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

I'm not going to lie, I have thought about buying one of these kits to do my own piercing. I decided to go a professional instead.

It’s pretty cool that there’s another way to pronounce conch!

Giiirrlll i have tried stretching and re-stretching my ears since I was maybe 16 (I'm 23 now) and have only ever used stainless steel tapers and eyelets with o-ring grooves. NO WONDER IT NEVER GOES WELL 😭😭 as I grew up more, I kept watching more and more safety videos and tried my best to follow everything but I don't think I've ever heard this much detail from anyone about the type of jewelry I should be using. Thank you so much for this! I've been having the urge to try again since it's been over a year with nothing in my lobes and I feel a LOT more confident this time. 💞

My piercer was so so thorough with measurements and making sure I'd be happy with my bridge, she made sure i knew that a lot of the time most peoples faces are more expressive on one side! So my right side was moved very slightly to account for the fact i am very expressive on the right side!

I think what you said at the end was very important; a piercing is a deliberate wound, ofc it´s gonna be difficult to heal. By putting in the jewelry the healing process is interupted. The body wants to close the hole and can´t! So it´s really not that weird to have some complications I think :P (not a piercer or medical professional)

My ears were bleeding a little and to be fair I sized up the second day I just started, which was my fault. 😅

I’ve been attempting to learn as much as I can when it comes to this industry for years now, so when I was offered an apprenticeship at a studio near me last year, I was delighted, although I only was there for 2/3 weeks basically working a full time job unpaid, I soon realized that was not right besides not liking how unprofessional and unsanitary the studio was it was just overall so disappointing and sometimes I wish I did something sooner because I don’t know how many people they’ve offered unpaid “apprenticed” it’s just so frustrating and unfair to people who genuinely love this industry and are trying to get into it

Doctors overprescribe antibiotics like crazy. It’s infuriating

Aww man. I didn't know magnetic septum rings are dangerous. Bummer :( I want my septum pierced so bad but I have the wrong anatomy.

Awesome video, Lynn! Thanks for sharing. Curious about an alternative to stretching, if you know that's what you want from the beginning, would piercing it at 12g or 10g and bypassing the stretching steps be something possible? Or because of the more nuanced nature of this mod, would it make it more stable to start small and build it up?

You were too late for me, Lynn. 😂 I stretched from an 18 gauge down to a 14 years ago. I honestly don’t remember it being too bad of an experience for me personally.

I feel like I have the opposite issue. I fixate on them too much and can’t leave them alone trying to keep them perfectly clean. Then they get irritated lol

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve watched this video I’d say like 12x in the past year. I don’t have my septum pierced (yet) but I made an appointment with my local piercer next week to get a 10G septum so once it’s healed , I can start stacking. I saw LeRoi has affordable gold seam rings and I’m super excited to start stacking once I get it!

i have a question, once it heals am I able to change it into a tradition navel jewelry

I completely forgot that people would just straight up reuse needles before the AIDS crisis🤢🤢🤢

Haha yes gaiaonline!

It’s just a way for religious fundies to push their values on the rest of us. And of course the entitlement men feel to comment on the appearance of women in any and all situations: “girls with piercings are for recreation only, wouldn’t date a woman with such and such piercing,” etc. I like having a facial piercing because it literally scares off the type of person that I don’t want around me.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

I just got a different style cartilage piercing at a 8g and omg saying flip it makes perfect sense .would've never thought.

This was a very powerful and impactful video, thankyou for sharing :,)

Thank you so much for this video! I really wanna wear some big stones in my vertical philtrum and my piercer recommend stretching to a 12g and I’ve had it stretched to a 14g for a little under a year now but I really wanted to know more about the process. This was super helpful, there were a few risks I didn’t know about but I have always understood this is a permanent mod. Thank you so much again, I absolutely love the larger bead on my 14g and I can’t wait to stretch to a 12g one day :)

I don't have a vertical philtrum, I'm not planning to get one and if I was, I wouldn't wanna stretch it. I still watched this whole video simply because you're delightful😊

It's always interesting to hear about uncommon piercings/stretching! Glad you were really upfront with the risks. Also... "shelf-y". Lol.

Is it possible to wear some type of tunnel in your septum and then stack inside of it for the aesthetic, while stretching for height?

