How to Make Earring Hooks at Home

Author: Ashley Lee

Africans and excavate walls of ancient Persia depicted soldiers were wearing earrings. Earrings were always a significant part of every society, and they also hold their place in modern society age whether you are planning for a wedding, going to the office, or to want to invest your day at the beach you can find peoples around you wearing earrings. Your earrings reflect an image of your personality. They can be great gift as they can personalize in any way you just need to choose a style that can meet personality of whom you are going to present this gift. How much you want to spend a little or a lot it’s up to you. Your earrings can be from gemstones to beads. You can amaze the recipient if you try to make a personal gift that you’re thoughtful for her.

The attraction of more or less all earrings is the earring hooks. With the help of gorgeous earring hooks, you can plan an outstanding beautiful pair of earrings, of your desired style, size and color. All can be achieved by varying simple method of making earrings. You can try unlimited variation of style that you desire. The only thing which can limit you is your creativity and imagination.

What you need to make your own earring hooks, you just need a needle nose, cutters, flat nose pliers, and round nose pliers for managing the wire. You should have to select best wire for making your own these hooks.

Of which metal you want your hooks is up to you, you can decide any that you wish, but you should keep in mind that precious metals are always expensive, if you are with limited budget then than you can manage your budget by either way from wire or from beads if you don’t want to compromise with wire then you can go with less expensive clay beads or you can plan without beads.

To start making of your own earring hooks with the decoration of clay beads, vary step is to cut length of your measured wire. Don’t try to estimate because waste will be produced if the wire is too short or too long. Generally For normal sized earring hooks, 5 cm wire will be required, you will have to use fine grade of sandpaper to smooth the ends of wire.

While twisting the wires into your desired figure, you will have to find out if the ends are smooth enough or not by touching them your fingertips. They must be smooth to the touch. Now you can give any shape to the wire and use your choice of beads to clip with your hooks. Congrats you have made your 1’st earrings hook at home.

If you want to buy cheap clay beads or want to purchase beads in discount rate and don’t know from where you should buy them, there would be no worries because you have the internet. The internet has made it so much easy for anyone to buy bulk beads from their comfort to shop.