Ear gauging is similar getting a tattoo or any other body modification — it needs some thought because it might be with you forever. Blowouts happen when you stretch too fast and it prevents the gauged ear from either healing — or it just creates lots of scar tissue. Keep these questions in mind when thinking about gauging. Always be safe! Do not under any circumstances jump gauge sizes in an attempt to speed up the gauging process.
This will almost always result in a blowout or a buildup of ear scar tissue. Talk to a professional piercer. Go to a tattoo shop and zone in on someone with gauges. Ask them for a moment of their time and get as much information on stretching as possible. Although this article is here to inform you it is by no means the whole kit and caboodle — there are always more opinions. These needles are usually size 16s or 12s.
Once the initial gauged piercing is healed up and ready to go, you can gauge it at the pierced size or go one up.
They generally come with the piercing gun and gauges all the way up to about an 8g. Self-piercing is only recommended if you are experienced, i. Crescents — shaped like moons, crescent gauges usually come with plastic rings called o-rings. These are to hold the gauge in place. They are used to stretch along with tapers. Tapers — these gauges are shaped like cones. Double flared plugs — each end has a lip on it that is an increase in size by at least.
If you are not then you can start at a 20g or an 18g. The best kind of gauges to start your stretch would be the crescents, because at the tips of both ends the gauge is very small and they slowly increase until you reach the middle where the actual size is.
A tip for ear gauging? Other materials will increase the odor of your ears. TiffT January 26, I feel like you should NOT have to tell people that they need to clean there smelly stinking self! Cat September 24, Was making out with a guy I was thinking of getting more involved with and I kept smelling a certain smell. I finally figured out it was coming form his ear gauges. He had large ones and one fell out even and his ear lobes looked awful. Next time, he came to my house, and we were looking at my books, and I guess his gauge fell out again.
Next day he asked if I had found it. Not thinking much of it, I picked it up and it was all oily and sticky. Anyway, I felt like washing my hands 10 different times that day. Such a turn off. And they were wood too. Bella York April 04, I have had stretched lobes for about 12 years.
Started when i was 16, stretched very fast cause i was a glutton for pain, and eventually settled on a 00g. I love them. It has been a journey, however. My skin is verrrrrry sensitive. When i was about 17, i got particularly loaded one night, and both my plugs fell out. In the morning, i went searching for them and found them in a pile of muddy leaves. Not one of my best moments, but something possesed me to put them straight back into my ears. Needless to say, they got extremely infected.
The gland behind both of my ears swelled and leaked, the result was extremely wet, crusty, smelly lobes. I had to take out my plugs and let my ear holes shrink back to regular size. That is my favorite part of a 00g, if ever you need to take them out, your ears WILL go back to normal. You can wear regular earrings after a couple months. It took a few more tries at stretching and infecting, but i finally decided to try bone and wood plugs, instead of acrylic, and natural material plugs are the only reason i was able to successfully stretch my ears again after that stupid, stupid decision i made.
Why does this happen? Your body secretes a substance called sebum, sebum is an oily secretion which helps your skin keep lubricated and keep it waterproof. The sebum mixes with the dead skin cells between your ear and the jewellery to make this unpleasant odour. As a fully-trained pretend doctor the primary solution is rather simple, you should wash your ears and plugs just like you would wash the rest of your body.
We would recommend taking your plugs out and washing them every day, the shower is the most ideal place to do so. Rinse your ear with warm water and clean with an anti-bacterial soap if possible, once washed your ear should be dried thoroughly to prevent moisture build up. We would also recommend massaging your ear with our very own Jojoba oil once the ear has dried. Please be sure to dry them before putting them back in to your ear.
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