True, but it's still a terrible thing to do to your ears. There is no way it's safe to do what you're doing, and when you get a blowout, you'll understand why. As a rule of thumb, if you need to use a taper, it's not ready to stretch.
What I did was bought clear bioplast labret stems and threaded a ball onto the end, then swapped the ball for an o-ring when they needed to be invisible. You could also just get it pierced with retainers and then start swapping shit about when it's healed?