Jewelry

[Macamania]

My mom and her BFF both wear clips and I always find them at Steinmart for them...have a very nice and big selection and prices are very reasonable.

[pdlinda]

Thanks so much for this post!! I had a necklift last year and part of the surgery was to "tighten up" my earlobes that were pierced and looked droopy and "creased." Anyway, the PS gave me ears that are quite firm; however, the piercing was eliminated. I have many beautiful pierced earrings (including fine jewelry) so I thought about where to replace the piercing.

I asked for suggestions from the PS and they couldn't help me.

I thought about going to one of those "piercing/tattoo" shops and felt very uncomfortable doing that so I went to the mall and got Claire's to pierce my ears. They sold me stud earrings, told me to use some solution they gave me each day (2X) and keep the earrings in for 6 weeks.

I did everything they told me; however, at the end of the 6 weeks, when I took out the studs and put in other earrings I had (all 14K gold backs), problems began!!

No matter how I treated the piercing with different remedies I found online (including the fact that I NEVER should have had this done at the Mall in the first place!!), irritation, pain and difficulty putting earrings in persisted...finally, after about 3 weeks of misery, I simply declared the entire procedure a failure and let the piercing close up.

Now I'm left with using the clip-on earrings I have.

I'm going to think about how I want to proceed with another attempt at piercing; however, in the meantime I'm going to use the suggestions I found here.

Thanks, again, for the info as the ear piercing fiasco has been quite upsetting to me!!

[Lyn08]

My cousin wears clip earrings. She has bought some Amy Kahn Russell clip earrings from eBay -- offers pierced or clip on some of her earrings. She has also bought Heidi Daus Clip earrings (HSN and eBay). She has converted some pierced earrings to clip, but that can sometimes be difficult to do, depending on the earrings style.

When I first had my ears pierced, I went to a jeweler to have it done, and I bought a pair of gold studs. These were piercing studs (a bit thicker posts than normal). I had problems with my ear piercings, and had to use alcohol and Neosporin ointment on my earlobes. Nothing seemed to help, until I overheard a conversation where a woman said she was having the same problem, and she started using a cortisone cream, and that healed her earlobes. I bought some cortisone cream, and it took care of the problem for me, but it did take awhile. That worked for me, but may not work for everyone. I was ready to let my piercings close up (ear lobe piercings were red, itching, draining, bleeding). I haven't had any problem since.

[HandJive]

The California gold rush preview thread that was deleted this morning, showed a pair of gold hoop tension style earrings in one of the product images. I forget what they're actually called, but they're non-pierced hoop earrings.

[juliet]

I didn't pay any attention for years to Ripka on QVC until I discovered her omega backs worked as clips - after stocking up on several pairs she came out with actual clips and I went crazy buying beautiful earrings that were previously unattainable. On Rue La La I found a great pair of very comfortable rainbow calsilica clips from Dweck but never saw any in his QVC inventory. And prior to Ripka got a few pairs from Joan Rivers and hers are really the most comfortable. Also I agree about Stein Mart having very reasonably priced natural stones in clips.

[colliegirls]

There are a lot more clip fashion earrings in the stores but not 14k or sterling ones. When I wanted precious metals, that is when I bought omega clips and cut the posts.

[StuffnSuch]

I can't imagine why Chuck Clemency would start making earrings with screwbacks. People have asked him for earrings for non-pierced ears for years, and this is his response?

[Tique]

On 1/12/2014 StuffyBug said: I can't imagine why Chuck Clemency would start making earrings with screwbacks. People have asked him for earrings for non-pierced ears for years, and this is his response?

I was thinking the same thing. I wore screwbacks a couple of times, borrowed from my mother when I needed something sparkly about 25 years ago. The screws were either too tight [painful] or too loose [I lost them]. I doubt that anyone expected Chuck to come up with this as an option.

[ennui1]

On 1/12/2014 kathoderay said:

The California gold rush preview thread that was deleted this morning, showed a pair of gold hoop tension style earrings in one of the product images. I forget what they're actually called, but they're non-pierced hoop earrings.

That's what QVC usually calls them. Not very creative.

[ivey]

Monet (I believe they are at JC Penney and Macy) makes a hoop earring in several different sizes. Of course, they are silvertone and goldtone--but I have multiple pairs. They look pretty much like pierced hoops look, and they stay on.