I’m also gonna run into looking after your ears, as where I live it is cold, and some peoples ears (including mine) act horribly during the winter. So, please refer to this page before emailing me, and I may love you forever.

So, things that will be covered, Blow outs, tears, rips, swollen, puss, blood, downsizing, thickening up, stretching, tape, teflon, bondage, and jewellery. All very summarized, but will go into more detail down below! Lets begin.

Questions

Q: My ears are thin, what can I do?

A: Downsize, is generally the first point of conversation. A lot of people hate downsizing, because its going backwards. Well, to be honest, it’s not generally for long, and the re-stretch is 10x easier! If my ears are looking a bit thin, generally what I do, is take them down 2 sometimes 4 sizes, and do vitamin e rubs. They’ll be loose for a few days but they’ll tighten around the jewellery, then when it comes to re-stretching, your ears will be full of blood and new cells will be developed for the re-stretch! Some people I know at much bigger sizes say that down sizing is the reason they got to the size they got to. I always downsize when I can, but not normally during winter as the ears are under a lot of stress.

Q: My ear is bleeding / pussing / oozing.. HELP..

A: Well, anything bleeding, pussing, or oozing is never a good sign. I’ve seen some peoples ears, where they have thick green stuff coming out of it, I’ve seen purple ears, blue ears, yellow ears, ears which are so crusted, when you took out the jewellery there was still a perfect circle formation!  So, what can you do? Well, firstly, as per usual downsize. But first you have to clean thoroughly your ear. Saline solution (either pre-bought (contact lens cleaner is amazing, as its distilled water, and salt)) which is 1 part salt to about 250ml water, and clean the ear. Maybe take a shower with the jewellery out, as that’ll soften to ear up a bit not to mention cleaning it too, but please don’t “wash” the ear with body wash. Make sure your hands are clean, if possible, wear gloves, not always an option but make sure your hands are at least clean. Using a cotton bud (Q-Tip to our American counterparts) and rub slightly across the ear infection, and make sure its clean. Sometimes removing crusties will cause the ear to bleed, sometimes what I do in this situation is dip the cotton bud (fresh one) into saline, and leave it on, so as to not be abrasive with the actual wound.

Once thats all done, stick in the downsized jewellery and keep an eye on it. Honestly you’ll find within a few days the swelling will go down and the ear will almost be 100%. I say give it a week to 10 days and the ear will be ready for stretching!

Q: I can’t find jewellery.. Where do you get yours?

A: Lots of places, but in 3″ its a lot harder than people who are smaller than 2″. One of my favourite and most trusted sites is http://www.bodyartforms.com and http://www.bodyjewelleryshop.com! Both are amazing sites, and have everything you would need to stretch up to 3″ sometimes depending on their stock levels! There are a few custom jewellery sites, like http://www.aestheticbodymods.com they do custom pieces up to 4″ which is pretty intense.

Q: Best lubricant to use on ears

A: I use Vitamin E oil, because it massages as well as works as a good lubricant. Never use just water, spit, baby oil or vaseline. Water doesn’t work, and will dry almost instantly. Not to mention it’s not a good lubricant. Don’t spit on your finger and use that to get a plug-in, this isn’t back yard sex. Baby oil, its scented, and just won’t work, especially if your ear tears, you’re talking mega infection. Vaseline is the worst. It’s not water based, it’s almost a paste. It may work, or seem like it works but what you’re doing is setting up a bacteria trap. Use: KY Jelly (embarrassing to buy.. but still), Emu Oil, Bio Oil, Jojoba Oil. Those are the best, and I’ve used all. If you’ve got an infection, use non scented KY Jelly, as its water based, and won’t irritate an infection.

Q: OMGZ You’re a faggot why are you doing this? What you gonna do when you turn 90, you look like a paedophile, etc..etc..

A: Now, there isn’t an insult I haven’t heard. Everything ranging from, “I wouldn’t leave my child with you” to “You are a sadistic freak”.. Now, I’d like to think people could be a little bit more constructive in their feedback, but lately I’m finding on my YouTube videos that this is impossible.

