Consideration criteria for your Ankle bracelets

February 8, 2012 By

Ankle braceletsAnkle bracelet is exclusively design for women. The average size for ankle bracelets is start from 8 to 12 inches. The anklets are also varied in styles, designs, lengths, sizes and materials made. Here are some criteria you should be considered for your new anklets.

Lengths: one of the most important points to be considered. Shorter is not good, longer length is depended on the style. You need to decide whether you want your anklet to rest on your foot or your ankle. Some people love the tight fit on the anklebut some prefer a drooping look of the anklet. Check the length with a string or tape measurement to confirm a proper length of your anklet. Then, consider with the anklet actual design as many styles are thicker and bulkier than the other which can give a different look although the length is the same.

Themes: you can choose many themes of ankle bracelets; from hearts to butterflies, shells, star and etc. There are many themes you can play with for your style anklet. Keep searching for the right theme for yourself.

Prices: one of the most important points for your consideration. How much you want to spend your money on this anklets, this question could be the most important question you need to answer before go for further steps. Good new is there are variety price offer for women ankle bracelets; form $19 to more than $1,000 depended on the materials and design. You can choose either gold, sterling silver or platinum if you love metal anklet. If the budget is limited, you can go with the beads or seashells anklets in the great design instead. It’s all up to you.

Designs: it is well known that the world’s nicest gold pieces are designed and manufactured in Italy, including for the ankle bracelet design. If you look for the top fashion trend and high quality product, look for the Italy made one – for your best offer.

There are surely several types and designs of ankle bracelets in the jewelry market today. Check on these criteria and start to look for your own style anklet that matches to your character.

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Toe ring – considering tips before going with it

February 6, 2012 By

Toe ring

Toe ring trend has become popular since the beginning of the 90s until recent time. Many people do love to decorate their toes with a toe ring, especially in the summer time.  Before you start to be a toe ring fashion, there are some tips you need to follow for your best look.

1. Make sure that your feet are in great condition. A toe ring will bring people’s attention to your feet right away. If you don’t want to make people focus to the area that you are really want to, make sure that you have take care your feet in a good form.

2. Use toe ring in the right environment. Never wear it to your work, if you are working in the formal office for example a financial company or in the investment firm. Go with the toe ring when you are out for your holiday, to the beach or BBQ time.

3. Consider your lifestyle, personal character and of course, your age. If you are under 30, you can easily go with it. Think carefully if you are over 30 whether you should put it on or not. The older you are the useless for using toe ring as your jewelry accessory.

4. Think about the event you are going to join, whether toe rings are acceptable or not. If you going out for a night dancing, toe ring should not be a problem. But if you are going out for the formal black-tie event, you should take off this toe ring. Think about the social event you are going to before place your toe ring onto your feet.

5. Make sure that you are going for the proper fit toe ring.  The best way to test whether the ring fit with your toe or not is put it on. You should able to spin the ring around your toeand it should only take off with spray cleaner. This test will tell about the proper fit ring. Too loose or too tight ring will interrupt your move.

Ready for your toe ring? If you are ready for all above information, go out and find the right toe ring for you. Just make sure that you grab up the right style with your confidence and pleasure. Then, dress up with your right outfit with the toe ring to increase your interesting outlook.

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Shell jewelry – natural beauty from the past to present

February 1, 2012 By

Shells have presented themselves in human history since the ancient time, back to the Stone Age historic time. Throughout the human history, shells have been incorporated into many symbols as part of architects and body decorations.

In the Greek and Roman period, shells were used to represent the mystic symbol of prosperity and regeneration according to its association with the sea, the source of fertility. The shell was also used as a symbol of mythic birth of Venus (Aphrodite). Shells were used in the arts and architectural designs since these times.

Shells in the jewelry world

The beauty of shell jewelry has been discovered since the ancient time. However, to make the shell jewelry is not as easy as it seems. You need to carefully done in all steps involved in jewelry making. You need to start first from the seashell collection. This is the most importantbut difficult step to do. Unique shells would be the great material for the generation of exclusive of jewelry piece. Take your time and be patience for this step, for your best jewelry piece.

Different seashells are collecting fromdifferent period of time, depend on the season and month of the year. All you need to do every time you walk along the beach at different time is looking for the right seashells for your collection. Once the season is over, it’s time to perform your creativity using your collections.

When you first collected the shells, you need to clean it up first. Take out the animals inside, all the tiny rocks or piece of sands and let the shell clean and dried out. Then, you have to sort all the shells out. Sorting step is quite boring but you still need to do it anyway. Group them into different colors and sizes forfurther step in jewelry making, at the same time you need to discard some shells according to its imperfection for your jewelry pieces. When you finish all these steps, you can start your jewelry making based on your styles and designs. The beauty of shell jewelry is already there, waiting for you to extract the beauty for yourself.

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Cubic Zirconia – as your engagement ring

January 30, 2012 By

cz engagement ringWomen would love to have her diamond engagement ring on her important day. However, if the price of diamond ring is too high (over your budget plan), you should think about the cubic zirconia ring instead.  It has become popular for many people who cannot really afford for the real diamond.

Cubic zirconia or CZ is in focus in the jewelry fashion world recently. Based on its quality; hardness, solid with the same brilliant effect like the real diamond. The visual inspection can never really be sufficient to separate CZ from actual diamonds. Unlike diamonds, CZ can be made virtually flawlessand colorless which is rarely found in the natural made diamonds. Therefore, this is the main point for you to differentiate between real diamond and CZ.

To buy the diamond, you need to be able to differentiate between natural diamond and CZ, while for CZ you still need to carefully check whether it’s the real CZ, not just a cheaper glass base imitation. Here are some tips for you if you want to go with the CZ engagement ring.

First, check about the stone quality including its brand. The high quality CZ is presented by the brand like “Winfields”. The cheaper CZ can also come under the brand of “Signity”.

Then, check on the cut. The cut is another important point of all stone. In the case of CZ, you do need to consider for the best cut CZ, for its best look. Look for the professional jewelers who work for both natural and simulated stones for its best cut.

Size is another option you should think about. If you would like to keep the secret of CZ with you, go for the stone about five carats or less. The smaller size of CZ will not be easily to separate from the real diamond. Although you can go for the bigger CZ size, keep in your mind that the bigger one will question people about whether it is the real diamond or just a fake diamond. Surely, your love one would not like this kind of question. Keep your CZ engagement ring in the appropriate size for your best.

Then, think about the setting and ring design. Although you are going with the CZ, the right design and nice setting would definitely increase your ring value. Make sure that you have consult with experience jewelers for your beautiful CZ engagement ring. Cubic zirconia needs the pleasant setting and carefully checks in polishing steps as it can cause any damage to the stone body.

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