Abstract: An earring for a pierced ear having a means for attaching an ornament to a pierced ear which means is a resilient device having two parts compressible towards each other as they pass through the piercing in the ear and which, after passing through the piercing in the ear, expands under their own resiliency to hold the device in the lobe of the ear, the positioning of the ornament by means of this device being by merely pushing the device through the piercing in the ear or for detaching from the ear merely pulling on the device to pull it out of the ear.

Abstract: A self-piercing ear wire formed as a substantially circular loop having a sharp tapered point at each end thereof with one of the ends receiving a pressure pad in sliding engagement therewith. The ear wire is preferably made from a non-corrosive material such as gold and is spring tempered so that it will normally have the two points thereof passing by each other when the ear wire is placed on the ear lobe with the two pointed ends extending in from opposite sides thereof. The pressure pad can be slid along the ear wire to locate the same properly on the ear lobe with each point of the ear wire engaging the skin at each side of the ear lobe.