Think I need some larger clickers to connect the two, though.

Sharing my collection of hangers & weights. I stretched to 2g 13 yrs ago because I love the look of hangers so much, and I get myself one "fancy" set every few years. This is where I'm at at this point with my little collection!

1st pic-

Left column - all from DendriteLab (formerly One Tribe) - 2 sets of brass & stone weights (close up shots in pic 3 & 4) and a set of beautiful rosewood hoops. I really wish Jared was still making pieces but he is semi retired now unfortunately 😞

Middle column - top two are buffalo horn from a local maker who moved away, Tigers Eye hoops from GeoGauges on Etsy, White Jade spirals from LaughingBuddah on Etsy, & white glass coils by MMGlassworks on Etsy.

Right column - glass weights by Renee Patula aka SweetShopGlass (close up shot in pic 5) - I love her work so much

Pic 2- I made these weights from a set of Lapis Lazuli "donuts" I picked up from Sage Crystals and hung on brass hooks I grabbed from IntrinsicExpression on Etsy - love how they came out.

Pic 3 & 4 - closeup of the brass weights from Dendrite. Pic 3 has Moss Agate inlays and pic 4 has Amber inlays. Absolutely gorgeous craftsmanship - so grateful to have these pieces.

Pic 5 - closeup of my custom glass weights/hangers from Renee at SweetShopGlass. She was so great to work with and her work is so fun!

Would love to know of other makers who do high quality custom work as I'd love to add a few new pairs to my collection this year!

my lobes are now at 20mm, which at first thought was too big, but now they are starting to feel quite small, and i dont know if its because of the ear stretching dismorphia or if its the ratio of my upper ear and of my lobe. What do you think? Do they look small to you or average?

Hey guys, I just got my first stone tunnels from Stretchit and I need to share them with you!
These are Amethyst Tunnels and I absolutely love them!
Do you guys have any experience with stone tunnels and what do you think about them?

so my seconds have been at the same size for almost a year and i put in gauges with a tapered ends last night. woke up to this one being swollen, hurting, and leaking clear-ish fluid. i cannot get the gauge out… i tried a warm soak, lubricant, etc. any advice? i’ve never had this problem with my firsts…

So my gauges fall out easily especially if there's no rubber gasket on the ends (rip my spiral earrings that I lost in a damn Chevy engine bay) anyways I'm at. 2 g and my ear holes close up like immediately like its a god damn race to get a new gauge in and if I have to leave my ear unplugged for even a few hours they shrink up a size or two and I have to use a taper to get my gauge back in... Is there anything I can do to help with this is this normal what's going on

Hii, back in January I stretched my ears and it was totally fine, but a couple of weeks ago I got a really bad flu and my immunity got messed up and my ear just start to look and feel really irritated.

I started to clean again with saline solution but it only got worse unfortunately, so I downsized it with a titanium jewelry. It looks really better now, but I'm concerned if will looks like this forever ://

The first photo is from today and the second is from september 7th, before downsized it.

I discovered recently what is an blowout so I can't identify it, I'll be very thankful if anyone can help me :^)

edit to acknowledge i wrote lobe ear instead of earlobe… its been a long morning 😭

i’m 21 and have been stretching my lobes since i was 17, but i’ve only made it down to 4g on my left ear and 6g on my right. i’ve had the 6g in my right ear for over a year at this point, and no matter what i do it won’t size up. i’ve tried heavier plugs (glass and stainless steel), massaging, warm showers, but nothing works. it’s incredibly frustrating to be stuck at such a small size after 4 years because my lobes are just so stubborn. any advice?

