hell yeah! i started stretching a year ago & my ears were relaxed enough i could size up pretty fast at the start but since i reached around 2mm naturally its taken a little more time between sizes (currently at 6mm) but its been Entirely painless by just trusting my body's signals and not rushing my body (:

I SO wish my friends and I had easy access to this info when we were trying to stretch our lobes in the early 2000s!! I probably won’t stretch my ears again but I really appreciate your educational content, it’s made piercings a lot less scary for me to heal, I know how to do it properly now! My 2 new nostril piercings have been healing with almost no irritation and I’ve never had such a successful healing experience before with other piercings! Thank you for doing what you’re doing, Lynn!

i’m getting my stretching kit this week and i cannot wait to begin! i’ve wanted to stretch my ears since i was 13 and i’m 26 now and i’m so excited to get going! thankyou for this video, it’s so informative and helpful :)

This video was so interesting! I don't have stretched lobes, but I've had a set of 16g studs I wished I could wear in my lobes but thought they wouldn't fit, since my ears are pierced at a 20g. Hearing you talk about natural stretching inspired me to try - they fit right in. Thank you!

I'm honestly grateful for this video. I recently bought a stretching kit with 0.5mm increments because 1mm stretches weren't working and my ears take 2-3 months to go up a half size. I thought something was wrong with me since so many other vids show people blazing through at a 1mm/month rate. I feel a bit better now. I'll keep on taking it slow. Thank you!

I'm at 9.5mm after 3 years of naturally stretching my previously sewn lobes! At this point, I'm focusing on the nutritional essentials for collagen support on top of massage. I've found when I'm taking good care of my body from the inside, they ease up much quicker (although my journey will always be about 2x slower due to the scar tissue from the previous surgery) than when I'm less mindful about nutrition. For anyone frustrated with the time it's taking them, remember that it's a journey to be enjoyed. It's cooler to listen to your body than it is to get the biggest, blown out, thinning lobes the fastest. Plump, happy lobes are the ultimate payoff!

So thankful for people like you giving accurate, up to date information! I started stretching roughly a year ago, and I watched videos and read articles until I felt like I had enough information to safely stretch my lobes. I was wrong. I had no idea that tapers were not safe. I thought it was the recommended way, but I just didn’t do enough proper research. Thankfully, I’m at a 2g and have never had any issues or blow outs, but I’m so thankful I have found the proper information on how to safely stretch before I screwed up my ears! In the future, I’ll be stretching this way only. Thank you!!

I just started my stretching journey and I’m so happy I watched your videos and did research first I got my starters from Glassware studios and I love them ! I was able to start with 1.5mm instead of the 1.3mm, my ears have been pierced forever I couldn’t believe how easy and pain free it was

I’ve got very elastic lobes. I pierced my ears for the first time a month ago and am at 00g right now. Lobes are perfect. Got them pierced at 4g and immediately stretched to 2g at the piercing shop. So saved a lot of time that way.

This is the good info y'all, I've been following this advice for a while now and sitting at 32mm with healthier lobes than ever.

SO glad i saw your tiktoks before i started stretching a year and a half ago! it has been a breeze and i love the look so much

This couldn’t have come at a better time!!! I just bought some gorilla glass plugs for natural stretching!!! I’ve wanted to stretch my ears for the last 7 years but have always been a little worried about it so thank you! 🖤

(EDIT: besties it worked. I had all my faith in Lynn, I'm just surprised it went so easily without me wearing earrings for years.) This video made me dig through my old septum jewelry (I've stretched up to 8g) to try in my 18g ears. I'm a little worried for myself personally because I don't even wear ear piercings and I haven't in years so I'm wondering if that'll make it harder for me

Thank you so much for your content! I wish I had this info when I was younger, I blew out my ears many times. Trying to stretch again and they are stubborn but I’m taking my time and will be getting some half sizes! 😊

Her lobes are so perfect! I haven't started stretching yet but I hope mine will look even half a round and healthy as hers. I'll definitely put in the effort to do it right, thanks for the good info!

