Stretching My Ears

Hiya, so I said I was going to keep you updated on my stretching process and I am. In this post I'll be telling you what I did, how I did and anything else you might want to know if you wanted to stretch your ears too. Side Note: I am not an expert in any of this, I did a little bit of research and I feel like I know what I'm talking about to a certain extent, but in no way am I qualified to tell you if something is wrong, etc... I hope you understand. So, let's get started.

To start off with I did research into stretching to make sure I felt comfortable. I researched the best size to start with and how to go about this process. I read that the best size to start with when going from a normal ear piercing is 1.6mm which is a 14 gauge. Now that's not very big at all, but I didn't want to strain my ears and have them bleed or split from over stretching them to start with. I went to my favourite piercing website blue banana. I have most of my piercings done there so I knew I could trust the site. I bought a steel PVD stretcher in 1.6mm and from Amazon I purchased my steel flesh tunnel in 1.6mm aswell. In addition I also bought a tub of Vaseline and disinfectant. Those two things are crucial if you want to do it safely.

Steel PVD stretcher

Stainless steel flesh tunnel

Front view of flesh tunnel

First I took my original earrings out and disinfected the holes. I thoroughly washed my hands and the stretcher and then disinfected the jewellery. Then I put plenty of Vaseline on both the ear hole and the stretcher to ensure that I wouldn't rip the existing hole. Now you have to go slowly when pushing the stretcher through your ear, if you go to quickly you could rip and make your ear bleed. If your ear does bleed or it hurts remove the stretcher straight away and leave it alone. All you should feel is a slight tingly sensation, but it should not hurt at all. In the photo below you can see that the stretcher is right to the end, I left it here for about 10 minutes so my ear could get used to the new size. (My ear was covered in Vaseline so it looks pretty gross) 

 

After the 10 minutes were up I then put Vaseline on the jewellery that I chose so as to aid it into the newly made hole and make it easier.

(The camera decided not to focus on my ear, sorry about that) The back of my jewellery unscrewed making it easier to get in. Once I've had stretched ears for a while I'll move onto a double flared gauge. But for now that would be too much for my newly stretched ears.

I plan on leaving these ones in for a month and then progressing to 2mm, I bought a new stretcher and jewellery in both black steel and plain steel. As you can see from the photo there is a small hole in the jewellery, you can actually see the light shining through it. I assume the bigger the jewellery the bigger the hole will be in it. (Let's play a game, every time you read the word 'jewellery' take a shot) I found a really good website to buy my jewellery from click here to visit it. It's called Ear Stretcher. It's really cheap but amazing quality. The steel stretchers I bought this time round actually came from them but were found on Amazon and not the shop it's self. I'm really pleased with how it looks and I can't wait to go a little bit bigger.

If you plan on doing this yourself as well, please be careful, disinfect well to ensure it's done safely and also make sure you don't push your ears too far. I have heard a lot of horror stories of people going too big too quickly and bad things happen. 

Anyway I hope this helped and if it didn't I hope you enjoyed reading any way.

I'll post again when I swap to 2mm. And also when I dye my hair.

Lots of posts to come!!!

Thanks so much for reading, I love you all.

Nadia xxx