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At A Glance Author anonymous Contact anonymous@bme.anon When Five years ago Anyone who is interested in stretching their nipples, may want to read this. When I first started modifying myself, I was in the hands of others. I had a great piercer by the name of Luis Garcia, which motivated me to start stretching myself. He knew I didn't want to stay at the next size for long and I drove an hour and a half to get work done by him. Due to the distance traveled and major success stretching I started picking up jewelry at a local shop. I will leave the name of the shop out of this story because it is not my desire to bash them, just share my experience.
I was using tapered jewelry to stretch and took my nipples from a 10g to a 2g rather quickly. I would say it took about 8 months going one jump at a time. I gave the tissue roughly one month in between stretches. Once at 2 gauge I had a pretty gnarly pair of bone labret tusks I had picked up at infinite, were Luis was working. He had warned me that the bone is a very pore and I would need to remove the jewelry daily and clean and oil it. I did this every couple of days and decided the pain it put me through wasn't worth the look it gave me.
Here comes the actual point of my story. I am not sure if I have put this in the right category, as I don't see 2g nipples that large compared to those who have stretched up to 3/4 of an inch. But I found that it was time to change my jewelry to something a little more practical. I went to the local shop, which is app certified, to pick up some new jewelry. At the time I was in a bit of a glass phase and I had decided to pick up some glass plugs. They were 2g as well; maybe a little larger since the material was glass. The jewelry was pretty simple, clear with two swirled stripes running down the center.
When I got home I cleaned the plugs thoroughly with antimicrobial soap and proceeded to insert the jewelry. First was the right side, the plug went in no problem using some KY as lubricant. Then came the second, it went in pretty effortlessly as well just a little pinch. I turned the plugs to help eliminate any pressure from the jewelry change. I know I wasn't changing the size, but due to the types of jewelry I was wearing, size is more a guess. Doing this felt pretty good and I went to sleep. My nips were a little sore, but you would expect this when wearing new jewelry.
The next afternoon I awoke and was in a lot of pain. I looked down at my chest and my left nipple was very bruised and swollen. Lets just say I was not thinking good thoughts in my head. I went into the bathroom and got a hot shower, hoping that the heat would help relax the tissue. After the shower I had decided that my nipple was not happy. I decided I must take the jewelry out. Doing so was quite painful but it almost instantly felt better. Unfortunately the glass plug was not the only thing that came out of my nipple, I also had quite a large amount of blood running down my chest.
I immediately started doing sea salt soaks and left my nipple, without jewelry for the next couple of days. After 2 or 3 days I was able to put a 12g barbell in my nipple. I was able to heal my nipple up but the scar tissue was ridiculous. It took everything I had to get my nipple back up to a 2g and at that point I was done stretching. I just didn't think it was worthwhile to try and jump to a 0 with all that extra scar tissue. 6 years later I am still at a 2 and still doubt I will go to the next level.
After looking at the glass plug I found there was separation between the clear and the color glass. Whoever blew the plug must not have let it under the flame long enough for the two rods to bond. I have friends that blow glass and I know it isn't the easiest thing to do. For some reason the vendor still sold this piece to the shop and the shop still put it in their showcase. Since then I am very skeptical of buying glass jewelry. I have quite a few very nice pieces and the jewelry industry has come a long way in the last 6 years. However, there is also an increase in "cute" jewelry manufactures selling their crap to people only trying to profit off the industry and not caring about the quality of jewelry they are selling.
Bottom of the line, regardless of were you buy your jewelry, always double check it before inserting it. I bought this jewelry at a very reputable shop, so I figured I would not have issue. Unfortunately I was very wrong and my nipple was the only thing that had to suffer. When I took the jewelry back to the owner of the shop and explained the story all I got was an apology and a coupon for 20% off some new jewelry. I asked if he had his employees check the jewelry he sold and he blew off answering me.
I used this coupon to purchase some wood eyelets for my ears. Ironically enough while I was hanging out that night I heard a little pop. The next morning I heard another little pop. When I took the plugs out they fell apart. They had both snapped in half, identically. I returned these plugs and was very annoyed at this point. Once again I was offered a cute 20% off coupon. Needless to say I started waiting until I was in Philly at infinite to buy my jewelry, fortunately they care enough to make sure the jewelry they sell isn't crap.