How big can you stretch your ears before it's irreversible

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Answer by brooke__
Submitted on 1/20/2007
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I stretched my ears to 10mm (1cm) and had to take the taper out for work, at the end of a 5 hour shift, I could BARELY fit my 3mm back into it. A few days ago I stretched the ear back up to 10mm and once my next taper comes in will be going to 14mm. I've had friends go bigger and it still heal. As long as the ear is not dermal punched it will heal and if the hole is not left for too long of a time. My friend Cat had her ears stretched to 18mm for five months and took them out. After three weeks with gaping holes that slowly shrunk, she put her 4mm in and slowly began to actually shrink it so in the end she had a simple plain hoop in each ear. Her ears however do have some odd keloid scarring. I eventually plan on going to 22mm and if the hole never closed itself, the ear can be stitched back together for when I feel the need for it to be normal.

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Question by chezizgod
Submitted on 1/24/2004
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How big can you stretch your ears before it's irreversible

Answer by matt
Submitted on 2/15/2004
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it's irreversible at any guage

Answer by Ashley
Submitted on 2/21/2004
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Well i have mine just 6mm, because THAT is the size they wont heal. Anything 7mm and up with not close up..

Answer by penguin
Submitted on 4/1/2004
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i have my ears stretched to a 00 and i took them out so i wouldn't lose them when i went to a surfing and in the 8 hours i was at the beach they closed so much that i could only get an 8 in them so yes, they do eventually close. ( i had my ears stretched for about 3 months before then.)

Answer by Tamara
Submitted on 4/10/2004
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after 0 gauge its irreversable, anything be4 that reduce the gauge by 2 every week or so and itll go back to 18 gauge

Answer by down
Submitted on 6/9/2004
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yah, that whole myth about not being able to un-stretch beyond 0 gauge is wrong. well, not wrong but it varies from person to person. anywhere from 0g to 1/2 inch is a safe range. u can try to see how fast your lobes will shrink by taking your plugs out over night and see how much they close. if they close a lot....you have a better chance of healing after large gauges. vice versa.

Answer by x THE BLOOD SHE CRYSx
Submitted on 11/8/2004
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any thing before 00 is ireverseable

Answer by JILLSTER
Submitted on 11/18/2004
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if your a 2g and have it in for about a year maybe two years if u take it out will it close?

Answer by adam
Submitted on 11/23/2004
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no they do go back, i had 7/16" and in a period of 3 months mine went from that to a 10 and thats in three months of haveing no plugs in so yes they will shrink.

Answer by Dan
Submitted on 1/7/2005
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Wow you people are stupid.... your gauges will reverse until about 00 then they wont go past a 4 and if u do it fast like i did u might get keloids

Answer by kim
Submitted on 2/5/2005
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i have my ears at 19/32's which is right abouve half inch and right below 5/8's and when i went to jail they closed up to a zero and i was only there for two days. so considering your body type and healing methods theyll close unless you go to disgustingly huge gauges. also if you put hemroid cream on them they'll close alot faster. haha i know it sounds gross but it workkkkks.

Answer by one man rock band
Submitted on 3/19/2005
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mine was at 1 inch and they closed up completely within 3 months and as of now im working on getting them to 1/2 inch again

Answer by suicide is swift
Submitted on 4/16/2005
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i have a 3mil stretcher in my ear at the moment!!! i don't KnoW how much that is in gauges!!! i did my ear a 3 last night!! and have been worried since, that they wont close!!! i had 1 mils in(very tiny) i took them out 4 an hour and they seemed to have closed slightly!!! im wondering will my 3 stretcher close??? please someone HELP?!?!?!?

Answer by black_skin
Submitted on 5/11/2005
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any size will close up depending on your ears and how your body heals.

Answer by emmet
Submitted on 5/21/2005
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hey i am thinkin of stretching my ears... do you need them to have a normal pearcing first or can you just go get them stretched??

Answer by reed
Submitted on 8/14/2005
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CAN EARS CLOSE UP I WANNA GET MINE STRECHED BUT I DONT WANT BIG WHOLES IN MY EAR IF IM GOING FOR A JOB OR ANYTHING

Answer by chelsamelsa
Submitted on 9/15/2005
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thank goodness someone else has this question, i was looking everywhere for this info, i dont want to but the good folks at the piercing shop about it, but..looks like answers are a bit varying, anyone know for sure, i want to go to a 6 gauge is it reversible?

Answer by Oddproject
Submitted on 6/24/2006
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There is no deffinete size. Like "Down" It varies. My ears where 1 inch and I had to take them out for somethings with work. Only took a bout a month and they were back to around 2g.I ended up restretching them,but this Myth of"irreversable is untrue.

Answer by DJ
Submitted on 10/31/2006
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to everyone else who wrote before me your ALL WRONG my earlobes are 3/4" right now they were 1 inch but I,m down sizing them ,take it from somebody who actually is at a big size ANY SIZE 1 INCH AND BELOW YOU CAN HEAL BACK BY SIMPLY PUTTING IN SMALLER PLUGS GRADUALLY.

Answer by kate
Submitted on 8/1/2005
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i herd anything after 2 g will not close up... but u guys are all wrong . Everyones ears are different.

Answer by Boomdizle
Submitted on 8/11/2005
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I had 1/2in plugs in mine. they were gauged for a couple months and i was in a car wreck. they took them out and by the next day or so they wee closed down to prob a 0g and then went down to a 8g.

