Dawn Anderson
I have had 12 piercings in my ears, only 1 of which completely closed and had to be repierced (a cartilage piercing that was done with a gun at Claire’s when I was in middle school- I couldn’t handle sleeping on it, so I let it close and then went to a professional piercer and had it reprieved close by).I used to buy gold and surgical stainless steel earrings because it thought those would be the least irritating to my ears. For about 20 years, I had no issues, even leaving them in overnight. However, after removing them for an MRI a few years ago, I forgot to put them back in right away because I couldn’t find the balls for some of the hoops etc… and then ears decided to start acting up. They got inflamed and itchy within 20 minutes of putting in any earring. So I would wear them for a few days and then removed them, sometimes for a few weeks, but I developed bumps on my scalp where the back of the earrings hit my skull. They became more and more irritated to the point that I just took my earrings out for a while. Again, a few months later, I tried to wear them and my skin just said No!So I looked around for flat backs and different metals…Fast forward to a year later and I just found out there are titanium flat backs. Woohoo! Working in the medical field I know that titanium is for implants, so I figured maybe that’s been my issue all along. Perhaps I developed a mild allergy to due to an element in the metal alloys of the jewelry I wore before. Even if that element is nickel, it is bonded so well in titanium alloy that it usually doesn’t cause a reaction.Well, I put these titanium 20G 2.5mm studs in my ears (6mm post length) about an hour ago and thus far no issues! I had to push them through a little bit of tissue, and even with that - although they are red- there is no itching.The earrings are beautiful.I also truly appreciate that this store sends you two extra posts of a different length (6 and 8mm in mine), so you can put the earrings in different parts of your ear which have varying widths of tissue.Additionally, mine came with the studs slightly pre-bent so they stay in the post better. Even so, I bent them a bit more to make it even tighter.I’ll post more pictures another time, and update if I have any issues.The earrings arrived in a little back box, stuck in a velvet sponge. There is a small instruction sheet which explains that you need to bend the stud once it’s halfway into the post in order the tighten the fit- since these are threadless. THAT IS HOW THEY STAY IN!!!! Lol- I’ve read reviews other people wrote saying they don’t stay in, and I’m sure those people didn’t read the instructions…Forgive my ear pics- my ears are red because I pushed these through some tissue- regardless, they feel great!!!I’m wearing the 6mm length posts.
