Will my ear piercings combine?

[Jasmine]

I got my ear pierced age 3, I got one next to it at age 12, and I really wanna get 6g stretchers ( the smallest size )to put In the first hole but I don't want them to come together and make one large hole this is a twitter picture of my ears( I'm getting cartilage later on ) and can you tell me if a 6g stretcher will combine the two? I'm not going any larger than 6g though. Opinions?? The picture is at:
http://twitter.com/Blindigo/status/25481...20/photo/1

[?]

it wont rip or anything dont worry i have 2 holes and i have plugs .. thier " 00 " you just have to clean your ears

[Aj]

Most likely,that won't happen. I too got my ears pierced very young,when I was 10,& I also had second & third (and fourth,fifth,etc.-all the way up at one point) holes when I was younger,& took most of them out as I got older.But my second holes are still open because they're the oldest. I have my ears stretched to 9/16" (14mm),& that didn't happen to me.I don't wear anything in my second holes,because they're too close to the edge of the plug.But even though they appear to be close together when I have plugs or tunnels in,they actually have the same amount of skin in between them as before,it just appears that they're close-it's more like it just gets pushed to the side as it gets stretched,if that makes any sense.So you'll be fine,& if you look at photos of people w/stretched ears,alot of times you'll see where a person used to have a second hole,& they don't run together.And you're only going to a 6g,which isn't that large.The actual hole itself doesn't look nearly as large as when you have a plug in there,& a 6g plug is only 4mm. So it'll be fine.

But I'm a bit confused when you say that 6g is the smallest size-are you currently just at a standard size earring? Because you don't want to go from a standard size earring right to a 6g-you'd be skipping quite a few sizes,which can cause tearing. And you can get smaller sizes than a 6g,in plugs and tapers.I'd start out w/ 14g first,then gradually go to each size after that without skipping any.

[Castor]

Chances are it won't close up.

[Erica]

That won't happen, don't worry. One of my second holes is pierced to close to my first one and my ears are at a 0g. They haven't combined. It may be a little trickier to stretch that ear, but not impossible.