Ear Stretching 101A: From an Elder
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- He's my advice to folks just starting out. Get off my lawn you darn whippersnappers... Now, where's my walker;)
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@@ChelseaSaidTV She did, in April. I believe from an asthma attack. Her kids have had trouble gaining access to her social media accounts, thats why not many people really know about it. I only knew because of comments on her instagram. So so so sad. :(
@@shpup Damn bro, rest in peace!! This is my first time watching her.
How she die
@@staticbeans it says it above read it. Asthma
Why does this only have a thousand odd views? This was an excellent and insightful video that everybody who has or wants stretched lobes should see. But unfortunately the young kids are much more likely to give 500,000+ views to the 18 year old with 2" lobes that look awful, wearing cheap acrylic plugs (probably even still referring to them as "gauges"), telling them to "gauge" every month with tapers they find at Hot Topic. And that's scary.
Mew that's not true for everyone. I'm 14 and I live the advice she gives. but you're right she should have a lot more views
Rainbow Sam fr i’m just watching this now six years later and i started when i was 12 (i’m 19 now) luckily i did my research and took my time!!!
So you're like 43? you look great!!!!!!!
"happy fun time lube"
"happy fun time store"
omg subscribed
You are such a great teacher by birth,you are so detailed in every subject you touch , I hope you take teaching as a career if you are not one.
I LOVE listening to you speak and love your locs here.
Great info! I just started and it is refreshing to see someone much older and wiser than me giving good advice rather than watching a lot of the crappy kids here on youtube.
This is the best video on ear "stretching" on the internet. I still find myself coming back to this video along my journey.
Anyone interested in ear stretching should see this video, it's the best I've seen. Especially the part about "healing", because as you said, your ears should adapt and stretch, not "heal". Even the most knowledgeable youtubers/ear stretchers doesn't make thar distinction. You just earned yourself a new subscriber! 👏❤️
This is absolutely the best advice I’ve seen/heard during my “journey”
I wish I would have watched/learned this before I began and I can’t say home much this helped me!!!
Thank you (even though I’m extremely late).
Knowledge is timeless!
i wish i watched this when i started.
I watched this video before I began stretching my ears and it really helped me start on the right track! This was 5 years ago now!!! I have decided to stretch them larger and came back here to rewatch and show my gratitude 🙏 Thank You ✨
She passed away in April. 😔
@@Gmailaccount717 what? :(
@@Gmailaccount717 No 💔😢.
Yup she literally covered everything! Very advanced guide in stretching your ears, listen to the older generations of stretched ears :)
Rest in Peace my Lady
You are an excellent teacher by birth,you really go deep in every subject you touch, I hope you consider teaching as a career if it's not what you are currently doing,you're also well spoken.
Loved it, as always. Lately your videos have really been coinciding with things going on in my life, many of which I haven't spoken about out loud. To hear you talk about them is very comforting. I appreciate it.
I like watching your videos. Your locs are beautiful
This is one of the few home made advice video on stretching from a non piercer I’ve seen. Even some new school “professional” pieces have shit advice. I believe since you are old school like me and started way back in the 90’s when it along with tattoos was taboo before every 16 year old girl and their mothers were getting this stuff done in like 2010. I think you really have a good balance of healthy methods and practicality. Some of these younger guys and gals get so absurd with their “advice”! I could go on forever and sound like a bitter old man but I’ll try not too. It’s just that we paved the way for all these rich kids from the suburbs to get into it. Being a young hardcore punk kid people use to try and fight us for looking like that. Calling us faggots, and pussies, and kinds of other shit. Nowadays kids have it so easy which in a way it’s cool because I know that for 10-15 years I was one of the folks paving the way. Anyway I’ll digress, and finish up by saying well done on the video and it was a half hour well spent so don’t even sweat that! Plus you are very beautiful so that made it even better haha. Ok have a nice day and hope you get to read this! PEACE!!!!
Just learned today that she passed away last year in April (2019) May she RIP
Have your kiddos expressed interest in wanting to stretch their ears?
