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Help with stretching my ears, is this okay?

Okay, last year I had my ears stretched to 8g. I stretched straight from a very loose 16g to 8g. Don't tell me how it was a bad idea, I know it was. Yes, it hurt, but I haven't gotten a blowout and it healed quite fine. A little while later, when I was cleaning my ear, I accidentally dropped my 8g jewelry down the sink. (I had a 8g spiral that I stretched with and worn.) So, I let my ears shrink back down to a even more loose 16g. I could easily fit 14g jewelry in, and a 12g taper would slide right through.

So, I bought this kit to start stretching my ears. I used the 14g taper, and it went right through, with no pain or discomfort at all. Then I put in the 12g taper. Again, it was fine. Then, the 10g taper, that was fine too, and then the 8g taper. I stopped there, because I didn't want to skip too many sizes. I had no blowout or pain at all. About 3 days after having my ear at 8g (I'm only doing my left ear right now,) I took it out to clean it. I was just playing around, and started to put the 6g taper in. I did it slowly, and told myself that if I felt any pain at all, I wouldn't put it through. But the 6g taper went through with not pain at all, and I do not have a blowout.

I clean my earlobes with 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt mixed with 1/4 cup of warm water. I take a q-tip and clean my jewelry with that mixture, and put a cotton ball in it and hold it to my ear to clean my earlobe.

I'm getting vitamin e oil to massage on my ear lobe soon so that stretching in the future won't be a problem.

Is this all okay?