When can I put in silicone tunnels?

Stretch with surgical stainless steel or glass, then insert silicone tunnels when the stretch is fully healed. Healing after a stretch usually takes one to two weeks. Never insert jewelry into your body that another person has worn, no matter how well you know the person or how clean the jewelry seems.

How do you stretch with silicone tunnels?

Can you wear silicone tunnels after stretching?

Silicone is made to be used in completely healed piercings only. Using Silicone in a unhealed piercing or just after stretching can cause painful damage to your piercing as it does not allow your fresh piercing to properly heal.

How do you put tunnels after tapers?

How do you put silicone tunnels in after tapers?

Can you put tunnels in right after stretching?

The taper will hold the hole open, making it a lot easier to get the plug or tunnel in. Once the taper falls out the other side, the plugs should follow through. This is by far the easiest way to insert flesh tunnels after a fresh stretch.

What size gauge can you start wearing tunnels?

What Gauge Should You Start Stretching With? This is probably the first question that most people have when they begin stretching. After making sure that your ears are fully healed from the initial piercing, you can start stretching at a 16 gauge. Most regular piercings are at 18 gauge.

When can I switch to tunnels after stretching?

For double flared plugs, you will need a different method, but first, it’s important to know that double-flared plugs and tunnels can only be worn on fully healed ears. If you have recently stretched your ears you should wait around four to eight weeks before trying to wear double flared plugs.

Can you gauge up with silicone tunnels?

Silicone plugs can be super comfortable! The material is very stretchy and soft. But don’t be fooled. Although you may think this is a great tool for bunching up into a small ball in order to insert into your stretched ears to go up a size very quickly, this is most likely going to result in over stretching!

Should you twist your gauges?

Don’t spin your plugs

As you move the jewelry, you can transfer new bacteria from your hands and open up the skin or healing wounds, which can lead to irritation and infection very quickly.

Can I leave tapers in overnight?

If it’s too tight, what you’ll do is tear the skin off the inside of your hole. This is painful and incredibly unpleasant and bloody. Repeat until you get the taper all the way in. Leave it for at least a couple of hours, ideally overnight.

Why do gauged ears smell?

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 deceased skin cells between your ear and the jewellery to make this unpleasant odour.

Why do silicone tunnels hurt my ears?

How big can you stretch your ears before its irreversible?

Most people can go between 2g (6mm) – 00g (10mm) and expect their ears to revert back to a normal piercing, after a few months of healing. If you want don’t want stretched ears forever, be sure to stretch slowly and never skip sizes.

Why do my gauges feel wet?

While uncommon, stretching with non-porous materials (typically glass) can occasionally result in a condition some piercers refer to as “wet ear.” This is where the skin in contact with the jewelry secretes too much fluid, creating a sticky, moist, “sweaty” layer between the ear and the jewelry.

What is ear cheese?

The gunk you’re referring to is sometimes called ear cheese. It’s a mixture of deceased cells, bacteria, sweat and oils that accumulate because of natural bodily processes and a lack of exfoliation in the area.

What do gauged ears mean?

Ear stretching (also called ear gauging) is when you gradually stretch out pierced holes in your earlobes. Given enough time, the size of these holes could be anywhere from the diameter of a pencil to that of a soda can.

What’s the biggest gauge size that will close?

What size can I stretch up to without permanent damage? There are a lot of different opinions on this topic, but the majority of professionals in the body modification industry recommend never going any larger than 2 – 0 gauge if you want your ears to totally close up where you can’t see through them.

Why are my gauges crusty?

If you just had your body pierced and you start to notice a crusty material around the piercing site, don’t worry. Crusting after body piercing is perfectly normal—this is just the result of your body trying to heal itself. 1 deceased blood cells and plasma make their way to the surface and then dry when exposed to air.

Why do my tapers keep falling out?

If your plugs are constantly falling out, then more than likely your piercing has relaxed and enlarged on its own. One thing you can do is take them out at night while you’re sleeping. During the night your piercing would relax a little and be snugger in the morning.

Can you sleep with ear tapers in?

You should not use tapers past a 00g! Stretch up using tape. It also is not good to sleep with your plugs in. You heal better without them in.

Does hemorrhoid cream Close gauges?

Hemorrhoid cream also works well to eliminate scar tissue and other effects of stretching. If you are older or stretched your ears beyond a 12 mm gauge, the skin on your ears might be too stretched or damaged to do much to fix it on your own.

Does 00g shrink back?

If you stretch your lobe to 00g or smaller, you are a much better candidate for your ear going back to “normal“. … If you stretched your ear a year ago or a few months ago, your ear has a much better chance of shrinking back to its original size than if it has been stretched and fully healed for several years.