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Last Updated: June 6, 2025

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This article was reviewed by Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones. Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones are co-founders of the jewelry brand KIKAY based in Altadena, CA. KIKAY was founded in 2019, and prioritizes creating easy-to-wear, affordable, and unique earrings that are just as bold as their customers! They offer a wide variety of products, including necklaces, earrings, ear cuffs, charms, chains, jewelry storage, and more. Ysabella is the creative who manages design, production, social media, and marketing, while Quinn manages coding, finances, customer service, fulfillment, and production - and they both work together to hand make each of the pieces. They pride themselves on creating jewelry that is accessible, offering clip-on or nickel-free options, and sustainable, with a portion of their acrylic material being upcycled. This article has been viewed 264,813 times.

Nothing spices up your look quite like a pair of dangling earrings. They can be cool, elegant, hip, trendy, or just plain original! Making your own hanging earrings is the perfect way to express your creativity and to put together the perfect earrings you've always wanted.

Quick & Easy Ways to Make Dangle Earrings

Jewelry-making experts Ysabella Delgado and Quinn Jones recommend using a French hook as the base of the earring. Simply arrange your favorite colored beads on a head pin. Then, loop the French hook around the pin, or attach it with a jump ring.

Steps

Method 1 Method 1 of 2:

Classic Hanging Earrings

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  1. Step 1 Select your beads and gather the earring hooks, head pins, needle nose and chain nose pliers. 1 Select your beads and gather the earring hooks, head pins, needle nose and chain nose pliers. These tools and materials are all essential. See the picture for further detail.
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings 2 Arrange the beads the way you would like them, placing the bead you would like at the bottom on first and so on. Advertisement
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings Step 3 With your pliers, bend the excess head pin over 90 degrees on both earrings. 3 With your pliers, bend the excess head pin over 90 degrees on both earrings.
  4. Step 4 With the steel cutting pliers, cut off the pin until it is only 1 centimeter (0.4 in) long. 4 With the steel cutting pliers, cut off the pin until it is only 1 centimeter (0.4 in) long. Alternatively, attempt the "Jump Ring" Technique below.
  5. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings 5 Get your earring hook and with the chain nose pliers, bend the head pin around in a circle. Notice in the picture that the pins are not bent all the way around.
  6. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings 6 Slide the hook onto the half bent pin and then bend the pin all the way around so there is no way the hook can slip off and earring fall apart.
  7. Step 7 Slip the earrings into the holes of your ears (you must have pierced ears to wear these earrings) and show them off! 7 Slip the earrings into the holes of your ears (you must have pierced ears to wear these earrings) and show them off!
  8. Step 8 Finished. 8 Finished.
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Method 2 Method 2 of 2:

Alternative "Jump Ring" Technique

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  1. Step 1 Follow instructions 1 to 3 as above, but skip step 4 above by not cutting the pin yet. 1 Follow instructions 1 to 3 as above, but skip step 4 above by not cutting the pin yet.
  2. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings 2 Bend the head pin all the way around, then wrap it several times around the pin where it just comes out of the bead. Cut the excess and tuck the end in so that it does not stick out. This creates a closed, secure loop.
  3. Watermark wikiHow to Make Hanging Earrings 3 Open a "jump ring" (basically a circle of wire that's not entirely closed) and slide on the head pin with beads and the earring hook. Close the jump ring securely.
  4. Step 4 When opening a... 4 When opening a jump ring, do not pull the ends apart directly away from each other (such that they are still in the same plane); this weakens the ring. Instead, slide one end past the other (perpendicular to the plane of the ring) to open, and slide back in the same manner to close.
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  • Question What size jump ring would you suggest? Ryleigh Hempe Ryleigh Hempe Community Answer Here they are using a pretty big jump ring, about 10 mm. I tend to use 4 mm or 7 mm jump rings for connecting things like this. Thanks! We're glad this was helpful. Thank you for your feedback. If wikiHow has helped you, please consider a small contribution to support us in helping more readers like you. We’re committed to providing the world with free how-to resources, and even $1 helps us in our mission. Support wikiHow Yes No Not Helpful 4 Helpful 23
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Tips

  • For a polished look, replace the silver ball at the base of the coil on the earring hook with a coordinating seed bead. Thanks Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0
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Warnings

  • Hanging earrings are very easy to catch and pull on clothing or hair. Be careful when wearing them, as one hard pull is enough to rip at your ear, and possibly cause serious injury to you. Thanks Helpful 32 Not Helpful 4
  • Keep earrings out of reach of small children and animals, as they could swallow them. Thanks Helpful 27 Not Helpful 9
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Things You'll Need

  • Chain nose (round nose) pliers
  • Beading wire cutters
  • Needle nose pliers
  • Head pins
  • Earring hooks
  • Jump rings
  • Beads

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Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones Reviewed by: Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones Jewelry Making Experts This article was reviewed by Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones. Ysabella Delgado & Quinn Jones are co-founders of the jewelry brand KIKAY based in Altadena, CA. KIKAY was founded in 2019, and prioritizes creating easy-to-wear, affordable, and unique earrings that are just as bold as their customers! They offer a wide variety of products, including necklaces, earrings, ear cuffs, charms, chains, jewelry storage, and more. Ysabella is the creative who manages design, production, social media, and marketing, while Quinn manages coding, finances, customer service, fulfillment, and production - and they both work together to hand make each of the pieces. They pride themselves on creating jewelry that is accessible, offering clip-on or nickel-free options, and sustainable, with a portion of their acrylic material being upcycled. This article has been viewed 264,813 times. 10 votes - 90% Co-authors: 36 Updated: June 6, 2025 Views: 264,813 Categories: Featured Articles | Earring Projects In other languagesItalian
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