Hooped earings; can they look good?

golden gal · 23-02-2005 6:09pm #1

they seem to have a bit of a reputation for looking nackery and i was just tinkin can they ever look good? a few of my guy friends that i asked about this said that they look cr*p no matter who wears them. what do all of you think??

koneko · 23-02-2005 6:10pm

Your friend is right.

Stay well clear of hoopy earings.

golden gal · 23-02-2005 6:12pm

im not a big fan but i think that really thin ones can look ok. i think it has alot to do with what else you are wearing.

koneko · 23-02-2005 6:13pm

I've never seen them look good on anyone, and they always remind me of knackers. The thicker big ones are obviously worse, but overall, they're just bad. Go for something discrete and pretty, not tacky, is what I say.

tinkerbell · 23-02-2005 6:44pm

I have a pair of thin silver ones, but I haven't worn them in about two years now. They were really nice ones too, used to wear them with my hair down and they looked nice.

Steer clear of gold hoops - most of them are just screaming "skanger".

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 23-02-2005 6:52pm

Friend of mine wears thin silver ones, about a centimetre in diameter that aren't full hoops (they don't fully come back to the ear at the back) and they look really well on her... but she dresses nicely anyway so maybe that's it.

Tusky · 23-02-2005 7:09pm

They look terrible on anyone...EVAR for the rest of time.

Orla1 · 23-02-2005 7:18pm

Hi, I think hoop earings can look ok... but only if they are small, thin silver ones.
NEVER go for the gold ones... believe me, I tried it once and my friends nearly killed me tryin 2 rip em out of my ears!!!

simu · 23-02-2005 7:31pm

No.

*adele* · 23-02-2005 7:34pm

i think they can look good,but the rest of you cannot contain an ounce of skanger

Corruptedmorals · 23-02-2005 8:35pm

No. Silver ones just..aren't nice. And the gold ones are just WRONG.

kenmc · 24-02-2005 8:43am

depends on the person wearing them. you can tell a skanger a mile off, hoopies or no, so if someone is wearing nice clothes (no trackies), sometimes they can pull off the hoopies, they can look quite nice. depends on the person, what they're wearing and how they look already.

Doctor J · 24-02-2005 9:41am

Yeah, I think the thin ones look very nice, but not with a tracksuit, if you know what I mean

irlirishkev · 24-02-2005 2:52pm

It entirely depends on the girl.. They look scangery sometimes, but more often than not they've got the whole outfit. Hoopy earings, numerous sovereign rings, scanger hairdo, big gold chains hanging outside of her tracky top, bottle of 'coke', fag in mouth.. you know the type..

But if you see a girl just with hoopy earings, she can look okay. It all depends on the individual.

K.

landser · 24-02-2005 2:56pm

they look great if you're from fatima mansions and you're scoring a deal

dearg_doom · 24-02-2005 3:40pm

nope

Karl Hungus · 24-02-2005 8:10pm

Oh hell no! They should all be confiscated, and melted down.

seamus · 24-02-2005 9:02pm

Blowjob handles.

MizzKattt · 25-02-2005 3:38am

I love hoop earrings and wear them with practically everything. Apparently, I'm not alone.

Reese Witherspoon
Cameron Diaz
Angelina Jolie
Nicole Kidman
Salma Hayek
Julia Roberts
Lucy Liu

Davey Devil · 25-02-2005 4:24am

Hooped earings are horrible but Kelly would look great wearing anything, and even better wearing nothing

SantaHoe · 25-02-2005 4:36am

MizzKattt wrote:

I love hoop earrings and wear them with practically everything.

Ahaha, skanger.

Apparently, I'm not alone.

And neither are we... http://www.chavscum.co.uk/howto.php (see last item on that page).

Hoopy earrings are alright if they're jewel encrusted, cost around 500 grand and are hanging from the ears of a movie star at the oscars... but in this country (and the UK) they've become chav-ware.
If you can pull it off, fair play to ya... but if you're worried about being mistaken for a skanger I'd stay well clear.

@ Davey: Picture yer wan there in a tracksuit roaring down the street - "Heeeeeewyeh Jisinteh!" ... works for me. :eek:

Lafortezza · 25-02-2005 10:33am

If you look like Angelina Jolie or Kelly Brook then you should be fine wearing hoopy earings. Just hoopy earings. And a smile.

michaelanthony · 25-02-2005 10:36am

They looked sensational on that one from the nightclub in the OC when Seth meets her for the 1st time.

koneko · 25-02-2005 10:38am

MizzKattt wrote:

I love hoop earrings and wear them with practically everything. Apparently, I'm not alone.

