Earrings - Classic or Dud

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Dud for me, esp. dangly ones that some girly types wear when they're on a night out/date. That gives me the total dry boak. I just don't get the point of them - are you not constantly aware of them hanging off your ear lobes?

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:23 (twenty years ago)

DUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:25 (twenty years ago)

You're so wrong. Danglefontaines are things of beauty. I wear them whenever I can. You're an idiot if you think that women wear these things to attract men - they are simply for our own delight.

HOwever, destroy those sedate little stud things. Only good for wearing in your nose. Give me hoops or give me danglefontaines, the sparklier and danglier the better.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:26 (twenty years ago)

i despise all piercings, so dud.

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I love earrings so much. I have hundreds of pairs!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

I merely have dozens. In my old flat, I rigged up a string across the window, so they could all catch the light and look beautiful even when they were not in my ears. I should set up the same arrangement at the new flat.

It was especially helpful when trying to select the perfect colour/size/shape to go with your outfit.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

I am gangly with broad shoulders, a sloppy dresser, prone to wearing men's pants and tying my hair back, so I need to wear earrings so that people can tell I'm a girl. Otherwise I get the "Can I help you sir?" reaction from sales clerks, which is sad.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

Not too dangly, though. I'm too much of a tomboy for that.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

But what about boys who wear earrings?

I like little hoops on boys.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Not a fan of boys wearing earrings.

I can't wear costume-jewellery earrings, they make my ears hurt :(

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

The trick is not to wear them all day - just put them on for a few hours when you're going out or whatever.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

I've even tried painting the posts with clear naiil polish, so that the metal doesn't come in contact with my skin. But they still hurt. I must have super-sensitive wiggies!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:40 (twenty years ago)

Ah, yeah, that would be a problem. I used to be more sensitive when my piercings were new, and I had to have hypoallergetic everything surgical steel or pure gold posts, but I think there's so much scar tissue in there now that very little bothers me.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

You need small hoops. Posts always make my ears all weepy and crusty. Plus I'm nervous that they're going to fall off so I keep tightening them, which gets a bit OCD and probably makes the crusty/weepy thing worse. A repulsive package, all in all.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

another classic example of things girls obsess over, under the delusion that boys actually notice. lol@girls.

― teh_kit says 'lol' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

EWrrr... did you not read my first post?

None of us are doing this for boys. We are doing it because WE get pleasure and enjoyment out of the beauty of them.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

I can't wear hoops because I end up getting the hairbrush tangled in them when I brush my hair, ow ow. Studs all the way for me.

Today I am wearing some square-cut amethyst studs. They're purty.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Other girls notice earrings. The whole game-plan is, with your awesome earrings you become the alphagirl and get everybody else's boy because all the other girls are too demoralized to hold onto them and you stride through life victorious, leaving a trail of tears and wreckage behind you.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

BUT KAET, I *AM* AN IDIOT.
btw, in my life ive shared a flat with two girls, and another with four. i have heard "DO U THINK HE'LL LIEK THESE ONES OR THESE ONES" so many times, some weeks i started thinking it was a mantra or something.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I've had the same hoops for three years now (one's bigger and the other's smaller). I'd like to get some new one's, but it's kinda hard to find earrings fit for guys. I don't want anything too hippie/"tribal", and the dangly ones don't look good on boys. When I first got my ears pierced I dreamed of wearing a giant sailor-type hoop in one ear, like Corto Maltese. But I've tried them, and they really don't look good on me. I guess I should dress like a sailor to get the proper effect.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:02 (twenty years ago)

GKit, you lived with stupid girls.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

see also: spending £100 on a haircut

stupid or not, they're still girls, my point is valid.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

It's magical thinking, the haircut thing. Tribute to the fickle gods of love. Some girls are so afraid of being unmated. It must hard-wired. If they were lackadaisical about hooking up the species would diminish pretty quickly, as young love can be a pretty bruising thing. Girls would opt out if not for their atavistic brood-mare brain going "getaguygetaguygetaguygetaguy"

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Ack! I fogot to put my earrings in!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

ps you called my girlfriend stupid so i haet u now

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

One of them was your girlfriend? SEE!!! THE EARRINGS WORKED!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

classic.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

obv, my gf wasn't one of the OMG WHICH DO BOYS LIKE crew, i was just having fun there.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

dud, btw.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

still, lol@girls. personally, the harder girls try, the more i ignore them. I AM LIKE KARMA, I MAKE TEH BALANCE.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

My general feeling is dud but thats just for me. For some reason, even with light blonde hair and pale skin that hasn't be tanned for a good 16 years, the moment I put earrings on I look incredibly Greek. Which isn't a bad thing, but it doesn't look like me at all and the drastic transformation freaks me out. Its a shame because I'm retarded for anything shiny and glittery.

Now on other girls, chandelier earrings are HOT. Hoops I'm not crazy about just because they lack imagination. Someone once told a friend and I that the bigger the hoop the more "available" the girl so now when we see girls with big hoops we're all 'oh my god! look at that slut!' but we're only kidding.

