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Total Mods: 43 Joined: August/27/2008 Posts: 454 |
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I was looking at the post about ear lobe stretching and someone said that if you were planning on stretching your lobes to pierce them at a larger gauge to save time, especially if you're planning on stretching them very large. My question to you is, does that apply to labret piercings too? Could I pierce my labret at say, a 6g? I'm planning on going to 00g.
Edited by NightWolf - November/26/2008 at 10:43pm |
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Total Mods: 15 Joined: September/25/2008 Posts: 497 |
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You could get a 6ga labret piercing.. done with a needle or a scalpel.. Do realize that that makes it much more permanent than a 14ga.
Punching is not generally done on "soft" tissue, because scalpelling works better. I had my labret scalpelled from nothing to 2ga. I took it out, it closed completely. |
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![]() Total Mods: 45 Joined: January/22/2007 Location: Australia Posts: 221 |
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you probably could. but 00g really isn't that big. so my advice is just pierce at a normal size and stretch up normally. it may be faster piercing with a bigger gauge but it may mean that you are less likely to down gauge if you don't want it anymore.
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Total Mods: 19 Joined: July/06/2007 Posts: 2003 |
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Scalpelling is the solution if you don't want to wait a lot of time. You have too to remember that that is a permanent mod, it depends by your body but not everyone's large gauge labret will close even if they don't wear jewelry for a lot of time.
Back in topic, you can have it scalpelled directly at 00g (9mm) if you want without having to wait for it to be healed and then start stretching. Remember too that people with scalpelled lobes/labrets usually says that they tend to stretch a lot (1 or 2 sizes bigger) in a small period of time. If you don't want to go beyond 00g(9mm) then you should scalpel it at a 'small' size like 6g(4mm) or 4g(5mm) in my opinion. |
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Total Mods: 105 Joined: May/18/2008 Posts: 1899 |
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Total Mods: 18 Joined: November/16/2008 Posts: 36 |
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i know a few piercers that wont pierced with a large gauge needle for a labret
but if you can find one that wil go for it
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Total Mods: 186 Joined: August/08/2008 Posts: 286 |
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Because gum erosion is always an issue with labrets I always reccommend to pierce it and then stretch to see how your gums deal with it. Maybe pierce it at a 10ga. Closer to the goal but small enough that it will close up if you notice problems.
Edited by BrandonV - November/29/2008 at 4:38pm |
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Total Mods: 19 Joined: November/23/2008 Posts: 4 |
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I would say just pierce with the normal size and stretch it after, and else i u really can't wait u can go for scalpelling |
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Total Mods: 17 Joined: April/27/2008 Posts: 90 |
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How painful is the guaging process of the lip?
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Total Mods: 9 Joined: November/20/2007 Posts: 791 |
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It's stretching, not gauging.
Everyone's different, so no one can really say how painful it is. Stretching shouldn't really hurt at all though.
If you're dedicated to a mod, pain shouldn't be an object.
xx
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