These earrings are pretty and are of good quality; HOWEVER, the stem that threads through your ear is short and fat.  My ears are small and my ear lobes are thin, but these squeeze my ears so much that I can't wear earrings the next day because my ears are sore.  Not only are the holes in my ears stretched due to the "fat" stems, the stems are so short that my ear lobes are squeezed nearly pinched.