as soon as I started hydrating them a lot with water in the ways I described, they peeled very lightly and gently after about 3 days, then they havnt peeled since and its been about 3 months now. how are you doing? when I first started this my mentality was to not lick, bite or pick at them and to just hydrate them a lot with water, but I think I did use my tounge to get a little bit off after it was ready in about 3 days it just gently came off and ive been healed since.