Most tapers are acrylic or steel. Many people recommend steel tapers because they slide through the piercing easier. Cheaper tapers and cheaper plugs are often of unknown quality and may irritate the ears, slowing the healing process.
Plugs are the round jewelry you put in to keep your ear stretched. Plenty of jewelry shops sell commercial-grade lubricant, but you can also use plant-based lubricants, like coconut oil or jojoba oil.
Try not to use any lubricants that have chemicals or additives in them, as these could irritate or infect your piercing. If you stretch your ears too much and too fast, you can tear or injure your ear cartilage. If you do, you may have torn or damaged your ear skin. This can result in permanent scarring.
Stretching too quickly can tear your ear tissue in half or cause earlobe skin to detach and hang from your head. Stretching too quickly or not taking care of your ear may also result in an infection. Here are some infection symptoms to watch out for:. Extreme stretching may leave permanent holes in your earlobes.
Stretching too quickly may cause an infection or injure your ears permanently. Taking good care of your ears is also crucial. Stretch your ears slowly. Ear piercings are one of the most common types of piercings.
Treat this in the same way as an infection — remove any jewellery and keep cleaning it. If the problem persists for more than a couple of weeks you should pop to your doctor or a local piercing specialist who will be able to take a proper look and let you know the best cause of action based on what they see.
I would recommend that once your ear has healed to think really carefully about stretching your ears again as you may end up causing more damage — wait six weeks or more before making the decision. I hope this helps. I wish you all the best of luck and please do get in touch if you have any more questions. You need to be using a salt soak at least twice a day, and removing the taper completely to clean inside of the lobe — use a cotton bud to ensure you get all the crusty bits out!
You should continue cleaning your ears even when they have healed, as they have a tendancy to gather nasties inside the lobe and regular cleaning will keep them healthy and smell-free! Olive Oil should also be massaged into the ear on a regular basis to stop it from drying out and to keep the skin healthy.
It also helps it to heal a bit faster. I pushed in a 2mm as my second stretch but pushed it in all the way, despite it being painful. So bascially do you know how long you can have 6 mm streatchers in before it gets to late for your lobes to reheal and shrink back to 1mm or no hole?
The taper in my right lobe moves around quite freely, however the one in my left ear seems very difficult to move. Thanks, any advice is appreciated. Apologies for the delay in responding we have just got back in the UK! I know I am probably too late to help now but wanted to respond to you anyway — I normally get back to people in 48 hours! Yes, coconut butter is absolutely fine to use — probably better than Savlon spray as this can sometimes dry the ear out, whereas the coconut butter helps to regenerate the skin cells and moisturises the ear at the same time.
Olive oil and vitamin E oil are also good, but you should never use petroleum based creams such as Vaseline. Okay, firstly, you will experience some discomfort — no body mod ever comes pain-free! Secondly, you should not be trying to stretch to a 6mm in three weeks, even if school is starting! You need to leave it at least 6 weeks in between stretches. Even though the ear looks healed the tissue inside the lobe will still be healing, and stretching quickly may well cause a blow out.
You can rub vitamin E oil or olive oil into the lobe to help it to heal faster, but I would still recommend at least 6 weeks in between every stretch. You also need to make sure that you only remove the taper for cleaning during the 6 weeks that it is healing — you will not be able to take it out for school as constant expanding and contracting of the lobe whilst it is healing can cause tissue damage and may be very painful. First of all you should never, ever use acrylic stretchers during the stretching process as they are not antibacterial like steel, titanium or pyrex.
Acrylic stretchers are for decoration purposes only and can be put in about 6 weeks after the ear has been stretched and healed. It is possible to buy 3. You may need to buy some smaller o-rings, but push the 4mm taper in as far as it will comfortably go, and without it bleeding! You should be able to continue this process over the next couple of days until the whole taper is in your ear. This relaxes the lobes and makes it a lot easier to stretch and push the taper through. You can also try a small amount of vitamin E oil, olive oil or even water on the taper itself as a bit of lubrication.
When you first start to stretch, push the taper in as far as it will comfortably go, and then a tiny bit more. Over the next few days, ease the taper fully into your ear, pushing it through a bit, holding it in place, and the same the next day until it is in completely.
It also helps to massage the lobes for ten to twenty minutes before starting to stretch, as this will relax the lobe and makes it much easier for the taper to go in. You can also put a small amount of lubricant; either vitamin E oil, olive oil or just plain water and this will also help the taper to slide in a lot easier.
Any body mod should be taken slowly and seriously, so you decide whether you want to start at a 2mm or 3mm the choice is up to you! Again apologies for the delay; if you have any more queries the please do email me and I promise to reply a lot quicker next time!
Thanks for the help, After a few more days my left lobe calmed down a lot, so I guess it was also a matter of time and proper care for it. Vitamin E oil is a big help. I answer this question time and time again and nobody likes the answer! There is no set amount of time you can have any stretchers in for before the hole will not heal. If you have already stretched to a 6mm and are worried about your ears healing that way then I would strongly advise that you take them out and give the ears a chance to shrink back to their original size.
The whole idea of ear stretching is to slowly expand the hole, not tear your own! Keep the area clean, as you are doing, with salt water soaks and an antibacterial soap such as Dial, or piercing cleaning solution. It will also help to rub vitamin e oil and olive oil into the lobes as this helps the healing process and stops the lobe from drying out and becoming sore through all that cleaning! You need to be cleaning them at least twice a day, and keep doing this for weeks to give the ear time to completely heal.
