by GraveOrchid » Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:25 am
Hey guys. I'm obviously a total newb to this entire stretching ordeal. I've done my research, though. I have aftercare pages bookmarked on my phone and web browser, I know which material not to use and what to do and not to do and all that metal, but I have hit a roadblock. Okay, thing is, when I initially got my ears pierced four-five years ago, I got them pierced at a general retail store with a piercing gun. I read that typically they use 20 to 18G needles for the piercings. I have a stainless steel taper kit I am prepared to order to help me reach all the way up to a 00G size in the distant future, but the smallest pair of tapers is 14G. I'm pretty sure my current size if 18G. I need 16G for the next step. So, basically, my question is -even though I know it's taboo to skip sizes- would jumping from an 18G to 14G, to put it bluntly, fuck me over? Or would this be an okay thing to do? I can't find a tapering kit with 16G tapers at all.