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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

Black and White NP Earrings @ cliptomania.com

A  small sampling of our selection of Black and White Non-pierced Earrings, you can find numerous more black and white non-pierced earrings @ www.cliptomania.com

Clear Crystals & Black Circles Clip-on Drop Earrings 

Faceted Crystal Tuxedo Clip-on Drop Earrings

Michal Golan Onyx Clip on Button Earrings  ##111

Black ,White & Metallic Silver Beaded Hoop Clip on Earrings

Nickel Free NP Earrings @ Cliptomania.com

Crazy Crystal Teardrop Clip on Earrings

NF Bead & Hammered Clip on Drop Earrings

Crystal Dotted Teardrop Clip on Hoop Earrings

Crystal Z Clip On Earrings 

Hoops @ Cliptomania.com

A sampling of hoops@cliptomania.com, there are even more hoops on the website.

Silvery & Two Crystal Clip on Hoop Earrings

Angular Inside Out Hoop Clip On Earrings #2

Crystal Accented  Clip-on Hoop Earrings

Golden Thin Hoop Non-pierced Earrings

NF Silvery Ribbed Tapered Hoop Clip Earrings

Metalsmith an Jewelry Artisan: Lauren Blais

Sterling Silver Earrings, Necklace & Ring

As future metalsmith and jewelry artisan Lauren Blais grew up in Rhode Island, she became hooked on fashion and design. With the goal of becoming a fashion designer in her sights, she took several courses at the Rhode Island School of Design to achieve it.  However, when Balis took a Beginning Jewelry course her plans slowly changed and by the time she worked with Providence artist Boris Bally; jewelry became her career goal. 

After RISD, she enrolled at the Massachusetts College of Art to study small metals and how to be a metalsmith. After graduating in 2008, Blais opened her own studio. The jewelry she makes is influenced by Victorian Mourning jewelry worn by Queen Victoria of England upon the death of her beloved husband Albert.  She wore black dresses and jewelry to match often made from jet or another dark material like tortoise shell.  This spurred others in the country and across Europe to want their own mourning jewelry to celebrate loved ones they lost too.  

 The mourning jewelry of the time was intricate in detail and held great beauty some pieces were made from the same elements as Queen Victoria’s and others were created from human hair, featured photos of a loved one, or a carved cameo likeness set in gold or silver. Blais wants her jewelry to have the same feel and to tell a story. Only she wants the story to continue beyond creation but keep going as the jewelry passes from one customer to another family member and then to another and so forth each generation.

The materials Blais uses are leather, fur, silver, raw gemstones, and gold – often pairing two or more of these elements together into a piece or pieces of jewelry.  She also makes each component of the jewelry as much as possible by hand whether it is the links that create a necklace chain or the clasp of a bracelet. Blais strives overall to ensure her jewelry blends the old and new together to create unique pieces of jewelry.  

Last year I found Lauren Blais jewelry in a happy accident surfing the Internet and I knew I had to add her pieces to the cliptomania.com website.  You can see them by clicking on Gemstones and choosing the sub category Jewelry Sets.

May's Flowers

Plumeria Blossom Clip On Earrings

May’s flowers are out in force! I have seen phlox, dogwoods, roses, azaleas, clematis, anemone, and more in bloom.  It only seems appropriate for cliptomania.com to get into the spirit of Spring Flowers!  There is no reason to just put flowers in a vase when you can also adorn your ears with flowers too! So why not stop by the #1 site for clip on earrings and get a pair of more of flower clip on earrings to show express your appreciation or love of flowers!

St. Patrick's Day Symbols

Common St. Patrick's Day symbols are:

the "Eye of the Needle"

Amber Celtic Clip on Earrings

the Shamrock 

 

Shamrock Non-pierced Button Earrings

the Claddagh & Shamrock

Shamrock & Claddagh Drop Earrings 

Or are you more subtle in your expression of St. Patrick's day like with these Irish Marble Beads Clip on Drop Earrings.

 

Irish Marble Beads Clip on Drop Earrings

Which one are you on St. Patrick's Day someone who wears a symbol of the day or are you more subtle?

The Beauty of White in Jewelry

Janice's 3 Pearl Clip-on Drop Earrings

The color white represents cleanliness (think a chef's uniform), innocence (a baby lamb), purity (the bride's gown), neutrality, lightness, and exactitude.  In ancient times, it was one of the first colors used by Paleolithic artists and was made from calcite or chalk and used as a background or highlight.  In ancient Egypt white was associated with the goddess Isis. Also, priests and priestesses of Isis wore white linen in ceremonies, and those who died had strips of white cloth wrapped around them. 

Opal Chunks Clip On Earrings

In ancient Greece and other nations white was associated with mother's milk and was written about in mythological stories.  In the Muslim holy book, the Talmud, milk is one of the four sacred substances along with wine, honey, and a rose.  In politics of ancient Rome, if a man wanted to hold a public office, he wore a white toga brightened with chalk called a toga candida (origin for the word candidate.)  A white toga was also worn for ceremonial occasions by all Roman citizens over the age of fourteen. Magistrates and certain priests wore white togas with a broad purple stripe.   Once Augustus became emperor, the white toga became mandatory to wear in order to enter the Roman forum.

Granulated & White Enamel Clip on Oval Earrings

White also became the color worn by priests during mass and monks of the Cistercian order under Pope Pius, a former monk of the Dominican Order. He was the first to wear white as Pope and it continues to be the official color worn by popes.  The color white has other religions associations too. The white elephant is considered sacred in Asian cultures.  In Buddhism white is associated with the birth of Buddha.  Native Americans of the Great Plains considered the white buffalo sacred as it represented fertility and the gods of the earth.   White also has a negative connotation. In some Asian cultures, it is a symbol of death. In the Ancient Egyptians, culture white was considered the color of life when black mud covered fertile lands created any time the Nile flooded.  

Today much of the same symbolic associations are still present today.  A majority of brides still wear white gowns. In home, design white makes a room look lighter and larger in appearance. White is also considered a calming color. In the fashion, world white is used extensively and often paired with other colors like black for major contrast.

Pearl Grape Cluster Earrings with White Pearl Lacy Ring

These are just a small sample of the numerous clip on earrings that feature white alone or as an accent. Cliptomania has a dedicated section for white earrings as well as many scattered in other sections.  If white is not the only color you like, there are countless other colors among the 500+  non-pierced earrings you can check out when you visit the top site for clip on earrings, Cliptomania.com!