Body Piercing Tips & Aftercare - How to stretch an ear piercing
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Hi I'm Tristan McCauley from Lucky Seven Tatoo and I'm here to show you how to stretch an
ear piercing. When considering how to stretch your ears there are a few options you can
go with. You can go with a taper which is a faster way to do it. It is not as safe as
some of the other options but it gets the job done. You have longer tapers which are
more gradual or you have more streamed gages that will pretty much just open it wide up.
Another option you have is teflon tape and you just take your gage out and you go one
or two wraps every day with the teflon tape tearing it off and just sticking it back in.
Every time you ear will get used to that and you can stretch it a little bit slower but
it is safer. Another option you have is a weighted piece of jewelry. This is a bit extreme
for what I am trying to tell you but it is a weighted piece of jewelry. It is pretty
heavy and it just kind of stretches your ear lobe out allowing you to stretch a little
bit faster. Some of the risks that you have with that are blow outs. Blow outs are basically
when there is so much pressure on the inside of the gage that it pushes the flesh out from
around the gage and it just basically looks like a mass of flesh coming from the back
and that is probably the biggest risk for stretching if you stretch too fast and that
is how you stretch an ear piercing.
