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Should you try on your earrings in a jewelry store?

Earrings and jewelry, the right method

Choosing earrings is not easier than choosing clothing, quite the contrary. Badly adapted jewelry unbalances the face or dulls the complexion, triggering allergies or losing its color in a few weeks... However, if there are many advices and theories on the choice of the right model in jewelry, only one method is infallible, or almost:the fitting!

In a jewelry store or at home, trying on your fancy earrings will tell you in a second whether or not the model is right for you. Contemplate the model in person, but without placing it, at least, next to your face? Your brain projects the idealized image of the jewelry onto the idealized image of your face… and however flattering the method is for the ego, the disappointment is all the greater once the jewelry is hung.

Try, therefore, and if you hesitate easily, prefer the purchase in jewelry:you will have the know-how of professionals as to the metal of the earrings and alloys used, the quality of the jewel, but also the maintenance. . A compromise ? Browse the offers of online jewelry stores, discover your favorite brands, then move to try... or buy while ensuring the possibility of a return, if the model no longer suits you once at home.

Earrings and jewelry, the end of online shopping?

No question of weaning you off, online shopping has its advantages. Better, on the other hand, to adopt a few guidelines, to avoid disappointment! Before even admiring the earrings sold on a site, consult the delivery conditions, generally located at the very bottom of the page. You will find out if the site is linked to a physical jewelry store, in which case, it is possible to try the models in store. Even, sometimes, to have you delivered to the store, in order to try on the jewelry on site, and leave it there if the test is not conclusive.

You will find there, above all, the conditions of return! Do not order online without assurance that you can simply return your earrings. Also check the shipping costs provided in such cases, and the simplicity of the process:some sites offer a free return in three clicks, others rely on the dissuasive effect of forms to be returned by mail.

Before buying, also browse the opinions of Internet users on the online jewelry store you have chosen. Then adapt your decision to the consequences of an error, in relation to the price! Abandoning earrings costing a few euros at the bottom of a jewelry box is one thing, earrings with precious stones, another...