Stretching Your Ear Lobe Piercings
Wednesday May 31, 2006
People either love them or hate them--pierced earrings made with real thick, decorative posts and rings. Getting the holes in your lobes large enough to insert the thicker jewelry is sometimes called gauging. You have to stretch the holes gradually, because enlarging them too quickly is painful--ouch--and can injure your skin. Use a gauge chart to compare jewelry thickness and to target how large you want your ear lobes to go.
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What is your suggestion if you have stretched holes and you want to go back to wearing pierced earings. It seem that there is more of a variety of pierced earings thatn clips……
It depends on the size of your lobes. As you’ll often see, it’s stated that once you hit 2g-0g, your lobes won’t close back up to a normal earring post size [between 20g-16g normally]. But, as you’ll also see, this depends on each individuals body. If you’re looking to close up your lobes, take out whatever jewelry may be in there and see where it takes you. Vitamin E oil is also recommended often. If your lobes are too large and won’t close up to the “standard” size, there are certain surgical procedures that can be looked into.
Hey, I’m kinda stupid when it comes ot this stuff but I want to stretch my ear lobes ot around a 10-gauge and I was wondering if I took the ear thigns out will my ear lobes strink back to the 18-gauge that I have now?
The only good advice on stretching in this and her other posts about stretching is to go ask a professional piercer.
well im @ 2g at the moment i gradually got there over a 3month period cautiously stretching with tapers then down sizing to thicken my lobes to make sure they stay healthy and thick, as long as your patient and dont get rushy your ears should be fine as long as you steralize your ear devices before and after you use them!
infetions=YUCK!
i wouldnt recommend using tapers as they can cause blowouts and other nasty things. I personally recommmend using teflon tape but remember to change the tape every few days. It doesnt hurt as much either. I just tried my first taper which was from 2ga to 0ga and they hurt like a bitch!
i’ve been interested in stretching my earlobes but I dont know the first thing about it. how do you start off?
how do you get them stretched? and what is the maintanence on this?
dood, just get some tapers, and push them threw slow with neosporin, ull be okay ur ears will tell u when to stop! trust me, not to mention most tattoo/piercing shops, will strecth ur lobbs for u ,and they know what to do and what not to do, and it will be alot less money then strecthing it ur self, u wont have to buy 40 pairs of earings….TRUST!
Why do they smell so bad?? Is it like an infection or what? I clean them all the time so I just don’t know what it is.
your ears will only smell because its flesh.
it smells like horrible cheese
my EX bestfriend is at 14mm atm and whenever i sit near her or next to her i can smell it.
TCP normally helps get rid of the smell
sammiesexytime:)xx
Hey .. I recently got a 2.5 thing which starts small at the beginning then gets larger gradually. I don’t know much about it. And i have got so far but i can’t get it any furthur. I’ve had it in over 6 hours and ive taken it out to put vaseline on it to see if that makes it easier, but its still not going much furthur.. any suggestions? Please email me.
I Recently Bought A 6mm Taper And Flesh Plug…It Only Took Me About 5 Days To Stretch My Ear And Get The Plug In…My Mum Is Really Bothered That I May Have To Have A Sergical Procedure To Get My Ear Lobe Hole Back To A Normal Size….I Heard That Aslong As You Hole Is Below 9mm Then It WIll Eventually Go Back To Normal Size If You Take Out Tyhe Plug/Tunnel…Is This True Or Is Ther eAnyway To Get Rid Of The Big Hole If I Dont Want It Anymore??
Im Only 15 And Have Been Told That Job Interviewers Will Turn You Down If You Have A Flesh Plug In Your Ear…I Got It To Show My Individuality And To Show That I Am Not The Same As Everybody Else…One I Have Shrunken My Hole Again….Can I Stretch It Back If I Want It Later On In Life??
Sorry That Its An Essay But Just Want To Know Facts Because I Dont Want To Have A Big Hole In My Ear For The Rest Of My Life If I Dont Want It When Im Older…If That Makes Any Sense
Thanks x
right if ur 2.5mm isnt working properly do it fastly try and do it in thee shower or bath i currently am on a 6 mm and i strugled at 2.5 but it gets easier
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i have size 32mm lobes and they stink! i cleaned them yesterday and already they are beginning to smell thati can just sit here and smell it… having stretching my ears for about 4 and a half years now, im used to the smell and dont really mind it, yes its sick but i like it lol!
anyway… i wish i stopped at 20mm or something like that.. i had some silicon 26mm ones and they were lovely! now its so bloody hard to find bigger or even nice jewellery for 32mm, piercers that are local and some not so local, have sizes upto 25mm or 40mm+!!
