By Robbyn Brooks, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach
Apr. 10–We’ve all seen items on shopping networks and late night television infomercials and wondered if those products really do the things they advertise. The Daily News is stepping in to save our readers heartache, and even some cash, as we do the shopping and find out “Does It Work ?”
o your ears hang low? Do they
Dwobble to and fro? It may be a children’s song, but for many fashionistas it’s a reality. With the growing popularity of “the bigger the better” earrings, earlobes are becoming strained and pulled out of shape.
But there’s a new product on store shelves that claims to solve the problem of saggy earlobes.
The EarLift by Telebrands Corp. is medical grade invisible ear lobe support tape.
The product box claims EarLifts will support stretched or torn ear lobes, relieve strain from heavy earrings and prevent further stretching.
But does the support tape actually work as the packaging says it does?
The instructions are simple.
Apply one EarLift tape patch on the back of the ear lobe and press firmly to secure. That’s it. Just slide your earring on as usual, including through the support tape. The packaging for the product, as well as the company’s Web site, show before and after photos that are drastically different. In some, it looks almost as if the problem never existed. But are the photos too good to be true? Eh, sort of. Although the patch did aid in some support for the earring, the ear still sagged. The instructions call for only using one of the 60 included pre-cut tape circles. But we decided to try two, just to see how that worked. There wasn’t much difference. So the patches do give a little oomph to a droopy lobe. But in no way is it as miraculous as the pictures and packaging claim. This product didn’t really work.
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