00g?
What is the traditional accepted MM of 00g? 10mm, right?
I see everything from 9mm to 10mm, and it makes me wonder. I just got a pair of BEAUTIFUL 00g spring green crystal dichro in today, and while I am absolutely in love with them, they popped right in. I'm a 0g. My caliper says they are 8.8mm. Trying to caliper silicone isn't easy, let me tell ya, but it appears my favorite pair of chaos is 7.5 mm and my pair of GG twists are 8.0, so this wasn't even really a stretch.
What IS 00g supposed to be, anyway?
Oh, second question: How do you determine when you can't stretch up anymore? how thin is TOO thin? I'm trying to get to 1/2 and going real easy, but here at 0g/pseudo 00g, its already so thin its hard to even grab it with my fingertips. I'm beginning to think 00g is all I"m gonna be able to do, unless I let them close up a bit and scalpel or re-stretch. I don't want to re-stretch, and am not sure how much it would help anyway. >.<
Too thin? it feels thin. It doesn't look thin in pics. Its nowhere near as fat as my right ear though. My peircings without jewelry and without my thumb stretching it is kind of an eye shape, pointed at the ends and rounder in the middle, a little fatter than a slit. It seems REALLY thin unless I stretch it like I did with my thumb there.
Professional opinion? this is, again, at 8.8/9mm.
Thanks. Sorry if this is common knowledge. I did check memories, I promise! (This in no way excuses me from being a natural born idiot, though... heh)
I see everything from 9mm to 10mm, and it makes me wonder. I just got a pair of BEAUTIFUL 00g spring green crystal dichro in today, and while I am absolutely in love with them, they popped right in. I'm a 0g. My caliper says they are 8.8mm. Trying to caliper silicone isn't easy, let me tell ya, but it appears my favorite pair of chaos is 7.5 mm and my pair of GG twists are 8.0, so this wasn't even really a stretch.
What IS 00g supposed to be, anyway?
Oh, second question: How do you determine when you can't stretch up anymore? how thin is TOO thin? I'm trying to get to 1/2 and going real easy, but here at 0g/pseudo 00g, its already so thin its hard to even grab it with my fingertips. I'm beginning to think 00g is all I"m gonna be able to do, unless I let them close up a bit and scalpel or re-stretch. I don't want to re-stretch, and am not sure how much it would help anyway. >.<
Too thin? it feels thin. It doesn't look thin in pics. Its nowhere near as fat as my right ear though. My peircings without jewelry and without my thumb stretching it is kind of an eye shape, pointed at the ends and rounder in the middle, a little fatter than a slit. It seems REALLY thin unless I stretch it like I did with my thumb there.
Professional opinion? this is, again, at 8.8/9mm.
Thanks. Sorry if this is common knowledge. I did check memories, I promise! (This in no way excuses me from being a natural born idiot, though... heh)