Monday, February 25, 2013

I can wear pierced earrings again!!!

I got my ears pierced for the first time about 3 years ago.  I didn't do it sooner because I thought I wouldn't like pierced ears.  Well, I loved wearing pretty earrings.  But, I soon developed an allergy to the earrings.  I went to wearing gold earrings, but that started to bother me, too.   I went for months without wearing any earrings.  A couple of weeks ago I decided to see if my ears were still pierced.  I put one of the gold studs that was used to pierce my ears into the hole and immediately took it out.  My ears swelled up immediately and hurt for a few days.
I went to Claires to see if I could find a solution.  The sales girl showed my some tiny plastic sleeves that go over the post on the earring.  I bought some and tried them.  My holes were tiny and the plastic sleeve makes the post bigger, so it was hard putting the earrings in the first few times.  But, I can wear earrings with no swelling and no pain.
The little plastic sleeves are ridiculously expensive-$6:50 for four pair, but it is totally worth it to make my beautiful earrings wearable again.  I looked on Amazon.com but they don't have a similar product.  So I will keep buying them at Claires.
I think it is interesting that I looked on the internet to see what other people with metal allergies did and I found no reference to the plastic sleeves.

3 comments:

  1. That is so good to know. I have a metal allergy, too. I used to coat my earrings with clear nailpolish, but it would eventually wear off. I found that nickel free makes wearing earrings for a few hours bearable, but this is so nice!

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  2. I wore earrings again today with no problem. I don't know why I can suddenly wear earrings again! I'm glad you can too.

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  3. How neat! Carlye and I both have sensitive ears, so this will be good to remember.

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