Answer by matt
Submitted on 8/28/2005
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you are all wrong...my ears are at 1 1/4 right now.. ive taken them out when they were this same size and let them close..all sizes will close. it just takes time, and you have to do it right..no, if you dont know what you are doing, they wont close. but all you have to do is let them shrink up, when they are done shrinking, stretch one size from what they are. continue to do this and they will eventually close ... so all you people who are at baby sizes dont know what your talking about..

Answer by crocks
Submitted on 9/20/2005
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there is a process to closed almost all guaged ears... my ears were at 5/8.. to get them to close up shove a bigger gauge than what you have in it already soo its gets scabby. the scab will heal over and your ear will get tighter every time it heals up. my hole has now cloes up to about a 8

Answer by cameron
Submitted on 11/7/2005
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anything is reversable over time, any hole in you body will heal. and anything your body can't heal on its own can be stitched (don't stretch your ears that much...)

Answer by 00gauge
Submitted on 11/10/2005
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i have 00g plugs in now i had 1/2 inch plugs for about a week the largest i have put in is 5/8 inch but my friend stretched her ears to 9/16 and is a piercing and tattoo artist anyways my point is she claims anywhere after 2 g will not close to normal true it will close some but not much i took out my 00's for 2 weeks and they still fit a 1/2 inch plug my friend tells me that your ears only heal some. for example 00g will only close to 2-4g 1/2 will only close to 0-2g and so on so be sure you want huge holes in your ears for life before you do it

Answer by joe
Submitted on 12/11/2005
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I had 1/2 in my ear lobes and wanted them to close so i socked them with hot salt water and they closed instantly 2 to 3 weeks and i could only get 6mm in

Answer by mo the machine
Submitted on 1/16/2006
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well i have a 4g right now and i can take it out for about 2 hours b4 it is really hard to get back in... i was at a 6 for 3 months b4 i went to a 4 but i have only been up to a 4 for 5 days now....

Answer by god of the squirrels
Submitted on 2/18/2006
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i have mine a half inch ..does anyone know if they will ever go back../ and if they do ,to what gauge?

Answer by foxy
Submitted on 5/9/2006
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yes, lobes shrink. i had mine at 2g for about 2 months with some double flare flesh tunnels in, and i took it out at school to clean the earring with an alcohol pad [bad idea, i know, but they're surgical stainless steel so alcohol doesn't hurt it]. After about 5 minutes out of my ear, the hole had shrunk up just enough that i risked tearing the exit hole if i tried to force it back through. i left that earring out for another 9 hours [i had clubs after school so didn't get home until 7 at night] then put what would fit in it, which was about a 6. it was an easy stretch back to 2, but definitely shrunk.

Answer by tucker
Submitted on 5/16/2006
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mine was a 12mm and has never healed, after 4 months i can still get an 8mm through easy

Answer by weasel
Submitted on 5/16/2006
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i have had my ears to an inch for 2 years and took them out recently ....they are currently at a 12g size..took them probably 2 months to seal

Answer by Megaflea
Submitted on 6/15/2006
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I have my ears stretched twice in each lobe, one at 14mm and one at 10 mm, i can leave them out for a week and the tunnels will go back in with a simple hot compress, i dont think they are ever going to heal pefectly i recon 10mm is probaly the furthest you can go before theres no going back, my friend took out his 12mm tunnel a few months ago and has left it to heal moisturised etc.. and he can still get a 6 through without any effort =/

Answer by fetus-eater
Submitted on 7/1/2006
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ummmmmmm, my bro said I can start stretching my ears using the things u use to knit wool is that true? and I think he did it aswell he is at 1/2 an inch, i think srry if I get it wrong i dont realy know much about the ear stretching thing

Answer by Max
Submitted on 7/11/2006
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Everyone is different. The hole will shrink at any size, however it may not close up completly. Always remeber, the human body repairs itself from damage to the skin, and therfore you shudnt be too worried.

Answer by shahah
Submitted on 7/23/2006
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My friend had 7/16 and his aren't closed. they are probably 00 after having them out for a few months, they are large slits in his ears. A guy at the body jewelry stand said you can let them close up and pull 200 grit sandpaper through the hole and it will tear the skin off and they will heal completely. His were fully closed and he had his at 00.

Answer by Me
Submitted on 7/26/2006
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i had my ears 00 and the heald up i now have 14gauge it took about 2 months to go back down to 14gauge so it took a while

Answer by (PAIN)
Submitted on 9/14/2006
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i have my ears at 0 gage right now and i took them out for probably an hour or two and i had to restretch them... so yeah they will heal.

Answer by big holes
Submitted on 10/26/2006
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um...yea...i have inch ear holes and ive had them for about 3 years now...well i dont want them anymore so ive had them out for the past 3 days...my lobes have gotta really thick and fat because they are actually getting blood supply back to them...and they are down to what id say is about 5/8's but i want surgery to fix them all the way...and i just wonder how much that costs...and anyone who reads this and thinks about stretching....think hard and long about it...just wait till everyone you see talks crap and you cant get a job anywhere but mcyD'd...

Answer by Adam
Submitted on 11/24/2006
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Ive had my ears stretched for 5 years, I've had them up to and over an inch a couple of times. I have taken them out before for random reason and let them heal over, they have never gone back to a 16 gage or anything close for that matter. After going to an inch the smallest i have ever gotten them back to is a Zero gage. -cheers