Heart or flower, the stone for every day, the size on the lobe and the gold around it
Pick the shape before the stone. A heart is one colored stone cut to a heart, 6 mm across, and it makes the easy birthday gift. A flower sets small sapphires as petals, often around a white diamond, and the small flowers sold best in the year. Wear sapphire for every day. Take 14K, and ask which back the pair wears before you order.
Hearts or flowers: heart earrings, sapphire flower earrings and gemstone studs
Buy a heart for a gift and a flower for color seen across a room. A heart is a single stone, 6 mm wide. Hearts were about four pairs in ten sold in the year. A flower packs small stones into petals, mostly sapphire. Five studs sit flat on the lobe, and the white opal stud, listed in September, sold the most of them in the year. Two emerald hoops hang instead.
Which stone: sapphire, garnet, topaz, peridot and opal earrings that wear well
Choose sapphire for a pair that stays in all week. It scores 9 on the Mohs scale, and only diamond is harder. Two pieces in three here are sapphire, in blue, red, purple, green, orange and yellow. Pink sold the most pairs in the year. An earring takes far fewer knocks than a ring, so garnet, peridot, topaz and citrine are fine for daily wear. Opal and pearl are softer, so put them on after perfume and hairspray. Each title names the gem but not whether it formed in the ground or in a lab, so check with us before checkout.
Birth months: birthstone heart earrings for her, January to December
Give her month's stone when you are unsure of her taste. January's garnet, February's amethyst, March's aquamarine, August's peridot, October's pink tourmaline and November's citrine all come as hearts, and blue topaz stands in for December. The garnet heart sold the most of them in the year. May's emerald, June's pearl and alexandrite, July's ruby, September's sapphire and October's opal fill in the rest, with colored diamond flowers for April. Shop by month on birthstone earrings, or read birthstones by month.
Small or large: flower earring sizes, 9 mm or 11 mm across
Take the 9 mm flower if you are torn. Flowers that small were nearly three in four of the flower pairs sold, though large ones fill more of the page. The small and mini pairs list about 2 grams. The large ones run 11 mm, enough to cover a small lobe. They weigh about a gram more. Ten designs come in both sizes, so pick the colors first and the size second. A few ruby and sapphire pairs print a length of 20 mm or more, so ask how far one hangs.
Gold, diamonds and backs: 14K gold gemstone earrings with diamonds, screw back or push back
Take 14K, the gold on nearly every pair, in yellow, white or rose. Yellow warms red and pink stones, while white keeps blue and green crisp. Diamonds sit beside the color on most pairs but never on the hearts, and nearly every listing that names its side diamonds calls them natural. No title names the back. A screw back stays put through a long day, and a push back comes off fastest. Ask which one ships in the live chat, or call or text 212-872-9692 from 10 AM ET.