Monday October 19th, 2009 @ 3:21 PM
Filed under: Ear
I’ve had my ears at 3/4ths for over a year and decided to downsize for a little while.
I took my plugs out 4 days ago and my ears have stayed swollen/red/secreting clear gunk.
Do you guys have any idea as to why this would happen?
Also, I’ve never had a blowout because I took my time stretching, but the backs of my ears look really blown out from the swelling, is there a way to stop that?
Your ears are probably feeling pretty thankful for the opportunity to get some good blood flow back to the tissue and to plump up.
When I remove my 1-1/8″ lobe jewelry for more than 24 I find my lobes get kind of sore from the increased circulation.
I’m unsure as to why you’d be having fluid secretions, but I’d leave the jewelry out for a while and keep the lobes clean and dry.
If you’d like to make them feel even better, do some massages with some Holey Butt’r or some Jojoba or Vitamin E oil!
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 3:25 PM
Hey, I had my lip pierced (16 gague) in early July and as I’m looking at new jewellry to buy, I’ve noticed that most of what I want is in 14 gague. I keep reading references to stretching the piercing, but nothing that says anything specific on HOW. Is there a page I’m missing, or what?
This is my first ever piercing (other than my ears) so if I’m asking something completely stupid here, please let me know. =]
–Tori
The size difference between a 16g and a 14g is only about half a milimeter, but can be tough to stretch depending on the jewelry you’re using.
A piercer would be able to gently slide a long insertion taper which will very gradually spread the piercing open to slide in a 14g instead of forcing a blunt 14g post straight through.
It’s quite easy to stretch and probably won’t cause you much, if any, discomfort.
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 3:17 PM
Filed under: Ear
I have three standard lobe piercings in each ear; two sets were gunned and one set was needles. They are the usual 20ga holes you wear regular “fashion” earrings in.
I want to get high-quality jewelry to wear in these holes full-time. I prefer stud-type, not hoops, and I would like it to be a good-quality metal. My absolute ideal would be 20ga titanium labret studs, but such a thing either doesn’t exist or is extremely hard to find. I have found 20ga CBRs, including titanium ones, but I just cannot find anything remotely stud-like.
Would any type of nose jewelry, which is often found in a small size like 20ga, be suitable for ear piercings? I prefer not to size up because I want to be able to wear “fashion” jewelry on special occasions. I’m actually thinking about nose bones - is there any possibility they could be worn securely in earlobes? What do you recommend?
There are several jewelry companies who make tiny-gauge implant grade jewelry for earlobes!
Check out Neometal!
You may also consider stretching your ears up to a 16g - which is still plenty small enough to wear costume jewelry in (many gold butterfly back studs are 16-14g)
at a 16g you’ll have all kinds of options for gemmed labret barbells, cbrs, circular barbells without stretching your ears up too much that costume jewelry would just hang out of.
+4 / 4 votes
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 3:13 PM
Filed under: Ear
YEAH, I GOT IT LIKE 3 DAYS AGO,
info:
-16g SSS- (SOME NUMBER I DONT REMEMBER) cbr
-(im american so they didnt use a catheter needle)
-and FREAKIN’ ITCHY (well off and on, like it randomly decides to get itchy then it goes away then it comes back.
im using a spray-on saline solution to clean it.
- i got a true daith so its kinda hard to see the entry and exit but theres no inflammation or any visible irritation from what i can tell (with two mirrors and a flashlight)
-one little wierd thing:
when i got it i didnt feel any pain. just a little pressure, thats it. (is this a problem? because i hear theyre supposed to actually hurt.)
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3 QUESTIONS:
WHY didnt I FEEL ANY PAIN?
WHYZ IT SO FREAKIN’ ITCHY?
HOW CAN I SOOTH THE ITCH BESIDES MOVING THE CBR AROUND?
Pain is personal to everyone. Chances are you have a higher pain tolerance and this piercing just didn’t cause you a lot of discomfort.
Fresh piercings are often kinda itchy while your piercing begins to heal. With swelling coming up and down it causes changes in the skin - stretching it up and relaxing it - and that can cause a prickly, tingly feeling. The salt in the saline can be a tad drying and lead to some itchiness as well.
Do not move the CBR around. That will irritate the crap out if it. If it itches, give it a little rinse off in warm water.
+1 / 3 votes 
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 3:05 PM
Filed under: Nose
Hey, I have already searched the Kaos jewelry website for a place to ask a question, and there isn’t one, so I thought I would try here! =) Their website is full of information about wearing kaos plugs in lobes and cartilage piercings, but no where else on the body…
I am in the process of stretching my septum piercing (Probably stopping at a 6 or 4 gauge). I know that they don’t advice you to stretch with kaos jewelry (in ears), so I’m not using it to stretch my septum either. BUT, I am just curious if kaos jewelry would be alright to wear in a septum piercing once it’s healed? Thanks in advance!
You’re right in not wanting to stretch with Kaos, but lots of people find Kaos silicone eyelets and plugs to be very very comfortable in septum and large gauge nostril piercings! It’s nice stuff!
+2 / 2 votes
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 2:50 PM
Filed under: Ear
Hello
Sorry if this question has already been answered somewhere else, I have tried looking for advice but cant seem to find much.
Basically I have my lobes pierced twice (gunned in my early teens, yuck). I have kept my first set unstretched so I can wear normal earrings in them for girlie days and the like, and am stretching the second set.
