Ok this is my first time doing this and my question is,When can you take the ear tapers out? and when can you take the ear plugs out? im planning to stay in 14g.
Disconnected answered Monday August 18 2008, 1:11 pm: I'm not quite sure what you mean in this question, but I'll try to answer it.
Generally, lets say that you just tapered your 16ga ears to 14ga. You have the taper in, you should be able to put in a plug, tunnel, barbell whatever right after stretching.
Then you should keep in the jewelry until your ears aren't sore anymore and it doesn't hurt to move the jewelry around.
To take them out, I'm not sure what you mean by this exactly but if you mean that you can take them out without shrinking, that's near impossible. You could take them out for a day, but they will start to shrink. Any longer, and your ears will go back to 16ga.
I suggest cleaning your ears with sea salt mix twice a day.
So sea salt mixed with warm water, should taste like tears. clean your stretched holes with this twice a day, thoroughly.
:)
If you have any more questions, just ask since I've done a lot of tapering on my own ears and at the moment I have a lobe piercing at 14ga which I stretched a week ago. [ Disconnected's advice column | Ask Disconnected A Question ]
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