Should I shower with gauges in?

Maintaining Ear Gauges. Remove your jewelry when you shower. Once your piercings are fully healed (after 12 weeks), you should remove your jewelry when you shower. This is the most effective way to clean both your piercings and your jewelry.

Can I shower after stretching ears?

Ideally, you want to do it after you've had a nice, long shower, as this will help loosen your earlobes a bit and it will help keep more moisture in. Use natural and water-based products to massage your earlobes after stretching.

How do you shower while stretching your ears?

Massage your earlobe to get the skin warmed up and stretched out. You can also take a hot bath or shower so blood flow to the ear is increased. Wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water. Sterilize all of your piercing equipment with rubbing alcohol.

Should I take my gauges out to clean?

Take them out whenever! They shouldn't hurt or bleed, etc. The point of stretching is that it's such a slow process, it modifies the tissue without damaging it (like a piercing or dermal punch.

How long can you leave your gauges out?

After a stretch, still take them out for an hour or two per day and massage / re lubricate your lobes and plugs. After a week has gone by you should be fine to leave them out overnight. If the jewelry won't go back in easily overnight, your stretching too fast.

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Is 0g to 00g a big jump?

The half size between 0g and 00g is 9mm and is occasionally called 00g. Forcing a stretch too big or too soon will result in a ripped ear lobe. Even if the lobe is not visibly bleeding, micro-tears on the inside of the lobe occur.

Should you sleep with gauges in?

It keeps the skin from drying out and cracking. I recommend you sleep with your plugs in your ears. Sleeping without them can cause irritation, dryness, and cracking.

What does a gauge blowout look like?

The development of a blowout causes a ring of skin to form behind the piercing. This ring is usually red, irritated, and painful. A blowout may give the piercing the appearance of turning inside out.

Why is my gauge itchy?

Blowouts are formed when you stretch the ear too quickly. The inner ring of skin around the piercing will become red and irritated, and potentially even lumpy. It will most likely be itchy or painful, and you may also experience an infection.

How do you sleep with newly stretched ears?

Basically I just massage jojoba oil over them before bed and when I wake up I oil up my ears again and then put in smaller size stone plugs for about 30 minutes. By the time I switch them out my ears have stretched enough to get the normal size in comfortably.

What is the hardest stretch?

What size gauge will shrink back?

Most professionals in the piercing world suggest going no larger than a 0 gauge, preferably a 2 gauge, if you want your ears to shrink back to standard size.

How long should I leave tapers in?

Leave it for at least a couple of hours, ideally overnight. Later or in the morning, keep pushing the taper out and insert your sterilized plug with your clean hands.

What do stretched ears symbolize?

History has shown us that ear stretching was initially used to show that an individual belonged to a group or a tribe. It was accepted by the group and they were marked as being "one of us". When someone did not have stretched ears they were considered to be an outsider or someone who did not belong to the tribe.

How do you make sizing up gauges less painful?

To prepare your ears for stretching, apply a warm compress to the piercing for several minutes in order to ease up the tissue and make the stretch easier. Then, wash the area, rinse well and pat dry. Once you're ready for the stretch, apply oil around the perimeter of your piercing.

How do you make your gauges not smell?

Take the plugs or hangers out of your ears and wash them. Wash with warm water and use soap (just like you do in a shower :) Some type of moisturizer on your ears can also be helpful. The odor will be stronger while you are stretching your ears.

Are stretched ears unprofessional?

6 answers. Yes. They just ask nothing offensive or scary be worn or scarred into your body. Gages up to one inch are acceptable.

Is it normal for gauges to swell?

Piercings

A new piercing is an open wound, and swelling is part of the body's natural reaction to any damage. Most people who get their ears pierced will notice pain and swelling for up to a week, sometimes more. People with gauges or plugs in their ears may notice swelling each time they stretch the ear.

How do you tell if your gauges are infected?

Can I use Neosporin on my gauged ears?

NEVER USE: Bacitracin or Neosporin. Petroleum based ointments CLOG the piercing and make it difficult for your body to heal. NEVER USE Rubbing Alcohol, Hydrogen Peroxide, Claire's ear care solution. These products are too strong and will irritate your skin and piercing.

How often should you size up your gauges?

Before you move on to the next stretch, it's best to wait for at least a month between stretches but ideally you should wait for 6-8 weeks. The main rule here is the longer you wait between the stretches, the healthier your lobes will remain and the more viable they will be for the bigger gauges.

Can you put tunnels in right after stretching?

Don't do it. Wait until a stretch is fully healed before trying to insert new plugs... especially double flared plugs. Try and but up the new tunnel to the back of an expander to get it in..

How long does it take stretched ears to shrink?

Try Without Surgery First

Go down one size, and wait until the size shrinks up around that smaller gauge. Once it fits properly, go down another size until you reach the smallest gauge. Once you reach this point, your hole should be able to close on its own. This entire process usually takes at least 2 months.