The Diamond Earrings Women Are Finally Sleeping In(And Why Their Ears Stopped Hurting)

So she does what most of us do. She takes her earrings out before bed, leaves them on the bedside table, and hopes she remembers to put them back in. Some nights a back rolls under the bed. Some mornings she forgets them altogether.

It's such an ordinary annoyance that hardly anyone talks about it. Ask any group of women who wear studs every day, though, and almost all of them have a routine built around it.

The problem isn't the diamond at the front. It's the hardware at the back. A standard stud uses a butterfly back that stands away from the lobe, with the sharp tip of the post poking out past it. When you lie on your side, the pillow pushes all of that into the skin behind your ear.

Rachel Galley's answer was to redesign the back instead of asking women to change how they sleep. The post screws into a small, flat disc that sits close against the lobe. There are no butterfly wings and no exposed tip, so there's nothing for the pillow to press into.

0.25 ct and 0.30 ct are the most discreet for wearing around the clock, and work well in second and third piercings. From 0.50 ct the sparkle is easy to see across a room.