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Posted in jewelry February 29th, 2008
Sterling Silver Jewelry has always been popular precious metal in ancient legends and throughout history in every country. While silver is used in lots of products, it’s use as money and sterling silver jewelry are the source of its mystique and intrigue. There are many movie plots based on stealing sterling silver jewelry and seeking lost sterling silver jewelry items with magical qualities. If you love sterling silver jewelry, you probably feel the same way each time you put on your sterling silver jewelry and head for adventure.
Sterling Silver Jewelry - Keep It Clean!
Sterling silver jewelry comes in an amazing variety of styles and textures over its 4,000 year history. Ever notice how your sterling silver jewelry sometimes just catches your eye and casts a spell on you? It’s not just your illusion. The hypnotic power of a sterling silver jewelry flows from its highly polished surface that reflects the light in a way like no other jewelry can. Another finish applied to sterling silver jewelry is rhodium that gives it a slightly darker finish. As you know, sterling silver jewelry tarnishes. Keep a soft cloth and silver polish and handy to keep your sterling silver jewelry shining bright.
Sterling Silver Jewelry - Why is it 92.5% Silver?
The term “sterling silver jewelry” refers to jewelry cast from 92.5% silver. This is because 100 % pure sterling silver jewelry is a little soft and prone to bending and breaking. The 92.5% silver content creates sterling silver jewelry that is both elegant and durable. Reproductions of sterling silver jewelry worn by kings and queens represent a romantic tie between people in love today and ancient history. Browse sterling silver jewelry online for exquisite and extraordinary ancient jewelry pieces that excites the soul.
Sterling Silver Jewelry- Buying Tips
When buying sterling silver jewelry on the internet, keep in mind most online stores are honest and care about your satisfaction. Most offer thirty day warranty on your sterling silver jewelry and will exchange it. Like many purchases, it pays to pay by credit card for your protection.
Touched by Silver is a leading sterling silver jewelry company that specializes in unique sterling silver necklaces for men and women. TBS (Touched by Silver) offers a unique line of alluring women’s sterling silver necklaces in contemporary and classic styles. For more info, visit Touched by Silver today.
Johnny Mayer is a content writer for Compucall.USA Web Marketing, LTD.
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Posted in jewelry shop February 28th, 2008
Celebrating a Special Occasion with Jewelry
Jewelry and gems; The Buying Guide
Becoming Intimate with Gems
Gems should never be bought as a gamble, uneducated consumer will always lose. This is a basic rule of thumb. The best way to take the gamble out of buying a particular gem is to familiarize yourself with gem. While the average consumer can’t hope to make the same precise judgments as a qualified gemologist, whose scientific training and wealth of practical experience provide a far greater data base from which to operate, the consumer can learn to judge a stone as a “total personality” and learn what the critical factors are, color, clarity (also referred to in the trade a “perfection”), cut, brilliance, weight, and how to balance them in judging the gem’s value. Learning about these factors and spending time in the marketplace looking, listing, and asking questions before making the purchase will prepare you o be a wise buyer more likely more likely to get what you really want, at a fair price.
Try to learn as much as you can about the gem you want to buy. Examine stones owned by your family and friends, and compare stones at several different jewelry stores, including online jewelry stores, noticing differences in shades of colors, brilliance, and cut. Go to a good established jewelry store and ask to see fine stones. If the prices vary, ask why. Let the jeweler point out differences in color, cut, or brilliance, and if he can’t, go to another jeweler with greater expertise. Begin to develop an eye for what constitute a fine stone by looking, listening, and asking good questions.
Five key questions to ask yourself initially before you consider buying any stone are:
1. Is the color what you desire?
2. Is the shape what you want?
3. Does it have liveliness, or “Zip”?
4. Do you like it and feel excited by it?
5. Can you afford it?
If you answer yes to all five questions, you are ready to examine the specific stone more carefully.
The six steps in examining a stone:
1. Whenever possible, examine stones unmounted. They can be examined more thoroughly out of their settings, and defects cannot be hidden by mounting or side stones.
2. Make sure the gem is clean. If buying a stone from a retail jeweler, ask that it can be cleaned for you. If you are not some-place where it can be cleaned professionally, breathe on the stone in a huffing manner in order to steam it with your breath and then wipe it with a clean handkerchief. This will at least remove the superficial film grease.
3. Hold the unmounted stone so that your fingers touch only the girdle. Putting your fingers on the table (top) and/or pavilion (bottom) will leave traces of oil, which will affect color and brilliance.
The careful use of tweezers instead of fingers is recommended only if you feel comfortable using them. Make sure you know how to use them and get the permission of the owner before picking up the stone. It is easy for the stone to pop out of the tweezers and become damaged or lost, and you could be held responsible.
