Earrings and Jennifer Lopez

A couple days ago I went to the supermarket. While I was waiting for the cashier, I started looking at the magazines. After a while, I saw Jennifer Lopez on the cover of one of the magazines. She looked beautiful, but right away I realized, she was missing something. She, the  puerto rican girl from the Bronx, was not wearing a necklace or earrings. At that moment I started thinking about all  the pictures people have taken of me during the last fifteen years. In all of them I am wearing earrings, because I consider earrings part of my puerto rican culture.

I have heard people say, that women from Puerto Rico wear earrings because, puerto rican culture is a result of three different races. The women of two of these three races used to wear earrings. One thing I know. Almost every women I met, during my entire childhood  and teenager years in Puerto Rico liked earrings.

In my case, a nurse pierced my ears at the hospital. According to my mom, this happened two days after I was born. I was a bold head baby, until I turned three. So earrings were necessary, to avoid people thinking I was a boy. Due to religious beliefs, I did not wear earrings during my teenagers years. When I turned twenty-three years old, I started wearing earrings again.

Nowadays, earrings are my great obsession. I do not leave the house or open the front door, if I am not wearing earrings. I usually wear three or four pair of earrings every week. My small earrings are the ones I wear when I go to work. I like to wear big earrings when I go shopping. When I am at home, it all depends on how I feel. But one thing is for sure. I always wear a pair of earrings. Many of my friends also like earrings. Couple of them have their ears, nose,  tongue or belly button pierced. The truth is that earrings and stud diamonds are in style.

I do not know, for sure, the reason why some photographers do not like their models or the actresses wearing earrings. Maybe they just want that people like me, who look at the magazines while they wait at the supermarket, concentrate on  the model’s face and not on the jewelry.  I think that Jennifer Lopez is a beautiful woman, but I truly believe she would have looked amazing with a good pair of earrings on that magazine photo. Earrings make all of us look gorgeous. Let’s keep buying and wearing them, so we can look our best.