I was wondering if there is any specific advice about stretching the second hole, with it not being in so much flesh? Im currently only at 8g, not intending to go massive, but was after an idea of things I should look out for so as not to damage the lobe irrepairably? Im assuming the higher up the lobe, the more likely the chance of thinning is. How large is it relatively safe to go? Or maybe how thick should the lobe flesh be round the piercing to be in good condition?
Any advice would be great, thanks for your help.
This is very hard to answer without seeing how much tissue your lobes actually have.
You should be able to stretch your lobes just fine in any area as long as you’re not running into issues with the jewelry rubbing on the cartilage or the lobe thinning out the bottom or pinching off the other piercing.
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 2:46 PM
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My ears are stretched to 1 1/4″ and i want to go bigger but my lobes are getting pretty thin. is there anything to make my lobes thicker so i can stretch them more?
If possible, be sure to sleep with your jewelry out. This will give your lobes a few hours to plump back up with some circulation.
Daily Holey Butt’r or Vitamin E oil massages will help to encourage blood flow to the area, keep them moisturized and supple and therefore retain the elasticity.
Depending on where you’re living it’s important to note that removing your jewelry this time of year when you’re outside in the chilly weather is imperative. Your earlobes at that size have a significantly reduced bloodflow and they’ll get cold and be at a huge risk of frostbite - even if the rest of you isn’t that cold.
Remember to stretch VERY slowly and avoid tears and blowouts!
+1 / 1 votes
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 2:42 PM
Hey,
About one month ago I discovered interesting reactions with acrylic jewellery on my septum and lobe. Most of my lobe stretching jewelry from 8ga to 0ga had been acrylic. I decided to put allmost-6ga-jewelry on my septum. After 3 days my whole nose was sore and piercing area was heavily swollen. No bleeding, just a lot of redness. So i downsized it back to 8ga steel ring and it felt immediatly better.
I kinda let the whole septum case be and stretched my lobe from 9/16″ to (again)allmost 5/8″ with uv-acrylic taper i bought.(<-this happened about 2 weeks after the septum-case)My plan was to keep the taper only few days on my ear to get a flared plug in more easily. Again, on the 2nd and 3rd day my ear was very itchy, dried (small pieces of dried tissue falling off) and bit red. So, i took of the taper and the inner lobe skin (=fistula?) looked like something would be scratching it. Not bleeding but allmost. Rash-like skin. Downsized it and helped the dried areas with bepanthen for few days and it was good again.
Weirdest thing with all this is that I had a 0ga uv-acrylic ring on my other ear during both cases with no reactions.
Is it possible to slowly get somekind of allergy on plastic jewellery? And on only some parts of my body? O_o
Is there some very allergy friendly plastic material to wear? I really like the look of plastic plugs and uv-jewellery and it’d be a great loss not be able to wear them.
[offsite link] thats quite a lot what my ear looked like (not my ear on the pic)
I still use my acrylic tapers I allready bought, to help plugs get in. If I wear them +12hours my ears starts intching, so I can only keep them for couple hours to keep the ear healthy :S
Thanks for possible help
-Tuomo
Cheap UV Acryllic jewelry is completely inappropriate material to wear for a period of time in a piercing. It’s also inappropriate to stretch with.
You could definitely be having an irritation as a result of not wearing implant grade materials in your ear, it could be that you stretched to fast and tore the fistula and you could most certainly be allergic to the O-Ring.
I’d downsize a couple sizes and put in some implant grade steel or titanium or glass eyelets in until the piercing heals back up.
+2 / 2 votes
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Sunday October 18th, 2009 @ 2:07 PM
Filed under: Tongue
I stretched my center tongue to a 2ga on Tuesday night with no discomfort. Towards the end of Wednesday night, the discomfort was increasing, especially at the back of the bottom of the hole. Today, Friday, the base of my tongue web (and my tongue around the hole) are actually quite swollen and tender. I’m wondering how common allergic reactions are to teflon or if there are any adverse effects to wearing it. Perhaps it is from the cheap o-ring or perhaps the o-ring is pinching the underside of my tongue?
(excuse the low quality picture, I doubt it helps any)
I think you’ve answered your own questions!
Stretching itself could’ve caused irritation, you could be allergic to the cheapy o-ring, that o-ring could be simply be rubbing and causing the problem or, like you said, it could be pinching.
That O-ring and large gauge piece is a lot of business to have laying all over the sensitive underside of your tongue.
0 / 0 votes
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Monday October 5th, 2009 @ 10:16 AM
Hello,
I recently had my labia minora professionally pierced and I plan on getting another one in the near future. However, I am concerned about the jewelry stretching my labia minora and making them longer because of the weight. It is pierced with a 14g circular barbell, though I am not sure what kind of metal it is (I am guessing steel). I am wondering if I should switch to titanium because it is lighter (assuming the metal is something other than that) once the piercing is healed to prevent stretching. Will wearing steel in the piercing make it more likely to stretch than if I were to wear titanium?
Thank you in advance!
The answer would be yes. Basically, the more weight you have there the more your labia will stretch. One or two 14g titanium rings probably won’t make that much of a difference but you will notice it if you decide to wear larger gauge jewellery in the future. It is also worth mentioning that catching smaller gauge rings is more likely to result in a tear.
+2 / 2 votes
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