Your locs are really growing and you look healthy and happy.
You are so beautiful and your locs have grown so much since I last watched your videos.
I wish I'd come across this video a couple weeks ago, I was looking for info from people who'd been stretching a long time. This was nice and thorough, and I appreciate you sharing what you'd learned. Since I'm only starting out, I can use this information as I progress. Thank you very much for thinking to do this 4 years ago. ;)
Thank you so much for this knowledge.
I just started stretching my ears. I am so happy I found you.
I have absolutely no desire to let my ears close back to normal lol...but for me it is an aesthetic thing. I take excellent care of them and I plan to have them my entire life. They're such a big part of me and I'd be lost without my plugs. I'm at 5/8 and I have no set size for the future. They're just such a beautiful thing and the jewelry available is so unique and gorgeous ☺️ love your videos
Plugs everyone, not "guages"
I dont mean to sound arragant, really, just trying to help
@@Dillonisgone you still spelled it wrong
@@staticbeans dammit😆
I've beenstretching the second earring hole in both my ears.And stupidly, some years ago. I got bored and pierced my ear with a straight pen and that's basically what im stretching with 8 years later. I DONT RECOMMEND IT. AND THANK GOD my stretching process is going well but i cant help but realize how lucky i was based off your information about starting off.
It is good seeing you. You look more relax than your last vid and your hair looks amazing!
thank you so much for posting this wonderfully useful video. I have been stretching my ears for about 10 years. and a lot of the information you provided was new to me. and helped me to understand why a lot of things that i have experienced while stretching happened. thank you again for your insight.
Namaste
I recently began my ear stretching journey. It was something I had been wanting to do for a long time. I did a lot of research before purchasing anything. And even after I got my first tapers and tunnels, I still waited. I'm glad I did. There's so much bad information out. I read a lot of things on BAF's forum.
I'm currently at a 14g and will probably move up around the end of June if my lobes are ready. I've seen so many nice, thick, large lobes that I want to make sure I make the right choices to have healthy lobes.
I have a question about cleaning them though. Besides sea salt soaks, a lot of posters will say they wash theirs in the shower when they wash their hair and just let shampoo run over them. Well having locs and having kinky hair, daily washing isn't an option. At the moment I take them out like every other night and sort of wash them with warm soapy water, try them, then put my tunnels back in. But when the stretch was fresh I just used a qtip with soapy water to rub around it.
Is that enough? The possibility of having an infection scares the shit out of me because of the horror stories I've seen. But I also don't want to do too much.
I also want to move to glass, but I'm having trouble finding super affordable and reliable sources.
Thanks in advance, sorry it's so long.
I asked as many questions as possible since it’s gauging not just an earring and so they started with stone or glass and she was mentioning to CONSTANTLY shower and wash easy around my ears, she said wait a minimum of 6mo before taking out what I have in and then she’d look to see my ears generally look great to start or wait longer for stretching and I believed her info as well and started with 10g. Looks like I went to Clair’s. But I heard patience will only make your ears look better
Not rambley at all. Super informative and helpful. Tyvm for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
so informative! i ended up stretching after wearing very heavy earring for most of my life and got tired of the studs always sagging so i started sizing up ad here i am almost 10 years later at a size 7/16 even though i told myself i would stop at a 0. i love your plugs!
I started stretching my ears 8 years ago and it truly is something I don't see myself without. I'm very attached. Also I stand 100% by everything you've said. P.S I'm currently at an inch which I thought would be the perfect size and as soon as I got here I realized I was gonna go way bigger lol. Interesting how things work.
Very informative video, thank you!
Your hair looks gloriously happy, too!
