considering that it's a whole lot less traumatizing to ears would it be a big deal?

 my lobes are quite healthy and i have taken good care of them but if this will be a bad idea then i dont want to do it

 but i have 7/16 jewelry and not 00 and i dont feel like purchasing it if i can just go straight to 7/16

 thoughts? opinions? advice?

 anything will be helpful

 much thanks

 You can, but it's definitely not recommended. It's 3mm from 0g to 7/16, and that's even bigger than the 2g to 0g jump. There aren't any useless sizes. :) They're there so that your ears can take a break from the jumps and heal up from the microtears that stretching forms. You'll need to get some 00g jewelry, which you can find pretty inexpensively on the BAF homepage. If you wait long enough at each size, you may not even have to tape. I just wait until the next size easily fits in. 

Potentially, if you give your ears enough time, you could get away with not purchasing nine or ten millimeter plugs. You'll need to tape to 9mm, give your ears a rest, tape to 10mm, rest and then head to 7/16". You need to spend the same time healing as you would if you tapered.

Also, have you tried taping before? Personally, my skin can't handle PTFE so I wouldn't be able to marathon tape as you asked about.

- I just wanted to add that it's going to be a royal pain in the neck to continually replace several millimeters of tape. You may want to consider purchasing the poor person's stretching kit off of BAF, it comes with a set of steel plugs!

 Axon, have you ever tried bondage tape? My girlfriend has to use it because PTFE doesn't work for her.

yeah ptfe tape doesn't work for me either, i use bondage tape

i taped from 2g to 0g the 2mm jump scared me

and it's much cheaper in the long run

Dylan:

and it's much cheaper in the long run

How much were you paying for PTFE tape?  I got some at Home Depot for a buck or so, as I recall.

oh i didn't mean cheaper compared to teflon tape, i ment compared to buying every size in tapers

BAF have cheap enough plugs to get you to your goal id say, its a few extra bucks..but its also your ears health. not that theres anything wrong with taping if you do it right either..

I used hockey tape when I did my ears and it worked really well.

its only 3mm so i dont think you'd have anything to worry about i did maybe 3-5mm with tape just really took my time with it.

 best advice would be to just wait.

but if ur really positive on stretching anyways and wont take our advice. just make sure u tape properly, go slow, dont force anything, and keep ur ears well moisturized.

My ear ATE the frickin' PTFE when I attempted to tape from 6g to 4g.  Woke up, plug was gone, big wad of tape inside my hole.  Dried my ears out pretty badly, too.

I'd like to give bondage tape a try the next time I stretch... a looong time from now.  (I really like 4g!)