A few months back I had the idea of making slave earrings because I realized I haven't seen anyone selling those locally. As much as I don't feel comfortable calling it that, there's no other name for it, is there? If there is then please educate me, until then I shall call it slave earrings.
So one trip to the store I bought earring clip-on's which I thought I could use as the cuff since I couldn't find any that resembled those I saw on the images I have. But I had a bazaar then that I needed to prepare for so experimenting was lowest on my priority list. I've made some earrings that I thought would look great as slave earrings but when I was figuring out how to put on the clip-on earring cuffs, it looked awkward, not to mention painful on the ear. I was starting to suspect it's not even for the purpose I bought it for! So as much as I wanted to debut my new earring line I had to forego that idea since I didn't have time to go find earring cuffs I could use.
Fast forward 2 months after I first bought them. I was looking for something in my pile of materials (packrat+slob=messy desk) when I saw the pack of earring clip-on's. This time I had more time on my hands so I tried figuring out if I bought the right thing in the first place. Google is heaven sent. I Google'd images for earring clip on's and while browsing I saw something that looked like the one I bought. I wasn't so stupid after all! So off I went to try it on an earring again and after maybe 30 minutes figured out why it felt awkward and how to put it on. Apparently the one I was trying on the first time was deformed compared to the others so when I had that fixed it didn't feel so awkward anymore.
Although it looked great and am happy how it turned out, I'd prefer to use a cuff instead and can't wait to get something not silver in color. If I could actually find one! I think it would look even more exotic in copper/brass. Hmmm.. It looked so awesome on might have to try to get one of my friends to model this for me ;)
So one trip to the store I bought earring clip-on's which I thought I could use as the cuff since I couldn't find any that resembled those I saw on the images I have. But I had a bazaar then that I needed to prepare for so experimenting was lowest on my priority list. I've made some earrings that I thought would look great as slave earrings but when I was figuring out how to put on the clip-on earring cuffs, it looked awkward, not to mention painful on the ear. I was starting to suspect it's not even for the purpose I bought it for! So as much as I wanted to debut my new earring line I had to forego that idea since I didn't have time to go find earring cuffs I could use.
Fast forward 2 months after I first bought them. I was looking for something in my pile of materials (packrat+slob=messy desk) when I saw the pack of earring clip-on's. This time I had more time on my hands so I tried figuring out if I bought the right thing in the first place. Google is heaven sent. I Google'd images for earring clip on's and while browsing I saw something that looked like the one I bought. I wasn't so stupid after all! So off I went to try it on an earring again and after maybe 30 minutes figured out why it felt awkward and how to put it on. Apparently the one I was trying on the first time was deformed compared to the others so when I had that fixed it didn't feel so awkward anymore.
Although it looked great and am happy how it turned out, I'd prefer to use a cuff instead and can't wait to get something not silver in color. If I could actually find one! I think it would look even more exotic in copper/brass. Hmmm.. It looked so awesome on might have to try to get one of my friends to model this for me ;)
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