Tips for Stretching

Some piercers recommend piercing are stretched no more than 1 mm per month. How far you stretch your piercing is your decision. If your piercing is stretched too far, the tissue will never heal.

Take a hot shower or wash your piercing with warm water before you place your piercing. Your skin will be more flexible. Cover your jewelry with petroleum jelly or lubricant and fix it gently into your piercing. Stretching can be painful, but the pain should not be unbearable. The introduction of a larger piece of jewelry is difficult. If you fail, put the smaller body plugs back in, let the tissue heal and try again later.

Good Care

You must always continue to provide aftercare to the piercing since it occasionally relieves the jewelry for a short time .To remove the jewelry, smear with a convalescent cream at home. Some natural materials like timber make sure that the tissue around the piercing is solid and healthy. Your piercer can give you advice on how to care for your piercing.

Tools and Materials of Stretching

The first is patience for a good result; you slowly stretch your piercing to prevent tissue damage. Stretch only if it’s fully healed. Ask your piercer if it is safe to start stretching.

Different people stretching their piercing through all sorts of simple and ancient cultures and use their own methods. Modern instruments have the right size, are smooth and sterile. Do not use needles and pins. There is a wide range of jewelry and accessories for stretching piercings. You can choose conical tapers or a spiral.

Get advice from a piercer or body modification practitioner before you choose one of these methods. Stretching Jewelry has a variety of materials. There are metal, plastic and wooden jewelry piercing which help you stretch.

Stretch methods.

There are two ways to stretch a piercing:

Jump Stretching

The piercing is put through a biopsy punch instead of a needle so that the hole is big enough to wear larger jewelry. Most piercers do not pierce too big holes for your information. If you use this method, there is a lot of tissue removed immediately, so the skin does not stretch much. This means that it may not be possible to eventually get a big hole.

Gradually Stretch

In this method, the piercing is made using a standard needle. Avoid piercing gun if you already know you want to stretch your piercing. The hole is stretched over a longer period. It does not immediately result, but with this method, you can also stretch your piercing.