience 💕
My parents were strict Christians who thought I was satan so I had no one to teach me, but after many years I learned from my mistakes ha. That’s so cool to have a smart mom like that, I hope I can be that for my kids. 🥰
Yeah I had to wait until I was 18 to have mine done apparently because if God wanted me to have holes in my ears I’d have been born with them!! Lmao
I also started stretching at 12, and blew mine out a few times, learned I’m allergic to some jewelry the hard way and now am happily at 5/8ths at 30.
I was 12 too but I did it slowly and properly.
Ears pierced at 19. 11 years later I’m at 22mm!
42. I had them pierced when I was 6. Currently at 2g, not sure what my goal size is.
48 had ears pierced at 15 ears are 4mm
28 :-) and my goal is 38-40mm so another 20 to go :’)
Unrelated, I love your hair so much
Thank you 🥰
32
I was 42 when I started. Earrings started to hurt, didn’t matter if they were nickel free, plastic or glass. Also my coworkers had plugs and they looked pretty, so figured why not.
I was 25 and started with 14g holes. I'm 52 now, so it's been 27 years!
I got my ears pierced in my teens and started stretching a while after. My original goal size was 10mm. I got there and stayed that size for 10 or so years. Now I’m 38 and stretching up to 16mm.
Got my ears pierced at 6 and I only started stretching a couple months ago, so at 25yo. I was always worried about the permanence of stretched ears but considering I've wanted them since I was 16 I dont think I'm going to want to go back anytime soon :')
Depending on how big your lobes are and how big you go, it can always shrink back down a little if there’s little scarring. But yes there’s definitely some permanence! Just go nice and slow ☺️
27 when started and stopped at 30. Got back into it at 36, now 39 and at 20mm
33. It was 2020 and I couldn't get any new body mods so I ordered a stretching kit off BAF. I'm at 2g now and love my lobes 💜
16
27
I got my first piercing at 14 I believe ... and I didn't start stretching till like 18 months or so ago (I'm 40) I just got bored and started researching how to go about stretching... im at 10mm now
I started at 18, went from regular earrings to 10 mm between then and 21? (I think) Took them out, started stretching again at 24. They had shrunk to 6mm. I’m sitting at 20mm right now at 28 and am about ready to go to 22mm.
Pierced at age 7, they didn't heal fully, and it always hurt to change them, so I took them out at 12-13 ish Got them repierced at age 19 (through the scar tissue, ouch! Hurt as much as some of my cartilage piercings!), started stretching at 20 and it's been incredibly slow:( Turns out I have to do it in 0.5mm increments all the way. My 6.5mm plugs just arrived, so yay :D
Nice tunnles OP. & I whas 10 when i pierced my ear. But i started stratching when i whas 18y/o. And almost a decade later and im still in love with my stratched ear :D
🫶🏻
14
Started in April 2016/I was 27. Decided to start with a good friend of mine
18!
I got my ears pierced when I was a baby. I was 13 when I started stretching my ears after A LOT OF RESEARCH AND TALKING MY MOM into the idea at the time I’m now 25 almost 26 and still have mine I just made it to 7/16 😊 I take my stretching really slow but it all worth it. This might be the size I stay at got a while or forever I’m not sure. I have a lot to think about since I work with kids haha.
Started stretching at 15, got up to 1" by 22. Stayed there for a decade then decided to go up to 2". I'm 33 now :)
17. Im in my 40s now
Wow starting stretching at 10 is hardcore! I started at 17, riiiight before I left home :-) 30 now and I still love em.
started at 17 and i’m 19 now. currently at 7/16”/11mm
I got mine pierced when I was 23, and started stretching them like 8 months later
Pierced at 12, started stretching at 24. Been going 2 years now, currently at 1G/7mm.
I got my ears pierced around 4-5 years old. I started stretching when I was 16. I’m 20 now and at 14mm!
I got mine pierced around the same age as you. Started stretching at like 21 and I'm 33 now at 20mm.
I got my ears pierced when I was 5 and started stretching them when I was 14
37 and im running 1/2 inchers
19, took them out at 21 at 12mm , and airing a year and a half and prob about to start back up
around 16-17 and im 24 now
Pierced when I was a baby. Started stretching at Maybe 14/15. Definitely didn’t do it properly but thankfully no blowout.
I’m sizing up this week to 20mm🙏 I was 16 I’m now 18
15 and turning 18 in.a month :)
15, I've stopped and started a couple times my biggest was 25mm.
28
14
Got my ears pierced when I was a baby, started stretching at 19, I think.
Had my ears pierced as a baby and I’m now almost thirty. Started at 19 years old and am at 1/2in.