You made this way easier to understand I was getting overwhelmed with all these KZfaq videos using tape and weird stuff and what not, but you broke it down and make it seem way more approachable this is why I love your channel the most with this information thank you! :D

Oh my…. This has just blown my mind in a good way. Whilst at uni, over a decade ago I tried stretching my ears with tapers and it was beyond painful and I gave up. I’ve always wanted stretched ears but that pain put me off. Now I’ve learnt that it didn’t even have to be that painful… game changer. Thanks!

just bought a stretch set using your code! can't wait for them to come in!

omg i found the stretching guide a while ago and it got me into your channel! ive been a consistent viewer ever since. clicked on this playlist because i want to start stretching my ears. cant wait to rewatch some videos and see others for the first time!!!

Wow you are AMAZING. Clear instructions, educational content, honesty and I get the feeling you are truly educating for the greater good. I am starting my journey to natural lobe stretching and following your every word and recs like the Bible, including that great affordable store plus your discount. So glad I found your channel. I will spread the word. Thank you

Thank you so much for this!!! This is the video I’ve been waiting for! I just started my stretching process and the waiting game is so hard 😫

I love your tats first off, second you’re so well spoken and I learned so much in this quick vid. Thank u! ❤ abt to begin my love stretching journey

Bought a cheapish acrilic stretch kit cause I lost contact with my piercer who I got all of mine from. Went from a 16g to 0g within a year, I regret not having a piercer do it but I live with how my loves have healed. Not bad but definitely should of waiting longer to get it to 0g Thank you for your video it was helpful!

thanks for making this video, i've wanted to stretch my ears for 9 years and am finally getting ready to do it :D i would love to know more about the science behind natural stretching!

I just started my stretching journey and this was really helpful and informative. Thank you so much 💛💛

I would love a video like this on septum stretching! Absolutely love your content :)

i appreciate your content so so much, ive learned so much from you Lynn and cannot thank you enough!!🥺💛💛

Thanks so much for this video. I have tried stretching my ears many times in the past, but my ears always bled. Turns out that the person who told me to stretch my ears every two weeks was wrong for giving me that information... I'll try to wait a few months for my new stretching journey once my plugs get here.

I've just started to watch your videos and watching these particular videos on stretching ears has made me miss mine so much. I was stupid and naive when I was younger and improperly stretched mine till one of my ears had a massive blowout that lead to it almost completely ripping my lobe. (There's a small piece of my ear that is still connected) I'm wanting to get it reconstructed and eventually, if its possible for my ear, stretch them properly. I watched your video about stretching after reconstruction and it helped me have a game plan for when I do finally fix them. I have also accepted that if it's not possible that it just isn't for me. Your videos are so informative and very helpful! ❤

I’m staring my stretching journey today! 😊I’m nervous and excited

I know for me , it was a gradual stretch . I am at a 0g now but it took me almost a year to get there. I have small ears and am prone to infections . So it was a gradual process , once there was no more irritation and I could remove and insert the original plug with no issues I knew I could go up a size. I honestly think that gradual stretching should play a high role in modification. Know your body and how the tissue heals .

In all of the videos I’ve seen before about natural stretching/dead stretching, to me, they always feel like they exclude sizes below a 2g or 4g because they often rely on the weight of the jewelry. Because of this, even though I knew dead stretching was healthier, it felt mostly unachievable for me because I’ve got one ear at a 6g and the other at an 8g. However, the way you explained it made it clear that even smaller sizes work with this, so I’ll definitely do this in the future!

Me and Nancy Kate have the same charms! They’re the best. Thanks so much for this guide!

Thank you for this! I would LOVE to see you do a video on the science behind stretching

This video is very beneficial to me because I got one of my lobes done when I was younger by a piercing gun at Claire’s and that piercing has quite a bit of scar tissue that’s kind of hard and the other one that I also got done at Claire’s like a year ago because I’m impulsive and I hated people asking why one Lobe is pierced and the other isn’t I had a bit of complications with it healing because I neglected to clean it so there’s a slight scar on it but the piercing itself is softer and malleable and I got a gauge kit on Amazon. I know that’s not recommended but I’m pretty sure it is sort of surgical grade steel, I personally don’t have any bad experiences with metal reacting I also just don’t have the stretchiest skin in general. It’s very firm. But I do have patience and personal water-based lubricant so I think I’m going to do it. I’ve been thinking about it for a while.

