Ordered these exact same earrings elsewhere (same stock photo for brand) - regardless I felt it fair to share my opinion about this craze of "huggie" earrings. So far, I'm not unhappy with them. After a little effort I managed to get them into my standard ear piercings, having to flip one of them around so that the blue stripes were facing one another. Otherwise, if you put them in as you normally would they would be grey/blue, grey/blue. I'm extremely metal sensitive and in the past it's been hard to find proper hypoallergenic earrings. So far, these haven't irritated my ears but I'm pensive. If they do, I'll updated. The blue is much darker in person than pictured; more navy, less azure. They are sturdy feeling, relatively weightless in my ears; at least I don't notice them a while after putting them in. The clasps are a little hinky. I'm finding that is the general issue on other reviews with these "types" of earrings. Either way, I still don't see them falling off easily. However, I would not sleep in these.