Use this around the pierced area a few times a day to remove any bacteria. Dab don't wipe the piercing. If you get any type of injury or tearing, it's time to start treating your stretched earlobes like a new piercing.
This means you need to clean them on a daily basis. Daily soaking with a sterile saline wash for at least 10 minutes will help avoid infections and scarring. Wipe excess from your finger and from your piercing on to a tissue or cloth. 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. Body modifications like stretched ears were rarely seen except in traditional tribes. In the Western culture they were mostly seen in groups like punks or goths. Nowadays it continues to be on the rise. It's highly recommended to wait at least a full month between each stretch and to never skip sizes, so your ears will have minimal chances for long term damage.
Maintaining Ear Gauges. Remove your jewelry when you shower. Once your piercings are fully healed after 12 weeks , you should remove your jewelry when you shower.
This is the most effective way to clean both your piercings and your jewelry. Your skin secretes a natural oil called sebum which can mix with the dead cells in your piercings and cause a buildup.
This buildup serves as a great environment for bacteria to thrive and hence you end up with a foul smell. After 00g, we run out of gauge sizes, so we use fractions of an inch instead. Above all: avoid using harsh chemicals on your ears like rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide to clean them.
I recommend cleaning your stretched ears a couple of times a week — any more and you may irritate the skin. The easiest way to clean your stretchings is in the shower — simply remove your jewellery and clean thoroughly with warm water. You can also use unscented anti-bacterial soap if needed. After you have finished bathing, massage your ears with natural oil or moisturiser e.
Then reinsert your clean jewellery. It may also help to remove your jewellery regularly to allow the skin to breathe. Many people find that ear odour reduces when they reach their desired gauge and allow their ears to heal fully.
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? Lubrication will save you a lot of trouble. The cheapest kind of lubrication is olive oil. Slip your gauge in and push it as far as you can until you meet a slightly painful resistance. You need to stop here for a safe stretch. Just like Rome, ear gauging might not get done in a day.
You can wait a couple of hours and try to push your ear gauge in a little further. When your skin stretches from the gauge, it will naturally kill some skin cells during the process. It is very easy to get a build up of dead skin cells around the area, which may cause a foul odor. The larger the gauge you are wearing, the more skin surface that will be affected. Therefore, large gauges may have a stronger smell than smaller gauges.
Your gauge may start to smell if dirt, sebum, body oils or lymph collect and build up. The dirt buildup will look like a yellow crust.
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