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What type of jewelry is best for a freshly pierced gauged earlobe?

I got my ear punched at a 6g last month and at first I put in a metal screw tunnel and that stayed in until last week but when I took it out to change it I noticed it had a lot of crude/skin around the inside screw. I next put in a metal single flared tunnel and all was fine until one night while sleeping on it, the flare end got pushed into the hole and it bled when I pushed it out. I put back the screw tunnel atm because at least I don't have to worry about it being pushed in. I need to know what type of jewelry is best because I don't want to keep changing it out. I need something that stays relatively clean and has no chance of coming out or being pushed in for that matter.

You shouldnt even be changing out your jewelry yet. wait at least 2 months if not 3, and 8ish before you stretch fyi, to be safe. That crude skin is just it healing and dead skin coming off, all normal and nothing to worry about. To keep your SF stuff from doing that push the o ring as far back as it can go on the wearable area. I would go with a glass or metal SF plug. not a tunnel or a double flare.

If you really want to wear the SF you can also put another O ring on the flare side before you go to bed then take it off when you get up. I do that because I only have SF tunnels and the flare always ends up in my ear if I sleep in them. Which as you already know is quite painful especially when the flares are the sharp stainless ones I use.

Try some single-flare glass plugs. The flares are big and they're nice and smooth so they won't go in your ears in the first place, and if they did they wouldn't cut you. Gorilla Glass and Glasswear Studios make the best ones; you can find them on bodyartforms.com.

deviantxy wrote:If you really want to wear the SF you can also put another O ring on the flare side before you go to bed then take it off when you get up. I do that because I only have SF tunnels and the flare always ends up in my ear if I sleep in them. Which as you already know is quite painful especially when the flares are the sharp stainless ones I use.

Not saying your wrong but if he did just get pierced last month, I do not think that it would be a good idea to do that every night.

No I'm not doing that every night. The I've left the screw tunnel in for a month and decided to change to the single flared tunnel until it got pushed into my ear when I was sleeping so I went back to the screw. I was just worried because I need something I can keep in and not have to worry too much about cleaning it. I don't know if there was dead skin or soap residue on the inside of the screw when I changed it out. I can't keep taking it out to clean every night like you said.

Like me and lindsay have posted a glass single flared plug would be the best option for you. The screw on isn't exactly bad though, seeing as you can screw off one side and clean it then push it forward a bit and clean the other.

deviantxy wrote:If you really want to wear the SF you can also put another O ring on the flare side before you go to bed then take it off when you get up. I do that because I only have SF tunnels and the flare always ends up in my ear if I sleep in them. Which as you already know is quite painful especially when the flares are the sharp stainless ones I use.

This is y im against sleepin in flaird tunnels