Tips&Tricks: What to do when you lose your earring stopper

By Lizbeth Kariuki

Kitenge earrings from Otenge

As a lady, losing your earring stoppers is one of the most common and most frustrating thing that can happen. Worse still, is if it happens when you are out and about and can't grab a stopper from your earring collection. That's what happened to me today when I was heading to work. My earring's completed my look fantastically, and all of a sudden the earring stopper on my right ear decides to come loose and I left it somewhere behind on the street.

I had two choices; either run the risk of looking weird the whole day with just one large earring on (and act dumb like I didn't notice the other was missing), or just go without earrings.
Well, I chose neither and instead used this old trick I learnt while in high school. I took a pencil eraser and cut of the end bit, large enough to act like a stopper, and guess what - it worked!

So if you are ever in a fix, and lose your earring stoppers, cut off a piece of an eraser and it can work as an earring stopper for the rest of the day even forever.

Have a FAB day!