If I'm understanding what you're asking, it's about tapers and how they work, correct?
Skinny and pointy on one end, that gets bigger on the other. You use it to stretch piercing holes (obviously). You start with the smaller end (on, for example, your ear), and slowly push it through your ear until the largest end of the taper rests inside your ear. If you're stretched from, say a 14 gauge to something like an 8 gauge, you have to take it slowly, or else you'll tear your ear (speaking from experience here... NOT FUN). I successfully went from a 20 to a 14 without a taper, and then from a 14 to a 12 without a taper, but after 8, the sizes start getting bigger between, instead of the smaller gauges when they're just minimal amounts of difference.
Forgive me if that's not what you were asking, I'm tired. :p
Tapers are earrings that start out small and then get big. Some of them are in horse-shoe shapes or tusks and you just keep making it go into your ear until you feel a little pressure. When that heals you just move the earring a little more into the hole. I'm glad I didn't have to do that though. I can fit an 8 guage earring in my ear holes and I've never had to stretch them. ;)
the tapers i used to stretch my holes were just like long skinny cones that you shove through your ear lobes to make your holes bigger.. im at a 000g now so i dont use tapers anymore. i can fit my finger through my ear :D
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Skinny and pointy on one end, that gets bigger on the other. You use it to stretch piercing holes (obviously). You start with the smaller end (on, for example, your ear), and slowly push it through your ear until the largest end of the taper rests inside your ear. If you're stretched from, say a 14 gauge to something like an 8 gauge, you have to take it slowly, or else you'll tear your ear (speaking from experience here... NOT FUN). I successfully went from a 20 to a 14 without a taper, and then from a 14 to a 12 without a taper, but after 8, the sizes start getting bigger between, instead of the smaller gauges when they're just minimal amounts of difference.
Forgive me if that's not what you were asking, I'm tired. :p
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