No offence, but do you look like Nicole Kidman or Angelina Jolie? They can wear **** on a stick and it'll look good on them. Hoopy earrings are the work of the (skanger) devil.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 25-02-2005 1:54pm

i think they look horrible, but when a good looking woman wears horrible earrings.. she's still a good looking woman.

Tusky · 25-02-2005 2:16pm

Mordeth wrote:

i think they look horrible, but when a good looking woman wears horrible earrings.. she's still a good looking woman.

That was beautiful Mordeth, v.deep.

Rozabeez · 25-02-2005 8:11pm

Ah jaysus c'mon ladz! Teh huge gold chunky wans all round y'know? luv da way dey turn me earz green.

MizzKattt · 25-02-2005 8:38pm

SantaHoe wrote:

Ahaha, skanger.
they've become chav-ware.

I am guessing skanger and chav-ware (wear?) are negative connotations, correct? If so....
/crying in a corner
/fetal position
/lovingly stroking hoop earrings
/defensively glares at approachers
/and remembers to pour some colt 45 for fallen homies

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 25-02-2005 11:14pm

Tusky wrote:

That was beautiful Mordeth, v.deep.

swim in me.

mentalimplosion · 25-02-2005 11:52pm

of course they can look good. on people with class, that is.

tSubh Dearg · 25-02-2005 11:58pm

I've got 2 friends that I worked with who used to wear really thin ones and they are they only people i've seen them look good on. But they were really stylish and edgy dressers.

princess fluff · 28-02-2005 6:52pm

yep i think hoopy earings are mad!!

they look reali well with a dressy outfit and with hair down, STAY AWAY FROM THE GOLD
.....maby go wit thin white ones or sometin but not GOLD!!!

idontknowmyname · 28-02-2005 7:19pm

Depends on how you wear them, if you're gonna wear them on a day to day basis, u'll be branded a scanger.

I dont have any but I'd wear a silver pair if i was jazzing up an outfit (i dress quite rock -chick when i'm out so I could get away with wearing them)

hiphopfanno1 · 28-02-2005 8:45pm

I love hoop earrings too i don't like thcik gold ones tho

Nightwish · 01-03-2005 10:53am

dreadfully skangery. listen to your friend. they belong to professional pram pushers

Sleepy · 01-03-2005 11:03am

They made Jennifer Lopez look like a cheap hooker, why on earth would anyone else wear them?

AFAIC, they're fine if you're on the game. Otherwise, no self-respecting person should be seen dead in them.

Anton17 · 01-03-2005 5:05pm

Whenever I see a girl wearing big hoopy earings i'm reminded of the joke
'why do (whoever) wear hoopy earings ?
For somewhere to put their ankles'

Ok, i didnt say it was a good joke but the image sticks.

hiphopfanno1 · 01-03-2005 7:53pm

it really does depend on how you wear them tho.Jlo wears them when she has her hair tied up and she def. does look like a hooker with them

ferdi · 01-03-2005 8:01pm

as doc j says, they can look good, but not with a track suit.

hiphopfanno1 · 01-03-2005 8:05pm

ya i completly agree with chu on that

MizzKattt · 01-03-2005 9:39pm

Since the first time I read this post and the obvious and overwhelming unenthusiastic response toward hoops, I have started to take note of women's ears wherever I may be (work, store, restaurant, etc). Hoops are very common on women of all ages here. Large, small, thick, thin, gold, silver, painted colors, plain, jeweled, everything!

Granted, the larger diameter and thicker hoops (especially with an engraved name) tend to be worn by a certain stereotype but not always.

Civilian_Target · 05-03-2005 11:25pm

*adele* wrote:

i think they can look good,but the rest of you cannot contain an ounce of skanger

Bingo! I would have said "No hoops ever" until this week - hoops that are both nice and small, applied correctly can be good.

upmeath · 05-03-2005 11:37pm

hoops? are they made by adeeeedas or noyk or reebok, buts?
in fairness, a girl of class can look damn hot with hooped earrings, but not knacker hoops, sorry, you need bleached hair and a champion sports privilege card if you want to wear them

DirtyHarry · 06-03-2005 12:11am

you can notice a knacker a mile away they the shine of the earrings...plus they sit on there shoulders, there so heavy and big. its just stupid...dont they realise???

like do they not look in the mirror and go....geez iv a set of massive ear rings that look so knackery.

THE MIRROR I TELL YOU>>>>>>USE IT!

upmeath · 06-03-2005 6:59pm

yeah but its a bit of a community pride thing, like gang colours! to have a big car, big house and big everything is the american dream. to have big, cheap, brass earrings, a buggy and white sports clothes is the northsider's dream. it's a status symbol, like a butlers' frapp is on the other soyde of the city. why cant everyone in dublin just be normal like their cousins out here in the fresh air?

Hooped earings; can they look good?

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