Comments on: How to Get Earring Dangles to Stay Facing Toward the Front? https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/ free jewelry tutorials, plus a friendly community sharing creative ideas for making and selling jewelry. Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.14 By: Bonnie https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-618102 Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:10:06 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-618102 You can have surgery to correct the angle of your ear piercing to help earrings hang straighter. It’s several hundred dollars.

]]> By: Lolo https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614748 Wed, 20 May 2020 12:32:58 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614748 In reply to Maricela.

Sterling silver…most ear wires are 19 gauge (half hard.). Every time metal is moved it gets harder. If it gets too hard, it becomes brittle and will break. Make sure that you adjust the earwire as little as possible. When everything is in place you can squeeze the wire to harden it and keep it in the correct position.

]]> By: Nicole https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614747 Wed, 20 May 2020 06:19:08 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614747 In reply to Lolo.

That will always be the biggest pain in butt . its why id rather make anything before earrings. One tip i learned, besides where on the wrap tool your looping, is not to let the loop end hang over so it makes a circle and not a tear drop on one end and circle on the other. So when bringing loop around on tool, the wire end is flush with the round tip. Ull see instant improvement in shape of loop which makes making 2 Even lengths much easier

]]> By: Linda https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614331 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:23:49 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614331 For a quick and cheap fix, I put small silicone backs (sometimes call nuts on Amazon) on lever backs (like you would for a stud or wire earring) which helps hold them in position. It’s still not perfect. I may go back to the jeweler for an adjustment, but in the meantime, these help a lot. My ears are flat to my head, so the lever backs with a front literally face sideways and are hidden by my hair.

]]> By: Lolo https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614050 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:51:15 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614050 I was having trouble with my handmade components tilting the wrong way until I realized I had to be more careful making the holes or loops perfectly vertical/horizontal.

]]> By: Barbara https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614039 Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:41:19 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614039 Maybe you could try a heavier gauge jump ring. It could be that there is too much play between the jump ring and the ceramic earring.

]]> By: Laurel https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614022 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:54:57 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614022 I had the same problem and thought I was doing something wrong. One earring hung correctly, but the other one didn’t. I don’t know why it took me so long to figure this out, but it was my ear, not the earring, that was the problem. If I switch ears, the same thing happened with the one earring. The earring would hang crooked! As CR said above, not everyone’s ears are symmetrical. Could that be the problem?

]]> By: Dorothy Moser https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614014 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:10:33 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614014 You could try using the smallest possible jump ring, that may help.

]]> By: Dorothy Moser https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614013 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:05:14 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614013 In reply to Catherine Franz.

I use ear wires with forward facing holes for this issue. I have found them on Aliexpress.

]]> By: CR https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-614009 Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:54:25 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-614009 Keep in mind that not everybody’s ears are the same. Mine are flat close to the head and hoops make me look like a monkey! All earrings face to the sides. Other people’s lobes are perpendicular to the head and earrings face froward. A solution cannot be
universal.

]]> By: Kate Arvidson https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-613293 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:12:05 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-613293 In reply to Catherine Franz.

Catherine, any suggestions for brands that are more durable and can handle a slight twist? I keep breaking mine and am having trouble figuring out a good, reliable brand to use instead.

]]> By: Maricela https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-613275 Sat, 14 Dec 2019 03:04:50 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-613275 In reply to Catherine Franz.

Do you know what brand is the beat to do the twist method?

]]> By: Nancy https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-610929 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:45:22 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-610929 I have longer dangling earrings I want to put one on the part that should face front is there when I place the other one on the back is facing forward what am I doing wrong

]]> By: Catherine https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-484255 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 04:13:54 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-484255 Thank goodness…I was always wanting to ask this same question! I’ve had to reopen the jump ring and turn the focal around so many times, it’s a little frustrating to me too. ????

]]> By: Dianne https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-457377 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:52:25 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-457377 Most times it is actually the direction of the hole in the ear that would make an otherwise straight earing hang slightly sideways. Since there’s nothing you can do about that, you can give it a twist. I do it at the gallery for my customers, making it little extra “service” they can count tin from me.

]]> By: Catherine Franz https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-457356 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:58:44 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-457356 If you are careful you can twist (very slowly) the loop in the ear wire. Some brands break, some don’t as much.

You could learn to make your own ear wires and then you can face the loop any way you want, and of course, make the loop large or small as well.

]]> By: Belinda Willis https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-457337 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:27:11 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-457337 Hi, Jaqui,

I’m a potter. You might experiment with using a small gauge kanthal wire to embed an upside-down “U” shaped loop in your jewelry. It would have to be inserted into soft leatherhard clay so you have to use a gauge that is small enough to bend as the clay shrinks. I’ve never done it but imagine a 26 gauge would work. You can get kanthal wire from Amazon. Its top temp is 2280, higher than nichrome wire can go and well within cone 6 range.

You would then directly attach your ceramic piece to the ear wire without a jump ring. The ceramic piece would not be able to twist away from front facing using this method.

Belinda

]]> By: Colleen https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-457324 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:52:50 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-457324 I too have this problem with my focal facing front on earrings. Sometimes giving the part that you attach your focal to on the ear wire a VERY gentle twist will align the hole up so your focal faces the right way. Be careful because I have twisted too hard and broke the stem off the ear wire. Good luck!

]]> By: Rena Klingenberg https://jewelrymakingjournal.com/how-to-get-earring-dangles-to-stay-facing-toward-the-front/#comment-455523 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:56:18 +0000 http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/?p=45293#comment-455523 Hi Jacqui, here are two things I would experiment with to get the ceramic earring to face in a different direction:

(1) Add one more jump ring and see if it makes the ceramic earring face forward.

(2) Or (if possible) don’t use any jump rings. Simply attach the earwire directly to the hole in the top of your ceramic earring, and see if that does the trick.

Please let me know if either of these methods solve the problem! 🙂

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