They are perfectly fine for my intentions. Something to keep my ear piercings from closing w/out causing infection or turning my ears gray (or green). Got my ears pierced by Clair's using, supposedly, stainless post ear rings. Not true, I discovered. I ordered these and tossed the Clair's drek after my ears were swelling and, in time, turned grey around my "stainless steel" piercing studs from Clair's. Another plus side to these is that they "lock on". I don't have to worry about losing one - or both - ear rings. Got far more bang for my buck (even w/ the extraordinarily high shipping cost) than if I'd purchased one pair - locally or online. I plan to order "gold" Studex piercing ear rings next... to compliment my gold dangley ear rings... -- One caveat, the diameter of the Studex posts is greater than that of my Clair's stud piercing ear rings. So, my ears needed to "adjust" to these (stretch the piercings) for a couple of days. After that, my ears were fine. -- Finally, although they were shipped USPS snail mail, the ear rings arrived quickly and very well and securely packaged.