I LOVE these earrings! I typically wear small diamonds in my ears or small silver hoops. I cannot have anything to big or overwhelming. Gold and dangly are both a little outside of my comfort zone, but these are great! Every time I wear them I get compliments. I bought these in 2011 and I was worried about them breaking when I bend them a little to put them in my ear; but they have not. Another person said that they lost their earring after 12 hours. They must have added the back since that review because now they send them with a clear back that you do need to wear or else they will fall out. Also if your ear holes are stretched out at all I would not get them because the gold is pretty thin.