What will I do when I’m 90? Nothing, probably sit there, drool and shit my pants like the rest of the 90 year olds. To be honest, I have a job, I have an education, I have a loving family, what more do I need? Seriously, my parents don’t care, my brothers and sister don’t care, and guess what, I have like 7 nieces and nephews who love their alternative uncle. If you ever decide to have a conversation, you’ll find that I am just like you. I am no more a sadist than the person in the suit next to me. Does it mean I like to have sadistic sex in the blood of an animal? No. People will stare, people will giggle, people will point, people will take pictures. You know what? If I’m that interesting to them to take time out from doing what they do, then let them do it. I’ve had people almost crash cars look at me, I’ve been called everything, I’ve had people start fights because of me, hell my brother has almost smashed someones camera because of me. Stretching your ears takes commitment, and I won’t say that it does come with a price. I’m not going to say it’s not socially acceptable, because I don’t care. But it’s certainly considered deviant. Sometimes, it does get to you, I won’t lie, other times I just laugh at people’s stupidity. But you’ve got to, and you’ve got to have confidence to carry it off. You know what.. If I lost my ears tomorrow, I’d be sad, I’d miss the attention, negative or positive.

I do what I do, because its me. My dad taught me how to do it, and its something I will continue doing until the day I see that it becomes a problem, and no amount of negative feedback or comments will make me take them out, it will be my decision, and MY decision only.

Q: They don’t make tapers in 50mm what do I do?

A: People think I stretched using giant tapers.. Can you imagine the weight of a 60 – 65mm taper, it’d weigh the same as a small bag of sugar!  Taping or dead stretching. Dead stretching is ok, but can cause problems. Forcing jewellery in is never the best idea, thats why I tape. I used to use electrical tape, but I now use Bondage tape! Unfortunately the only place to buy Bondage tape is from Adult shops, so you might as well combine the shop with some KY (all for the ears of course!).. But it comes in awesome colours! Anyway, I would say that 5/6 full wraps, around the jewellery is about a size. So I would start off by adding one, and leaving it a few days even if its still loose, and then adding more to eventually close the gap! When I was stretching to 3″ I had plugs, which were 59mm, but 3″ is 18mm.. So, thats right it had nearly 18mm of tape around the plug. It was uncomfortable, and heavy. But it was cheap and did the job. Buying plugs to dead stretch can sometimes be a waste of money, think about it, you’re sitting at 25mm, you want 28mm, and it pops right in and it’s still loose.. What a waste of time. With tape you can eliminate the need for stupid expenses, and just set yourself goals. Tape your 25mm plug, buy 30mm jewellery, and so on.. Or in my case, tape my 59mm plugs and buy 76mm jewellery, haha..

Q: Weights…

A: Weights are controversial to say the least. I made two videos with weights, purely as a demonstration piece at how big my ears actually were. I haven’t really used weights to stretch much, except in the later sizes. Weights can be helpful, but I don’t think they should be used longterm. I certainly don’t think people should be using things like padlocks either! Weight stretching can cause uneven stretching, and can cause thin ears too. Especially if the weights have a thin hanging point. Because this puts a lot of stress on one part of the ear, and can cause the ear to thin in one point.

People think that by using weights it evens out blow out. Well it doesn’t. If you are going to wear weights, please remember that they are a huge inconvenience in the real world, especially if you have fairly large lobes, the swinging and the dangling, it doesn’t make for turning your head very fun. Not to mention incase anything bad happens, for the paranoid of you. But if you are going to wear weights, please buy weights which have a big surface area, as this will decrease the chances of thinning, and will increase the chances of your ear actually gaining a bit of width with it. Also, using weights doesn’t speed the transition up any more than normal stretching.

Well I hope this helped you lot out there!

I uploaded a new video today;

Nothing too new to report, but people seem to live my videos. So, yeah I am hopefully going to expand this site onto a full blown domain, with proper hosting. I won’t mention the URL, as I don’t want anyone to steal it . But atleast then I can have a bit of advertising to cover the costs of the pages, unless you guys want to donate

Peace,

Roger.

Stretching your septum, is much like stretching another piercing. Except, the time differences between stretching, and the pain. It doesn’t hurt a whole lot more, but the only way I can describe it, is that it’s almost like a grinding pain. Due to your septum being pierced in the fleshy bit, not the cartilage, you’ll find it rubs against it and dents it as you get bigger. So, if you have a small fleshy bit, then bigger stretches are going to be harder. I myself can’t get past a 10g. Don’t know why, but doesn’t matter if I use tapers, pull on it, or even ask it nicely, it just will not go above a 10g. I probably could get an 8g in. But i’m not stupid and I will listen to my body. Its fine, I don’t want a big septum anyway, as far as i’m concerned my nose is big enough.

