So it all started about a year ago when me and my girlfriend were out and saw someone with stretched ear lobes. Having never seen it up close before it was quite a site and both of us agreed that it was pretty cool which is funny in itself as she would soon become the one person trying to stop me.
At A Glance Author sTEVE d Contact thegreatstevendoe@hotmail.com When It just happened Artist Seld Inflicted Studio Bedroom Location Chigwell London England Originally we both decided to stretch together, we went on ebay and brought fake plugs that had a thicker stem and so began my life of stretched lobes. Unfortunately she couldn't hack the little pain but I continued getting thicker and thicker stemmed fake plugs. I had a pair of fake spikes in and people thought that was pretty cool but were less impressed when they found out they were fake. That made me pretty annoyed and I knew at that point I had to start stretching so you could see a hole through my ear.
I decided to look on ebay for some tunnels and brought some 3mm tunnels which at the time looked pretty cool and big. I had also brought a taper so began with my first 'tapered stretch'. It actually bled like a bitch but i carried on through the pain. It scabbed for all of 2 days then healed and didn't smell at all so was fairly happy. My girlfriend liked them and so a few weeks later I went up to 4mm. There I stayed for the best part of 6 months.
In January I then started a new job where I met a girl heavily into piercings, she had some really cool 10mm kaos tunnels in and it was that moment that I got the stretching bug again and I decided to carry on stretching. This wasn't going to be an easy task as I had promised my girlfriend I wouldn't stretch any more. I figured the best way would be to completely change the style each stretch so it just looked like i'd changed style and not size.
So here it goes in 5 months I stretched 6mm.............
5mm first and that went in without even having to really push so I decided to go straight to 6mm. At this point she noticed and was not best pleased. She made me promise no more again but I said I was going to 10mm and putting a rubber tunnel in so it would still look like a 6mm tunnel because the rubber is thicker (she brought into it). After searching everywhere for a 7mm taper and tunnel with no success I gave up. Then while in a massive shopping mall we came across a new store for body mods (what were the odds) I asked about 7mm and they only had some white marble plugs. Not my cup of tea but the girlfriend really liked them so it was a win win. He didn't have a taper so it was my first dead stretch job. That night I put them in and with a little wrestle with my ear they were no problem. While at work the next day I was in the toilet and couldn't stop looking at them and how much I disliked them but knew I had to keep them as i couldn't get 7mm anywhere else.
10 hours later and a lot of self hating and I had a pair of 8mm tunnels and taper. I started to stretch but knew straight away this was gonna hurt. I knew it was either white marble and an easy life of a lot of pain but some cool tunnels. 2 beers and some pain killers later(not advised) and I decided to stretch. All in all it took about 40 minutes of gradual pushing and stretching and a shit load of adrenalin later and the I had them both in, yes it hurt like a bitch and one bled but hey my body heals particularly well so I didn't think anything of it.
I told my girlfriend the next day and I promised this would be it. 2 Months later and I knew I was one stretch away from my target of 10mm. On Saturday I ebayed some 10mm plugs, kaos tunnels and taper and they arrived this morning. I went straight into stretching them when I opened the package, the taper needed a little push but nothing I couldn't handle. So now i've got the plugs in so if the girlfriend asks I can just say they look bigger because they are solid and have an 'O' ring around them. Then I reckon by Saturday the tunnels will go in.
So thats my story of how I stretched up to 10mm with a lot of bullshit stories and determination. Hell My Girlfriend is still with me so its all good, now to get the full sleeve tattoo im not allowed to have.