I stretched wrong last time, as I was about 13 and my mom told me the wrong way to do everything, and I had no internet access, and I trusted her because she has stretched ears. Now I know she got there pretty riskily lol. I’m stretching up again after letting them get smaller (like to 12g after a year after being 15mm) and I feel a lot more prepared. Thanks for the help!!!

I’m piercing care certified, I love natural stretching, I had to use tapers for the smaller sizes but after I reached a 2g I was able to do stretches in increments, in my area we call natural stretches “dead stretches”. Despite the name dead stretches should not be painful, you’ll sometimes feel twinges but not rips or blow outs

Yes, I love glass plugs, been dead stretching with them since I was at 8g, now at 7/16"and I brought the in-between sizes at 7g, 5g, 3g, 1g and 9mm and they helped a lot to me. Stretching with single flare glass plugs was easier than the taper method.

This video absolutely helped me so much! When I fist started stretching back in highschool I wish I had watched this video. Im more confident in starting my stretching journey again:]

Please do an in-depth video on how to naturally stretch it would really help me! I am just starting out my stretching journey and I don’t really know how to start. :)

Great tutorial and great that it's still used a year later. Question for people/Lynn from a newbie, how long after your stretch before you can take them out overnight if needed? How often should you remove the plug to clean the hole and piercing?

Thank you so much!! I have been looking for good advice and this is what I needed.

Thank you I’m stretching my ears again. I used to rush it. I want to do it right this time. Love that nail polish color.

Just started my journey to my goal of 2G-0G. Place I went to pierced at 10G and immediately tapered to 8G so I’m less than a week in with 8G hoops. Hopefully scarring is minimal and I plan to go much slower going forward. Definitely like the idea of using glass plugs and going slow.

Took me a year to get to 9/16 and OH BOY there was a lot of pain with it. No blow outs though 😮

This video was so helpful 🥰 cause I’m starting mines now and now ik buying the right things thank you

This was extremely helpful. Thank you!!

I love your videos! I’ve been obnoxiously sharing with folks! HAA thank you!!!

When I first started stretching my lobes I think I went from 18g to 12g painlessly within about a week. I had my ears pierced when I was 4 months old and started stretching right before I turned 18 so the tissue was just chilling. I don't recommend doing what I did - I also used tapers because I didn't know better - but this is just to prove that stretching can absolutely be easy and painless when your ears are ready. When I got to larger sizes it did get harder, largely because I didn't wait long enough and also because the tapers I used skipped sizes. I didn't even know in-between sizes like 1g existed. I'm at 0g/8mm now and have been for a few years. I remember trying to size up to 00g "just for fun" and the taper just went right in one of my ears with ease. The other didn't want to stretch though so eventually I just let the 00g side shrink back down to 0g and I'm very happy with this size. It's big enough that there are obviously huge holes in my earlobes (idk why I love that lol) but not so big that I have trouble finding jewelry. Plus I have fun party tricks like being able to fit a combination lock (for like half a second - not tryna destroy my untrained lobes with the weight) or a pencil through the hole lol

Have you seen anyone who's able to naturally stretch a lot faster? I've rushed sizes a couple times but learned to only do it if there's no resistance or pain whatsoever and I still go up 1mm in about 9 days on average

I wish I had this information when I started my stretching journey. I had a bad infection when I first attempted to go to 0g because I forced it too soon. I naturally stretched from 0 to 00 with absolute ease. Im hoping to go to 1/2 inch eventually as my end goal

Im currently at 5/8. When I started stretching in the early 2000s, it was an unnecessarily brutal proces, thanks to misinformation. Since guaging from a 4 until now, the process has been way easier. Nothing nore than slight discomfort and tightness since then.

thank you for this video i was literally about to buy an acrylic kit with tapers and i was like hmm maybe i should watch a video on how to do this lmao. so i ordered my first glass plugs instead :)

I had my ear lobes pierced in Apr 22nd this year, so it's been 5 months since I had them pierced, I'm going to buy the atlas glass plugs from bodyartforms in 14g and give this a try... I can see a gap in my piercings, little, but visible, hope this is what I need.

