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Thinking about stretching

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  • 14-12-2008 12:00pm
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    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭


    Not my lobes though, ive got them at 8mm already. I'm thinking about the upper cartilage piercing i have. Any thoughts on this? Health risks etc


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    CianRyan
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    Few mates have it done, and it looks really cool.
    None of them had any problems stretching, but make sure it keep it REEEEEEEEEEEAAAL slow.


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    LD 50
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    I didn't know you could stretch those piercings, coz they're cartalidge. I thought you had to get them dermal punched to make them bigger. Both methods sound sore as hell if my scaffold is anything to go by.


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    Gauge
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    Seconding reeeeal slow. Like a mm or 2mm a year, from what I've heard the outer conch is even slower to stretch than the inner conch. Use the long tapers if you're tapering, the cheap short ones don't work well with cartilage at all. Some people are prone to developing a ring of skin around cartilage piercings when they stretch them, so that's something to watch out for.


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    Will
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    If you wanna stretch and are 100% sure, just dermal punch. Fast, safe and minimal effort


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    Shimei
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    will isnt a slow and steady kind of guy!!!
    yeaho!


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    Will
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    I used to be but seeing friends get dermal punches done they're way less hassle.

    Get a dermal punch at size you want for around 50euros including jewellery compared to say getting a standard conch piercing with a 1.6barbell. Then everytime you wanna stretch (besides being very very sore) you've to fork out for new jewellery

    e.g dermal punched conch at say 7mm - €50 or so, done.
    conch piercing at 1.6mm - €50 or so, then add on about 10 or so each time you wanna stretch up. so thats minimum of 120 euro not including time and pain of going through stretching each time

    shimei - for you id go slow and steady :pac:


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