Oxidised Silver Teardrop Hooks with Coloured Stones

A compact teardrop of oxidised silver, its outline picked out with fine beading, set with four stones — green, blue, red and yellow — arranged around a central point. It hangs from a plain silver hook with nothing else added.

Available in 9 colours: Baby Pink, Multi Color, Ruby, Red, Sea Green, White, Black and Blue. The colour refers to the stones.

Why You Will Love Them

This is about as simple and as useful as jewellery gets. It is small, it is light, it has enough colour to be interesting and enough restraint to go with anything, and at this price it is the sort of pair you can own in two shades without thinking about it.

The multicolour option in particular is the most practical everyday choice, because something in the four stones will pick up something in whatever you happen to be wearing.

The Beaded Frame

Tiny raised silver beads run around the whole teardrop. On a small piece this is what provides the texture — without it the outline would read as a plain stamped shape, and the earring would look considerably cheaper than it is.

The Hook

A plain silver wire hook, deliberately unadorned. On a piece this small anything decorative at the top would crowd the teardrop below.

How They Wear

Hook fitting, very light, hanging just below the lobe. Comfortable from morning to night and small enough that they never catch on a scarf or collar.

Styling Them

Cotton kurtas, handloom sarees, jeans and a plain shirt. They work as a second pair alongside something larger in an upper piercing, and they travel well because there is almost nothing to damage.

Buying Well at a Low Price

Inexpensive jewellery usually gives itself away in the finishing rather than the materials — a stamped outline with no texture, stones sitting loose in shallow settings, a hook that has been cut rather than properly formed. The things worth checking at this level are the edges and the back: a well made small piece has a defined outline, stones seated in raised bezels, and a smooth hook with no sharp end. Get those right and a modest pair will outlast a more expensive one that was finished carelessly.

Product Details

• Type: Hook drop earrings
• Finish: Oxidised antique silver
• Stones: Four coloured stones in a beaded teardrop frame
• Closure: Plain silver hook
• Available colours: Baby Pink, Multi Color, Ruby, Red, Sea Green, White, Black, Blue

Small hook earrings like these are also the easiest style to wear if your piercings sit slightly unevenly, which is very common. A hook hangs vertically under its own weight regardless of the angle of the hole, so the pair looks level even when the piercings are not — something rigid studs cannot do.

Care

Keep them in a zip lock pouch, put them on after perfume, wipe with a dry soft cloth and keep them away from water.