Are you wanting to accessorize your clothes and boost your color style by picking the best piece of jewelry? Perhaps you want to pick out a present for a friend. Whatever your needs, you will be helped by the advice given in this article.
Do some research on the gem in your new piece of jewelry before you buy. Jewels come in natural, synthetic and imitation forms. Imitation is plastic that is colored to looked like the stone, but natural stones and synthetic stones are real. Natural stones are dug up out of the ground and synthetic ones are grown in a lab.
Be careful on how you store all of your jewelry together. You can protect your jeweled investments with hooks, boxes and holders that keep each piece intact and prevent tangles. Don’t just box all the pieces together in a pile. Not only will your necklaces become hopelessly tangled, you risk harming any fragile pieces as they bump and scrape against each other as you search the box.
Before you buy any new jewelry, you should look around for the latest trends. It is one thing to get a gorgeous bauble, but it is another to get it on sale!
Jewelry is best stored in an area with low humidity. To maximize protection, put your jewelry in a jewelry box or a small drawstring bag. When non-precious and precious metals are expose to air and humidity, they tend to tarnish. Precious metals can often be polished to remove most tarnish. Non-precious metals often have a single coat of metal. Therefore, polishing them can remove the coat and show the copper that is found underneath.
Costume jewelry needs special care. A lot of the stones in costume jewelery are glued in and not set in. For this reason, costume jewelry should never touch water, and you should avoid using detergents on it. It is best to have two cloths ready, one warm with water and one dry, to use to wipe your jewelry. You will be able to maintain its nice appearance with this method.
Now that you’ve reached the end of this article, you are better equipped to select the perfect gemstones, beads or fine metals in jewelry. Jewelry is an investment that will bring your joy for a lifetime.