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Clean your piercing regularly for the first few weeks. Cleaning your piercing on a regular basis will help stimulate healing and prevent an infection. As a result, you should use a saline solution on your ears every day, and clean your piercing with soap as needed (once a day at most) for the 4-6 week healing period.
Remove your starter earrings. Once your ears have healed, which will take six to nine weeks, you can swap out your starter earrings. Wear post-style earrings for the first six months to ensure that your piercing hole won't stretch out from heavy earrings. After six months, you can wear hoops and dangling earrings. Instead of using a Q-tip or cotton swab, use a cotton ball because they are softer and won't hurt sensitive ears. 2  If you play sports, get your ears pierced at least 6 weeks before sports start, so you can take your earrings out, because you can't play sports with earrings in.