As of yesterday, my lobes are finally 00g/10mm!! The stretching took forever, like an hour and a half and there was some pain. Really considering taping vs tapering after this, before I didn't like it because I didn't like the responsibility of consistently adding tape every few days, but after having the piercer having to baby my taper stretching plus unnecessary pain, remembering to and putting aside time to tape up seems like the lesser of the evils!

Things are looking up at my job, my manager seems to be pleased with my progress (I didn't know I was making any!) and she says if I continue my progress I will probably be getting an extra day of work! I don't exactly enjoy the job very much, but I do enjoy the experience I'll have from it. And I will probably have to stay in the veterinary field as I'm working toward my radiology tech degree.

I have uploaded 3 face pics to attachments, and 1 to the nudes, if you'd like to check them out!