2.Showcases your personality - Whether you wear statement pieces to or small pieces, your jewelry can tell a lot about you on the first impression. Many times the jewelry you wear gives people you meet or encounter a brief summary of your typical fashion style and the first impression of your personality. For example, someone who wears bright bold colors often is seen as having a bright and colorful personality, while someone who wears smaller pieces is often seen as having a minimalist personality. So make sure your jewelry matches your true personality!
3.Adds a pop of color - Even if you often wear solid colors in your staple looks, you can create more interest in your #ootd by using pops of color with jewelry and accessories. For example, if your wardrobe consists of a lot of all black ensembles, wear brighter jewel tone pieces or even just a contrast color like red. By adding a pop of color it not only helps you when thinking what pieces to wear when getting dressed, but it also will brighten your normally dark looks.
4.Upgrades any grocery store run style - Have you ever gone running a few errands and ran into every and everyone you would have rather avoided in your comfy stay at home clothes? I believe it has happened to all of us, we've left the house with no intention of really caring how we look because we're just running somewhere really quick. However, there is an easy fix to looking like we just rolled out of bed and the fix is accessories. Sometimes just adding some simple earrings, a basic necklace, and cute flats or sneakers can upgrade your look from a just-rolled-out-the bed look to comfy-casual-chic!
5.Earrings will always fit - This might not exactly be a benefit of wearing jewelry, but just a benefit of earrings in general. Your earrings will never let you down when it comes to sizing, for the most part, all other jewelry, such as rings, necklaces, and bracelets can become too tight or too loose depending on if you gain or lose weight in certain areas of your body. So, if nothing else always invest in earrings over most other jewelry pieces!
]]>Earrings come in different shapes and sizes, not just opening several doors to a wide range of gifting options but also leaves you perplexed. To make it simple here is something for you to consider before choosing the right pair.
* Face shape: The shape of the face plays a pivotal role in buying earrings for someone. Avoid hoops or studs, if she has a round face. Go for something that will add balance, and elongate her face. For a square-shaped face, choose hoops or round rings that would soften the edges of her face. If you are unsure, then studs or drop earrings are a perfect choice.
* Color: Put your brains to work and figure out which color jewelry she likes more? Is she attracted to gold or likes the shining silver? Consider her skin tone, favorite color, eye color and birthstone. All these will help you select the earring, and will impress her for noticing the little details.
* Know her Style: If she is a person who likes to keep it elegant and classy, then drop earrings, studs are the best. But if she likes colors and has a chic style then you can go with many colorful silver earrings online, like shades of red and blue.
* Purpose: Ask yourself whether you want to buy earrings for any specific occasion, or is it for a casual everyday look? Studs, hoops look ultra-cool, but if you want her to look glamorous then drop earrings, cluster earrings will add that extra sparkle to her outfit.
]]>Hand sanitising products are a quick solution if you need to polish your silver ring on the go. Squeeze small amount of hand sanitiser on soft paper handkerchief and gently rub your jewel. The mat and slight tarnish are gone and your silver is clean and shiny again! Don’t try this recipe on jewellery with encrusted mineral stones, because some of the ingredients of the hand sanitiser could damage the stone.
How to clean gold
Give solid gold bracelets, chains, and earrings a gentle bath in a solution of a few drops of dish soap and a little warm water. Put small jewelry pieces into a strainer before placing in the solution; large pieces can go directly into the bowl to soak for about five minutes. Swish the items around, then take them out, lay them on a soft cloth and go over the crevices and chain links with a soft toothbrush to dislodge any dirt trapped there. Return small pieces to the strainer and rinse everything under running water. Buff dry with a soft cloth.
]]>Vermeil (pronounced vehr-may; it's French!) is a legally regulated term that refers to a certain kind of quality jewelry. To be legally called "vermeil" in the United States, the jewelry piece must meet ALL of these conditions:
1. Have sterling silver as its base material. Sterling silver is an alloy made of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other materials, and is a standard material used in high quality jewelry (versus, e.g., brass or copper).
2. Be plated in gold that is at least 10k (10 karats). That means the gold is at least 41.7% gold content.
3. Have gold plating that is at least 2.5 microns thick. A micron is 1/1000th of a millimeter.
Source: Federal Trade Commission
*Note that in Canada, the requirements for labelling an item 'gold vermeil' are much lower; the plating thickness needs only to be 1.0 micron thick. If you are purchasing from a Canadian brand, you should ask for the plating thickness. Plating that is 2.5 microns thick will last many years longer than 1.0 micron, so you should be sure of the quality that you are paying for.
Put another way, vermeil pieces are made with precious materials with heavy plating to ensure long-lasting wear.
Gold-plated jewelry refers to jewelry that has gold plating at least 0.5 microns thick. It does not require sterling silver to be used as the base material, and usually uses a less valuable material at its core. Since the plating is so thin, the gold colour will wear very quickly compared to gold vermeil. Gold vermeil is superior to gold-plated jewelry.
If you see "14k", "18k" or another karatage before the word "vermeil", this simply refers to how much gold content there is: 24k is 99.9% gold content, 18k is 75% gold content, 14k is 58.3% and 10k is 41.7%.
Higher karatage is not necessarily better; pure gold is very flexible and yellow in colour, so mixing it with other materials strengthens the gold, making it more appropriate for use in jewelry pieces. Mixing it with other materials also changes the hue of the gold so the yellow tone is not so aggressive.
National consumer protection agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission in the US, regulate the label "vermeil" because it denotes a certain quality level.
However, the regulations are more lax in certain countries, and this can be dangerous territory for consumers.
For instance, in Canada, the requirement for vermeil is only 1.0 micron thick. This is very thin plating, and you can expect that your jewelry won't last more than a couple of years with regular use.
However, jewelry brands based in Canada might call their products "vermeil" when they're marketing in the US, even though it's technically not vermeil according to US regulations. It's an illegal practice, but it happens. Unfortunately, the people who lose out are the customers who expect a certain quality level but are in reality getting much worse.
In the realm of gold-tone jewelry, gold vermeil is the best quality jewelry you can get short of buying solid gold. For people who want a cheap, high quality alternative to solid gold, vermeil is your answer!
You can shop for gold vermeil jewelry right here on our shop! At Linjer, all of our gold-tone products are either gold vermeil or solid gold. Our vermeil products use 14k gold and plating that is 2.5-3.0 microns thick. Our cute styles are also priced 25-50% less than traditional jewelry brands.
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