If I were to be cast away on the proverbial desert island, the luxury I would choose to take with me would be earrings. I am not proud of this. It is a little bit embarrassing, probably. But I share it to give you an idea of how obsessed I am with earrings. I often leave the house with no makeup on, but never without earrings (although it occasionally happens by mistake). The other morning, a ring of the doorbell knocked my getting ready off stride, and by the time I realised I was earring-less I was almost at the tube station, too late to turn back. I felt like I’d gone to work in my slippers.
I don’t for a minute suggest you join me in my weapons-grade earring fixation. Think of it like this: I compulsively overthink earrings so that you don’t have to. And as a result, I can today bring you a download of where we are at with earrings: which style, which colour, how many, matched or mismatched.
The most important thing you need to know right now is: earrings should be definite, not dangly. They can be a chunk or they can be a sliver, but they should be solid. Chandelier earrings, all their tinkle and flutter, are not where we are at. What you want is a confident, glamazon earring. Think back to the kind of earrings Samantha wore in early episodes of Sex and the City. They were nuggets of gold, with the chunky energy of a man’s signet ring, gleaming at her lobes as she eyed up her prey over a cosmo. That’s what we’re after.