The difference between a 14 and 10 gauge isn't even a full millimeter. While those tenths of a military can be consequential, it's hardly a stretch. I thought we were talking about something more than that here, like 6 mm. Show me the 6mm stretched vertical labret! 😂

actually funniest possible reason for doing this

I was hesitant to pierce my vertical labret at a larger gauge. I do have fairly full lips and a 14ga curve did just nicely. It was a gnarly piercing sesh😅. I’m glad you didn’t split your lip!

You know me, at least two are pissy, my body loves hypertrophic scars, swelling and inflammation. I've been fighting that one damn lowbret for 2+ years. My body can be a stubborn healer, but I'm stubborn too 😂😂

I stretched my horizontal philtrum to an 8g. And... I did it completely by accident. I tugged on it too much 😅 #adhdproblems

side note I love that your glasses frame your bridge so perfectly, it's so pretty

I recently started stretching my vertical philtrum after having it for two years. My piercer did an excellent job and it’s the most stable piercing I have, even after the channel stretched a bit from getting caught on basically everything. I just have such an overwhelming urge to eventually stretch every piercing I get. It’s fun but also stupid 😅

I wish I found this channel when I first got pierced because I was mislead with the info I found about stretching a few years ago. I used acrylic tapers and acrylic plugs all the at to like 00g then stretched up with silicone plugs and only waited 4 weeks in between the larger sizes. It was so chaotic. I’m currently downsized to the smallest my ears will go and am massaging with jojoba and vit e every day 2 times and using stone and glass to dead stretch every 3-6 months.

Do you have any pics with your lip without the jewellery in? Curious how it looks!

Not finished with the video yet but I loveeee this. I have a 14ga Vertical Philtrum and I've thought of going to a 12ga or even a 10ga but I invested in too much expensive pretty 14ga jewelry already haha but the desire to stretch is still thereeeeee. Lol

There is just smth about large gauge piercings, not everyone is about the chunky look but I love it

I’ve thought about this before, but decided I would probably just try to find larger ends instead

I pierced my industrial. Not too long ago but I accidentally used. A 16 gauge instead of a 14. Is it possible just to use a taper? And ease the piece of Jewelry I want into it Help from anyone is Greatly appreciated

Would you be willing to make an in depth video on the topic of being a piercer when you’re neurodivergent?

Yes!!!! I'd love this. Let's get together!

Thank you for making this video, I've been wanting to get my nipples pierced after having top surgery a year ago, but my nipples are entirely flat now and I had no idea what that might mean. Think I'll have to stick to tattoos!

This is so cool! I'm not an industry professional but I love the idea of having a huge in-person forum for people to get together to discuss the different aspects of the business and I love that you include front of house and other staff and make sure they have takeaways as well!

I know I am super late to the video, but I am so curious how this piercing would be different than a smiley in terms of gum erosion. I feel like they would rub just as much, but I am assuming because we have the softer lip on the outside the jewelry rests in there more comfortably. Is this line of thinking accurate? Thank you for this wonderful video by the way, this really breaks everything down super well, so I can easily understand the risks!

Are those permanent? I’ve never seen beads that click into place.

it's very comforting hearing this from a piercer. i've definitely made the mistake of getting more piercings than my body could handle before, all close together, and also at a time when my habits weren't super conductive to good healing. it definitely sucked, and i ended up giving up on those piercings, but i think it was a really important learning experience for me, and healing now, one at a time, carefully, has been significantly smoother as a result. as always, really nice hearing that sort of honest discussion of important piercing topics from you 💛

I’ve had double flared tunnels stuck in my ears since 2021 with no problems. Should I still go to a piercer to take them out? They are only 2g

Guys I think she likes megladons

That's such a cool initiative! Though living in Europe means I won't be able to attend events like these, but I'm glad to see other people share their knowledge about the industry in such a non-gatekeepy way, which is unfortunately becoming a rarity :/ Best of luck with future meetings!

My name is Tiona and I got my nose pierced two weeks ago and so far so good. I also want to start to stretch my ears but nervous because I do not won’t any blow outs.

One of my lobes is not very flexible because of quite a bit of scar tissue. I got from having a few infections when I was little because I got my ear pierced at Claire’s. I also have like super not stretchy skin. I’m like covered and stretch marks I’m basically one big Scarr this video was helpful though