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Little Girl's Clip On Earrings

By Adrienne Warber

Jewelry Designer

Little girl's clip on earrings are a great earring option for a child without pierced ears. When your little girl wants to wear earrings but she is not quite ready for the responsibility of pierced ears, she can practice with clip on earrings. There are many fashionable clip on earrings for little girls of all ages.

Is Your Daughter Ready for Earrings?

Getting your daughter's ears pierced is a big decision. It takes months for pierced ears to heal and the piercing requires a regular cleaning and posts rotating for proper healing. Your daughter must be responsible enough to keep her ears clean, rotate the posts, not remove the earrings and tell you if there is any sign of infection. Due to this big responsibility, many parents wait until a little girl is at least eight years old or older to get her ears pierced. The great news is that your daughter can enjoy the look of pierced earrings with clip on earrings even if she isn't ready for pierced ears.

Benefits of Clip On Earrings

The most obvious benefit of clip on earrings is that piercing is not required. Clip on earrings are available in costume and fashion jewelry for children as young as three-years-old. Children's jewelry features many earring styles in clip on. Many clip on earrings are quite comfortable for children to wear. Little girls with or without pierced ears can find many cute clip on earring designs for casual or dressy occasions.


Little Girl's Clip On Earring Styles

Little girl's clip on earrings come a many adorable styles suitable for many different ages. Clip on earrings that resemble post earrings and dangle earrings come in a variety of designs. Children's clip on earrings come in a variety of materials such as yellow gold, sterling silver, pewter, resin or plastic. Some clip on backings include a cushion for comfort, while others are all metal or plastic.
Be careful if daughter has a nickel allergy because many of the whimsical children's fashion metal clip on earrings may contain nickel. Look for clip on earrings that say nickel-free on the packaging.

Designs include the following:

• Hearts
• Animal designs
• Teddy bears
• Apples
• Ballerina
• Music notes
• Sport team themes
• Dolls
• Dress-up princess earrings
• Flower designs
• American Flag
• Cross
• Cartoon characters
• Famous music group or movie designs such as Hannah Montana and High School Musical

There are clip on earrings to fit just about any little girl's interest and personality.

Where to Buy Clip On Earrings

Clip on earrings are not as popular as pierced earrings. However, you can still find clip on earrings for your daughter at a number of local jewelers and the children's jewelry section of department stores in many cities. The costume clip on earrings for dress-up play are even widely available at dollar stores.
The Internet is the best place to find a larger selection of children's clip on earrings. The following online retailers sell clip on earrings for little girls:

• Cliptomania: The Cliptomania site sells clip on earrings exclusively. They have a number of children's clip on earrings in styles such as pearls, holiday themes, daisies, crosses, angels, hearts and animals.
• Jewel Basket: The Jewel Basket site has a number of children's clip on earrings.
• Crazy4Clipons: Crazy4Clipons sells a selection of sterling silver clip on earrings in traditional designs such as dangling pearls and animals designs such as ladybugs.

Source:
http://jewelry.lovetoknow.com/Little_Girl's_Clip_On_Earrings

What is Dichroic Glass?

Dichroic glass has become very popular over the last couple of years. As I have visited stores here and there, these unusual and sometimes mesmerizing pieces of  art can be found in necklaces, pendants, earrings, rings and even wall hangings. Choosing a favorite, as I like to do when seeing a displayed array of items, can be tricky. No two are alike though may be similar. I think the pieces that fascinate me the most are the dramatic color changers. No wonder dichroic glass is also referred to as "chameleon glass."

Where did it come from?

Modern dichroic glass is available as a result of a materials research carried out by NASA and its contractors, who developed it for use in dichroic filters. However, it can also be traced back to the 4th century AD as seen in the Lycurgus Cup, which resides in a museum in London.  The picture on the left depicts the cup in normal light. The picture on the right depicts the cup photographed with a flash, showing it's green color though no light is coming through it. It is the only complete Roman glass object made from this type of glass, and the one exhibiting the most impressive change in color.

The main characteristic of dichroic glass in that it has a particular transmitted color and a completely different reflected color, as certain wavelengths of light either pass through or are reflected. This causes an array of color to be displayed, and the colors shift depending on the angle of view. Dichroic glass is an example of thin-film optics.