I will say this, Glass is cheaper and looks so much better, but oddly, sometime glass doesnt work as well as metal, lately, my girlfriend has decided to stretch her ears, and when it came down to putting in the next size of an 8G, I bought her a nice pair of Glass, oddly they never wanted to go in, so after a few tries, I bought her a pair of metal ones, and they slipped right in with no problem.

Well my ears are unfortunately too tiny for streching but I am really interested to see those, looks quite painless and healthy and just like everything in life becomes much more successful when it done slow and steady.

Going from 2 to 0 and I'm hoping this method helps and I couldn't get the next size in at all. Thank you for this! (Question for anyone who would know: If I tried putting in a 2g tunnel and a 2g taper. Is that problematic in the long run?)

I’m trying to go from a 26 mm to a 28 mm. It’s been about two weeks since I went from a 25 mm to a 26 mm. My elasticity has dramatically changed over the last few years that I’ve been stretching. I’ve never found it so difficult to move up in this span of time.

awesome video.thanks

Please do a video on septum stretching. 🙏🏾

It’s been a good while since I stretched my ears though they hurt for a bit but I’m able to stretch my ears just stay sore for a bit I try my best to rub them and rotate the gauge

you're gorgeous, girl! love the video AND the website. Definitley going to safely stretch throughout highschool.

I wish I had a video like this when I was stretching my ears with acrylic tapers and Vaseline back when I was 16

Remember you talked about how you purchased jewelry before you made the decision to stretch you’re lobes? Same thing just happened to me! Let’s see how big I end up going 😅 thanks for the inspo❤

How do I know if my ear isn't ready for the next gauge yet? Is pain the limit?

i just did my first stretch two weeks ago the right ear taper (1.6mm) went in without anything nearly flew out the other side but the left one was a bit slower to go inside but all was well now waiting to go to 2mm

I’m just starting from a standard lobe piercing size. What size should I start with

i use tapers and tape and its never painful 😅

I want to do this, but I currently have regular piercings and they have thick scar tissue inside. Even regular earrings hurt and get infected regularly. 😢

I was hoping to see someone get stretched for the first time what size should someone start with???

So I'm getting another piercing and im stretching my lobes and I (should) be going up by .5mm in mid-April and I'm getting my new piercing in May. Do you have any advice you can give to me? (since I've never had piercings before a couple years ago [and only started stretching this year]) How do I take care of my old piercings/holes while my new ones heal?

Really annoyed at so so many companies and shops out there that skip or jump sizes, or dont even make 0.5 mm increments. Like really, just make it easier to find!

I know I’m not the norm but I personally have very elastic skin and managed to stretch using tapers without any pain and rather fast as well. I started in September last year and I’m at 10mm now and my lobes look super nice and healthy! I also never forced anything and I allowed it to take up to 2-3 days just to stretch one single size in one ear. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else though and I will to be relying on natural stretching going forward.

I've had friends have blow outs and a lot of damage. I was impatient and went from 2g to 0g in 3 hours. It's sore. But it's getting better. Bled some. I'm watching for a better method for my other ear.

I had my 3rd hole on my ear stretched just a tiny bit n I LOVED IT, I mean tiny like a 6 but I had to take it out but now I'm doing it again. I only did it on one side, I don't know. I'm flirting with the idea of just doing both my lobes. Love these videos

i stopped stretching in 2015, my goal has always been 16mm and im at 12mm, i’ve been thinking about stretching again and your videos have helped a lot, but i have a question; when im natural stretching how long do i need to leave the single flared plug in? can i take it out after a couple of days or do i need to leave it in for longer? thank you for the video!!

