I pierced my ears when I was my twenties. I did it with the sleepers. It took forevever for the things to go through, but I've never had a problem with them since. A few years ago, I had a second hole put in with a gun at the mall. They eventually closed up and I'm not doing that again. I can't wear clips either. But I rememer years ago the girls wearing big heavy dangly earrings and everyone saying it would ruin their ears. My sister didn't listen to me and she nearly ripped her earlobes out from those arrings. Now she can only wear very light ones.

I love Swarovski stuff too. Have a lot of it.
Louisa