Before I stretched I did SOOOO much research and it took me almost two years to convince my parents. I also taught them a lot. My first holes were done with a gun because I was two, and that's what how all the other mothers were getting the child's ears done. But I told my mom how nasty and horrible the piercing guns are, and we went to a tattoo and piercing shop to get my second holes done. There was like a TINEY sting and it didn't really hurt. But the sad thing is they were done with a horse shoe piercing (16g) and the screw off balls on both lobes came off. :(
THE GOOD THING IS! They're almost fully healed!! Yay!! And In February I'll probably get my nose pierced. Very excited!
this is only the second video of yours that i watched and i love it... i really like how you take your time and explain everything without rushing... i already knew some of the things that you talked about, but nonetheless enjoyed listenings to them - that`s how good of a speaker you ar :))
Love your stretched lobes. Most pierciers in my area are terrible. One even told me that I can't get to 1/2 inch and I have detached lobes. I wish I could get my ears scalped but it is illegal in my state. I just go realllllly slow. So far, so good.
You're amazing! So beautiful and well spoken. Thanks for these great videos! Very informative X
Thank you for the video. I've recently started to stretch my ears and this is just what I needed. You're awesome as a person as well, I love hearing you talk haha.
Super helpful video! I got my ears pierced at a 14g with a labret and after three months of them literally not healing I had to change them to a circular barbell which helped a lot, but the point of saying all that was, having to deal with that already helped me to listen to my body when something's not right. My bfs at a 6g and I hope I can use the info you gave to help him with his next stretches in the future :-)
I got my ears pierced back in 1990 with a gun-back then, there weren't so many piercing studios & in the early 90s, alot of people thought that ear piercing with a needle was like, barbaric, lol! Luckily they were even. I started streching in about 97 & back then, body jewelry was SO limted & expensive-like I can remember paying $30 for a set of shitty acrylic no flare 8g plugs. It's so nice now all the options we have. I'm pretty lucky though, I live in Philly & Philly has some good piercing places-there's Infinite, & then there's Luis Garcia at No Ka Oi, he's very well known in the industry. I forget sometimes that not everybody is as lucky as me & lives near good places like that.
Luis pierced my septum.
You’re very knowledgeable
Thank you for sharing! Peaceful days to you!
Awesome vid, I've been stretching for almost 2 years now. I went to a shop and got pierced with larger needle so I started at 6g. I'm now at 9/16 and my lobes are like "yeah, this is where we will stop" lol. My lobes were pretty easy to stretch naturally til I got to 7/16 that's when I started to tape up. I got too lazy now and I guess between that and the price of good plugs are expensive even with my 10% discount at BAF I'm done with stretching. But I envy large lobes!!
Damn good video, thank you. I would add that when using tapers, those screw in ones are absolutely the best. Single flares tend to catch the fistula on the way through and at 0g and up(for me) the tunnels are really tight. The screw back tunnels allow for better cleaning and for me, if I wear a single flare too long the rubber ring doesn't seem to allow my skin to breath. I also highly recommend for those going to 0 or 00g, don't stretch straight from 2-0 or 0-00, you can get 7mm and 9mm sets which are the sizes in between each.
wow i never knew that it was soo much work and information. great information
I haven't finished watching but I stretched to 2g today and my ears are bleeding a tad 😭. I'm probably not going to stretch again for the rest of the year.
Great advice! I hope some of these young cats listen. The tape is a very good method to stretch and don't rush. I have been using vitamin E oil daily to massage. Your hair is looking very good! Great to see you making more videos!!!
So to fix/shrink the knots in your ears massage with jojoba/aloe vera a few times a day! (may not work for you but it worked for me!)
Just wanted to thank you for being awesome! Your videos make me happy!
Awesome lobes i hope mine will look as great as yours :)
This was a great video, the Tap part makes much more sense now, I know you didnt suggest it but I think im going to go to 12 and 10 gauge in one sitting, but spreed it out over a good amount of time and do the oil thing and then the bigger size's ill use tape, just considering right after i got my ears pierced and still have not hurt one bit and i didnt even use the numbing stuff they ask if you want - but thank you for an actual good informative video
I started at a 10g and the first piercing I just “heard” the piercing go through and told her and people at the shop the first side I heard something the 2nd side was hardly anything. I heard nothing when she pierced me starting at a 10g. My goal is 00 but looking at sizes and me I think I’ll go up some more. My brother had his for a long time and his gauges are 1 1/4” and damn.
