I have succeeded in stretching my nipple piercings up to a size 2 gauge and I plan to keep going. I'm sharing my experience with you in order to save you the hours I spent researching online and the trails and errors that I experienced. It has been a while since my last stretch, but I think the time has come to go bigger yet again. I'm a little addicted to that newly stretched feeling and the constant awareness that they are that as I move through my day. My end goal is to have piercings roughly the size of pencil erasers, but like all goals, I'm playing it by ear.
My experience with nipple stretching:
They were originally pierced at 12g. It hurt like crazy and took almost a year for both piercings to fully heal.
For the next year all was well and I changed jewelry from time to time with no problems.
Two years after the initial piercing I decided to stretch them. I went to a tattoo place and when the piercer looked at the rings that I was wearing and at the 10g jewelry that she planned on putting in, she said those aren't 12g, they are 14g.
So I had them stretched "professionally" back to the same size they were originally. I swear it hurt worse than the original piercings. She jammed the taper through fast and they both tore and bled a little bit and took forever to heal.I still wanted to continue to stretch, so after a long healing time (about a year) as well as some time to forget the pain, I started researching online.
The best advice that I was able to find stressed only stretching up to the next size and then allowing for adequate healing time. Patience is the key here. The fistule through the skin heals from the outside in, so a piercing that looks fully healed on the outside may not be fully healed on the inside.
Several times I thought my piercings were ready to stretch to the next size and they weren't. Stop and wait. Wait a few months. If you don't you risk a blow out and tissue damage which will result in thick hard scar tissue that will be harder if not impossible to stretch later.
Before stretching, I always take a hot shower. Besides cleaning the skin to minimize the risk of infection, the heat will relax the tissue and make it more pliable.
I use a taper, the longer the better because the stretch is more gradual. I usually use Astroglide as a lubricant and above all else go slowly. Sometimes it takes me hours to get the taper through, sometimes it goes through with little resistance.
The longer the amount of time that you allow to pass between strecthing, the better your results will be.
Treat your newly strecthed nipples as if they were new piercings, washing with Provon or Anti-bacterial Dial liquid soap. If you notice any liquid seeping out, or crust on the jewelry, soak in a mixture of sea salt and warm water. I do my sea salt soaks in shot glasses. It looks funny, but it works. :)
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So I had them stretched "professionally" back to the same size they were originally. I swear it hurt worse than the original piercings. She jammed the taper through fast and they both tore and bled a little bit and took forever to heal.
I still wanted to continue to stretch, so after a long healing time (about a year) as well as some time to forget the pain, I started researching online.
The best advice that I was able to find stressed only stretching up to the next size and then allowing for adequate healing time. Patience is the key here. The fistule through the skin heals from the outside in, so a piercing that looks fully healed on the outside may not be fully healed on the inside.
Several times I thought my piercings were ready to stretch to the next size and they weren't. Stop and wait. Wait a few months. If you don't you risk a blow out and tissue damage which will result in thick hard scar tissue that will be harder i
My experience with nipple stretching:
They were originally pierced at 12g. It hurt like crazy and took almost a year for both piercings to fully heal.
They were originally pierced at 12g. It hurt like crazy and took almost a year for both piercings to fully heal.
For the next year all was well and I changed jewelry from time to time with no problems.
Two years after the initial piercing I decided to stretch them. I went to a tattoo place and when the piercer looked at the rings that I was wearing and at the 10g jewelry thst she planned on putting in, she said those aren't 12g rings, they are 14g.
So I had them stretched "professionally" back to the same size they were originally. I swear it hurt worse than the original piercings. She jammed the taper through fast and they both tore and bled a little bit and took forever to heal.
I still wanted to continue to stretch, so after a long healing time (about a year) as well as some time to forget the pain, I started researching online.
The best advice that I was able to find stressed only stretching up to the next size and then allowing for adequate healing time. Patience is the key here. The fistule through the skin heals from the outside in, so a piercing that looks fully healed on the outside may not be fully healed on the inside.
Several times I thought my piercings were ready to stretch to the next size and they weren't. Stop and wait. Wait a few months. If you don't you risk a blow out and tissue damage which will result in thick hard scar tissue that will be harder if n
For the next year all was well and I changed jewelry from time to time with no problems.
Two years after the initial piercing I decided to stretch them. I went to a tattoo place and when the piercer looked at the rings that I was wearing and at the 10g jewelry thst she planned on putting in, she said those aren't 12g rings, they are 14g.
So I had them stretched "professionally" back to the same size they were originally. I swear it hurt worse than the original piercings. She jammed the taper through fast and they both tore and bled a little bit and took forever to heal.
I still wanted to continue to stretch, so after a long healing time (about a year) as well as some time to forget the pain, I started researching online.
The best advice that I was able to find stressed only stretching up to the next size and then allowing for adequate healing time. Patience is the key here. The fistule through the skin heals from the outside in, so a piercing that looks fully healed on the outside may not be fully healed on the inside.
Several times I thought my piercings were ready to stretch to the next size and they weren't. Stop and wait. Wait a few months. If you don't you risk a blow out and tissue damage which will result in thick hard scar tissue that will be harder if n
