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Medically reviewed by Madeline Knott, MD. Medically reviewed by Shilpa Amin, M. They break down scar tissues that were created by the piercing or built up during the stretching process. This should only be done when there are no open wounds or irritation. Massaging itself is more important than the oil you use, but Vitamin E oil is usually the cheapest and most accessible. The best time for an aftercare massage is after a hot shower.
Then, your pores will be open, allowing your lobes to better absorb the oil. All you have to do is apply a small amount of oil or product onto your fingertips and massage around your earlobes. You could prepare your sea salt soak in a shallow dish or bowl, or a cup with a small surface area. This will make it easy for you to cup the solution over your ears and hold it there.
Do this for about 5 - 10 minutes every day until your piercing heals. Applying alcohol, peroxide or bactine to raw wounds can cause blistering, delay healing and kill healthy cells. Blowouts Blowouts are complete buzzkills trust us, you don't want to get one. Leave a comment. October 24, Alternative Earrings for Your Everyday October 24, Leave a comment Your email address will not be published.
United States. Select your country and currency. The skin surrounding any piercing can thin when stretched, but due to the size and surface area involved, thinned earlobes are particularly common. Lobes can thin out due to over-stretching, stretching too fast, or an initial piercing placement which was too low. One of the best ways to thicken lobes is to downsize and allow the skin to regain a better blood flow, and grow more skin cells, before slowly, and carefully, stretching back up.
Oil massages are also particularly useful, as the act of massaging encourages blood flow to the area. However, in some cases, the thinned skin is no longer able to support jewelry. If the thinner part of your earlobe becomes paler and cooler to the touch than the surrounding area, this may be a sign that blood flow is compromised.
In extreme cases you may see tissue start to slough off and the color change from darker red to purple—or even black if the tissue becomes necrotic. In these cases, jewelry should be removed before the tissue breaks. Close Thin Icon. Your cart Close Alternative Icon. View all results. Then wait for the hole to completely heal and feel fine before stretching again.
Probably 4 or 5 weeks later. Don't rush it or you'll damage the ear lobe and increase the risk of infection. There are other ways of stretching your ears Another way is the 'tape' method, where bondage tape or ptfe tape is wrapped around a plug to increase its diameter. Some people seem to be getting very large gauge piercings now, 5mm and even larger. A whole chunk is taken from the ear. This obviously isn't ear 'stretching' at all, and in our opinion the resultant hole will present problems if the person wants to stretch larger later.
In our opinion its better to stretch slowly like its always been done. Body piercing aftercare solution is an all natural piercing and stretching solution. Comes in a handy 'dropper' bottle that will give about drops. Easy to apply directly to the ear from the bottle. Holey Butt'r is the business. It is by far the best cream available to maintain stretched ear lobes It contains no animal products at all, unlike some other products.
It contains a natural blend of emollients and moisturizers including Karanja oil, Jojoba Oil, and Soy Butter. If you follow the above instructions you wont have any problems.
If for whatever reason though, your lobe does becomes infected, swollen, painful, leaking blood or puss bathing with salt water is the first thing you should do. Treat the ear as you would a wound. Remove the jewellery then clean the lobe properly and then bathe in salted water. Dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a cup of boiling water, wait for the water to cool down, and soak the lobe.
Pouring the salt water into an egg cup makes this easier. We also supply a stretching aftercare solution here. Piercing aftercare solution Be sensible about what jewellery you put back into an infected ear, If you have blood or puss on a wooden item for example, its probably not advisable to put this back in!
Surgical steel items would be the safest to put into an infected earlobe, as you can sterilise them by boiling. Whatever you choose make sure its clean and sterile. Don't try and continue stretching for a few days. If the swelling or pain doesn't subside in a couple of days, go and see your doctor. People react differently to different materials, so its important that you pay attention to what your body is telling you.
If an item of jewellery doesn't feel 'right' or a lobe is still hurting days after the stretch, take the jewellery out. Try a different material. We have a lot of questions about which items are suitable for stretching and for fresh stretches, and as far as we're concerned there is no definitive answer. I know people who have stretched their ears with all sorts of materials acrylic, wood, horn etc without any problems at all. I also know people who have had problems when using surgical steel L for stretching.
I know some people can react badly to wood. It seems everyone is different in the way their bodies react to different materials.
I advise people that its their body and their own responsibility when using our products. At the first sign of any irritation remove the jewellery and replace with another material. Speaking generally, of course the safest material to stretch with and wear in a fresh stretch would be surgical steel L.
So surgical steel would be the most conservative approach. However, bear in mind that people have been stretching their ears for thousands of years If you stretch as we advise above you shouldn't experience any bleeding, however the most common causes of bleeding are;. Stretching too quickly will increase the risk of infection, tearing the lobe and causing a blow out.
Be patient. Your going out Friday night and you want to show off your new plugs Don't do it. Wait until a stretch is fully healed before trying to insert new plugs Try and but up the new tunnel to the back of an expander to get it in.. Don't just push like a nutcase.. Be gentle and have patience. One of the most common causes of injury from an item is to wear the wrong item while sleeping. Apart from the obvious spikes on some jewellery that can cause injury, Some tunnels and plugs can be forced into the ear by lying on them while sleeping.
I have one friend who woke up with blood running down his neck because the steel tunnels he was wearing while asleep had actually been forced into his ear.. The lip had sunk into his hole and cut his ear, it was hard for him to remove the tunnel.. It was a painful lesson. We advise removing jewellery while sleeping to avoid injury.
The only items we recommend for wearing while sleeping are the 'soft' silicon tunnels. If you have had some bleeding then treat as you would any wound. Clean the ear regularly, use a salt bathe as described above. Make your own decisions regarding your health.
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