Earrings on guys? So dud it almost breaks my heart.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Lots of guys I know don't like girls wearing earrings. Or nail polish, either. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE MEN??

― C J (C J), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Girls diminish their hotness with nail polish - and earrings I'm somewhat ambivalent about 'n' all.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

i just told you, we're rooting for the underdogs.
xpost

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I am starting to remember why I don't like boys and they are rubbish after all.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:42 (twenty years ago)

relax, kaet. i'm an exception. i'm sure most guys give a shit about nails, hair and makeup.
i'm the type that won't hold doors open for 'hott' girls. they have enough going for them, they can open their own damn door.

― teh_kit says 'girlz lol' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Earrings = meh
Nail Polish = awesome

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

It's not that I'm a girly girl or YAY, HAIR, MAKEUP, EARRINGS!!! or any of that crap. But when I wear these things or do these kinds of things, it's not for the benefit of boys, it's for the benefit of me, that *I* think it's pretty, and feeling pretty makes me feel happier.

The thing is, forcing your girl to NOT dress up is as oppressive as forcing your girl to dress up. I used to get really annoyed by Joe because he always liked me best in my plaintest, drabbest, black or navy blue outfits, no earrings, crap shoes, non-bleached hair. When that's just not who I am, it's as much as an aesthetic imposition as anything else, when I'm about bright colours, paisley, sparkles and things.

But boys are rubbish anyway, and we all knew this, so I don't know why we're debating this. How about some more pictures of Dylan Moran getting eaten by Zombies?

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

The best thing about wearing dangly earrings is when they brush against the top of your neck at that bit where it's quite nice to be kissed and they remind you that you feel sexay. Or is that just me?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

No, I'm pretty sexy too.

(p.s. Noodle V OTM)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

No, that is definitely nice.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

btw, i'm not forcing anyone to do anything, ever. just stating an opinion. like, when i meet people, i'm maybe looking for qualities that can't be expressed via jewellery. KER-AZY!

― teh_kit says 'KER-AZY' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

or maybe i'm jealous that girls can wear something that makes people take notice of them, whereas i personally don't, so nobody is ever gonna know just by looking how much i pwn, they actually have to make the effort and find out for themselves how much i pwn, and the fact that people can not even pwn at all and still people notice them, maybe that pisses me off.

or maybe i just don't like earrings.

either way, i still own.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

i love them

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/000_1118.jpg

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

nice necklace though.

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

earrangs!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

fun with office supplies! that necklace rocks.

when i was a kid i pierced each of my ears 5 times with a needle while my mom was away on business. when she came back i wore a knit cap to hide them but i was found out in the first 5 minutes.

oh, and i wish someone had told me about the whole ice/numbing trick.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

speaking as a jeweller: classic of course.

tip of the day: ALWAYS try on earrings cause you might be surprised they don't fit/look fugly/...

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

wont they get diseased?

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

not if you don't have infected ears or bloody sores or something. the holes in your ears heal. they are covered in skin.

"the dry boak"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

i got my ears pierced less for the first time less than a year ago. didn't want to go to a boutique in the mall to do it, so i went to a tattoo/piercing parlor, i figured they would be safer, better, etc etc. they start you off with those hideous round earrings with the ball (pictured above). sigh. also, they laughed at me because i wanted to get my ears pierced in a normal way for the first time.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

typos, ugh

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

it is, technically, better to use a piercing needle than those guns, though. I think the idea is that the points of piercing needles are cut to an oblique angle, so on the low side it leaves a little skin flap that's pushed into the incision and helps to get a start on regrowing the skin inside the incision (or so I was told). Whereas with the guns, the thing that actually penetrates earlobe is not that sharp and the incision is mostly made by force of impact, which is somehow euurghier. I think what you did seems smart, alien!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I like little hoops on boys.

Nurse!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

whats the NOT normal way? sewing needle and icecube?
xxpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

uhhh, I've had my ear pierced for like 10 years, I just took my earring out cause it was uncomfortable and blood poured out. :(

― The Reverend, Sunday, 11 March 2012 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

new new macrame owl earrings just arrived. thank you, french canadian etsy seller!

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2845/9531118523_7ef86fae79.jpg

i haven't worn earrings in a few years. my ears were closed up. it still feels weird.

― freelance helgenberger (get bent), Saturday, 17 August 2013 21:10 (twelve years ago)

Some of the oldest jewelry ever unearthed have been earrings, so it is pretty safe to say that people have been wearing them for several thousand years. They show up in cultures worldwide. Seems like the very definition of classic to me.

― Aimless, Saturday, 17 August 2013 21:43 (twelve years ago)

i love those earrings!

my piercings closed over and I've tried a few times to wear earrings but they always swell up and get infected. I have thought a lot lately about getting them repierced, since I wear my hair shorter now and I love dangly earrings

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 August 2013 21:56 (twelve years ago)

Love the owls!

VG do all earrings cause that or just certain kinds? I have a nickel allergy and for the longest time I thought I couldn't wear earrings, but I just can't wear nickel.

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:07 (twelve years ago)

hmm... you know I don't know. maybe I should investigate!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 August 2013 22:14 (twelve years ago)

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