Real Diamond Earring Stud.
Not cartilage piercing, just extra holes in lobes. I'm striving for a more
classic, grown up look (I'm over 45) and currently have two holes in one ear
and three in another. Used to wear tiny studs in the uppers and "real" earrings
in the "main" piercings. Recently I've been toying with letting the upper holes
close up and just wearing one earring in each ear.
I'm wondering if any other
afers of a certain age have made that transition. Not an age issue, but in my
opinion, a more elegant one, for want of a better word.
I like just one hole in each ear...it's more conservative, but do what makes
you happy! I like another poster's idea of wearing mutiple earrings certain
times and just one set for others. My dad is 65 and he has one hole in his
left ear...he wears a very small silver hoop or else usually a diamond stud.
Even the more "mature" crowd can wear piercings, i think. All depends on the
jewelry type.
I'm 53 - I also have 2 holes in one ear and 3 in the other. I wear
tiny white gold and diamond hoops in the back hole(s) - they don't
come out from day to day. I change the earrings in the front hole
daily - usually another (larger) pair of white gold and diamond
earrings. Seems elegant enough to me. For my recent wedding, I took
out the smaller hoops and wore only 1 pair - a larger diamond
earring in the front hole only.
have three holes in each lobe and feel like I'm perfectly elegant.
I do pay quite a bit of attention to coordinating my earrings, though;
for example, I often wear a "suite" of emerald and white gold
earrings--3 mm studs for the top holes, big chunky posts for the
center holes, and 5 mm studs for the bottom holes.
As a fancy evening look, I like a .25 ct diamond and white gold stud
in the top holes, diamond-and-white-gold huggies in the center holes,
and .25 ct diamond with white gold flourishes posts in the bottom
holes.
For day wear, I like to wear small, coordinating gemstone studs with
white gold hoops in the center holes, or perhaps three sets of small
turquoise and silver studs. My husband's favorite informal daytime
earrings of mine are a coordinated set of amber and silver bezel-set
studs in cherry, gold, and green amber. I also like mixing white and
black pearls, and pearl studs and diamonds.
I'm 40 and can't imagine going to one hole per lobe, ever. This way,
I can always choose to wear one big earring per ear when I feel like
it, and three funky ones when I feel like it.
Another argument for multiple holes for women over 30 is that you can
get a lot more sparkle that way without having any one earring be so
heavy that you get that dragged-down lobe look, which is the essence
of unattractive for me.