That's what I've always assumed. I believe the strands are small loop earrings while the dots are studs of some type. They're one reason I added earrings to her Sim (that and because I really wanted to give her some jewelry :frankiesmile: ).

That was always my guess, and if that's the case, then she certainly doesn't have any problems with wearing as many as she can, seeing as she wore those and some fancier ones in "Frankie My Dear."

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0009.jpg

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0057.jpg

....At least I assume those black things are earrings.

Yeah, the big gold ones in the second picture, those were gorgeous on her. I'm not sure if any of the other characters underwent similar changes that I haven't noticed.

I think that was the biggest change in physical appearance any of the characters went through, unless I also haven't noticed or forgotten something.

In any case, I think the "special features" of Frankie's facial appearance--those earrings and distinctively thick eyelashes--look good on her. I'm usually not into that stuff as I think it's easy to overdo it, but she does it just right.

I rather think the redesign of Terrence's hair between the first and later seasons was a fairly big change, myself.

Whoa......COMPLETELY missed that big one ENTIRELY.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/00-0003.jpg

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/3/35-0059.jpg

Yeah, now that I actually took the time and effort to check, a huge change definitely occured there at some point. Ack, can't beleive I missed that....

I was wondering about her bang's. You know, those strands of hair that went down past her ears? They don't seem to be there half the time.

Yeah, I think those are also part of the major change Frankie went through betweens seasons one and two, along with the permanent change in her ears.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/00-0025.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/11-0012.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/1/110-0025.jpg

They were there the first season and in the pilot, but since then they've vanished completely.

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/21-0053.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/23-0053.jpg
http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/26-0019.jpg

Strange....

I believe the strands were present in Season 1, and then mostly phased out ever since. And like Dude13 said, they might've been absent in "WWW" and "WLTDI" because they were made after the other Season 1 episodes.

And I say MOSTLY because I've seen them make the ocassional brief re-appearance. They can be seen clearly in "Duchess of Wails", when she walks into the foyer only to be instantly shooed off-screen by Duchess... but they're not seen for any of Frankie's other scenes in that episode.