Posts Tagged ‘Garnets’

Using Silver Jewelry to Augment Your Wardrobe

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Who doesn’t have an outfit from last year still in her closet? Perhaps you haven’t worn it for a while… but as it still flatters, it’d be a shame to toss it out. With the right silver jewelry, you can perk up any outfit and give it a fashionable touch.

Whether it’s a classic black frock you’d like to  “dress up”, well-worn jeans that you want to turn trendy and cool, or an old waistcoat that you wish were right in style, the right bit of silver jewelry can make the transformation. In short – anything’s possible!

So, let’s get to work: Have you picked out an outfit? Great! Before choosing your jewelry, think about the look you’d like to create: Do you want to make that conservative dress look posh? Daring? Can you give that old waistcoat a vintage look? To choose the perfect piece of jewelry for the task, it’s best to come prepared. This time, we’ve got some suggestions on how to upgrade your look with a few bracelets.

For a youthful look: If you’re the type who feels best in t-shirts and jeans, a bracelet with a colourful gemstone will lend just the right sparkle to your wrist. Purple Amethysts look great with jeans, and so do Opals and heavenly blue Aquamarines. If you’d like to make those jeans look really posh, don a silver bracelet with pearls. You won’t believe what that classic little gleam of white will do for your everyday look!

For a prestigious look: A thick silver bracelet is always impressive, and lends a festive note to your appearance for that night on the town or that fancy dinner. If adorned by Garnets or Zircons – an inexpensive alternative to diamonds – your look will be rich and tony.

For a trendy look: If it’s an image of stylishness you want to project, then silver link bracelets are all you’ll need in your jewelry box. Wearing several of these at once will give you a singular, unmistakable look…and, for a fancier turn of wrist, just add a bracelet with some or all of its links in goldfill.

Enjoy!

Magnolia’s silver jewelry is produced under the strictest quality standards subject to quality control inspections by international standards institutes throughout the world. All jewelry is handcrafted and produced with the highest quality 925 certified sterling silver. Magnolia provides a one-year warranty for each item of jewelry.

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A Compliment Magnet – Ruby Earrings

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Connoisseurs or some serious gem collectors are always on a look out for precious diamonds and colored gemstones. They are those people who possess some extravagant boxes full of carefully stored kaleidoscopic sparkles. In addition, those chromatic gemstones boast of good price tags since they are being achieved after much persuasion.

Amongst topmost demanded gemstones like sapphire, diamond, emerald, ruby is also a part of the acknowledged ones.

Gem collectors in past mistook red spinel as ruby. Due to lack of modern techniques of detection and strikingly similar physical properties of both stones, spinel was named as ruby. Apart from spinel, there are various many other mineral types which resemble red and pink color, warming hearts.

Red gems occur in wide range in slightly different hues and shades. Need not be ruby, knowingly, these are sold by jewelers to suit and please every taste and budget. Rubellite is a red tourmaline which possesses same rich and intense red gleam like ruby.

According to ICA (International Colored Gemstone Association), rubellites belong to multi-colored family of tourmalines. Other sparkling siblings of red tourmaline are green, yellow, and blue tourmalines. Most coveted and valued becomes the red specimen which is seen ranging from amazing red to lovely pink.

Moreover, since due to their pleochroism, color change phenomenon, is prevalent in daylight and artificial incandescence. However, this property is not a trait of an actual rubellite. A true rubellite flashes its most intense ruddy hue as efficiently in daylight as in artificial lights.

Rhodolite Garnet, has a pretty well hardness of 7- 7.5 Mohs’ on scale. This is a physical property which separates it from other gemstone types of this caliber. Mosaic-like family of garnets actually celebrates the most coveted color red into them.

Keeping a pace with fashion trend and style, red garnets are available in ample supply. However, very less people know about this wonderfully deep-red gemstone, often coming across in antique jewelry.

The magical family of beryl comes with striking gemstones like aquamarine, emerald, and morganite. Red Beryl, also known as bixbite, has a hardness of 7.5-8 Mohs.

However, red beryl boasts to be rarest form of beryl. Color palette ranges from shades like orange -red to purplish-red with medium hints. This translucent to opaque gemstone has a vitreous luster & is a gem for astrological signs of Taurus and Aries.

Spinel, a stunningly superb, crimson look alike of ruby, comes in much sought after hue of ruby red. Pure Spinels are pure but playful intervention of various earthly elements within the crystal result in other colors seen as red, pink, violet, blue, green, orange, yellow, white, and black.

The British Imperial Crown jewel flaunts ‘Black Prince’s Ruby which actually is a red spinel.

Interestingly, ruby is such a religiously followed gemstone which allures men and women with its wonderful dazzle of red. Especially, Angara’s exquisite offering, ruby earrings, make a great choice of jewelry for women of today, who like to adorn themselves with true authentic, hued gemstones, available at favorable prices.

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