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Hi everyone. My name is Kayla, I'm fifteen and I've been stretching my ears for over a year now. I registered on this website so I could get answers and not just guess about it.

I had stretched to 0g a couple months ago, and I seemed to had ripped my left earlobe worse than the right. No, I did not dead stretch, but I did use acrylic tapers. (Yeah yeah I know.) It hurt very badly. I knew I had ripped them. I left them in for a day or two and they were extremely sore and bled. I'm pretty sure they got infected so I took them out and did sea salt soaks daily, but no vitamin e oil massages. Within a couple of weeks they were back to a 2g. I waited a while to even think about stretching them to a 0g, and then right before Christmas came around and I thought I successfully stretched to 0g because it was basically painless compared to the last time I tried. I have bought quite a bit of pairs of 0g since then, and all I had noticed were some wrinkles, and as I've been researching aren't that bad.

Just recently I bought some emu oil, steel pinchers/no flare plugs, and some polymer clay octopus tentacle spirals. (http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm18 ... 154421.jpg) First I used the pinchers, and it seemed like they were weighing my ear down quite a bit. Lobes looked normal. Then I put in the tentacles (weighed my ear down even more), of course lubed with emu, and in my left, I guess I cut the inside of my lobe because the end was sharp. It bled very little and went away quickly.

Later, I put in the single flared plugs, but I had a lot of trouble getting the O-rings on and it irritated both of them. Were a little sore. And the past couple of days, they've been producing a lot of liquidy stuff.

Okay, so here's my ears.
Left: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm18 ... koxX/l.jpg

Right: http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm18 ... koxX/r.jpg

I know you can't really tell on my left, but it's as if my hole is inside-out, but instead of it coming out the back, it's coming out the front. Was this caused by the heavy plugs/pinchers/spirals? And is this indeed a blowout? What should I do?

PS: There is no pain in either ear. Just my left feels reallllllly weird and sensitive.

It sounds to me like you shouldn't wear those spirals for a while or maybe not at all. As for your ear bein blown out, from what you described it sounds like it could be, but it looks fine in the picture. Can you get a higher res picture maybe?

^ That's what I thought. It sounds like a blowout but doesn't look like one. If you do have one, it could definitely have been caused by the spirals. Also, clay is a really bad material to wear in stretches so that could be irritating them as well.

I'll try to post another picture of my left ear, but if I don't get the chance and it actually is a blowout, what should I do? And could this have been caused by when I was taking out the spirals? As I remember, I didn't put any lube one when I was taking them out.

That sounds like it could be the cause. I've seen some people post saying that all you need to do is baby it like crazy with jojoba and SSS and another dude said you should take a single flared plug and put it in backwards so the flare will push the skin back into the ear. I don't really know what kind of harm that could do if any, so I'd get some more input.