So, some places you can get your septum scalpeld, but not very many places will attempt it. Some will pierce with a large gauge needle, some places just generally will pierce it with a 14g (1.6) and leave it at that. Stretching the septum is generally pretty awkward, and you have to be ready to push a taper nearly the entire way through. You can’t exactly walk around with a huge taper sticking half way out your nose. BUT, there are several tools you can use to stretch your septum. jewellery called, “Claws”:

Beautiful isn’t it? These act like tapers, but are far more convenient, and are intentionally meant for the septum wearer. Generally, they only stick out a little bit, so it just looks like you have a few nose hairs. Attractive. These “claws” come in all sizes, and will generally get you up to an 00g pretty easily. But as I said, you gotta take it easy, and listen to your body. If you try stretching your septum, and it’s not ready, you will know! You will most likely shed a few tears, and have a sneezing fit.

Cartilage.

My experience of this, is minimal. And is generally what I read. Cartilage piercings, look great in the Conch, in the flats of the ears, and sometimes where industrials, or just regular cartilage piercings are. See below:

The tunnel at the top, is a stretched conch. Its one of my favourite cartilage piercings. There are more methods involved in getting this done, and one of the most favourable, is the dermal punch. This involves taking a “sterilised hole punch” to the ear, and punching it straight through the ear leaving a visible hole.

It’s graphic, and its sure as hell looks painful. But its the quickest way to a hole . Stretching it, you just go the normal taper method, and in time because of the weight of the jewellery and the placement in the ear, it’ll stretch over time, so i’m told.

Stretching a labret, is a little bit more involved than stretching an ear. It is alot more taboo, it is alot more in your face (if you excuse the pun). So certainly making sure it is what you want before setting off will leave you in a good frame.

So, how do you do it? Well, its not like you can walk around with a taper hanging out of your mouth is it? So, its almost the same in certain traditions, but you have to edit the rules slightly.

I started by getting mine pierced straight to an 8g. Hurt like hell, made my toes curl, but it eliminated the original and first stage shitty stretches. You can also get it scalpelled,  pierced and stretched, or dermal punched. Scalpelling is good, if you want to get a big size instantly, but obviously you’ve got the pain threshold thing again. Pierced and stretched is what I got, and as I said it was pretty painful, dermal punching is normally for cartilidge piercings, and the best way to think of it is, its a surgical hole punch. Does exactly what it needs to, and it’ll put a hole instantly through your lip, or any part it touches.

Right, so you have your lovely freshly pierced hole, how long do you wait? Lips are a little bit different, they’re used ALL the time, every day, even when you’re asleep. I waited nearly 8mths before stretching mine, but I have to say, when I did do the initial stretch, it was incredibly easy. I’d say if you went with the more permanent options of punching and scalpel, then i’d wait nearly a year as the healing times is so much more due to the ferocity of the method used.

So, HOW do you stretch a lip piercing? I assume this works on Medusa (philtrums), Snakebites, cheeks etc..

Say you’re starting at your baby sizes of 14,16,12g then the best method I can recommend, is pull on them. Sounds crazy huh? But honestly, wear horseshoe style rings, or Ball Closure Rings, and pull at them. This will eventually start making the lip loosen up. Don’t buy externally threaded jewellery when stretching lips, as it can tear the hole, and having a swollen lip with piercings in it is uncomfortable as hell. Internally threaded jewellery is more expensive but much much better for the release of your piercing.

When I stretched my snakebites (R.I.P) I went from 1.6mm to 2mm fairly easily. Same from 2mm > 2.4mm was easy enough. But that initial stretch to 3.0mm was hard. As it went from being a .4mm stretch, to a .6mm stretch. Doesn’t sound like alot, but when you think of the increase of the hole in % its huge. Its nearly a 35% increase in the diameter of the hole. The method I used was dead stretching, which again if you go back to the first post, is the use of jewellery to increase the size of the diameter, basically pushing through bigger jewellery. You can get labret studs upto about 8g I believe. And then you may have to goto glass, or septum bullets. I’ll post images below of appropriate lip related jewellery.

I hope this information helped a bit!

And finally

So, what can you stretch?

