Bend an Earring & Turn It Into THIS! 🤯

Jessica Shaw
by Jessica Shaw

How would you like to make your earrings multifunctional? Or, how would you like to find a way to use all those single earrings you’ve been collecting?


It’s simple! Just follow this easy trick to bend an earring and repurpose it to expand your jewelry collection!

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Tools and materials: 

  • Earrings with posts
  • Pliers
Earring

1. Collect your single earrings

Grab all your single post earrings, and decide which ones would make good necklaces.

Making a necklace from an earring

2. Bend the post

Grab the end of the post with your pliers.

Making a necklace from an earring

Bend the post down so the end meets the back of your earring and you now have a loop.

Making a necklace from an earring

4. Add a chain

Now just thread a chain through the loop at the back of your earring.

DIY necklace from an earring

DIY necklace from an earring

And, voila! You have a new necklace!


That couldn’t be any more simple, and now that you know this trick, just think of all the new necklaces you can have! And you can stop fretting when you lose one earring.


Leave a comment to let me know if you’re going to bend an earring and expand your necklace collection!

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  • Patricia Anne Baker Patricia Anne Baker on Mar 28, 2025
    My use for single earrings has been that I have 3 piercings in one ear and 4 in the other. Works well for my single earrings. :-)
  • Nomad Nomad 7 days ago
    I have been using old jewelry for art projects for years. This idea is great
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