The well known under the name “the Queen of Pearls”, the Tahitian Black pearls are produced by a black-lipped oyster, Pinctada marfaritifera. This rare oyster is cultured in the warm water of Tahiti/French Polynesia and in the South Pacific Ocean. The pearl itself create the unique characterize of beauty and elegance look that most women can easily falling in love with the pearl just at first sight. Each pearl will create their own characters that might cause a problem when you want to get a perfect match for your jewelry set. However, there are some similarities among their differences which can be share and make the pearl jewelry as a special jewelry for many people.

The pearl luster: explain the way that pearls reflects the light. The Tahitian Black pearls offer their unique character in their luster which reflects light differently fromlighter color or white pearls. The Black pearls are normally showed a soft iridescence reflection to a lively metallic shine.

The pearl color: the Tahitian pearls are normally coming in variety of colors but the Tahitian Black pearl is the most famous one. You can also find the mixing color like green, grey and bronzes to the other range from light green to white color. The beauty of these wide spectrums of colored pearls is really exists in nature.

The pearl size: the Tahitian pearls size is directly related to the time for maturation process. The longer maturation time, the bigger of pearls you are obtained. The larger for the pearl size, the higher of pearl price you will also obtained. The technique for 2^nd growing pearls is sometime used to increase the pearl in both size and value.

The pearl shape: the Black Tahitian pearls are generally present in the round or semi-round shape. You can also find the button and drop pearl shape for this pearl type. The shape of each pearls are determined by maturation time and amount of friction that directly determine pearl shape.

Special care for the Black Tahitian pearls: cleaning them with a damp soft cloth after wearing for a short time. Remove all skin cream, perfume and other contaminated substance on the jewelry surface with special cloth and then dry it properly. Once you have clean your Pearls, keep them separate from the other jewelry pieces to avoid any scratching. With these special cares, your pearls will remain their beauty for a long time.

Coral is the remaining skeletal of marine animals. It is mainly composed of calcium carbonate which can break easily. Therefore for the jewelry made by coral, you need to take special care for each piece. The original word for coral is actually come from “korallion” which is Greek’s word. It was reported for the use of coral since prehistoric time. There was the evidence of using both white and red coral in that period of time. Later now, the archaeologists have found the use of some coral crimped in the Celtic tombs and other places.

The precious corals can be found in the area of Pacific Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Corals from these areas can match perfectly with jewelry body design from platinum, silver or gold. The coral jewelry becomes popular items for today. You can look for the right one that matches to your style, to complete your look for the day.
However, the situation for ocean coral today is now in danger according to the increase of water temperature which results in dwindling amounts of new coral. Therefore, it is important to know whether the piece you are going for is the authentic coral or the imitation pieces. Here are some tips to check for the authentic coral.
1. Remember that coral is natural made material. The color is deep by its nature. Check for the color of coral, if you can smell any synthetic color agent, that is not the real one. You can also check with acetone for the dye of imitated coral. Dip the piece in acetone to check for the dye.

2. Use cow’s milk. Put your coral in and let it sink in cow’s milk for couple hours. If the milk gets a red tinge, the coral is real. If the milk has not change in color, it is not the real one.
3. Test with vinegar. You can easily see the bubble on the surface of the real coral whenever you apply the drop of vinegar on. This reaction is result from calcium carbonate inside the coral and acid inside vinegar.
With these tips, you can check for the authentic coral one. The other thing is about price, the real coral is normally come with high price.

Bangle is another interesting jewelry piece you should have for your collection. You can wear the bangle for almost every occasion, depend on the style and design for each bangle.

However, for the bangle you also need to think about its size. Too big or too small of bangle size will cause you a problem when you want to wear it on. Therefore, you need to know about your wrist size for the right bangle size, to avoid slip of bangle (for the too big bangle) or grinding halt at your knuckles (for the too small bangle).

There are many factors affect to the right bangle size. These factors are including material, shape and finishing interior. The finish materials can prevent bangle sliding over your hand and stay on your wrist until you take it off.

The important thing to know before buying a bangle, is your wrist size and hand size. You need to get a certain measurement of your wrist for the right bangle.

Here are some tips for measuring your wrist and your hand; carefully wrap your wrist with measuring tape for your most comfortable feeling. Mark on the measuring tape for the proper size or get the number on measuring tape for your wrist size.

For your hand, hold your hand on the position where you always use for wearing the bangle, with your thumb extended across your palm and reach your little finger. Then, measure the widest part of your hand, this number will show your hand size.

With these two numbers, you can now start to shop for your right bangle size. If you want the bangles with hinges, you can only need the writ size when you buy this style. With the number closed to your wrist, you will get the lowest bangle style, it will tighter fit to you wrist.

However, if you want to go with the bangles without hinges, you need to think about both hand and wrist size. Make sure that your hand can slide on and off that particular bangle in the easy way. In general, it is recommended to go with the bangle size with your hand size number for the easy wearing. If you want to get a little bigger bangle, you can select for the bigger size bangle over your hand size. Try it on before make your purchase for the right bangle size for yourself.

Gold-plated, gold-filled and vermeil, these words have been use a lot in the jewelry world. Are these terms described for the same thing, or they are different?

To get the right answer, let’s see the definition of each term.

Gold-plated: is a metal based dipped into a bath of electroplating solution. The metal can be steel, brass or other metals which will plated by gold when electric current was applied. The thin layer of gold will cover on the metal based. However, the gold can wear off quite easy after sometimes according to its thin layering.

Gold-filled: also called as rolled-gold. Although the technique is called gold-filled but the jewelry items are not actually filled with gold. The metal based jewelry (mainly made by copper or brass) is covered by a sheet of gold using a mechanical bonding process, which will result in thick gold coating. Gold-filled jewelry is usually made with 14K gold and increased the life time of each jewelry piece.

Vermeil: is a sterling silver based with gold-plated technique on top. Normally, 22K – 24K of gold was used for applying on this sterling silver jewelry for the gold vermeil jewelry.

Therefore, the difference between gold-plated and gold-filled is about the thickness of gold apply on the metal based jewelry and the technique used. While the difference between gold-filled and vermeil is about the metal based used in each jewelry piece, vermeil is termed for sterling silver while for gold-filled is usually used copper or brass metal.

It is important for you to know the differences between these terms to make the right choice for your jewelry pieces. You can go with the solid gold for the beautiful jewelry piecebut it is coming withhigh price according to the increased of gold price in the world market. Gold-filled, gold-plated and vermeil is an alternative option you can go for in an affordable price. Gold vermeil and gold filled is the next level with an amazing look and high quality of gold cover. Gold plating is the lower level but come with cheapest price (compare between all these items).

Whether you want to go with any of these items, all you need to do with the items are similar to other jewelry pieces. Just keep them away from any chemicals, clean it regularly and polish gently with jewelry polishing cloth.  By this caring, your jewelry piece will stay with you for a longer time.