How To Get The Plastic Off Earring Backs. Place one clean hand firmly but gently on the front of the earring. Place the other hand on the earring back.
Take some Vaseline or petroleum jelly. Carefully apply it on your earlobe or ear hole and massage it. The clear plastic portion is indeed removable but exists to provide support for your earlobes when wearing large heavy earrings in fact the backs.
So its really simple to remove the plastic part.
Place metal tip on table. When the earring moves freely it means that it will come off. 5 out of 5 stars. Get a good grip and pusshhhhh.