Sizes and the hinge
Huggies are usually specified by outer diameter, and 8mm to 16mm covers most of what sells. Below 8mm the hinge becomes the limiting factor and the piece is better made as a small hoop; above 16mm it stops hugging the lobe and behaves like a hoop anyway.
Two closures are worth knowing apart. A click closure snaps into a notch and gives the reassuring sound customers associate with quality. A hinged snap bar is quieter and slimmer, and suits thinner profiles. Both hold; they simply feel different in the hand, and that feel is most of what a customer is judging in the first three seconds.
Profiles and decoration
Plain polished bands, ribbed and textured surfaces, square and knife-edge profiles, and pavé set faces in diamonds, cubic zirconia or coloured stones. Half-set huggies, where stones run only across the visible front, are the quiet workhorse of this category: they read as a full pavé from the front at a materially lower cost, and they are the piece most boutiques reorder.
Metals
925 sterling silver, 9k, 14k and 18k gold in yellow, white and rose, and platinum. Gold-plated silver is available and is the sensible entry point for a huggie range, since the shape is small enough that the plating wears slowly with normal use.
What to send us
A sketch on paper is enough to start. So is a photograph of something similar with a note about what should be different. CAD files are better still, and a physical sample is best of all. We cost it, make one sample properly, and you decide from the piece in your hand rather than a rendering. Changes at sample stage are cheap; changes after production starts are not.
Minimums and lead time
There is no blanket minimum order quantity. It is set per project, once we know the metal, the method and the stones, because those three things decide whether a short run is sensible or wasteful. Gold and platinum can start small, because the material carries most of the cost. Silver wants more volume, since the setup is the same but the material is cheap.
From first enquiry to a box on your desk is usually six to ten weeks, of which three to five weeks is production. Most of the rest is sampling and your own decisions, which is the part you control. If you have a date you need stock by, say so in the first email and we will tell you honestly whether it is possible.































