FINALLY Got My Ear Streched! :-)
(First Published on BMEzine.com, Spring 2001)

Prom date: June 7, 2001

I wanted to get a tattoo of "Angel" in chinese in the middle of my back with my boyfriend in attendance. But he dumped me and now hates me to the ends of the earth. I got a new prom date, a real good buddy of mine, and I planned on getting my earlobes pierced at a 10g with barbells with HIM. But he had to work... *sigh*

ANYWAYS!

My first piercing is a 14g CBR in my helix? (it's the outer rim of my ear carteledge...) then my second piercing is a 12g CBR about an inch under the first one. It looked funny to me, I liked the larger gague which is why I got the second one done at a 12g (I would have gone higher but it was kinda expensive)

So now I realize it looks dumb... I wanted to strech! I know that carteledge is really hard to strech and it's one of those areas that just doesnt do it well, so to help myself out, I played with the ring as much as possible playing and pulling at it trying to strech it myself. That way it'll hurt less..... cuz i'm a sucker for pain!

I go over to the bank machine and take out $20 since I'm thinking "Ok, the ring and to streach... at most that much right?" WRONG!

I go to Abstract, where I've gone the other two times I got pierced and asked for Greg (full name Gre-gory... but everyone just calls him Greg). I ask him about his opinion on streaching the 14 to a 12, and he's like "how long you had it?" so i remember back, and realize it's been exactly a year so i go "a year..." and he's like "sure no prob." Then i ask the inevediable... "How much is this gonna cost?" Greg's nice. He explains the price so it made sense and said "Ok, $20 for the ring, and $10 to strech" so that sounds alright. It was more expensive than I thought but who cares. I'm getting what I want. I tell him I'll be right back and head out. I was almost thinking to not get it done and check out other stores for a better price... but that's just not fair after I told him I'd be back... besides. I trust Greg.

I go back to the bank machine, get another $20 out and head back. There's a bunch of people looking at blackart tattoo's and the place is getting kinda crowded... I just stand there because I don't really like barging in between other people, but Greg comes out from the back room and beckons me in.

He's showing me the collection of rings & stuff and picks out the 12g ring,tells me the speech about it being sterilized and yada yada yada... grabs this taper-like thing and pushes it through the hole after taking out my 14g ring. Greg then announces that I don't need the taper, and pops the 12g ring in. Didn't hurt a bit!

Looked at the 12g I already had in there and said "Ya, that one's streached a LOT... you like sitting and playing with the rings huh?" Which is true I guess. It happened a lot more since I got two since I like hearing them knock against each other.

So yup yup. I got two 12g rings in my left ear carteledge now. My friend brynne at school says it's kinda scary that I'm streching cartledge but meh. I like it! And after I move out I'm definatly getting my earlobes pierced so I can strech that too.

And P.S. That day I walked on Queen St. from Yonge to past Bathurst 4 times (there AND back) then from Queen Subway station to Rosedale or Summerhill subway station before giving up and riding it to finch.

And P.P.S. The guy who works at Condom Shack has 1/2 inch streched lobes and lotsa tattoos and was REALLY cool when I asked him about that stuff after asking him about a job prospect!

FINAL NOTE! Because the jump was quite small and I had already pre-streched the piercing, there wasn't really anything to heal! The ring is just a bit tight while I play with it. I'm considering soon putting in 10g rings just because I should be able to, and I wish i could find my 14g ring Greg gave back because I might wanna use it in another project later! (Hint, to make piercings cheaper if you have extra body-jewlery lying around, don't hesitate to use it! I don't see the piercers getting mad as long as it's good jewlery!)

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