If after that time you decide that you want to continue stretching then you should start with a much smaller gauge and work you way up slowly otherwise you risk causing a blowout and further damage to your ears. Becoming tense or frustrated due to a stubborn ear causes your body to physically tense up and this makes it even harder to get the taper in! Massage the lobe with a warm but not hot! This helps the tissue in the lobe to relax and will make it easier to stretch. You could also try a small amount of lubrication on the taper, such as vitamin E oil, olive oil or even just water alone.
Hope this helps a little bit! You should only be swapping to a plug after the ear has healed about weeks — if you change from a taper too early then you could risk an infection if you are using acrylic plugs.
Try to limit the amount of time you wear acrylic plugs for as they are not antibacterial like steel. If you have had a blowout before then this may also be the reason that your ear has some irritation.
Just ensure that as soon as any gunk appears you clean it — at least twice a day. Salt soaks, vitamin E oil and olive oil are all good for helping the ear to heal up and to ease any discomfort or irritation. Thanks for the guide.
But i have bought Crescent Stretching Tapers. And im wondering if i could just leave them in, instead of putting plugs until i get to the size i want? You need to do this every so often to prevent it from sticking as it heals. It will also make it a bit harder for removing them for cleaning. I have bought a tapered swirl stretcher and it keeps falling out while i sleep, and even sometimes during the day.
Any tips to help it stay in? Hey, How often should a taper be left in the ear before switching to a tunnel? Had my ear stretched the other day — i had my ears pierced before and had a 4mm taper put in my ear, it doesnt hurt at all but i want to look at how a tunnel looks. So should i wait a couple of weeks or would it be okay if i switched to a tunnel as long as i left the tunnel in for a while? I just started stretching and I went directly to an 8g from a 14g, i managed to get the taper in all the way, after about 15 minutes of pushing through slowly and waiting until the stinging was gone.
I slept with it in and at school I took it out to show a friend the hole, it bled a little bit but eventually stopped. I put the taper back in after washing it, and I continue to clean it every night with rubbing acohol, should i use rubbing alcohol or some other type of cleaning stuff.
Any advice will be helpful. I got both lobes pierced about 5 weeks ago, and I was planning on waiting until weeks passed before stretching. Firstly, is this too soon? Secondly, I want to go from 1. Is this too fast? I use anti-sceptic wash to clean my ear and my taper but i still end up seeing this gunky stuff on it and i think it may have been a blow out i know this is the most likely thing , should i just take the stretcher out and just let it heal all up and start again, or is there something else i could do?
If all i have are acrylic plugs, would covering them with one layer of teflon tape or two negate the effects of the acrylic? In my mind, this would make it more like the plugs are just made out of the tape material and not acrylic. Its really painful and when i take my tunnel out to clean my ear, there is quite alot of pussy blood coming from it. After about an hour of cleaning it, crusty stuff forms behind the lips of my tunnel. I have had peirced ears since I was a baby and I started stretching two weeks ago.
Last week, I bought 8g tapers acrylic or plastic or whatevr you call it and couldnt put them in my ear cuz they hurt and bled so i waited for the pain and dry blood to go away. Ive had the taper in for a day looks ridiculous and have a shower and tried to push it further in but its not budging and im deffinitely not going to force it through.
He said just sit and watch a movie and push it through. Around a 1. Would you advice me to keep putting the little piece of butterfly tape on to support it and prevent it from falling out?
I am concerned it might change the orientation of the stretching! Many thanks, Khristy x. When using tapers how long should you leave them in before putting in jewlery?
Also is it bad to sleep with the tapers? Hey, I first pierced my own ears when I was 11 with a steralised needle, no ice or anything just pushed it straight through, baring in mind I absolute hate pain, which is the weird thing.
I kept doing it from a 3mm to a 4mm to a 6mm, I stayed at a 6mm for like a year and a half, because I fell in love with the stretchers, but then as per usual I got bored and decided to go bigger, went from a 6mm to an 8mm, i had them for about 6 months, and then decided to go to a 10mm out of boredom once again. Also, recently I have had my nose pierced and 2 weeks later I put a nose ring in.
I have just put in a 1. Hey, reading a lot of comments here, its helped a lot. Its a bit swollen, and when i put the tapers i have in the right ear was fine, but i believe i tore the left lobe slightly. There is mild discharge, and the left ear lobe sometimes is sore. I dont have any h2ocean, is there anything else i can use for a cleaning product that is readily available with stuff at home?
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Materials Acrylic Plugs. Bone Plugs. Glass Plugs. Horn Plugs. Stainless Steel Plugs. Silicone Plugs. Stone Plugs. Titanium Plugs. Wood Plugs. What Is a Taper? Tapers for Stretching Shape Tapers made for stretching are straight and a few inches long. Material The best tapers for stretching are made of stainless steel.
How To Stretch Your Ears with Tapers Now that you know what it is and how it works, you probably want to get started on stretching your ears with tapers. Supplies needed: A taper or one of our ear stretching kits A set of plugs safe for stretching High-quality ear stretching cream or oil Mild, unscented soap Step One: Clean Up Wash your hands and ears with the unscented soap to clean them.
Step Two: Lubricate Put a small amount of the lubricating oil or cream on the taper, your ears, and the new plugs. Wash the excess off your hands so you can retain a good hold on the taper during stretching. Step Three: Push! Step Four: Transfer to Plugs Hold your ear and taper in one hand and use the other hand to line the non-flared end of the plug up with the end of the taper.
Step Five: Heal Let your ear heal for 4 to 8 weeks.
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