Are you saying you have never done the solistice earring on the crafter you were doing the tradeskill mission on? You don't have to put the earring on in order to see tradeskill shinies or any other shiny that it allows you to see and harvest
Yes. I have a couple of toons that I used Lvl 100 boosts on. On toons I have run through Tradeskill missions since GU106 patch I can see the red shinies whether I have earned the Earring or not.
Yes, me too. I have a character 110/110 hasn't done earring yet and was able to gather the red shinies. I'm thankful for that, long way away before I can do/work on the earring stuff on that character.