How do you stretch your earring holes?

Answer 1

Go to your piercer and ask him/her for a taper. If they do not have one available, they should be able to point you in the direction of where you can get one. A taper allows you to stretch your ear to the desired gauge. Stretching needs to be done slowly, you should only stretch to a new gauge about every 1-2 months to allow your ear to recover from the last round of stretching. After you get the taper, slowly insert the smaller end of the taper into your piercing, then your ear stretches as the wider end is fed through. Do not skip gauges as it is not good for your ear and can potentially pose problems. Good luck!

Answer 2

I'm assuming that you are trying to put in double flared tunnels. Let me tell you, when I put my first ones it, I had to learn a process that was easy for me. When I put mine in, I didn't just shove them in, I worked with my ears. When I was in the shower, everyday I would just gradually try and work them in, because the heat from the water will keep the hole open, so you can work with it. Also if you want to do it and not hop in the shower, you can also use baby oil or vitamin E to help with the process.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

It could be as easy as pushing a new earring through, but then we wouldn’t really need a guide on reopening an earring hole. Usually, the case is that some people have lizard skin-like ear lobes. They don’t seem to have blood flowing through them, as they can push and prod and jab and poke, and holes in the skin will never close, get plugged with goo or get infected. Then there are those of us who can’t even wear the “hypo-allergy” products for long periods of time, because our ear lobes, and all the substances within them, detest any foreign bodies invading their space. But this doesn’t mean we never want to wear earrings – usually, we have a threshold of how much we’re willing to suffer, no matter what activity.

First things first. As you dig through the ‘ole jewelry box or peruse the store racks, do try to stick to the “hypo-allergy” posts, as these will allow your ears a little wait time between attacks of foreign bodies. Your ears must have a grace period, too. Select a pair of simple posts to do the opening – they’re sometime easier to maneuver than the fancy, bulky earrings.

Then, make sure you cleanse the earrings and their backs thoroughly with a cotton ball soaked in either a specially-formulated earring cleanser, usually sold at jewelry stores, or simply isoprobyl alcohol or benzoyl peroxide. The jewelry store cleansers claim to be better, because they won’t erode the metals on your earrings, enabling them to last longer. However, if you’re short on cash, you probably don’t have the fine jewelry that cleaner deserves, so you’ll do all right with alcohol or peroxide.

Using the saturated cotton ball, swab your ear lobes, where the hole is supposed to be found. Clean both the front and back areas, as you don’t want any dead, oily skin cells getting pushed inside the sensitive holes.

Using the post of your earring, locate the approximate opening for your earring hole and attempt to push the post through. If you encounter difficulty, with no apparent penetration, try going through the back. For some reason, this hole is much easier to find, and you can often push the earring from back to front, getting the hole open.

Once the hole has been cleared of any blockage, squeeze the cotton ball into and around the hole, trying to give the cleaner as much of a chance as possible to get in the hole. Squeeze a little more onto the earrings that you will be wearing, and attach them to your ears.

If the earrings are small, you may be able to get a couple of days out of them, but if they start to get infected, check with a licensed earring professional to see if your ears can benefit from keeping them in past the infection phase. They might determine that your ears are not going to get better, in which case you’ll just have to live with the boundaries your ears have set for you. No everyday earrings – only special occasion decorations for those ears!