Buffalo horn N/A Lobes, lips, septum, and more! Looking to stretch your piercings? Pair these Buffalo Horn Crescent Taper 14g - 00g with our to make sizing up a breeze! Not sure how to stretch safely? Learn more . A taper is a piece of jewelry that expands from your starting size to the next size up. It is extremely important while stretching with tapers to only go up one gauge at a time and wait for one to three months between stretches. Listen to your body: if it hurts you’re going too fast. It is also very important that the tapers are smooth and non-porous. Any nicks and ridges in the material can harbour bacteria, encouraging infection. The bone and horn BodyMods uses are from domestic Indonesian water buffalo. The buffalo are working animals (ex. to plough muddy rice fields) and consumed as food. Since water buffalo are highly valued, they aren't killed for just their bones or horns. The bones and horns have little value when compared with that of the entire living animal. Thus, water buffalo bones and horns are obtained after the animal’s death. When polished, the water buffalo horn looks similar to ebony. Water buffalo horn has a very strong grain. This makes delicate or detailed work more difficult because the grain cracks with exposure to skin oils and thus cannot be used for body jewelry unless properly treated. Please stretch cartilage (nostril, upper ear piercings, tragus, etc) with tapers. Cartilage must be dermal punched for that stretched look. The horn should only be worn in healed piercings. Show us what you chose to stretch with your Buffalo Horn Crescent Taper 14g - 00g with #BodyModsFamous on Instagram. We LOVE seeing our jewelry out in the real world. Finally, don't forget to follow us on and for updates on new jewelry, product info, sales, and more.