Safety Pin Earrings

This post is partly a response to a challenge and partly reassurance that looking hardcore can be quick and painless

For these there are just two things you need to know which may not be obvious from both the title and  the picture:

• Firstly, my earlobes are not actually that fat, it's just the angle.
• Secondly, these safety pins have been blunted. Please do not stick sharp pins through your ear, the idea of it freaks me out. To blunt them simply clip off roughly 3mm of the sharp end with nail clippers and then file it smooth with a nail file.

Rating:

Effort Required: 1/10

Putting them in backwards probably takes more effort than actually making them.

Durability: 8/10

These are so durable, comfortable and...um...safe that I almost wore them two days in a row.

Cool Factor: 5/10

The fact that you appear to have stabbed a sharp object through your ear gets some mixed reactions which can be quite interesting. The idea probably would be more effective with slightly bigger pins but this wasn't really enough of a challenge to merit me finding some.