Black and Latinx Women Don’t Care if You Wear Hoop Earrings. But We Do Want You to Stop Calling Them Trendy. editor@purewow.com (PureWow) October 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM ...

She didn’t give a rip. One woman took to TikTok recently to warn others about the dangers of wearing heavy earrings, as her earlobe ripped open after she ignored her friends’ warnings.

A picture of her wearing hoop earrings hangs in the exhibit. Gigi, a Nigerian-American, is a braid adornment artist and a doctoral student at Hampton University in Virginia.