Many people recommend steel tapers because they slide through the piercing easier. Cheaper tapers and cheaper plugs are often of unknown quality and may irritate the ears, slowing the healing process.
Plugs are the round jewelry you put in to keep your ear stretched. Plenty of jewelry shops sell commercial-grade lubricant, but you can also use plant-based lubricants, like coconut oil or jojoba oil.
Try not to use any lubricants that have chemicals or additives in them, as these could irritate or infect your piercing. If you stretch your ears too much and too fast, you can tear or injure your ear cartilage. If you do, you may have torn or damaged your ear skin. This can result in permanent scarring. Stretching too quickly can tear your ear tissue in half or cause earlobe skin to detach and hang from your head.
Stretching too quickly or not taking care of your ear may also result in an infection. Here are some infection symptoms to watch out for:.
Extreme stretching may leave permanent holes in your earlobes. Stretching too quickly may cause an infection or injure your ears permanently. Taking good care of your ears is also crucial. Stretch your ears slowly. Ear piercings are one of the most common types of piercings. Conch piercings are typically more painful than traditional earlobe piercings because they are done through cartilage, tougher tissue that takes….
The tape wrapping method is usually used once you get above a 0 gauge. The tape wrapping method helps to stretch your lobes slowly and carefully. It is used by a lot of people who stretch over an inch as well. Taping takes longer than using a taper, but it will help you keep your ear lobes thick and healthy for the bigger sized gauges.
Most people assume that they can use regular tape, electrical tape, or duct tape but this is not true! You'll want to use tape that is not only safe for your ears but is also thin enough to use properly. PTFE is a great and inexpensive tape that you can use to stretch. The good things about it is that it is very reasonable in price, non-adhesive so it only sticks to itself, super thin so you can slowly increase your size, and it doesn't irritate your ears like some tapes do such as electric tape.
Bondage tape is the second best tape used during the taping method. The bondage tape is self-adhesive just like the PTFE tape. It is wide enough to fit on your plugs but thin enough to be able to stretch with. Simply put, yes! Skipping sizes or stretching when your ear aren't healed can cause a lot of problems.
You can easily tear your ears. This can introduce infection, pain and bleeding, as well as hurt the elasticity in your ears. When you stretch your ears too quickly, you really aren't stretching your ears, but tearing your skin. This is the reason we recommend that you wait at least a month between stretches, if not longer.
If you stretch slowly, you will be able to stretch your ears much bigger in the end. Stretch slowly and never skip sizes! Ear funk, also commonly called ear cheese, is the gross smell that you'll notice once you start stretching your ears. No, this doesn't mean your ear lobes are infected! This is actually a normal reaction that happens when you stretch your ears. In reality, ear funk is actually dead skin cells.
You probably know that, all over your body, dead skin cells fall off as new ones grow. This is what is happening with your ears, but the dead skin cells are held in place by your jewelry. The dead skin cells are building up and create this awful smelling stuff. You can fix it by making sure you wash your ears daily while you're in the shower.
Blowouts are probably something you've heard of while researching stretched ears. A blowout is another common problem that happens when you stretch too quickly or skip sizes. All healed piercings form a fistula, a tunnel of skin that your jewelry goes through. When you stretch too fast, this fistula literally is forced out of the piercing. This will leave extra skin around your ears. If you keep stretching with it, your blowout will just get worse.
It can even become permanent, making it much harder to stretch to bigger sizes. Essentially, what you need to do is take your plugs out and let it heal.
You either let them rest with no jewelry, or you can try using plugs that are 2 to 3 sizes smaller than where you were before you stretched. This will keep your ear lobes stretched while also allowing room for your ear lobe to heal. Healing a blowout is important because it can affect your earlobe health and halt any further stretching. Besides downsizing a few sizes, you can also massage your ears a few times a day with vitamin e oil to help aid the process of healing along.
Double flared plugs can be a pain to put in. What the flares are made to do is to keep your plug in. Because of this, that means the flares not the plugs, just the outsides are slightly larger than the size of your plug that you are putting in. We recommend using the lubricant of your choice, for example vitamin e or jojoba oil. You can then lubricant both the lobe and the plug and start to put it in sideways. If you are putting the plug in at an angle, you are easing the process of putting this "larger" size in your ear lobe.
Double-flared plugs should only be worn in well-healed piercings. Be careful, and if it starts to hurt, wait a few weeks before trying again. The smaller your ear lobes are, the harder it is to wear double flared plugs. It isn't impossible, but it is a bit harder to put through. You could try the taping method that we mentioned above to help put them in, but you'll need to lubricate them before you take them back out.
Keeping your lobes moisturized is important. Not only does it aid in healing, but it also helps your ear lobe circulation and greatly reduces the risk of tearing and blowouts. Make sure they are at around body temperature when soaking. A little discomfort that goes away quickly is normal when increasing gauge size, but if your ears start hurting more, or if they are red or throbbing, chances are, they are irritated and inflamed.
You will have to remove the gauge size you put in there and wait for the irritation and inflammation to subside before trying again, otherwise you risk tearing your lobes.
Go back to your previous gauge size and moisturise your earlobes regularly. This is highly individual, as not all of us have the same skin elasticity. With that said, the size most often cited as the point of no return is 10mm — if you go all the way to this size or above, it will be hard to go back to regular piercing size. To keep it on the safe side, avoid stretching past 6mm. When you are ready to revert your stretched ears to regular piercing size, your routine will be similar to ear stretching aftercare.
You will have to massage your earlobes with oil at least three times a week. This encourages healing because it increases blood flow to earlobes. You can choose to remove your jewelry completely, or revert back to smaller and smaller gauges until you reach the original piercing size. Just remember, it took a long time to stretch them, so it will also take a long time for them to revert back.
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