Clip-on earrings: fun fashion choice or instruments of torture?

[jmowreader]

[dweller]

1. As for a nose decoration

Torture … I couldn’t bring my self to pierce it
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[jmowreader]

11. It's easier than ear piercing

[MLAA]

2. Both! Some are comfortable and some are pure torture.

I speak from experience, I don’t like to wear large/heavy pierced earrings.

[milestogo]

3. I stopped wearing them years ago because I always ended up taking them off.

If they stay on, they hurt.

[CTyankee]

14. Once upon a time long ago it was de rigeur to wear earrings. Now not so much. I haven't worn them

for years.

[milestogo]

15. I've had pierced ears for decades.

But at the moment I couldn't tell you if the holes have closed up again or not, because that's what happens if you stop wearing earrings long enough.

[electric_blue68]

4. Never wore clips ons. I did wear screw ons. I'd make them tight bc I was afraid of losing them.

Ouch when I took them off!

In the '70s my sis brought me ear cuffs home from her cross country trip. She bought them in California. A year or so later they git the East Coast.

Then I learned to make my own. 😁🥰👍

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. torture

[2naSalit]

6. Torture.

[Raine]

7. Torture but the screw on are are even more torturous. 😢nt

[jmowreader]

10. My sisters will attest to that

My mother was one of those people who thought ear piercing was barbaric and refused to do it herself.

But the Bureau of Public Roads crews had weekly parties that Mom and Dad had to attend and all the wives dressed up, so she owned some screw-on earrings for those occasions. Naturally, when my three sisters went to their first dress-up events mom would loan them a pair of these earlobe torturers to wear.

The next morning the results were always the same: “Mom, I want to get my ears pierced.”

She took my oldest sister to the doctor to have it done. Doctor injected her ears with novocaine before doing it; her ears swelled up to like three times their normal size and got infected. (And I’m thinking, why not just shove the needle all the way through and be done with it?)

The other two went to jewelry stores to have it done. No problems at all.

Moral of this story: doctors are not the people you want piercing your ears!

[Raine]

16. I knew someone who had their ears pierced at the doctor and

had a problem with infection too. My mother got hers pierced at a jewelry store and I got mine pierced at the county fair and neither of us had a problem. Doctors need to stick to doctoring and leaving the piercing to experts, haha.

[lark]

8. Torturous implementers of pain!

Never could wear them, ears are sensitive.

[IcyPeas]

9. that pain is like when you have braces and wear a night brace. it hurts more when you take it off.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I knew a woman who wore them so much

she had "cauliflower" ear lobes and had to wear big clip ons to hide them.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. clip ons were torture. Every woman I knew who wore them

complained about it too. I have never understood why pierced ears went out of fashion in the US - at least in the Southeast!

My mom's step mother had pierced ears, and I wanted them so bad!! When I went to Germany all the locals and some of the dependents on the base had them and I was so jealous!

One of the first things I did when I went to college was get them pierced. The old fashioned way, with a hot needle, a cork and ice to numb the earlobes. I took good care of them and never got an infection except for one time when I put some el cheapo earrings in without cleaning them first.

One of my sisters tried to pierce her own, and ended up getting the dentist to do them (he had a nice little side gig piercing ears)
The younger one got hers done on her 13th birthday and my mom did hers the same day.

Years later sis and I agreed our daughters (3 weeks apart) could have theirs done when they were 13.