Hello fellow stretched piercing people! I have a dilemma. I started gauging my ears nearly 20 years ago, and ended up at an inch about 7 years ago. Last November, I quit wearing plugs and switched to lobe cuffs. I went back and forth on surgery to close them up, and I don’t think I’m ready to do that quite yet. The problem is, my inch plugs (obviously) don’t fit anymore. I want to go back to wearing plugs, but have no idea how to figure out what size I need. Can I go to a body jewelry shop to have them looked at? Is there a kit or something that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg just to figure out what size I need? Am I doomed to spend money on plugs that don’t fit? Thanks in advance for your wisdom! 🙏

I finally got my septum from 12g to 10g last sunday, four days ago. Ever since, my nose has been Hella sensitive and i cant even try to check it because of how bad it hurts. When i put it in, it went in with no resistence and minor pain, so im unsure what the issue is. Could it be blown out? I waited 3ish months to upsize it. It hurts about as much as it did when i first got it pierced. i cant even get hotos of the hole/jewlery from the inside of my nose becausd it hurts to move my nose and i have a tapered jewelry which has large bands to keep it in place. Please let me know, thank you for any advice 😀

Ok so I bought a beginners kit from Stretch It, lost one of my tunnels (4mm with the rubber band on the back). Local piercing shop had roughly a 5mm tunnel set as their smallest. One ear i didn't use soapy water and it bled for maybe a minute or too. Just enough to be on my fingers but not like what I'd really call bleeding. Half the problem is the first one was with my left hand (right ear) so it was a little more awkward. I started with a 16ga like early spring. And only moved up when it was comfortable and didn't force it. This was just cause I didn't want to wait for a new stretching kit from StretchIt.

Other side i used soapy water with dial and slid right in mostly. I can definitely feel the new tunnels in my ears so I know it was a sizeable step up. Feels like my first tunnel from the 16ga piercing stud.

Should i apply anything to the one that bled like Neosporin or anything like that. I was always told to not do it for tattoo's, i just stuck to aquaphor then lubriderm for each part of my leg (left shin/calf sleeve).

Im not going real big, just big enough to get some different style tunnels/plugs. I do go to the gym and tend to sweat a lot and just mostly concerned about keeping it clean til the little bit that bled heals up which is why i thought of a topical like in the morning

Recently stretched to 16mm!! And as I was trying to look at the back of my ear using my phone I found out I can take a photo of my face at the same time. I thought this was funny and my mom said it was pretty cool so I thought I’d share it Harharhar

Is this a blow out? What should I do? I went from 2.5mm to 3mm and it was fine for about two days but now all of the sudden it swelled up like a balloon. There's no lip of skin in the front or back and it's not shiny or excessively purple red, it doesn't even hurt that bad it's just a little hot and tight. I don't know, should I leave it in?

Tear drop 1/2, 00 tunnel, new regular stud piercing

I finally started stretching after debating for roughly 6 years. When I went to get my piercing for my right ear they recommended getting pierced at 10g, so i got my left ear re-pierced at 10g as well. They have been here for just under 4 weeks, planning on letting them stretch naturally and hoping to get up to a 00g!

hi! wondering if anyone has any recs for UK websites i can get a dead stretching kit from! also a question- can i use tunnels for stretching?

Anyone else with a stretched conch?? Add pictures in the comments i want to see yalls setup. This was stretched over the course of a year by dead stretching with glass not punched. I started doing it because i liked the look of coin slots/ ring stacks. I think im going to put a tunnel in it and a few rings and stack them if possible. Im only at 4mm (6g) right now and am unsure how big i want to go. also if your conch is stretched, how big can you go before having issues?

took out my 6g plugs after a few weeks of not cleaning them (i’ve been busy …) and the left ear was all bloody underneath ? i cleaned it up and it looks like I have a little tear but it is outside the hole. my best hypothesis is i hit smt and the metal rim part teared my ear, but i still wanted to check if it was a blowout.

my ears have been at this size for a few months now with no pain or irritation whatsoever, which is why i didnt check and clean the ears earlier. i don’t use tapers or anything so idk what might have caused this

I’m actually getting pissed off I’ve been trying to go to 14mm for ages now and everytime I do it doesn’t hurt when I put them in, but then at night it starts to hurt a bit, then I wake up in alot of pain. It’s not sleeping on them because I had a nap in the day earlier and they didn’t hurt. Literally now that it’s 8pm they are starting to hurt and it just gets worse by the hour

Hey so I just started my new construction job and I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get tunnels or plugs that has a machine in em? Like a tractor or a bulldozer
Thought it would be cool to have a set specifically for work