Earring Design

[Sioux]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think R&C have gone a bit adrift with their designs/manufacture? It's been mentioned elsewhere that stud earrings must be designed by males who have never had their ears pierced, due to the odd placings of earring posts - will they never learn? :yawn2:

The latest trend seems to be the bigger the better even when said earrings must weigh a ton and literally hang off the ear, severely pulling the lobes out of shape (and sometimes permanently stretching them). A 12 x 10 mm gem stud earring is bigger than most solitare rings and 10 or 12 carats divided by 2 studs still gives 5 or 6 carats which is the size of a large number of pendants. I for one cannot understand the raving and wowing that accompanies such airings. Wonder how many get returned once reality sets in, as they are not cheap either. I still await Rhodocrosite for instance but they had them on the other day at 11 or 12 mm which is way too large for me so I shall just have to hope someone gets the message. :wait2:

 

[Mathilda]

I kind of agree with you, Sioux, but I am happy to wear bigger solitaire earrings.... IF they have the posts in a sensible place, i.e. NOT at the top! Top posts are the worst place for such styles, because, as you say, then you will get the most droopng of the earring and pulling at the ear lobe. A more central post enables you to get a neater fit to the ear, more supported by a large butterfly.... and this looks good and protects the lobe more.
As to those enormous dangly types, hanging from a shepherd's crook or little top post and butterfly.... they're a great way to get earlobes dangling down to your knees! Not for me, thanks!!

 

[Meeshoo]

I think this is a very personal thing because I happen to prefer studs with posts at the top (due to having inherited obscenely large lobes from my Grandmother)! Due to my elephant lobes, I actually like mahoosive earrings although I can't do the weighty ones!

It's the same as what size ring is the "average" - you'll always get a heated debate on here where some say they want larger sizes, some smaller!

 

[Mathilda]

It is a personal thing, of course, Meeshoo: my chum, who has ears like yours ( we call her Dumbo, bless her!) finds that she hates earring with the posts at the top for exactly the same reason as I do, because they flop forward, dragging on the ear and so not showing the earings well. I think it may be to do with where on the lobe the piercing is, too...... another variable!

 

[Meeshoo]

It is a personal thing, of course, Meeshoo: my chum, who has ears like yours ( we call her Dumbo, bless her!) finds that she hates earring with the posts at the top for exactly the same reason as I do, because they flop forward, dragging on the ear and so not showing the earings well. I think it may be to do with where on the lobe the piercing is, too...... another variable!

I'm sure she's incredibly grateful for your sensitivity!

Before anybody thinks I'm going to unfold my ears and fly into the ether, can I just say it's just my lobes that are big!!!! :grin:

 

[argeybargey]

I'm sure she's incredibly grateful for your sensitivity!

Before anybody thinks I'm going to unfold my ears and fly into the ether, can I just say it's just my lobes that are big!!!! :grin:

So whats all this 'ere ear, if your flappers are upside down (so to speak), does that make you "Obmud"? I hope I've managed to phrase this as sensitively as Meesh? xxx

 

[Tabs]

Personally i like a big stud!

 

[Mathilda]

I'm sure she's incredibly grateful for your sensitivity!

Before anybody thinks I'm going to unfold my ears and fly into the ether, can I just say it's just my lobes that are big!!!! :grin:

Yeah, that's what our Dumbo says, too :thinking2::cheeky:


For my own part, I can pretty much say that it is only my ears that ain't hooooge : that's on account of my SEE food diet, of course

 

[argeybargey]

Sorry Meesh, in my previous I should 'ave writ Mathilda instead of Meesh. xx

 

[Mathilda]

Sorry Meesh, in my previous I should 'ave writ Mathilda instead of Meesh. xx

I knew you meant me, Argey ...... Meeshoo wouldn't be so indelicate!

Originally Posted by Meeshoo
I'm sure she's incredibly grateful for your sensitivity!

She is, Meeshoo.... before we just called 'er thick.

 

[Meeshoo]

I can hear you! :grin:

 

[Mathilda]

Pardon? :25:

 

[Mathilda]

Just wondering, Sioux, are earrings your most favourite pieces of jewellery?
I think they are probably my faves..... I do adore rings but I could go out without rings on, at a push, but I'd "rather go naked than wear"....... no earrings!

 

[argeybargey]

Just wondering, Sioux, are earrings your most favourite pieces of jewellery?
I think they are probably my faves..... I do adore rings but I could go out without rings on, at a push, but I'd "rather go naked than wear"....... no earrings!

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[Mathilda]

Oh, Argey, Sweetheart, be calm... there's no DANGER!!
I know it's a terrifying prosect, but , truly, I ALWAYS wear my earrings!

 

[Meeshoo]

Oh, Argey, Sweetheart, be calm... there's no DANGER!!
I know it's a terrifying prosect, but , truly, I ALWAYS wear my earrings!

That's reassuring. :cheeky:

Coming to a gemshow near you ........... naked woman in earrings.

 

[Mathilda]

Gawd forbid, Meesh, Gawd forbid! :doh: :whew2:

 

[argeybargey]

That's reassuring. :cheeky:

Coming to a gemshow near you ........... naked woman in earrings.

I'm okay with rhat as long as they're in 'er ears!

 

[Sioux]

Just wondering, Sioux, are earrings your most favourite pieces of jewellery?
I think they are probably my faves..... I do adore rings but I could go out without rings on, at a push, but I'd "rather go naked than wear"....... no earrings!

Have to confess, earrings are my passion, in particular gemset stud earrings. For many people it is rings but for me, earrings. Have 45 pairs in gold and 15 or so in silver but hey - that barely takes care of two months of the year so still got room for the 'holes' in the collection - indicolite, amblygonite etc and yes I am really fussy about size and there must never be silly bits of diamonds attached. Anyway as they say the fun is in the hunt, so keeping my eyes peeled. :tongue2:

 

[Mathilda]

Sounds like you are having great fun making your collection, Sioux, and that is the most iimportant thing about it, isn't it?
What I really enjoy about earrings is that it is possible to have them with stones that would be impractical to have in rings....(because the stone is too fragile/soft to stand up to the wear and tear of ring setting). Means that a gemstone collection can really grow ..... yippee! Also I do feel that a pretty pair of earrings frames the face and can make you look very smart .... even if everything else about you is falling apart! Like cutting the edges of a lawn.... doesn't matter if you haven't time to cut the whole lawn, but trimming the edges neatly makes it look like everything is hunky-dory!! And it's a lot easier to put on earrings than it is to cut the edges of the grass!!