These earrings felt so much more comfortable than clip on earrings, which itched and hurt my ears immediately. The magnetic earrings felt fine for quite a while, but after several hours, they seemed a bit too tight on my ear lobes. They are pretty earrings (though a bit bigger than I prefer) and there was no worries about the earrings falling off. The magnets are very strong. Unfortunately, they must have got stuck on some metal, as one of them disappeared from the drawer soon after I got them, I guess that is the obvious downside of magnetic earrings!