How to stretch your ears CORRECTLY!

[420thagame420]

i'm at 1' 3/8 and all you have to do to have healthy lobs is use tape its slow and theres never any open wounds so your ears are clean healthy all the time and theres rarely a blow out. <3

[CxlolxD]

Do u have to change size tunnels or can u stick to one

[StephaG310]

i like how she says Milimeters.

[brookegarner13]

what size are your plugs in this video?

[Erinydwi]

@brookegarner13 I'm not 100% sure as I made this video quite some time ago but they are both 10mm now.

[miamiamia420]

where are you from! I absolutely LOVE your accent.... I am american, so most european accents sound amazing to me, but which country/dialect do you have??

[Erinydwi]

@miamiamia420 Thanks! I am from Wales in the UK.

[djyzzi]

You have to lubricated before you put it in= DATS WHAT SHE SAID!! lol

[lalalaurrrenn]

Good to see some people on youtube actually know what they're doing

It annoys me that people watch this and just thinks it's stupid and ignore the advice like saying it's a "pussy way" or whatever

No, it's just a way to do it without getting blowouts and thin lobes and cattbutt and generally gross looking ears :)

[PROUDAME]

A year to get to 9mm?!?! Taking this waayyyy to seriously looool

[haaybabeewannapartyy]

thats just a pussy way wtf

[Erinydwi]

@iamtheogan Yeah, one of my stretches is only 3.2mm and I'm planning on keeping it that size. :)

[IAmTheOgan]

Can u stretch 2 like 3mm and just leave it there?

[Erinydwi]

@nicoleturvill123 you'd be very sore - and silly!

[nicoleturvill123]

if i pierced my ear today pulled a stretcher through tommorow what would happen? :-)

[XoXMCRMELODYXoX]

@nicoleturvill123 Bad things. :C

[Erinydwi]

@captainfluffiez @iizombiee Don't get your lobes stretched at the piercers, always do it yourself! Only go to the piercers if you're gonna get them scalpelled.

[iiZombiee]

Can I got from like a normal ear piercing (like the ones they do in Claire's) to a 8G? I haven't stretched my ears but I'm going too and the guy who always pierces me (Madonna, tongue, industrial& nose) said that he could get from the normal piercing to an 8g plug in less that 2 minutes. Won't I have blowouts or a bad damage?

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee Just a few days ago I went to a piercer and got my normal piercing to a 8g with no problem. As long as the piercer knows what he/she is doing you won't have damaging effects. (Other than a bigger hole! lol)

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez For real or you're just a troll?

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee No man I'm not a troll! Just ask the piercer some questions, make sure he/she knows what they are doing.

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez LOL! I asked my piercer a time ago and he said he could get me for the normal ear piercing to 8G... but I'm so scared!!! It hurt like a bitch, right?

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee No... I thought it would hurt aswell, but it wasn't tooooo bad. Like getting it normally pierced but the pain last over a longer period of time. lol

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez LOL! But you got them stretched or punched? If you got them stretched; how do they do it?

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee They use tapers to stretch it, I don't know what to tell you about getting it punched, never had it done like that.

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez So it was a taper after another?? U have videos showing your plugs?

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee No, I don't have videos, mainly because I slept the wrong way and my plugs fell out :( so my ears are healed up and I have to wait to stretch again >:( But that wasn't because of the skip, it was my fault.

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez :O Damn! That sucks!

[CaptainFluffiez]

@iiZombiee Yeah... I was pissed lol

[iiZombiee]

@CaptainFluffiez LOL! No shit.

[CayliinRawr]

I think you are the only people I've come across on YouTube that actually KNOWS what they are talking about.

I thank you. <3

[ricekid323]

Looks like u got gentle hands u can stretch me anytime ;)

[damarisssx3]

is it possible to start with a 12 ? i put them in and it felt like my ear was on fire! after 3 days i took them out. should i put them back in or where can i get a gauging kit of some sort? thanks! :D

[911WasFun]

6 months from peircing to first stretch?????

the shop peirced and stretched mine to 3mm at once. im going to go to 5 in a week or two. its been a month since then.