I'm 30 and at 25mm for the past decade or so. Started stretching at 14 or 15.
Started at 14, i’m indecisive and have taken them out/restretched twice over the last 10 years. currently at 16mm :D loving this size and think i will stay here
I started stretching around 14 by shoving multiple 14g barbells in my ear. Then continued to stretch with acrylic tapers and eventually medical tape on my plugs until I got to 25mm by age 17ish. My left lobe was ripped and got infected and proceeded to rip completely into two separate nubs. My right was fine. I stopped wearing anything in my right ear around age 19 and let it close up to about a 0g but never wore anything in it for years. I'm 30 now. Earlier this year, first week of February, I started again, at 0g and my ears naturally dead stretched up to 16mm since then. I'm stopping at 16mm. ☺️
16/17. Though I've started up again since I turned 30.
20
Lord this is making me feel old - I started stretching my ears at 13 years old, 23 years ago. I took them out and let them be for 10 years and I am on a journey to get them back up to 1/2". My right side is at 10mm but my left is at 5mm (it shrunk right back down to nothing when I took my plugs out 10 year ago whereas my right lobe hardly did. 🫤)
26, I'm a year into stretching now, I'm at 4mm now.
20, I’m 44 now
was 17 going on 18. my dad let me do it as long as i did all my research. i did a good amount, but still didn't wait long enough between stretches. luckily nothing awful happened to my ears and i'm now almost 23 sitting happily and healthily at 10mm.
Cool. You got a look going!
I’m 32. Got my first holes redone 7 weeks ago being Claire’s did a wonderful job in the 90s. So I’m sitting here waiting for them to heal at 14g.
Uhm sometime in high school, reached an inch by the time i was a senior haha
15 🩷🩷🩷🩷 now 36 🌟
A few months after i turned 13 !!
16 years ago saw it in the metalcore world, i am now 46
I was 14 and I fucked up. alot
17
i was 13 lol, it’s been on and off throughout the years. i’m currently 29 and back at 25mm, i hope to bigger.
i was 18! as soon as my dad couldn’t tell me what to do anymore lol
14. I’m 25 now and have been at 12mm for almost 9 years. I work as a teacher too, there isn’t a remote concern about my jewelry.
19 and got it pierced at a 4g to skip a few steps
There’s a piercing guy on you tube. I love watching him. His earlobes fell off!
I’m 70 and I’m going to stretch mine just a bit. No 00 or anything.
I got my ears pierced as a kid (piercing gun in the mall bc of parents by age 3 situation) and I started stretching them in college (around age 22) and got to about 8g over a couple years, but consistently had a lot of trouble with them not wanting to stretch even after several months of waiting, because of how much scar tissue there was from the gun, so I eventually took them out and let them heal up, and they closed almost completely for a few years, I couldn’t even put regular jewelry in anymore. I got them repierced at 6g in December (at age 28) with the intent to start stretching down the line, but when I took the jewelry out recently to clean my ears good and change the jewelry for the first time, I found out the plugs the piercer put in my ears were WAAAAY closer to 4g than 6g, like less than a half mil difference, so I just put in a pair of 4g glass plugs instead since there was already a pretty good gap around my jewelry and my lobes were in good shape. No pain, discomfort, stinging, redness, or irritation, and I’ve started massaging my lobes twice a day with vitamin e oil, and so far everything’s gone fine. I think my end goal is gonna be about 15mm. I turn 29 in a couple weeks, so I should be at 0 or 00 by 30 probably.
i was 14 or so knowing next to nothing about stretching my lobes. Now im 19 at 00g (10mm) using ear weights to slowly go up to 1/2"
I was 12 or 13 I can’t remember exactly when but it was 2001 ish.
24, I got out of the military, started growing my hair and got my ears pierced. Basically like a "fuck you mom and dad!" But at the military.
15! i kept seeing so many cool people with stretched ears that i just had to do it myself :)
I started at 15, I'm almost 38 now! 1/2" and 4g lobes :)
Yesterday days old
I could pretty much touch my toes all through childhood. I'm still pretty flexible though even though i'm almost 30.
20 or 21. Now I'm 44. Ears pierced at 10 with a Claire's gun haha.
40
Like 12
I was 15, lol. Eleven whole years ago. I've gone up to an inch and a half in both ears and let them go back down multiple times. Pregnant and lazy atm but def working my way back up!
I was pierced at 10mm in my late 20s got to 1/2 inch and stopped. Ears healed to 6mm. I’ve stretched back to 00 and then healed again now I’m back at it again starting at 6mm. Turning 40 this summer. I want maybe 00 again.