I'd still love to see that stretched ear jewelry collection video ;)
I'm SO EXCITED for this video! :D
I would love to see your plug collection! Hopefully you do a video on it. Very great info!
I had to watch this again lol
quotidianlight I certainly did! I started stretching a few months ago and your video made me realize I need to wait for much longer, even if I only stretch 0.5mm at a time. So thank you! Because of your advice my ears already feel much better.
this is an great video. I would love to see your earring (gauges) collection. I notice the ones I see are beautiful. Loving the locs as well (missing mine) :)
this is the bests video I've found!
Great video! Thanks for uploading
You're beautiful and very knowledgeable in this subject. Super helpful! :3
I understand that. To me, I think it's your body, do whatever you want
Wealth of information!
I was also told taping was bad but he was addressing those who stretch a little each day till they get to the size they want just the way that sounds sounds wrong
i can't find much about the history and spirituality of ear stretching. is there a good documentary?
Oh yeah! And, I'll be waiting awhile before I stretch again.
I love your dreads
Great vid lots of really good advice wish I would of seen this vid at the beginning of my journey would of saved me a lot of heart ache! Lol but always enjoy the journey ✌🏼highly recommend oil it has helped my lobes so much 💜
Thank you so much for the video.
I love your videos and you have beautiful ears! :)
Everyone needs to watch this video. THANK YOU for mentioning getting stretched by a piercer! You should not have to stretch your ears and wait a few months for it to "heal". Your ears should self stretch. I really wish I got my ears dermal punched to get rid of my piercing gun piercings and to my placement. I didn't have an issue as smaller sizes but at 3/4ths my ears are off and would need to scalpel to fix placement.
this video is really great
Thank you very much for the information! also, I would like to know what can I do if I don't want my ears to grow more... do I have to stop massaging them?
Thanks for the video, you seem much more informed on the topic than others I've watched. I've been stretching for just a bit now, I'm currently at an 8g. I plan on only going to about a 2g or 0g. However, I would like to get an additional lobe piercing next to my original one to wear normal earrings in. Would you recommend waiting until I'm at my desired gauge size for this piercing or would it be okay if I got it in the near future? Also, if I ever decide I'd like to let my ears shrink, which method is better: simply removing the jewelry and letting it shrink on its own, or gradually downsizing by inserting smaller plugs every so often?
I'm at 14mm just stretched yesterday.. Hurt like heck in pain today now after watching this I should have either taped up.. My ears aren't happy with me
great video. one thing i wish i could hear you comment on that you didn't cover was down sizing. have you ever had/or just wanted to down size? is it successful to build up skin if ones lobe is becoming thin? would you recommend at all? and just your general thoughts. as always, love to hear you speak and wish i knew you in real life because you seem so cool! if you ever come to the midwest, be my friend! d;
Please do a plug collection! :) also, are you still at the same size you were in this video, or did you go bigger? I'm new to stretching my ears and it got to the point where I'd get so impatient, that I'd only wait 2-3 days, the most I've ever waited was about 5 days. I'm at an 8 gauge but I couldn't get the tunnel in so I'm gonna sleep with the tapers in and try to put the tunnels in before school, if my ears get irritated I'm just gonna downsize.
Is it safe to put in the next size up if ur lobes are ready...my jewelry can be taken out from the back and I can see a ampage amount of light .... been stretching 1mm at a time
So glad I found your channel, but I do have a question! I have been at 00g for a while and for about 2 years and I would like to move up a gauge and I would like to know what would be the best way to move up a size. Oh by the way I'm the only one who has been on my ears. A professional told me to use weights. Will that damage my ears?
Starshema Rash sorry no one answered you. Weights do stretch your ears but can tear your ear. It happens to a lot of people. They are left with a split ear. Now you can buy online a stretching kit from 00g to 1'' and choose where to stop. To make it easier you can tape your 00g with bondage or teflon tape (2 or 1 rounds of tape every 2-3 weeks) until you feel ready to size up and it won't hurt.