What about those super stubborn ears who just don’t want to stretch out? My one ear refuses to budge. While the other is the complete opposite 😭

I think i somehow managed to combine tapers and natural streching? I did natural streching but instead of putting the next plug on straight away i slid a taper through first. I always stop if their is any pain or resistance and try again im a couple months. When i got recommended this video from a peircer i thought i was doing streching horrendously wrong.. turns out i can save myself some money and do exactly what ive been doing just without the tapers lmfaooo

How different would the process for septum stretching be?? Is the skin that different from the ears or are they similar? :)

I've never had my ears pierced. How quickly after I get the initial piercing can I put a stretcher in there and what is the smallest size that will fit for someone who's never had their ears pierced? Thanks!

Is it better to play it safe and start at 16g or would it be okay at 14g? I was pierced at 16g, but I haven't worn that jewelry in over a year. Wore smaller studs since then.

do surgical steel tunnels work for this as well? I've always used surgical steel on larger sizes and it *seems* like it is going well

i'm using your video for a project and adding a link to your channel.

Hey :) do i need to sanitize the earings with alcohol before putting them in? Do i also need to put alcohol on my earlobe ?

this was posted on my birthday

I'm trying to stretch my ear slightly so I can put in some more permanent earrings that are actually meant for lip piercings but they're the best quality flat back earrings that I could find. I don't plan on stretching my ears more than maybe 10 gauge or 8 gauge. But my right ear has been closing up on itself since I got my ears pierced when I was very little. So over time my right ear lobe has a lot of scar tissue around the piercing and my left ear lobe has none at all. Or at least none more than a normal piercing. Would this affect my ability to stretch my right ear? Would there be a limit to how much I can stretch my right ear?

Thank you for this video, a lot of useful information. I have my ears done at 8g now, my goal is 00g, now I am going to be more careful xD

I had my ears stretched previously, they were at an inch. They were kinda thin so I let them close up for a couple months. Now they are pretty small and I’m wanting to stretch again. Is there anything I need to do differently sense they were already stretched? And how do I keep them from getting thin again? I love your videos and trust your advice

I want to stretch a little bit the smallest size they have yk I've have my ears pierced for 5 years and only recently I've been interested in stretching and ik I don't wanna go large at all and stay small so this is very helpful since I've never stretched

a bit of a random question but where are your glasses from they're so cute !!

I have 16mm stretched lobes and sometimes (I tracked my cycle and I think it’s in correspondence to my hormones) my lobes get itchy and I have to remove my plugs. And When I then try to put them back in, my lobes shrunk in size and it’s a hassle to get them stretched again. Should I go back and stretch again? Or how can I prevent it?most of the times I just use softer plugs (silicone) or different shapes (saddle,teardrop) til my titan double flared fit again. It never really bothered me til I met my now hubby and he could leave his tunnels out for days (12mm) and nothing happens. Or is it just my body/skin? Thank you in advance for any tips 🖤 love your content on all platforms 🫶🏻

Just got my two gauge piercings today, both 10mm. It didn't hurt at first but now my ears are throbbing and I was wondering what I can do to make it a little bit more comfortable for me. Also what glass plugs should I use, I have earrings in right now but in 2 months I plan to go to plugs

Is body art forms a good place to get my glass plugs just ordered a 60 dollar kit 😔

I want to start stretching my ears and I want to use the method you described 🥰 I have a question! If I’m allergic to most metals and usually use titanium, would you recommend the glass plugs? I usually swell when I get piercing also, would that be an issue when trying to stretch my ears? Thanks!

I like your style it's dope your hair is bad ass

my piercer told me 2mm each 6weeks should be fine too

I want to try some stretching (I was pierced at 16g and only want to go up to maybe 4-5mm for now). How do you recommend sleeping and making sure the jewelry doesn’t put pressure on the holes, fall out, etc.?

can you do try on plugs and tunnels collection?

My piercer was able to dead stretch my ears to 8g right from the jump. He thinks it's funny how rubbery my lobes are, lol. It didn't hurt one bit. I don't plan on going much bigger though, maybe a 4 or a 2. I like my small plugs.

I just have standard lobe Piercings what would you recommend as a starter kit or company. I tried to find some online but I would like to use glass but I can’t seem to find 18/16 gauge the smallest ones