Necklace is one of the most beautiful ornaments for women. Necklace can be wore for any kind of occasions like wedding parties, official parties etc. They make you look more pretty and elegant. When you want to buy them in shop, you have to be very choosy about certain details like the length of the necklace. Length of the necklace is one of the vital factors that have to be considered while buying it from a shop. The costume that you wear should enhance the beauty of the...

The article discusses why response to colour is such a complex issue and then goes on to examine the colour significance of most of the common precious and semi-precious stones.

The article discusses the process of commissioning an item of jewellery and some of things you need to consider.

Resize your favorite ring(s). Did you know that both sterling silver and gold rings are sizable? In most cases, either can be sized up or down by two sizes. The biggest deciding factor is the thickness of the ring and whether or not there is enough metal to make the change. In general, sterling silver is more affordable to size than gold. Bracelets can be versatile. If you own a bracelet with a large enough clasp, you can use one of your pendants to convert it into a ...

Whether you are a budget conscious buyer who wants to get the best look for the best value or you have plenty of loot to spend on your look, jewelry is an investment that looks great and can be enjoyed for years to come. Jewelry Makes You Feel Better Have you ever awoken in the morning and just felt a case of the ?blahs? approaching? Perhaps your hair is not cooperating or your clothes aren?t fitting just right. Whatever the case, we all know what it?s like to occasi...

A love of Antique Jewelry can cost you substantial amounts of money. It is possible however to save yourself a lot of time, heartache and money if you can learn how to buy Antique, wholesale properly.

Some peole are a little confused about coloured diamonds; some think that the more colourless they are, the more valuable they are. On the other hand, some of the coloured diamonds are worth more then the cololess ones. You just need to understand about diamonds and how the colored ones are worth more then the colourless ones. It is true that fine colorless diamonds are generally more valuable than colored diamonds. However there are exceptions. The pink, blue and canary yellow diamonds, they can be more valuable when they occur naturally in nature and are not artificially colored. As for determining the authenticity of your stone I would suggest that you take it to your nearest trusted jeweler for indentification. There are some people out there that have a hard time to understand What a Window in a Gemstone looks like. Many of the photos I've seen of sapphires, tourmaline, amethethyst cut in a round shape appear to have deep color on the outside rim of the Crown but much paler color looking into the top center of the crown. The term window used in the context of colored stones and even diamonds refers to a flaw in the cut of the stone. All crystals of gem materials have a refractive index which is how the stone bends light for reflection and refraction. If the stone is cut properly the light should be reflected back out of the top of the stone so all you see is sparkle and light reflected. If you look down the center of the stone and you can see right through it, read through, you can read a paper without distortion then you have a 'window' you can see through. Properly cut gems should not have a 'window' in the middle. Diamonds are usually the best cut and most of the time you cannot see through a diamond from the back since all the light is reflected back out through the table. Colored stones rarely are cut as well diamonds and they have much lower refractives indices so have to be cut much differently. Most cutters of colored stones try to get the color in the bottom of the pavilion so it will reflect evenly throughout the stone. The concntration of color on the girdle is because it is the thickest part of the stone usually. Paler color is usualy due to the color zoning in the crystal and sometimes the cut can help but not always. Anyways the window in colored stones has nothing to do with color but mainly with the cut. Black diamonds are one of the few stones that alot of people would like to have. But i have heard that black diamonds are going to diminish, I am not really sure about the market for black diamonds. I rarely see any one use them. I have had this question asked many times when it comes to colored stones," Do the colored stones come out of the ground already colored?" The answer is yes, they are that color out of the ground. Mostly the white stones are more valuable. However some of the large rare colors if they are very clean can demand high prices. It depends on the size and clarity and how pretty the color is and how rare it is. Usually diamond producing areas are quite vast and a number of different variations of colorless to pale yellow and brown or gray colors of diamonds can be found in a certain mine. There are exceptions. The diamond mineds in Australia have high concentrations of unusually fancy colored diamonds. You can always go on the internet and see what you can find out some mineds that produc only some kinds of colored stones that you are looking for or you can ask your local jeweler about were he gets his and see what he has to say. I prefer colored gems because there is an infinite variety, and it really uses my skills as a gemologist/mineralogist to identify the stones. Some of the most fortunate people are the ones from Rio de Janeiro, because they live in one of the richest gem producing areas of the world! Brazil is not only on the forefront of mining and fashioning gems but also the sophisticated ways in which colored stones are treated to improve their color and transparency. Gems can be treated with heat, radiation, oils and polymers to improve their appearance. It is necessary for a gemologist to be able to identify these treatments and pass that information along to the owners or future buyers of these stones. Diamonds, on the other hand, are a very controlled market. For the most part, their pricing, production and distribution are controlled by one of the biggest monopolies in the world: DeBeer's Consolidated Mines. Internet sources like Blue Nile have really changed the market in favor of the consumer. Internet diamond dealers have taken much of the mystery out of diamond pricing and grading, and they have forced many retailers to be more honest and transparent with their diamond transactions. This is excellent and good for the buying public.

This article talks about different kinds of stone settings, the kind of gems to use, and what would make it eaiser for you to do your own jeweley.

There are a whole lot of types of jewelry that you can buy. Many might be sitting in your jewelry box as you read this. From gold to platinum, silver to diamonds, gemstones to costume jewelry, each piece has a reason for being in your collection. If you love your jewelry enough to keep it stored and safe, then you should also love it enough to keep it clean. Below are five tips to keeping different types of jewelry clean: 1.Diamonds: Keeping diamonds clean is easier than y...

This article gives you ways and reasons to go about fixing a chip that you might have in your gemstone.