#stretching 101

[canvas4everyone]

Ever wondered why some stretched canvases look steady for years… …and others ripple the moment the light hits. It starts way before paint at the fabric, the frame, the tension. One small corner decision changes everything you’ll see later. Ready to spot the difference before you commit the whole piece? Peek at the setup, then look closer at what can go wrong. Save this for your next stretch.

[psykoda]

Blowout healed in 24 hours!!

Monday night (while I was ordering new plugs in a bigger size… typical) my ear started feeling kinda weird and I woke up with a blowout… I took my plugs out at school and felt like everyone could see my naked ear which look alot like a cats bumhole (sorry not sorry)… When I got home I googled all types of shit about healing and preventing the blowout to get worse and I bathed my ear in sea salt water and massaged it for like 30 minutes in aloe vera lotion. I also saw a tip about sleeping with my plugs out to let the blowout heal without anything pushing on it aND GUESS WHAT WHEN I WOKE UP THE BULGE WAS COMPLETELY GONE!!!! It’s only a bit soar!

So basically I got rid of a blowout in under 24 hours! I’ll wait a couple days or so before I start taping it tho… So yeah. Don’t freak out if you get a blowout okay? I thought I was going to have to take them out for good tbh!

[stretching101]

I got my ears pieced in colombia in june, it's had been almost 5 months. and i Think i have a scar tissue but i want to know how to get rid of it cause i want to be able to stretch my ears.

hey there.

Its not too hard :) just regular sea salt soaks:

1/4 tsp pure non iodized sea salt in 1 cup of hot as you can take water for 5 minutes each ear

and regular oil massages. I prefer emu oil or jojoba oil as a vegan alternative.

[stretching101]

You seem to know most of what you're talking about. but you just suggested that someone stop oiling their ears unless it's emu oil... FIRST, emu oil is a cruel product and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. SECOND, tapers shouldn't be used to stretch AT ALL, Especially above a 2g. Using a taper to stretch to 0g WILL most definitely ALWAYS end in a torn lobe. I'm not trying to be a dick, but you should be more careful about what you tell people.

I'm always open to suggestions but this was actually told to me by very credible people, both pieces of advise I gave.  Why would you not suggest emu oil, only because you think its cruel?  the farm kills them anyway, for other products, emu oil is a bi-product, its more "Native American," using every part of the animal.  they kill them for meat and leather.  Also the place I get my emu oil, Desert Palms Emu Oil, uses 99% of the emu so it isn't actually all that cruel, otherwise it would go to waste, now its going to help someone.  The reason I recommended it isn't frivolous either, it is for an important reason.  That is is because emu oil is the only oil that allows the skin to breathe under it and is thus safe for open wounds.  Even Jojoba oil cannot do that.  Otherwise, it is not safe to oil ears with open wounds at all, it traps bacteria inside and slows healing.  That is why I suggested that.  Cruelty or not, it's the only product compatible with the body for that particular problem.

Tapers are the only way to gradually reliably gently stretch from standard piercings to about 2g.  beyond that I would tape instead, but my piercer still says tapering is fine up until 00g, and he is quite good and famous so I trust him over you, no offense.  Just saying...

But I'm posting this up here everyone should be able to voice their opinions (as long as they aren't dangerously stupid like "nails make excellent jewelry" or something) (PS that was sarcasm please do not wear nails at all in any part of your body ever for any reason 0.o)

[thefuckwhisperer]

For my only post today, I present: The Dangers Of Acrylic Jewelry

Taken from Onetribe Organics:

An entire book could be written on the dangers of acrylic and other improper materials being utilized as long-term body jewelry. There are many different types of NOVELTY jewelry that are produced out of a wide array of materials. This jewelry is just what is says: a novelty. There is no great danger in wearing them for a short while, but they should not be the primary jewelry worn as they are not of the same high quality as the other materials available. Acrylic is a porous substance and its use can lead to infection. It also begins to react with your skin over time - breaking down tissue and releasing toxic chemicals/fumes to be absorbed by your skin.

I have never liked acrylic in my ears, it always felt weird. After I read this, I am glad that I avoided acrylic as much as I possibly could.

[stretching101]

Ever try using avacado oil as opposed to jojoba/emu/vitamin e?

I never tried it no, but I know people do use it for stretching.  Its a nice oil, very healthy to eat and use in your hair, skin and nails too.

[stretching101]

i want to got my third lobe piercing done. i did my saecond with a piercing gun & i want to know why is it bad to be done like that

many reasons

1) guns use blunt force to push a hole in the tissue rather then cutting like a needle which causes scarring

2) guns can never be sterilized.  You can replace the jewelry, btu you cannot sterilize the gun.  Any god shop for tattoos, piercings, or anything will sterilize everything.  EVERYTHING.  EVERYTHING and then the artist should have gloves and such on, everything is sterilized.  You can get indirect blood spatter or someone elses tissue from a gun.  Just look at this from BMEzine

http://news.bmezine.com/2006/07/24/gun-piercing/

or

http://www.homiegfunk.com/gunssuck.htm

Good luck, but guns suck.  ;P lol