Once you have determined your starting point then the real fun can begin! There is a huge variety of ear jewelry to choose from in any size as well as several materials. It will help if you understand the different types of jewelry available to choose from as well as how ear gauge sizing works. The following chart should help you understand what all of those numbers you will see when shopping for ear stretching mean.
Gauges- Millimeter -Inches. Ear Stretching Jewelry Types:. Tapers are primarily tools as opposed to everyday ear jewelry. They are used to perform the actual stretching and should be replaced with jewelry within a few hours. Even though many of the tapers you can buy are very attractive they simply are not designed for long term wear as there is a danger that the weight of a taper can tear your delicate ear tissue.
The exception to this would be any tapers composed of lightweight materials such as acrylic. Looking to only strerch one size? Checkout our single tapers. Plugs: Plugs are solid pieces that cannot be seen through and are designed for long term wear. This is something of a slang term that has become popular over the last few years. People that use it are usually referring to jewelry for stretched ears. Truth be told, there are more people searching the internet for the term"ear gauges" then "ear plugs" when looking to purchase jewelry for stretched ears.
Initially you should purchase both tapers and long term ear stretching jewelry in the gauges you will be stretching to. Make sure you really like what you are buying as ideally they will be worn for at least a month before you gauge up to the next size. Keep in mind that while gauging up you will need a lubricant of some kind.
Jojoba oil is a great choice. Vitamin E oil will also do the trick you can break open a standard Vitamin E capsule and use the oil if you can't find the real thing. In a pinch you can use Vaseline or a generic petroleum jelly, but it's really not the best choice. The very best time to stretch your ears is when you have just stepped out of a hot shower. 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.
This will keep your ear lobes thick and healthy and ready to stretch up to the next size. You can use jojoba oil, vitamin e oil, or Holey Butt'r. Taking care of your ear lobes is a vital part of the stretching process! Organic plugs need to be taken care of just like other plugs. Organic plugs are made out of wood, horns, bones and many other materials. Because they are made of living things, they need to be cared for. You don't need to do a whole routine, but you need to make sure that you know what you'll need to do to take care of them.
For example, if you're using wood plugs, you'll need to know that when they get wet that will expand. And when you are using bone to make sure to use jojoba oil on them. This will keep the plugs looking nice and shiny just as if you were washing your steel plugs. Be on the lookout for anything unusual like red, swollen ear lobes, extreme itching, discharge, or a warmth coming from your lobes. This more than likely means that you have an infection.
An infection in your ear lobes needs to be treated like any other infection, as it can cause serious problems. The first thing you'll need to do is to switch your jewelry to something like steel or glass. This will help keep your ear from being irritated first of all. There is no such thing as stretching too slowly , but stretching too quickly can cause scarring, injury, and prevent ears from healing evenly and properly.
Find out what size your earlobe piercings are. Most standard piercings start at 16g or 14g, but can be done bigger by request. Years of wearing long, dangly earrings and tugging on your piercings may make your piercings bigger! Professional body piercers can measure your ears to see what size they are. Every person is different, and many factors, such as the elasticity of your skin and the time and method of stretching, can affect this.
Most people can go between 2g 6mm — 00g 10mm and expect their ears to revert back to a normal piercing, after a few months of healing. When you skip sizes and stretch too quickly, it does more ripping of your skin than actual stretching. This can make your holes much larger and more permanent in the long run. To optimize your chances of having non stretched-looking lobes, you will want to make sure to stretch one size at a time and wait a minimum of a month between each stretch see chart below.
The more slowly you stretch, the healthier your ears will be! Also, the slower you go, the thicker your lobes will be in the long run, and this is very important if you plan on going to a large size. Single Flare Glass - Our single flare glass plugs are our recommended method for stretching often referred to as "dead stretching".
Many purchasers have had great success with these plugs. We offer them in 1mm increments from 2mm up to 28mm. The smaller stretch means a quicker heal time and less scar tissue.
The backs of these plugs are rounded to make insertion easier. The wearable of the plug is fairly long to help accommodate any initial swelling you may have. As with tapers, be sure to lube the plugs and your ears before stretching. Tapers - A taper is a long cylinder-shaped tool that is your desired size on one end and several sizes smaller on the other, with a gradual size increase between the two.
Tapers are often used for the smaller size stretches, generally under 2g 6mm. For those new to the world of stretching, ear stretching sizes can be a little confusing. The numbers go down and then up, smaller numbers are bigger sizes, and there are also three different forms of measurement! There are three different measurements that you are going to see when it comes to ear stretching sizes, millimetres mm , inches " , and gauge g.
For example, the same gauge plug can be 3. We want to make it easier for you to figure out what sizes to use, so see our chart for the different ear stretching sizes below:. Here you can see the most popular ear stretching sizes in.
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