How is it made? 
Multiple ultra thin layers of different metals, such as gold or silver and the oxides of such metals - titanium, chromium, aluminium, zirconium, magnesium, or silica - are vaporised by an electron beam in a vacuum chamber. The vapor then condenses on the surface of the glass in the form of a crystal structure. A protective layer of quartz is sometimes added. The finished glass can have as many as 30 to 50 layers of these materials, yet the total thickness can be 30 to 35 millionths of an inch. The coating that is created is similar to gemstones and, by careful control of thickness, different colors may be obtained. A plate of dichroic glass can be fused with other glass in multiple firings. Due to variations in the firing process, results can not be exactly predicted, so each piece of glass is unique.

Making these amazing pieces is certainly not a "Do-It-Yourself" project.  Limited supply is due to the requirement for very high-tech equipment and skilled artisans.


Dichroic glass adds flash, pizazz, sparkle and intrigue. It is  recommended to wear one piece of dichroic jewelry at a time to attract attention, comments or perhaps conversation, as several pieces tend to overwhelm and take away the mystery and uniqueness in each piece.

Cliptomania.com offers non-pierced earrings that are made of dichroic glass. Cliptomania's owner, Candy Santo, noted she had a hard time catching a good photo as the shine and color changing kept blurring its outcome. See these and other beautiful earrings at www.cliptomania.com.

Meet The Designer: Michal Golan

This will be the first in a series of blogs introducing you to jewelry designer's that are proudly featured at https://www.cliptomania.com/. With the over 500+ non-pierced earrings that we offer, a great number are designer, special, one-of-a-kind creations. Most of the designer's merchandise we carry can be found in the Tomorrow's Heirlooms section of our website; however, depending on the style and color, you may see them also sprinkled in other sections. We hope that you will take a minute to enjoy this as we spotlight the individuals behind the beauty we love to wear. 
 

MICHAL GOLAN

An Israeli born jewelry designer, printer and ceramist is the force behind the company that bears her name. Michal Golan draws from a range of influences to create designs that are recognized for their ornate and intensely colored arrangements of gemstones and crystals. She has a meticulous attention to detail which highlights her mosaic-inspired heritage and familiarity with Middle Eastern art.

Michal moved to the United States in 1976. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a BA in graphic art. She also holds a master's degree in studio art from New York University.

Michal's company was launched in 1982, first from an apartment then moving into a design studio and production facility in New York City. The companymaintains over 1,500 accounts in the U.S. as well as Germany, Australia, Korea and Japan, with her jewelry and art available in up-scale gift shops, galleries and museums worldwide.



Nickel-Free Earrings for Sensitive Ears (Revised & Reposted)

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Cliptomania.com knows there are many people with mildly to moderately "sensitive ears” due to an allergic reaction to nickel commonly found in earrings. "Nickel Free" clip-on earrings are a comfortable, affordable alternative to wearing regular earrings.  Many of the alloys used in jewelry contain nickel. What is nickel?  Nickel is a chemical element, pre-eminently an alloy metal, used in many other alloys, such as nickel brasses and bronzes, and alloys with copper, chromium, aluminum, lead, cobalt, silver, and gold.

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All metals contain nickel, at least as impurities.  Fifteen percent of the population experiences an allergic reaction to nickel.  These sensitized people may show an allergy to nickel affecting their skin, known as dermatitis. Sensitivity to nickel may also appear in patients with pompholyx.  The reaction is not to the nickel itself, but the metallic salts created when the metal comes into contact with perspiration.  Nickel allergies affecting ears are often marked by itchy, red skin. Many earrings are now made nickel-free due to this problem allowing those who experience this sensitivity to comfortably wear jewelry again.

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 With this in mind, Cliptomania.com continues to offer dozens of Nickel-Free clip on earrings styles, as well as the best variety of non-pierced hoops, gold, sterling silver, bold, designer, and lead-compliant earrings for children over the age of four. Cliptomania.com!  An Internet store exclusively devoted to quality non-pierced earrings since 1999.

Give Your Earlobes a Break!

I have found that clip-on, non pierced earrings – especially the BIG ones - are a good choice, EVEN if your ears are PIERCED!  Why?  It’s a fact and I see it--earrings over the course of many years stretch earlobes and make the holes bigger--especially dangles on wire hooks. Anyone who has experienced an earring being ripped out of their earlobe can also attest to their lobes looking a little worse for the wear.  Recently employed by the internet merchant, www.cliptomania.com, I try on a lot of earrings and in doing so, have found that clip earrings seem to be less stressful on my earlobes, especially if the earrings are a tad on the weighty side.  I think it’s a great alternative for anyone with pierced ears who wants to give their earlobes a break! Beautiful earrings, various styles, extensive collection….and even clip on earrings for sensitive ears. Visit www.cliptomania.com!