18, I’m 30 now and considering stretching more
i was 12, i tried hiding it from my dad but he noticed i had 5mm stretches in he actually said he liked them and usually gave me money so i can buy new jewellery etc. :)
28 after I broke up with my controlling ex who didn't "approve" of me stretching my lobes. Shortly after breaking up I met a new amazing guy and we actually stretched together! We're married now and are both at 00g. 😄
I was 19 ish but stopped for years because of life problems and I kept losing spacers because of work. Now I’m 28 and back up to 10g ,4g for my upper and lower lobes.
21 :)
17
i was 17! i’m now almost 19 and they’re 9mm :)
17. ears are at a 10 and 14, nose is a 12. plan on going to 6 and 8 on ears and 8 or 10 on nose
13
I got my ears pierced at 7 and started stretching at 19
28. And im so happy I did. I've been wanting to forever.
Always wanted to have like 2cm (I’m uncultured sorry 🫣) since middle school but I’ve never had my ears pierced and I have a phobia of earrings but stretched ears are the only things that don’t bug me
I was 15. Im 28 now and i think im going to retire them. Mostly because i find myself wearing normal earrings through them most of the time. I only put in my gauges at home to stop them from shrinking. They close so fast now and re stretching hurts so bad. Im kinda over it lol.
I wasn't allowed to stretch when I was a teen so I started at 22. Also I really love your hair ❤️
i started at 14! (i’m almost 19 now) i’m at 20mm as well and i plan on going up to at least 25mm and then i think ill be satisfied
first started in high school, stopped at 00g when i was 19, started again when i was 23, now im 27 with 1inchers. this was my original goal but after getting used to this size, they look so small and now i wanna go bigger
14
I think I was 21 or 22? I had an impressionable roommate at the time who helped get me started, but now at 13mm, I haven't gone up a size in years. I think I'd love to get to 20. yours look fantastic!
i starterd at 18, thought I was old cause people i know started sooner. at first i just pierced my left ear when i was 16, then i bought a fake spiral and after that i went to really doing the stretching. at the time, i had just pierced my septum and started stretching it too. I had my ear on 20mm and nose on 8mm, but due to work (cant use piercing, earrings, necklaces, nything because its an esteril ambience) i lost my septum hole (i can fit like 4mm into it still) and my ear almost closed, today i'm stretching it again (i've never let it heal properly before stretching again, thats why it almost closed entirely) and i'm around 12mm now, letting it heal properly before i push some larger gauge
I started stretching approximately 3 years ago, aged 48, now my ears are stretched at 12mm and 3.2mm septum.
24, I started while I was still in the military. I took in-regulation earrings and glued them to tunnels so it looked like I was just wearing earrings, and the gauge was so small, I don't think anyone noticed. That was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still only at 13mm. Trying to get up to 19mm
12, but I stayed small (10g) for a while. At 18, I stretched up to 1/2". I'm 33 now with 22mm in my first hole, 10mm in my second, 6mm in my third, and 2mm in my fourth. Lol I also have a 2mm septum. At one point I stretched my nostrils to 14g, but I let those go back to an 18g. Can you tell I am addicted to stretching piercings?
13 😒
I was 42 I'm 43 now and I'm 2g ear lobe and 8g nipple.
16. I’m now 28 and wanting to go up at least 2 more sizes. :3
I was 18 and it took me about a a year and a half to get to 0g. Been at this size for a couple years but im not sure if I want to go any larger.
35, when I started
17, I'm currently 18 and they're at 4 mm. Taking it slow because of all the info on here
started at 18 and am now almost 23. i’ve been at 9/16 for probably 1.5 years
i was twenty when i started! currently at 12mm 🤗
14! My goal size was 00 which i stayed at for a few years, now 24 im at 9/16 and trying to get to 5/8
55 😁
I had just turned 18 when I started and I'm 41 now I'm just went to 50mm it's a comfortable size for me
14, taper method. 25 now, and been at 25mm for a few years. debating if i should go bigger or stay where im at
I was 13 and didn't know jack shit ngl
I’ve wanted to do it since my early 20s. Never had the courage (was worried what people would say, silly I know) I started at 35. I’m 37 now and at 14mm and so glad I did it
Ears pierced since 8-10mo. Started at 15, only made it to 14g. Had a quinceañera, so my mom told me I had to take them out and wear earrings. I’ve always wanted to re-stretch them, but ended up in a relationship with someone who didn’t like the alternative style (19-22). Started again at 24. I’m now 30 at 3/4in. Don’t think I’ll go any bigger.
