I've had my left ear pierced for almost 2 years. Its been guaged to 10 for a couple months. I pierced my right ear two days ago. Its been guaged to 10 for 5 minutes. Last night I went to get another 10 for my right and came out with two 6 guage strechers, even though I said I wasn't going to go bigger. I was going to wait a while before going to 6. Then I said screw it and went for it. It was sweet. I popped my ear cherry. It was streaching and splitting then pop, it gave and went in nice. Tomorrow I might guage my right ear to 6.