New to stretching !!

by **sbjayy** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:05 pm

im about to stretch to a 14g and i need to buy some plugs but what kinda?? steel or glass does it matter? :geek:

by **raven_bm** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:43 am

glass and steel are both good, the things you want to stay away from are silicone and arcilic on fresh stretches, your also gonna want some tapers, dead stretching (just stickng in a bigger plug) is a bad idea.

by **sbjayy** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:47 am

THANKS for replying

and how long before i can wear a acrylic plug and how long should i wait before another stretch??

by **raven_bm** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:53 pm

No problem.
Before you stretch or before you wear acrylic jewelry your ears have to be healed, the standard is about 6-8 weeks i believe, but it all very relative , some people take longer some shorter. If you can get the taper though with little resistance or pain, your ready.
But even on healed ears acrylic is a preferred material, it isn't very good with ear cheese or stink but that isn't a huge problem at smaller gauges.

by **sbjayy** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:36 pm

i just brought some 14g single flare steel plugs i wanted to buy some 14g tunnels but they said screw on i thought they was the fake ones or something could i have brought them??

by **TheGreyEyedMonster** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:37 am

yes you could have bought them. but if you do in the future make sure they are internally threaded, not externally threaded. the threading on the external could cut your ears.