[iSquishMoths]

I waited 6 weeks before stretching, and 2 weeks inbetween each stretch. Why are my ears perfectly healthy and thick at 1 1/4 inches? Explain to me.

[Erinydwi]

@iSquishMoths Without me seeing a picture of them naked how can I tell if they're healthy or not? What my idea of healthy and your idea may be 2 totally different things.

[SopXeria]

The one i'm gonna get my done at, is an educated piercer, and she told me that she could do my earlobe 10 mm, in 5 weeks..

[Erinydwi]

@SopXeria The only way you could do that safely is if you had it scallpeled to 10mm. Your piercer sounds *really* educated. Yeah.

[SopXeria]

@Erinydwi vassi, as he is called, the one who owns the Tattoo Inc. Have never recieved a complaint or anything, he is highly skilled, in insanely realistic 3d tattoing... I dont know why youre stuff takes so long.. But everyone gets it done at the place, and nothing went wrong, so i dont see, why you should wait 6 weeks before stretching few millimeters... I aswell stretched my ear with 3,2 mm jack sticks, without anything going bad, and my earings, were healed. almost fully.

[SopXeria]

@Erinydwi but a single question.... If your method is correctly, i wanna know... are you educated by doing this or are you just a normal knowledge person, who is bragging about the right way to do it?.

[Erinydwi]

@SopXeria I'm educated in doing it. Also tattooing isn't the same as piercing/stretching. You shouldn't be going to a piercer to get your ears stretched if you're not getting them scalpelled anyway.

[ChouBunny]

i am at a 10mm. at least i think thats what it is. its a 00 gauge, so im not quite sure what that translates to. lol

[theshinyprincess]

I just bought some stretchers and the 00 went through my ear really smooth and quickly so the next day I put the 0 in and thats also done the same thing.... and now im shitting myself with all this 'blow out' talk!!

They are a bit sore, kinda like when you first get em done and a bit pink. Nothing bad though but I took it out just incase.

I am now waiting for the YouTube 'pussy' name calling...

But any help would be great :) thank you :)

[ChouBunny]

@theshinyprincess you would know if you had a blowout. it will most likely bleed a shit ton and be very swollen and red, start crusting over and whatnot. or your ear lobe just rips open. i could be wrong but i am pretty sure whats what a blowout is.

[Erinydwi]

@ChouBunny A blow out is basically when the skin at the back or front of you ear hole gets forced out and forms into a fistula.

[Erinydwi]

@Erinydwi *swollen fistula.

[Erinydwi]

@theshinyprincess You stretched too quickly. Wait at least 6 weeks before you stretch again. :)

[beckerchild98]

Uhmee...in America we say sizes and they're not mm...they go 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0, 00...then on to inche....just thought i should let yhu know for future reference.(:

[ChouBunny]

@beckerchild98 after 00 its 7/16. not right on to an inch. one in is one inch.

[dikkelinda]

HELP i was being stupid.. and i stretched too quick 0mm to 5mm! it does hurt and im afraid ill get blowout... what can i do to to minimize the risk of blowout or infection? somebody? thanks! xx

[Erinydwi]

@dikkelinda Take it out then stretch it properly after a few months.

[stfuhoface]

@Erinydwi Thanks for replying, but I just went straight to 3.2mm, basically just because I already had the stretches. But, thanks. :)

[stfuhoface]

@Erinydwi Can you go straight to 3.2mm? Coz when I first stretched my ears (i took them out, but am thinking about doing it again) I want straight to 3.2. I was told that was the smallest. I had no problems. So can I do that? Or should I go to the ones inbetween.:L

[Erinydwi]

@stfuhoface I would definitely only stretch to 1.6mm first if your holes are only at 1.2mm now, then go to 2mm then 2.4mm before 3.2mm with 6 weeks in between stretches. But I suppose at the end of the day it's up to you. :)

[ellakitty1996]

No offence or anything... But do you really know what you're doing, first, the oil isn't pronounced jojoba oil, it's hohoba oil. That's how you pronounce it. Secondly, you should follow the plug or tunnel through after the taper, you're nit really supposed to take the taper out then put in the plug or tunnel, just push the plug or tunnel through so the taper pops out.

