Fashion Buying Guides

How to care for your jewelry? Here are some tips for you all.

1. Don’t clean jewelry with toothpaste
In fact, toothpaste contains many polishing and friction additives. If you clean your jewelry with toothpaste very often, chances are that your jewelry’s surface is no longer bright and shiny, moreover, the weight of gold or silver jewelry will be reduced. So you see how the polishing elements works here.

2.Don’t touch stroke your jewelry often
Our hands keep secreting sweat and grease all the time, additionally, many invisible things can get attached to our hands in our daily life. When we touch gems with our hands, chances are that oil on our hands tends to cover the gems, thus reducing its luster and brightnes. In particular, diamonds are lipophilic gem. Therefore, oil on diamond’s surface will affect diamond’s beauty greatly. However, emerald and white jade is an  exception. Because of aggregated structure frequent touch can make them more lovely.

3.Do not clean pearls with tap water
Tap water contains a fixed amount of C1. Cleaning pearls with tap water will harm its luster. So you are supposed to clean pearls with mineral water. In addition, you have to wash the pearls that you want to preserve so that they won’t discolor due to the accumulation of dirt.

4. Don’t wear jewelry for long time
As a matter of fact, expensive jewelry are not so strong, they also need a break every once in a while . You’d better take them off, because alkaline substances in some soaps will harm our fragile gems. So you ought to protect your jewelry from bathing, housework, swimming and so on.

5. Be cautious with ultrasonic cleaning machine
Not all the gems can be cleaned with ultrasonic cleaning machine. For instance, you should not clean emerald and pearl with ultrasonic cleaning machine since their structures will get harm during this cleaning process. Besides, even though ultrasonic cleaning machine can give you a good cleaning effect, you’d better not clean small inlaid diamonds frequently since small diamonds tend to get loose or even fall offf after repeated shocks.

6.Avoid direct exposure to acid,alkaline substances
What we eat can be a potential threat to our jewelry, especially pearls. Therefore, avoid direct exposure to acid, alkaline food to protect your jewelry. Also, cosmetic are potential killer to our jewelry. so no exposure to cosmetics.

7. Correct wearing sequence
In general, wear jewelry after dressing up. What’s more, wear jewelry after wearing perfume and putting on makeup.

I believe luxury gold jewelry must be a lot of friends’ favorite. Bright gold is absolutely a heart-touching color.Thus, accessories made of gold can easily bring out the temperament of wearer. As a matter of fact, the value of good gold jewelery lies on its collection value more than its ornamental value.Therefore, how to purchase and indentify gold jewelry counts much .

As we all know, according to the purity of one gram of gold, gold  are divided into 24K, 22k ,18k, etc. 24K has the highest concentration of gold, which represents containing gold more than 99% .

In the purchase of gold jewelry, the following tips can help a lot in spotting real gold jewelry.

Color
It is said by Experts of gold jewelry that the color of accessory with 70% gold concentration is not that yellow reflecing a bit green, accessory with 80% looks yellow totally, accessory with 90% has purple mixed with yellow, accessory with 100% looks a little red apart from yellow.

weight
Just like silver,gold weights heavier than other yellow metal of the same size.

Soft and hard
Pure gold is quite soft. It is common to see people try to distinguish genuine gold by biting it on TV. If you don’t care the original shape of your gold accessory will get destroyed in such way, try it .

Jewellery in the 2009 collections took many and various forms. There were a few common threads among them, however, including:

1.Geometric shapes

2.Exotic and ethnic inspirations

3.Rich colours; prominent stones and gems

Geometric shapes in bold colours saw Cavalli extend upon last year’s Art Deco trend; while the likes of Ralph Lauren and Anna Sui embraced the exotic, the former with imperial-esque jewels and the latter with ethnic inspired beading.

Others such as Giambattista Valli and Christian Lacroix showed modern, avant garde designs

Bracelets, bangles and cuffs

Bracelets took various forms on the runways – from simple chains to chunky bangles. It was the ornate cuff that really took trend status, however, worn on the upper arm or the wrist.

How to wear this Jewellery Trend
The core difference between the previous season of bold jewellery and the 2009 trend is the clothing it’s worn with. While 2008 was about playing down the clothing to make the jewels the stand-out feature, 2009 is not afraid to team wildly bold or colourful clothing with over-the-top accessories. Experiment with clashing colours and styles – make them as interesting as possible.
For more subdued occasions, there’s always the option to pair statement pieces with a little black dress, or even jeans and a tee. Whatever your preference, the bottom line is that when it comes to jewellery in 2009, the bigger and more exotic, the better!