I dont intend on gauging my ears big at all. But I have gotten my ears pierced from claires when I was 5. I've pierced my ear lobe twice since last year. I have my original piercing when I was 5 and new ones just above the old holes that I've done myself. Would gauging my ears even alittle bit have a major effect on my other pierced holes?(the ones I've done myself.)
I'm currently addicted to piercings..I went a couple days ago and got both vertical tragus' done..and to me they didn't count cause I didnt really know if he had started or not. So because I'm pretty sure I'm addicted to the pain that comes with piercings I went back and got my daith done. Still didnt hurt! I think my ears are dead lol. My piercer said I just have a high pain tolerance. Which I dont mind at all, especially being someone who enjoys body mods. Have a good day mam. Oh quick question: have you always been attracted to body mods? From the info I get from the video you've been at this a long time. When I was younger I didnt really care for piercings on myself. I had a few, my tongue and my belly button, but that's all I had growing up. Now fast forward to me at 35 my ears are all decked out and I've got a couple on my face. It's pretty cool how you evolve as a human and do things you never thought you would.
your hair looks amaaaaaaaazing :)! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh :)! That's a very happy scream :)!
Quick question. I stretched my ears to an 8g probably 3 weeks ago? And this morning I noticed my o ring fell off the front. So I played with the taper a little And it actually turns out it was inside my ear lobe. Like my lobe had swallowed it and my lobes r kinda loose with my taper in. lol. Would that mean I'm ready to stretch?
Hello! Thanks so much for this helpful video.
I was hoping you'd have the time to help me out. I got my ears pierced back in February at 10g. Everything seemed fine, but my jewelry kept falling out while i was asleep and getting lost. One ear was naked for about two days at one point, and the other for about a week. (I know I should have acted sooner, but stuff happens, you know? Please don't judge me!) In both cases I went to a piercer and they had to re-stretch my ear back up to 10g. I know I'm not supposed to ever do any drastic stretching, so my question for you is do you think my earlobes will still be healthy after all that?
Thanks for taking the time. Have a good one!
If you’re jewelry was falling out like that then that was probably the biggest sign that you should size up.
how do I get rid of a bad lip?):
Your stretched ears look awesome on you. plan more mods?? Do you have a large gage tounge piercing??
Are you going even bigger with your tongue?? WOW! You are looking great in all your modded glory.
WOW!!!! That is so cool!!! Tieing it off?? I have thought about doing it. Love the extreme stuff but I am 48
you are right, its just some people think we are too old for it. You dont look 38!
Oops I'm already at 11/16. And have been doing this for a little more the a decade and a half.
Oh and maybe my helix. Not sure yet.
Damn she was 18 years old in 93'. I thought she was way younger
what if I have 2 holes can I still get done?
Yup. I have two holes and my first hole is an inch wide.
You're an elder???
So i have been wanting to stretch my ears for awhile just never had the guts to do it cause im a little scared. I did have my ears pierced with a gun, but they have closed in the past and i think ive re-punctured them with a regular earring maybe twice cause the front would be open but not the back. Of course there's a knot my ears from the piercing. Should i see if they close back up and then get them re done or would there even be a point in doing them?
Awesome Thanks for the help
LOVE💞
by the way, you are beautiful
You're beautiful
Just trying to get another opinion before a week ago I have never pierced my ear lobes at all and last week I had a professional who has gone through training and is experienced in both stretching ears and having stretched ears currently doesn't have stretched ears at all for personal reasons I could get into but aren't important he is a friend of mine and he has been trained from my understanding by a known and experienced piercer anyways I had him stretch to the biggest size he said 2g I said ok and we got to it ... I felt almost no pain after and still am experiencing almost no pain whatsoever a little soar but nothing close to unbearable they are a little scabby and bled slightly yesterday when I removed a cotton ball that had wound wash on it they feel fine at most slightly soar he said 2 months of healing but I plan on waiting longer ... Your thoughts?
Do you think I should be fine as long as I let the ears heal properly
Waiting longer for what? To stretch? If yes to stretch I would wait another 6/7 months.
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Ugh your beautiful