[Erinydwi]

@ellakitty1996 I thought that by my demonstration it would have been clear what I meant, tunnel through after the taper, like I demontrated. And RE the pronunciation of jojoba it's a case of you say tomayto, I say tomarto.

And of course I know what i'm doing. This video is a damn sight better than most of the other stretching video on here.

[copinhobenfiquista]

course its not fair on the NHS, poor NHS!!!!

feel so sorry for those pigs

[Erinydwi]

@copinhobenfiquista Pigs? Seriously?

[mattyot89]

You can't generalise 6 weeks as the correct time to wait for your next stretch... im fed up with stretching videos on YouTube. Literally every video offers different information. The point is EVERYONE is different, im at 4g/5mm and its taken me 2months my ears are perfect with no pain or any problems.

Do what YOU feel is right, if it hurts to much, stop. Clean it everyday, thats it.

Stop over complicating something so basic.

[Erinydwi]

@mattyot89 *Facepalm* 6 weeks is the minimum length of time it takes the body to hea/recover from stretching. It physically can't do it any faster.

[mattyot89]

@Erinydwi You clearly havent red my Comment clearly enough. If a stretched ear physically cant heal/recover in under 6 weeks how come mine are perfectly fine? Ive stretched again after 2-3 weeks with no problems? ITS A MIRACLE!

[kenziecover]

Or... you could not listen to this dumbass in the video and get proper stretching equipment. Isn't this video supposed to demonstrate the correct way

[Erinydwi]

@kenziecover Tapers and plugs are correct equipment. Dumbass.

[kenziecover]

@Erinydwi

Labrets are not stretching equipment..they're lip studs. STEW

[Erinydwi]

@kenziecover If you had watched the video properly you would know that I said I WOULD NOT reccommend using them for stretching!

[angiedynamite]

How do you know that the ear is healed? Once it feels painless?

[Erinydwi]

@angiedynamite If after 6 weeks has passed, your ear feel painless and has no resistance when you put the taper through before inserting the jewellery.

[emofranky2528]

Hi I just had a look at your video and i would have to disagree somthing shocking bout the idea of using labret,septum or belly jewlery I work in the body art and modification industrie and we tell our clients after inital piercing 4 months then from standard to 2mm with a certified tapper aka strecher then wait another 5-6 weeks then do the same proses until you get to 5mm thats going throw 3mm then to 5mm then after 5mm you can start streching ever 3 weeks give or take depending on person

[Erinydwi]

@emofranky2528 I said that I wouldn't recommend using a labret or belly bar. You need to wait at least 6 months after the initial piercing. 1.6mm and 2.4mm are legitimate sizes in their own right and shouldn't be skipped. You shouldn't wear tapers are jewellery. And you need to wait at least 6 weeks between stretches for the body to recover, no matter what size you are - that is just basic science. I very much doubt you work in body modification as what you are saying is complete bollocks.

[Erinydwi]

@emofranky2528 It doesn't help matter either that you can't even spell.

[sherinanan]

tapers = bad ..

[Erinydwi]

@sherinanan At least someone gets it! Haha.

[atom93]

@sherinanan then what should be used? honestly im asking because im at a 14g moving to a 12g and i keep seeing that tapers are bad...what do i use then?

[sherinanan]

@atom93 for the small sizes you should try heavier jewellery.. ONLY to get your ear started , if you use it for too long you will thin your ears out pretty bad, usually if you play with you ears alot the holes tend to loosen up quiet well and the next size just fits in. only stretch like that if you can see light above your plug when you pull it down, i hear teflon tape is quite effective aswell for the larger sizes

[KennisonPuppet]

Lol, you look like a girl from bodyjewelleryshop forums!

[Erinydwi]

@KennisonPuppet LOL I am a regular poster on there. What's your boardname?

[azula333]

Thanks for the vid upload :] it was really helpful :D

[Erinydwi]

@azula333 Glad it was of help. :)