Stretching your ear safely shouldn’t cause sharp pain or bleeding. These are signs that you’re trying to stretch your ears too quickly.
Simply so, what size do you start gauging your ears?
Consequently, can gauged ears go back to normal?
Many people wonder is their stretched ears will go back to normal, and it is an important question to answer before you begin ear stretching. … The truth is that most stretched ears will shrink at least a little if you remove your jewellery, but most will not go back to their unstretched gauge.
Can I sleep with my gauges out?
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. … If you do end up blowing your ears out, take out the new jewelry and put in a smaller gauge of jewelry.
Can I leave tapers in overnight?
If it’s too tight, what you’ll do is tear the skin off the inside of your hole. This is painful and incredibly unpleasant and bloody. Repeat until you get the taper all the way in. Leave it for at least a couple of hours, ideally overnight.
Can I use Vaseline to gauge my ears?
Stretching Process (taper method)
Lubricant will make the taper super slick, so it will slide through easy. Lubricants make a stretch easier. While you’re out getting a new taper, get some Jojoba oil, Vitamin E oil or GaugeGear Stretching Balm (Neosporin and Vaseline are not good lubes for ear stretching).
Why do my gauges smell?
The reason your ear gauges smell bad is because they’re sitting in your ear. Your skin sheds almost every hour on the hour and all of those dead skin cells are left sitting on the gauge. Thus the stinky smell. To prevent this, a strict cleaning regiment is needed.
How long do you leave tapers in?
4 to 8 weeks
