Rule #3: Care for you ears!
Rules #1 and #2 both focus on taking your time which is the whole process of stretching. Rule #3 is that you must take care for your ears! This includes the following:
- Cleaning on a daily.
- Massaging
- The use of oils.
You should NEVER have to CARE for your ears as if they were a new piercing. Care should be very minimal but cleaning should be daily. Remove your gauges at least once a day and wash the jewelry with soap and water. You can clean your holes with simply water or use salt water mixture with the ratio of 1/8tsp non-iodized salt : 1cup of warm water. Use this to rinse of your lobes and let dry.
Massaging is key to having nice lobes. When gauges are removed from the ear and you have finished cleaning, massage your physical hole on the lobe. You should do this once or twice a day. At the same time you need to apply the appropriate oils.
- Jojoba Oil
- Vitamin-E Oil
There are NO SUBSTITUTES! These oils aren’t the same and there are no substitutes. In my personal opinion, you should get your hands on both of these and conjure a mixture between the two. This is what’s going to give you nice, fat lobes!
The whole process should be this:
- Remove gauges.
- Wash with soap and water.
- Rinse ears with water/salt-water solution.
- Apply Jojoba and Vit-E oils to lobes.
- Massage lobes for 5 min minimum.
- Put gauges back in.
Get in the habit of doing this every day, even if ears are healed!