Featured 9ct enamel earrings

I doubt my dexterity to screw the backs onto the stems!

I haven't got any of the clippy type though. The nickle in sterling is hard on me too. My skin turns BLACK quick while wearing sterling!

 

I can touch cashmere but not wear it. What does pure copper do? Titanium?

 

I can touch it to feel it briefly with my palms, but not for long. Too itchy!
Copper turns my wrist black. Never thought of trying titanium though! =)

 

Copper turns everybody's wrists black eventually. But the copper turns nice and shiny!

 

If you can find it, niobium is quite non-reactive. I had trouble when I first had my ears pierced with 14K studs. A dermatologist told me I would have to give up on the business, but think he just objected to putting a hole though healthy skin. I had already been given a pair of 18K peridot studs from Tiffany, & I was d**ned if I was going to give up. By chance, a few days later, I bought, at a crafts show, some little niobium & pearl earrings & put them in a little later, left them in overnight. Inflammation reduced immediately, infected lobes, healed in a couple of days. Went back the next day to get another pair. Now, when ears are sore, I soothe them with niobium.

 

Now I don't feel alone, apparently my trouble with metals are not only mine

At least I can wear gold but above 14 ct. Cashmere too, over a blouse, without touching the skin, otherwise itchy.

Do they put nickel in sterling? I have a pair of sterling earrings I bought long, long ago and I haven't used since then. Now as you said about nickel in sterling, I recall I tried to wear them and my earlobes got sore immediately, so I thought they might be forged (although marked) and I just put them aside and forgot about them. If there is nickel in sterling then it is probably the cause of my trouble with these earrings.

Never tried copper or titanium, or niobium. Ears stay well with gold so I don't experiment anymore.

 

WOW Sounds quite a nifty healer, I will search for it. Thanks!

 

Yes, I can wear cashmere over a blouse or thin tshirt. Not rough wool though. When I was younger, shopped for all of my clothes in thrift stores because I appreciate the older, natural fabrics. I could hold a sweater up to my cheek for a second and say, "Nope, it's a wool blend!" and put it back down!

Yes there is nickel in sterling, that's what irritates my skin too. I used to paint the interior of my watch bands with clear fingernail polish so I could wear them. Once I broke my pulsar watch doing it. Turns out the FUMES from nail polish can damage delicate electronics.

I can wear 10-14k gold if it's not binding on my body, I can wear a ring or bracelet. Just not around my neck or through my ears.

 

It's interesting looking wire, comes in various colors, will have to try etsy for a design I would like to try. Thanks, Bronwen.

 

antidiem, I gave up wrist watches long ago. I had terrible skin irritations and as some point used to wear only leather watch bands but did not feel comfortable with them, too, maybe because they have to be firmly fixed and not loose like metal ones, so I just stopped wearing watches at all. Now the cellphone is my watch

Now as you said it, neck and ears seem to be very sensitive parts of body, and fingers and wrists not so much.

 

the nickel in my sterling high school ring rotted my finger.....

 

That's how I found out about the "no nickel for Ruthie" rule too - contact allergy to my class ring. Fortunately I bought a costume one and mostly put it in a drawer by sophomore year of college.

 

You were lucky, guys, during my high school years we were not allowed to wear any jewelry, so my experience with metals came later, after the Change (the term is used in former USSR satellites for the transition from communist to capitalist society).

 

Oddly enough, my old high school ring was 9k and didn't bother my finger.
I wore it a lot for that last year of high school.
I loved the marquis shaped faux green stone set in gold w/black accents.
After that, I never wanted a university ring! I just wanted the diploma!

I don't know if high school rings are even a thing anymore?

 

They're still sold, but I'm not sure of how many are actually sold per class. In the old days, college was a rarity so high school rings were a Thing.