Tips and Tricks:

• Use Skin Tac. It's a skin prep for making tape adhesives last longer. All it does is make your skin a little tacky before placing the tape onto the skin. Skin Tac has also been helpful in resticking the inner tape. It helps to use a blow dryer to restick to skin.

• POE Point Of Equilibrium: Your scar line is not POE unless you have adjusted it to become that or to become a reference point. Otherwise use a marker to mark POE. To do this grab two layers of skin while flaccid and slide fingers up trying to find equal tension between inner and outer skin. Mark tip of skin with a surgical marker. Repeat 6 times around, think of a hexagon. Lay the middle of the T-tape adhesive strip onto the marks.

• Adjust your scar line to become POE: to do this you need to set your T-tape at scar-line. I prefer to use my scar-line as a reference point which is to only tape outer skin, no mucosal skin. light tension only. Try to include lots of mm2 to help focus more rapid inner mucosal growth. Only tension the inner skin till your scar line is within range of POE.

• Use less weight, or if using heavy weight do more frequent in-between tension breaks. It's easy to over due the tension with a strap. Using a fish scale can help calibrate how much weight you're using. Or go by feel by getting use to what a certain weight feels like.

• Avoid moisture: Tape adhesive's #1 arch enemy. Keep it dry. If you sweat consider tugging how I do which is through the fly with a uv arm protection sleeve clipped high on the fly. The arm sleeve helps against chaffing is why I do that.

• Absorbent material: I use 1.5" squares of paper towel. Many use Strong Toilet Paper or Cotton Balls. Replace after 15 - 30 minutes after using the restroom

• Use a push plate with a little absorbent material. This actually helps in a couple ways. It keeps the tissue higher and away from the adhesive. And makes the tape feel more evenly tugged around due to expanding its circular shape. DTR Conform plate or the DTR push plate from chrisonlinestore.com

• For the above tip. You don't need a push rod attached to the push plate, but a push rod can be used.

• Try switching the type of tape you're using. Well known tapes commonly used for T-tape include: Hypafix, BSN Cover-Roll, Micropore, and Mefix. A warning about Mefix, it's thin and keeps tearing whenever I use it for inflation. Mefix is the thinnest and has great adhesion properties. The other tape brands have never torn on me.

• Are you folding the fastening area before clipping a suspender clip to it? Try using the X-fold or at least fold it in half, or use a T-tape device. A T-tape device can really help align a more uniform grip.

• If using a lotion, use less than a pea size drop and apply while fully retracted.

• Check your Inner T-tape how well it's still stuck on after every restroom break. Many times you can still save your tape before it comes undone. With Skin Tac you can get it restuck, but it usually only gets you through the rest of the day. Just apply to skin where it came unstuck and use a blow dryer on medium heat till it's back in place. A small hack: use a little paper towel square to help brush on if you got the liquid in a bottle.

• Are you making your T-tapes correct? The split ends in particular. Many T-tape instruction videos leave out this critical step. See the chunk to cut out at step 13, NSFW Indra.com

• Also the total T-tape adhesive width should be 2.5cm or 3cm, some use even wider.

• Is the amount of adhesive stick even on both inner and outer?

• Try stretching the skin lightly as you lay the adhesive onto the skin. It helps to have premade T-tapes on backing paper that way you can curl back the backing as you go around the circumference.

• Suspender clip slipping off? 1)Try crafting 50/50 or even full Kinesiology T-tape. 2)Get a stronger suspender clip. I find the type that uses the square nylon jaws are the good type, the round type is more likely to slip. The metal type can be very good but the jaws need to be very close together. 3)Make the fastening area thicker. 50/50 KT-tape works great at making it thicker and it has ridges to grip onto. Or try adding a small square of Kinesiology adhesive to the fastening area.

See my video tutorial on how I make T-tapes. I find making T-tapes with two strips of tape much more easier to line up just right. I have another way that makes the fold in half method more accurate, but haven't had time to make the video. From start to finish how I make T-tapes(video is planned to be remade): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q60-JRWXJo&t=1s