There are some many different styles of earrings to choose from it is so interesting to see the styles and how they have changed over the years. I remember when we have very few to chose from. Now a days there are some really great earrings here you will find a lot of great examples of different styles. Clip on, Gauge, Fake Gauge, French wire -Hook, Hoop, Plug, Fake Plug, Post- Stud, and Thread. 

I can recall people getting their ears pierced with a needle and thread. The way your ear would be numbed before the dastardly deed would be with a cube of ice not very conventional but popular at the time none the less. Then the needle would be pulled painfully through the ear much to the poor victims shock and dismay the cube of ice anesthetic wore off all the soon. Once the needle was pulled completely through the now pulsating blood red mangled ear the thread was leaf behind and tied in a knot. The professional instructions from the ear expert was to then pull the thread back and forth as many times as possible to keep the newly butchered hole open for the future beautiful new earring once the expert said the ear was ready. In most cases the ear expert would not declare the ear ready for an earring until the drainage slowed nearly to none at all, better known as the crusty gunk on the string. Now once you were lucky enough to be declared crusty gunk free you could then remove the string. Once your string was now gone, in most cases two weeks later you could have a beautiful new pair of earrings.

Now I know to some of you this is going to be a disgusting idea but to the other half of you yep you kow who you are you are laughing right now. The half of you that are cracking up rolling on the floor, you know just what I am talking about don't you? 

Clip on earrings were for those people to chicken to brave the needle treatment.

Thread earrings are not the kind of thread I told you about above thankfully this one is a lot more attractive. This is metal not thread and looks a lot better then the previously mentioned thread. 

Post or Stud is a straight metal post with a stone, pearl or fake jewl to decorate the end that is visable in front.

French wire  or Hook earrings are designed without a back that closes basically they just as they are called hook into your ear.

Hoop is called a hoop because it has a cirle circle or hoop look. The hoop has a closure to secure the earring in your ear.

Gauge is a thick earring that makes the hole bigger then the typical pierced ear size. The Gauge earrings can be very small or very large depending on what size of Gauge you chose to put in your ear.

Fake Gauges come in handy when you realize that the one main thing about using a Gauge is that once you make the hole bigger the hole will stay bigger. There is no way to make the hole smaller this is where a Fake Gauge comes in handy. The hole is not bigger but you get the same look as if it was.

Plug is another type of earring that like the Gauge makes the hole bigger. The difference between the Gauge and the Plug is that the Gauge has a tail the Plug as it sounds is a small plug so to speak.

Fake Plug. As you may have guessed there are Fake Plugs as well. The Fake Plug serves the same purpose as the Fake Gauge so the hole is not made larger because as you know the hole can not be made smaller only larger.