FIBO STEEL 16G Cartilage Hoop Earrings for Women Men - Stainless Steel Hinged Clicker Nose Hoop Rings Helix Septum Conch Daith Lip Tragus Piercing Jewelry 9pcs

Well, let’s get into it!! Pictures: The earring itself is certainly seamless, let’s get that out of the way first. The first picture shows the earring in the closed position, and as you can see it is VERY hard to tell where the latch is unless you zoom in (we’ll get to that part in a bit). The second picture shows the earring in the open position, and the third shows the actual latch part. You might have to zoom in a bit, but there is an easy way to tell which side is the latch: you can see a tiny hole on the outside of the earring. That is the part that connects to the rest of the earring, so you will pull it open from the OPPOSITE side. The last picture is just how the earrings look on me, so you can get an idea of how snug they are. If it helps at all I’m 5’3 and have fairly average sized ears+disconnected lobes. Noticed that my ear is red? Don’t worry, we’ll get to that too! Review: As a general review, I would have to say that these are probably the best seamless earrings that I’ve ever tried in my entire piercing-having existence. As I mentioned before they really are seamless, which means that the latch can slide perfectly through your piercing hole without snagging on anything. If that’s enough for you then buy ahead, but if you need more convincing then just keep on reading. Just how seamless are they, you may ask? SO seamless, in fact, that I initially thought that I had received two duds. On first glance it looked like two of the earrings only had a latch without an opening, so I set them to the side and proceeded to put the rest of them in. It was only when I looked them over again that I realized the opening side was just VERY well hidden. That’s what you get when you buy actually seamless earrings (and have poor eyesight and try to put these in right after you wake up), so just make sure that you inspect them closely before asking for a refund. Some reviews have mentioned that a few of their earrings didn’t close properly, and I have discovered the solution! Or rather, the cause I guess. See, when you close these earrings you will hear a definitive *snap*—there really is no missing the sound or the feeling, you will DEFINITELY know when they’re closed. The only problem is that these earrings aren’t made out of mithril, they’re just stainless steel. That means that if you put enough force on the latch, the earring won’t close properly. Learned that painful lesson when I pushed just a little bit too hard on one on the earrings and bent the latch (rest in peace, number 5). Try to pinch the earring closer to the latch/opening, rather than at the exact center of the earring. “Why would you be putting so much force on the latch to begin with?” you might be asking yourself, “and also why is your ear so red, Rudolph the Red Ear Reindeer?”. Well that hurts my feelings, but also it’s because you might just HAVE to force some of these earrings in. They’re properly gauged earrings after all, and some of us (cough) made the stupid stupid mistake of getting two of their piercings done at Claire’s with that dumb little piercing gun. Luckily my ear is only red from stress not pain, and I have the solution for those of you who might find yourself having to force the earrings in. I used an equal mix of Vaseline and Coconut Oil as a form of lubricant, on both the entry and the exit holes, and just a little bit of grit. I know that technically you’re not supposed to use lubricant when you gauge up, but I’m a lawless rule breaker with a pension for anarchy! So anyways yeah, cool earrings, 10/10.

I love them and the quality is good, easy to manage and easy closure no tarnish and easy removal so far functionality is very satisfactory and no irritation I highly recommend it

I really like these earrings. I was looking for a set to put in all my piercings, and these look great. The hoop was very difficult to get into my cartilage... it took hours to get in and lots of bleeding! Once it was in though, it looks cute. It did give me a bump, but I'm hoping that will go away soon. It didn't take very long to get them set in my normal lobe piercings. I've had them in for about a month now, and they're very comfortable and the color has not changed. They're very sturdy! Even though I put them in a month ago, none have fallen out or become unclasped. I have received many complements!

The earring itself is really nice. It’s sturdy, easy to open and close, and looks good but they didn’t fit right with my ears. I got them for my lobes but they were too big for my hole (my lobes shrunk to 18g/20) but my cartridges are 16 so I put it in my mid helix. It fit in the hole but the loop was too small to fit comfortable around my eat so it got irritated. My piercing is 10 years old so I was shocked it got a little crusty and red but I figured it was just from the pressure of the loop being too small. Even though it didn’t work out with my ears I still recommend them!

I’ve had these earrings for YEARS, and wear them 24/7- it’s as if I have nothing in my piercings, they’re so light! They never tarnish and are super secure. I’ve never had any skin irritation or greening, and they’re very easy to clean. 100% recommend for lazy girlies who want to keep their piercings occupied with a minimalistic style.

Excellent for sensitive ears! I’m allergic to cheap metal but these feel nice and have a good fit with multiple size options.

2 of them don't close which sucks because I had intended on using all 9, but you really can't beat the price. The quality of the ones that do close is pretty good, they are comfortable and look nice. I am sensitive to a lot of metals but as of now I'm having now issue with the material, will update if that changes.

I ordered the black, gold, and silver sets of 9 in 10mm. Quality of the jewelry is decent, standard “surgical” steel. The hoops are secure, but as others have noted they can be a little difficult to unsnap - personally I find this to be a good thing, so they don’t come out with a little rough handling or tugging. They’re also actually 16g. I’ve had issues before where “16g” marked jewelry was actually 18g or 20g so that was a welcome relief. However, the silver set I ordered had an issue. Some sort of processing error has resulted in me getting 7 10mm hoops and 2 8mm hoops. I have a few other silver 10mm already and just bought these for spares, so I’m not going to return them as it’s more hassle than its worth, but just be aware that that’s a potential issue when you buy.

fantabulous

Things seem to be holding up

I’ve had no issues with these hoops since receiving them a few months ago. They’re easy to put in, and I haven’t had any irritation or discoloration since the initial switch to this jewelry. I have four helix piercings, and put these hoops in the top two, because it’d been more than 8 months since I had them done. It did somewhat mess the sites up a little bit for a few days, and I did a saline rinse multiple times, but that was mostly because I’m pretty terrible at finding the opposite end of the piercing and it created a lot of bleeding. If you have sensitive ears, these worked super well for me, and I haven’t encountered any issues with them for months now.

Easy to put on/off. Plain & simple. Comfortable to wear. Definitely will buy again!

These were perfect, using them do do a stacked stretched lobe, they have maintained during every day use