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Pre-Care and Aftercare Instructions for Gauges & Stretching

Pre-Care For A Stretch Stretch ONLY healed piercings!! Always wash your hands well before you touch your piercing. Two weeks before your first stretch, apply Emu oil around the perimeter of the piercing you want to stretch. Apply one drop of oil to the front and back of the piercing twice daily and massage into skin. When you are ready to insert the stretching taper (after the two weeks of using Emu oil daily), apply a warm (NOT hot) compress to the piercing...

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Stretching Your Ear Lobes

Stretching can be a permanent change to your body. Depending on each individual’s capacity to heal, and skin elasticity, once you pass a certain size stretch, it may be impossible for the skin to shrink back to a “normal” size piercing. Dead Stretching Never simply shove anything through your lobes. This is known as “dead stretching,” and can lead to tearing, or a nasty blow-out. A blow-out is when the skin on the inside of the pierced lobe gets pushed out. This...

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