I need to buy a ring for a friend—nope, it’s not for the big one—and I want it to be a sunrise. I don’t have access to her jewelry chest, but she does occasionally leave a ring lying on her desk. Does anyone have any tips for covertly determining her ring size?
Study her hands and then find a female friend with similar ones and ask the ring size. Rings can be resized for a nominal fee within a certain range.
You can steal a ring from her and take it to a jeweler. They have simple little tools to measure size from that. Don’t be disappointed however, it probably won’t cause a “sunrise”. Only nature or ultimate Disney love can do that.
Take a picture of her hands against an object you know the size of; a book, a flower, an apple, a brick wall, anything.
Count pixels.
That’ll give you the diameter.
Do the same thing with your own hand to get an error estimate.
Buying something as personal as jewelry for women without their involvement is a pretty touchy business. Good luck!
Good heavens, people, are none of you detectives?
Buy some play-doh at the store. The next time she leaves her ring on the desk, make an impression of the ring in the play-doh (replacing the ring carefully so she’s none the wiser). Ensure the play-doh doesn’t deform for the next steps. Take it to a jeweler, if that’s the route you’re going; otherwise, cut a piece of string and use it to measure the ring size. Compare the string to a ring size chart.
Buy it too small and then pay to get it sized up. When she gets the too small ring just tell her that she has such pretty and dainty hands (even if she could palm a watermelon and has fingers like bratwurst) that you were sure that you’d guessed the right size. This same idea also works with lingere.
Hey, it’s gonna be a “sunrise”! What’s not to love?
Ask one of your mutual female friends to find out for you. It’s suspicious if you ask her ring size, but if another woman does it, it’s just conversation.
Lucky that almost no woman cares if she has to get a ring resized, they half expect it.
Just arrange for her to get the ring, and you just tell the jeweler you’ll pay the cost of the resize and she’ll be very happy to get the ring be surprised then take it in for a week till it fits her.
I know that isn’t what you asked but woman understand about rings
When you see the ring lying on her desk, see how far it will fit on one of your fingers. (pinky finger maybe?) Jeweler has ring sizers you can try on to find similar fit. If she wonders what you are doing, say you wanted to see how her ring looked on your hand!
“Oh, but guess you’re a fat cow, after all” Is what she’ll be thinking you’re thinking after you use that line. Just play ignorant with women, despite this site’s motto, it’s the best approach in these situations.
You could make up one of those “Internet Quiz Games” that no one takes seriously. Something you “received” in a chain email and try and get her, among others to fill it out, e.g.:
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What’s your shoe size:
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What’s your Ring size:
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How many drinks does it take to get you drunk?
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How many wisdom teeth do you still have?
Now multiply the answers from 1 through 3, and add the result from number 4. This is your IQ.
You tape a piece of paper around it at night and if the paper is broken in the morning… wait that’s something else.
Ditto trying it on your own finger.
Alternately, get a piece of cardboard (index card) and cut a strip off at an angle from too small to too large. Slip the ring on it ang mark where it stops.
As as already been mentioned, put her ring on one of your fingers and note where it fits on that finger. My wife’s rings fit snuggly against the knuckle on my lef hand’s ring finger. Knowing this, I can “try on” rings in the store.
That can get kind of pricey. A long time ago I bought an ex-girlfriend a platinum ring from Tiffanys. too small, and they don’t exchange them so I had to pay to get it sized up. It was expensive. Ex-girlfriend thought I was an idiot for buying one too small, and soon thereafter become an ex-girlfriend.
Oh for goodness sake!
Blindfold her, drive her to the store and get the jeweller to measure her. 
She won’t suspect a thing. :smack:
(Why yes, I don’t understand women. How did you know? 
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Would she want to replace the ring she’s wearing now? If she currently wears the ring on either ring finger, go at least one size up to get a fit for the middle finger.
Apart from that, I second the playdoh idea.
Plasticene would be better than play-doh, I think.
That’s a good idea. Some new, solid blu-tak would be even better, perhaps.