Stretching My Ears!

So, I've been wearing 16g jewelry for a month and today I decided that my ears were ready to size up (it's just a 0.4mm difference), and the 14g plugs went right in! (I didn't use tapers ofc) It didn't hurt at all, and I'm so happy to be a little closer to my goal size of 4g :) Hopefully next month I'll be at 12g, but I don't wanna rush it ofc. Anyways that's it, bye!

UPDATE: I'm at 12G now :D

UPDATE #2: It's been a little over 2 months since my last update, but I'm happy to say that I'm at 10G now! I did use tapers, though...yes, I know they're bad, but my ears were ready to size up, and I just used them to guide the jewelry in. Anyways, they're still a little tender when I move the jewelry (I sized up a like 2 days ago). I'll update again when I size up, bye! :)

UPDATE #3: Sad news...unfortunately two weeks ago I lost ALL of my progress, and now I'm back to 14g. This was because I accidentally caused both of my lobes to tear from stretching up too soon. I thought my ears were ready, and I also left the jewelry in for like 4 days before I eventually took them out because I was too stubborn. I ignored the pain for a while because my ears have always been sensitive after stretching up (just a little bit of soreness when touched, but it goes away after 1-3 days) but I should've known something was REALLY wrong when my left ear started to throb after the first day. Of course, I didn't know my ears had torn, and I kept putting shea butter on them regularly up until I took them out, and I'm guessing it trapped some bacteria inside because when I took out the jewelry some pus came out of my left ear. I'm very sad about it ofc, but at least I didn't cause a blowout and my ears are healing fine so far :) oh, and I heard the scar tissue will strengthen my lobes and that stretching up again should be faster the second time around. Anyways, there probably won't be an another update until like 1-2 months depending on how fast my ears heal and how comfortable I feel about trying to size up again. See you until then, and thanx for reading!