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A heart earring is bought for Valentine's, a birthday or a fourteenth-birthday-present kind of occasion, and then it either becomes a favourite or it lives in a drawer. What usually decides it is weight.

Eleven styles, from $12 to $42, most of them light enough to forget about by mid-afternoon. Every post is 316L surgical-grade stainless steel.

The four families

Penny is four of the eleven and the most playful — Pink Birthday Confetti, Rainbow Sherbert, Neon Yellow Clouds and Denim. These are the ones bought for a birthday.

Cherie Heart comes in two, including a pink, and is the best seller here.

Layla Heart is a cleaner shape in gold and silver.

Then three singles: Dani Dangle, Ruthie Bow and Heart, and Esme Double Heart.

Price is doing real work on this page

$12 to $42 is a wide spread for eleven earrings, and it maps onto two different purchases. At the bottom you are buying a shape for an outfit or a party bag. At the top you are buying something that gets kept.

Both are legitimate. It is worth knowing which one you are doing before you choose, because the $12 pair and the $42 pair are not the same object.

What we can tell you about the materials, and what we cannot

The post is 316L surgical-grade stainless steel on all eleven. That is the part inside your piercing, and it is the part that decides whether your ears react — a reaction is almost always nickel in the post rather than the front of the earring.

The fronts are not all the same. Some are steel; some are a plated alloy. Each product page states what that style is made of. We would rather point you at the specific page than average eleven different pieces into one sentence that is true of none of them.

None of the eleven carries a water rating. These come off before the shower.

Also worth seeing

For a heart you can sleep and swim in, heart flat back studs is sixteen screw back styles at $32, every one 316L steel, rated waterproof and made to ASTM F2923-20 — which is the version to buy for a child.

The full statement range is statement earrings; for the same scale in acetate, acetate statement earrings; for bows rather than hearts, bow statement earrings. Everything built to be left on is hypoallergenic waterproof jewelry.

Questions

Are these safe for sensitive ears?

The post is 316L surgical-grade stainless steel on all eleven, and that is the only part that sits inside your piercing. If you have reacted to earrings before, it was almost certainly nickel in a base-metal post.

Can I wear them in the shower or the pool?

No. None of the eleven carries a water rating. The heart flat back studs are the ones rated for water.

Are they suitable for a child?

They are light, but none is made to ASTM F2923-20, the US children's jewelry standard. For a child, heart flat back studs and kids' hypoallergenic studs are tested to it and use a screw back that will not work loose.

What are they made of?

The post is steel on every style. The front varies — steel on some, a plated alloy on others — and it is stated on each product page.

Which is the one to give?

Cherie Heart sells the best of the eleven. Penny is the one for a younger recipient or a birthday. Layla is the plainest and the most likely to be worn to work.