i have been to 35mm but the jewellery i had in was making it uncomfortable so i took them out and went back to 32mm.
but bear in mind, they do effect your jobs in the future, yes u might have a job now but what if you want a change? unless is working in HMV or something, but what about becoming a business man or something? i wanted and still do wanna be a copper, yes i kno bein a plod but ive wanted too since i was about 5!… and i was told id have to have my ears gone completely, dermals out most my piercings out IF im even to get to training! so unless im willing to give it ALL up… im buggered doing the job i want to do since childhood… i should of mentioned im 22 now, did have 3 jobs at once, i left 2 so i could actually stop working 7 days a week [well, 6 but finishin at 3am sunday mornin, and getting up with the girlfriend n kids… is a busy working day!
so yeah i do like my piercings, i currently have: 32mm lobes in both, 1 conch, 2 scaffolds like a streched out “X”, 2 dermals in my armson the tops, snakebites, tonge stretched to 3.2 going upto 4mm when i go town soon. and i used to have 1 helix, 1 x dermal in back of neck.
want my bridge done but again, some jobs ive been to and had wouldnt of took me on if i had that done… so be wise!
yeah i want to get from a 0Gauge to a 1″Gauge but i dont know how i should do it, what should i use? Teflon tape, tapers, scalpelling or dead stretching?
i want to get from a 0Gauge to a 1″gauge but idk how i should do it any answers?
well if your streching from a 0g to 1in its not such a good idea my friend went from a 6g to a 00 and his ears ripped nasty. but then again thats my friend. anyway if your gonna go to that size u definantly want to use a taper because its alot easier and all you really have to do is just lube it up and push it through. dont try to rush it this is a slow process when i went from a 2 to a 0 it husrt like hell so just imagin skipping 5 sizes. just be carfull and remember pace your self it will hurt so make sure to aply alot of lube.
I have my ears streched out to an inch, and i have a bad blow out on the back,,
i need to know how to get rid of them.
i have a 10 ml in my ear and i want it to be kept in my ear but i am scared in like 3 yeaqr i will want to close it up but i will have a hole in my ear fror evar
what do i do
YO, you suck, but you advice was pretty good.!$325@#R@$U%U!!
Okay so my I want to put in a size 6 plug, but since the ends or wider it wont go through. So is trhere any way to get it through without going up another size?
i only stretched my ears from the normal earing size to a size 16g,and then stretched my bottom ear hole from a 16 to a 14g. i only used my navel barbell. it actually slides right in never hurt to stretch it. soo just a suggestion work it that way…good luck.
My ears are at an 8 gauge and I have no interest in going past that. Will my ears close up from an 8 gauge? My boss is saying that if I ever want to be a Manager…you get the idea.
I had my ears stretched to a 00. I took the plugs out, but they didn’t close up. I want to close them. I don’t want to get surgery. I’ve heard it can be done, but I just don’t know how.
i ve stretched one of my ears 2 3mm wats that in guage size and i used a taper, tapers are the way to go but make sure u use lube it works lot better and it doesnt hurt like a bitch otherwise
My advice for anyone who is stretching is to first of all..take you time dont rush things or you will cause scaring in your lobe and that wont let you close your lobes up later in the future..if you want to stretch your ears but want to take them out in the future to close up then go up to around 8mm which is a 0 gauge..everyone is differant and sure i have a friend who stretched up to 15mm and was able to stetch back down to nothing..but take your time dont rush it as it is worth it if you wait..also my advice is to wait around 3-4 weeks between stretches!
i have both my ear lobes stretches to 10mm and i was able to srink them down to nothing but then decided to stretch them again ha..
good luck!
happy stretching
okay so i’ve had 4’s in for almost a year, and now im trying to go down to a 2 but tapers don’t work for me, sooo i don’t know what to do because i just can’t get the 2 in and im addicted to gaugng so i’m ready to go downnn,
If someones ears smell so bad that you can smell it just sitting next to them, it means they don’t clean them nearly enough. I clean mine every day. Even just taking the plugs out while you are in the shower and cleaning them with the rest of your body will do. I normally clean them in the shower, and then do a soak every other night or so. I went on a camping trip and wasn’t able to clean them for 3 days or so, and even then, they dont smell that bad. My suggestion is, clean them regularly and you wont have that problem.
so i have gauge 16 earrings in now, and im thinking of getting a beautiful pair of earrings that only come in gauge 14, is the change from 16 to 14 that noticeable, and would i have to do all the work for a real gauging? i think my holes are a bit bigger than that, but i dont know. any advice would be great!