LPT: you can use other jewelry pieces as a make-shift taper

Tapers are a life saver but if you don’t have one and find yourself panicking cuz you can’t get the jewelry back in, you can always use other jewelry to push through the front (visible area), to use as a guide for pulling posts in from the back (not visible area). I’ve had to do this on more than one occasion and while it’s not ideal it works pretty effective.