• Lips – Snakebites, centre, medusa, lowbrets
• Ears – Not just lobes, cartilidge, conch, tragus
• Septum – Yup, some very large septum piercings out there
• Nostrils – Some of the biggest nostril piercings in the world are over 1 3/4″
• Cheeks
• Testicles
• Penis
• Labia, outer hood
• Belly button

Plus lots more. Some images attached below, I didn’t ask for permission, but if anyone has any problem with the image being shown, please email me and i’ll take it down

I’ll go into more details about stretching said piercings in the next update.

I only encourage healthy, and sterile forms of stretching. I will not enclose D.I.Y methods, nor do I encourage them as they can be reckless and dangerous to your ears.

So, if you’ve waited the appropriate time for healing, which was explained in Part 3. So, the common methods for stretching are as follows:

Tapers

Now these things look intimidating. But they’re you’re essential tool for stretching your ears. They come in all sizes. Generally two to three sizes can be gained from one taper. For example, I have a taper at home which goes from 2g – 00g. They go from 14g – 1″ I believe. But once you get passed that stage you then move onto a more advanced and slightly more D.I.Y method. Most people are happy to stop within the ranges of the tapers, and that is more than satisfactory. But for people who want to goto the larger end of the spectrum, you will need to use the methods below.

Dead Stretching

Dead stretching, is when you feel you have developed a big enough gap that you can go up a whole size in one go. Generally this can occur when you wear jewellery for a long period of time, or if your jewellery is very heavy. This usually occurs with steel plugs, and solid plugs. Dead stretching should only really be considered if you think the bigger jewellery will go in. But it can also be an expensive way to stretch. If you’re at say 25mm, and you want to goto 26mm, then buying one set of plugs, just to go up one size can prove to be costly. I myself found I would never do this once I got passed 2″ as the sheer price of the plugs would deter me from doing so. Which brings us onto our next method of stretching.

Taping

If you watch this video, you’ll see my method of stretching. I have done this from 2″ and I will do it all the way till whenever I decide to stop. The argument over the best tape to get is a never ending battle. I myself use electrical tape, but it has its problems. The tape slides when it gets moist, leaving you with a one sided lip. Bondage tape is used by adventurous adults in the bed, but it is also amazing for using with your jewellery. Then you have teflon tape, which has got a good following too.

Basically, the method is the same for all tapes. You get your jewellery, if its a first time doing it, make sure you clean the jewellery thoroughly, and make sure it is dry before applying the first wrap of tape. You can cut your tape to size if you want to measure accurately, or you can just wrap. I use the wrap method because its always hard to determine how much you’ll need.

You grab the tape tightly, and start wrapping round the plug making sure to not leave any bubbles, and ridges, as this could cause discomfort for the ear. Maybe do one wrap, every week, and that will slowly start to stretch your ears. This is the best method to start stretching your ears once you get passed the taper stage. Some people prefer taping to tapers, as tapers can cause wreckless stretching, and can cause people to almost race to getting it all the way through.

Please don’t wear tapers as jewellery, they aren’t intended to be worn as jewellery, just to be used as a tool.

So, my recommendations is go see your local piercer, and ask about getting your ears pierced with a needle. They generally will pierce you at around a 14g, but sometimes on request they can pierce at 12, 10, 8g (2.4, 3.2, 4mm). I got my labret pierced at 4mm (8g) and I have to say it made the initial stretching alot easier. But it depends on your pain levels as to whether this is the option for you.

There are a few more methods we can go into. Getting pierced and straight stretched, which is when you get pierced at maybe, for talking sakes 8g and stretched straight to a 4g or maybe a 2g. Its uncomfortable, but it’ll be worth it in the end.

For the more extreme of you. There is scalpelling.  I’ll let you see a video of someone getting the procedure done.

The healing process is longer, the wait for stretching is longer, but you end up with an instant hole, and it halves the time it takes to get to that size. But again, it is a procedure that shouldn’t be taken lightly. It is also considered more permanent.

When you first get your ear pierced, you should wait nearly 6 months before doing your first stretch, and it should only be a half size, e.g: if you got it pierced at 1.6mm, stretch to 2mm. Don’t skip. But stretching will be covered in the next section.

If you get it pierced and stretched, wait for about 6 – 8 months before stretching again.

If you get it scalpelled, wait for nearly a year before doing your initial stretch. It seems extreme, but you’ve gone from a naked lobe to having a hole in it, within a few seconds.

More coming soon..