Very lovely earrings, but let me tell you.  Much bigger than I anticipated, or maybe just bigger than I am used to.  I bought these to replace a pair of misplaced (hopefully not lost...) diamond studs I'd gotten as a birthday gift a few years before.  I thought my real studs were 3 carats total, but when I received these I was stunned.  Much, much bigger.  I am a small girl though with tan skin and jet black hair, so I feel like it's too obvious on me.