Chopard earrings hurt ears, anyone else?

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What a lovely thoughtful gift from DH! I don’t have any experience with chopard, but @BigAkoya wears white gold and has temperamental earlobes, will hunt up her post in case it helps

heres one where she describes how to get the earrings into temperamental lobes

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heres another post where she describes a troubleshooting list to check off

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her advice is VCA, but she’s a font of wisdom on Tiffany, Mikimoto, and I’m sure chopard has a similar adjustment department

fingers crossed this works out as earring pain seems like a thing lots of us go through!
 
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Some designers use earring posts that are thicker than others, and it sounds like these posts may be too thick for your piercings. Are these below similar to your earrings? Because those posts look thick to me. I hope Chopard gives you the option of changing out the posts for thinner ones, because they are very pretty earrings! Good luck Swanky. (Another possibility of course is that this particular white gold mix is causing an allergic reaction???)

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Swanky said:
My sweet DH got me a pair of the Ice Cube diamond bar earrings for Christmas. I put them in to wear today and they hurt! They were oddly hard to get in and then ached so I had to take them off :sad:
I have no issues with white gold otherwise. . . anyone else?
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My wife had this issue with Cartier earrings, the post is thicker than standard earrings. We ended up taking her to a body piercing shop and having her existing holes stretched a little. She wore larger gauge body piercing rings for a few weeks. After that the thicker posts slide right in with no problem. May sound a little barbaric, but it's not and it's much easier overall than repeatedly trying to get the thicker posts in.
 
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Swanky said:
Yes, those are the ones @Cosmopolitan, thank you!
Thank you! @880
Good to know @avcbob @indiaink

Y'all are 100% right! I stuck it out and left them in all day, they stopped hurting.
I tried using different backs because I don't like the ones they come with and nothing fits, the posts area smidge bigger than the rest.
Appreciate the responses and help! :flowers:
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Glad to hear you’re already getting used to them. I bought earrings last year with thicker posts and they were slightly irritating at first but then my piercings adapted to them I guess. Congrats on your gorgeous Chopard Christmas present! Would love to seen an IRL pic.
 
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Cosmopolitan said:
Glad to hear you’re already getting used to them. I bought earrings last year with thicker posts and they were slightly irritating at first but then my piercings adapted to them I guess. Congrats on your gorgeous Chopard Christmas present! Would love to seen an IRL pic.
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I’ll get one, thank you!
 
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Swanky said:
Yes, those are the ones @Cosmopolitan, thank you!
Thank you! @880
Good to know @avcbob @indiaink

I tried using different backs because I don't like the ones they come with and nothing fits, the posts area smidge bigger than the rest.
Appreciate the responses and help! :flowers:
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You should consider using Chrysmela Catch. They’re really secure and comfortable for bigger, heavier earrings. I’d heard of them before but decided to buy them only after @skyqueen recommended them on another thread.

 
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SmokieDragon said:
You should consider using Chrysmela Catch. They’re really secure and comfortable for bigger, heavier earrings. I’d heard of them before but decided to buy them only after @skyqueen recommended them on another thread.

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The earrings aren't big or heavy, but the post is a bit bigger than any of my others, would they fit bigger/thicker posts?
 
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Swanky said:
I tried using different backs because I don't like the ones they come with and nothing fits, the posts area smidge bigger than the rest.
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If the Chopard earrings came with regular old butterfly backs, you can easily adjust them with a pair of pointed jewelers tweezers (I ordered mine from Amazon). Just slide the tweezers into each side of the earring backs (as pictured below) and gently squeeze the two sides together or gently spread the two sides apart, depending on if you need to tighten or loosen the backs. A Roberto Coin jeweler showed me this trick and I've done it many times. Brand new earrings often come from the factory with butterfly backs that are way too tight and they need to be loosened. Or sometimes the backs get too loose after years of frequent wear.

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Cosmopolitan said:
If the Chopard earrings came with regular old butterfly backs, you can easily adjust them with a pair of pointed jewelers tweezers (I ordered mine from Amazon). Just slide the tweezers into each side of the earring backs (as pictured below) and gently squeeze the two sides together or gently spread the two sides apart, depending on if you need to tighten or loosen the backs. A Roberto Coin jeweler showed me this trick and I've done it many times. Brand new earrings often come from the factory with butterfly backs that are way too tight and they need to be loosened. Or sometimes the backs get too loose after years of frequent wear.

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Great tip! Unfortunately Chopard earrings posts are thicker, not one earring back from any I have fit the post thickness.
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Those appear to be "La Pousette" style backs. I found a pic on the Chopard website. You need to squeeze the two small tabs on each side to depress the plunger sort of mechanism, and slide the backs onto the posts, and then release the tabs to lock them into place.

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