Can it be done without your ears shrinking and damaging them? I've been at half an inch for one year now. I might be starting a new job and they said I can't have my ears stretched for safety reasons (going to be working with mentally ill patients so it's incase of a physical altercation). I really don't want to close them up though. I would like to be able to just leave them out during my shift and but them back in afterwards. Will they shrink too much during an eight hour shift? I don't want to damage them by putting them back in every day.
Before I start I only had 6's due to working in a hotel I didnt want to go bigger because then I'd have noticeable holes in my ears at work. but, I took my 6's out 5 days a week for 7-10 hours at a time and never once damaged my ears. Hope I was some help.
I would take them out now for, say, half an hour and see how that goes. By slowly increasing the time your lobes are naked, the more you're aware of how fast they'll close. I know that my lobes start to shrink around the hour mark, no matter what I do. If they do shrink, just stick in whatever size fits comfortably. If they shrink quite a lot, I'd just leave them at that size for now. Don't try to jam in bigger plugs if they won't fit, though! That's the only way you'd damage them. A lot of people with stretched lobes sleep naked or go naked for several hours during the day; it's really beneficial actually. It can increase blood flow to your lobes and such.
I wonder if there's a temporary way to fill the gap that wouldn't be noticeable. Like some tissue that fills the lobe in which also matches the color of your skin lol
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