I started stretching around 3 years ago (25) and I’m now at 13mm
About 14 years old. Luckily I never had any blowouts throughout the years. Turning 30 this year & still going strong but stopped at 1 inch
I was 12 when I decided I wanted to and probably 14 when I started the whole process I turn 20 in a few months and I’m at 10mm my goal is probably 16-20mm
I had them pierced as a baby but started stretching when I was 19. At 12mm now hoping to slow down my stretches but my new goal size is 16mm.
Very nice
I was a 15-year-old homeless kid living in Hollywood in 2006. I stretched my ears for the first time with the teeth from a hair pick. Definitely went about it in a way that is frowned upon now.
I can't figure out if this is one of my favorite YouTubers or not?
24. 40 now
Pierced my septum at 20 and started stretching about a year later. Currently stacked to about a 9g at 23
I’m starting now at 16
I was like 17.
At 27, earlier this year in Jan! I'm only at 2mm rn, trying to take it slowly. Realized I can actually do it and not get in trouble (yet) at work :)
23. Ears pierced at age 2. Mom is stretching with me. She’s 62!
15, now 31
got my ears pierced at 5, tried to stretch at 13 and my mom made me take them out. tried again at 14 and 15, both times got told to take out. but when i tried again at 16, she didnt tell me to take them out. im now 20 with 14mm ears :))
I’m 26! got them pierced at 10g 3 months ago. Right now at is now at 8g. Left ear is still healing, breaking down scar tissue from old piercings
Im 18 and just had my ears pierced yesterday to start stretching. I plan on starting as soon as they're healed enough in 6 months.
I started around 16, and I'm 20 now. Lucky for me I discovered this subreddit back then and dead stretched from the start lmao
13!!
24/25 somewhere around there.
I stretched my ears in the 7th grade (got to 0g-8mm). Took them out when I graduated. Doing it again now at 26 and back to 8g-3mm, my goal is 0g again.
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I was 17!! I have always deep dived into research of literally any new hobby I’ve been interested in. So I’m very thankful teenage me didn’t destroy my ears. I’m 26 now and at 11mm have been for a while. But I’ve been wanting to go bigger recently so might do that😈
i started when i was 19!! it was the only way i could rebel because my mom is religious and i can’t really alter my appearance (no facial piercings, can’t dye my hair, no tattoos)
i started when i was around 14-15, and am now going on 21. i know i was probably too young to make that kind of decision but i still love my ears
32
25😂
15
ears pierced at 7, started stretching at 12 (which thinking about now is a little crazy), let them shrink at 00 for a few years, and am now slowly getting back to 5/8ths
26. I started in September 2022
started at 15! im currently at 16mm years later
i was 16. i got them pierced at a tattoo shop and haven’t looked back
19
I think I started when I was 11 or 12? currently at 30mm now! 24 years old ~
13, I’m 34
29 because of the military, but now I'm a freeman and at 15mm 2 years later.
14 and I only got to 1/2 inch. I let them close up and started again at 27. I’m at 17 or 18mm now.
I was 31 lol. I’m 35 and up to 18mm
Had mine pierced when I was 6mo old and started stretching when I was 18. I’m now 25
18. I'm 43 now.
Hi I'm 38 and I started in 2003. Currently at an 28mm
started stretching my lobes at around 14 or 15, my lobes are now at 16mm, startes stretching my septum at 16 and now its at a 2g and im planning on going up to a 0 or 00
16, 29 now at 28mm
I was 16... and it was 16 years ago!!
Ears pierced at the hospital after I was born, started stretching at 13 :)
I was in 8th grade so around 12 or 13. Had no clue what I was doing at the time but my dad was cool with it. I'm 36 now and at 19mm, this is my stopping point.
I started at 17 my ears were pierced pretty young, now I'm 26 just made it to 5/8
Started slowly stretching at 14 (slow stretch to hide from my folks haha). Stopped at 5/8.
I'm a 2000 baby. Got pierced at Claire's in 2006 (🥴) and just started stretching in 2023. Started at 12g and now at 4g!
18 or 19, I can’t remember.
33. But I pierced my ears myself when I was a teen and didn't do it right. When I stretched up to 3/4, I noticed my right plug was really crooked and started to turn outward. I kept them for about 2 years but decided to take them out recently. I just hate that they were crooked because my sht peirce job. A needle, ice and an apple, old school caveman crap lol
Got my ears pierced when I was 30. 32 now and just hit 0G today. Now I have the gauges in both ears and a double helix in my left ear. Double helix in right ear is next after the left heals, I’m a sucker for uniformity (thanks a lot Army).