Tips and Tricks:

• After removing Tape in the shower, lather soap for 30 seconds on the outer skin only. The inner skin only needs a quick rinse with water. Pine Tar soap or Castile soap works well.

• After showering pat dry and let it sit for 45 minutes.

• Applying a light wipe of isopropyl alcohol 5 minutes before applying tape can help tape bond much better.

• 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.

• Use less weight or air pressure. I like around 16 In-H2O while doing extended inflation.

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

• 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 or Phoenix Funnel 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.

• Absorbent materials are not needed if you do some invisible jump rope exercises before re-tensioning the device. Rebounder trampolines can help too. Can use with the Phoenix funnel without tissue paper. Never jump while wearing a weight.

• Try switching the type of tape you're using. Well known tapes commonly used for T-tape include: Hypafix, BSN Cover-Roll, Hion Tattoo Aftercare Tape. For T-tape inflation avoid using Micropore paper tape, Mefix, or other non flexible tape.

• 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.

• If using a lotion or oil, use less than only a couple drops at a time.

• Are you making your T-tapes correct? The split ends in particular. Many T-tape instruction videos leave out this critical step.

• Make T-tape with wider adhesive. 1 inch works for me. 1-1/8 is the widest I suggest.

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

• 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: https://youtu.be/ZaNJfND6-_U?si=2QWO5QklUgs-KlPY