4. View the gem under proper lighting. Many jewelers use numerous incandescent spotlights, usually recessed in dropped ceilings. Some use special spotlights that can make any gemstone, even glass imitations, look fantastic.
Fluorescent lights may adversely affect the appearance of some gems. Diamonds will not show as much fire under fluorescent lighting, and colored gems such as rubies, look much better in daylight or under incandescent light.
The light source should come from above or behind you, shining down and through the stone, so that the light traveling through the stone is reflected back up to your eye.
5. Rotate the stone in order to view it from different angles.
6. If using a loupe, focus it both on the surface and into the interior. To focus into the interior, shift the stone slowly, raising or lowering it, until you focus clearly on all depths within it. This is important because if you focus on the top only, you won’t see what is in the interior of the stone.
How to use a Loupe?
A loupe (pronounced loop) is a special type of magnifying glass used by an experienced jeweler or gemologist. The use of the loupe can be very helpful in many situations, even for a beginner. With a loupe you can check a stone for chips or scratches or examine certain types of noticeable inclusions more closely. Remember, however, that even with a loupe, you will not have the knowledge or skill to see or understand the many telltale indicators that an experienced jeweler or gemologist could spot. No book can provide you with that knowledge or skill. Do not allow yourself to be deluded or let a little knowledge give you a false confidence. Nothing will more quickly alienate a reputable jeweler or mark you faster as easy prey for the disreputable dealer.
The loupe is a very practical tool to use once you master it, and with practice it will become more and more valuable. The correct type is a 10X, or ten-power, “triplet” which can be obtained from any optical supply house. The triplet-type is recommended because it corrects two problems other types of magnifiers have: The presence of the traces of color normally found in the outer edge of the lens; and visual distortion, also usually at the outer edge of the lens. In addition, the loupe must have a black housing around the lens, not chrome or gold, either of which might affect the color you see in the stone.
The loupe must be 10X because the Federal Trade Commission in the United States requires grading to be done under 10-power magnification. Any flaw that does not show up under 10X magnification is considered nonexistent for grading purposes.
With a few minutes’ practice you can easily learn to use the loupe. Here is how:
1. Hold the loupe between the thumb and forefinger of either hand.
2. Hold the stone or jewelry similarly in the other hand.
3. Bring both hands together so that the fleshy parts just below the thumbs are pushed together and braced by the lower portion of each hand just above the wrists (the wrist portion is actually a pivot point).
4. Now move the hands up your nose or cheek, with the loupe as close to the eye as possible. If you wear glasses, you d not have to remove them.
5. Get a steady hand. With gems it’s very important to have steady hands for careful examination. With your hands still together and braced against your face, put your elbows on a table. (If a table is not available, brace your arms against your chest or rip cage.) If you do this properly you will have a steady hand.
Practice with the loupe, keeping approximately one inch (more or less) from the eye, and about an inch from the object being examined. Learn to see through it clearly. A 10 X loupe is difficult to focus initially, but with a little practice it will become easy. You can practice on any object that is difficult to see, pores in your skin, a strand of hair, pinhead, or your own jewelry.
Play with the item being examined. Rotate it slowly, tilt it back and forth while rotating it, look at it from different angles and different directions. It won’t take long before you are able to focus easily on anything you wish to examine. If you aren’t sure about your technique, a knowledgeable jeweler will be happy to help you learn to use the loupe correctly.
What the loupe can tell you?
With practice and experience (and further education if you’re really serious), a loupe can tell even the amateur a great deal. For a gemologist it can help determine whether the stone is natural, synthetic, glass, or a doublet (a composite stone) and reveal characteristics flaws, blemishes, or cracks. In other words, the loupe can provide the necessary information to help you know whether the stone is in fact what it si supposed to be.
For the beginner, the loupe is useful in seeing:
1. The workmanship that went into the cutting. For example, is the symmetry of the stone balanced? Does it have the proper number of facets for its cut? Is the proportion good? Few cutters put the same time and care into cutting glass as they do into a diamond.
2. Chips, cracks, or scratches on the facet edges, planes, or table. While zircon, for example looks very much like diamond because of its pronounced brilliance and relative hardness, it chips easily. Therefore, careful examination of a zircon will often show chipping, especially around the table edges and girdle. Glass, which is very soft, will often show scratches. Normal wear can cause it to chip or become scratched. Also, if you check around the prongs, the setter to hold the stone.
In such stones as emeralds, the loupe can also help you determine whether or not any natural cracks are really serious, how close they are to the surface, how deep they run, or how many are readily visible.
3. The sharpness of the facet edges. Harder stones will have a sharper edge, or sharper boundaries between adjoining planes or facets, whereas many imitations are softer and under the loupe the edges between facets are less sharp and have a more rounded appearance.
4. Bubbles, inclusions, and flaws. Many flaws and inclusions that cannot be seen with naked eye are easily seen with the loupe. But remember, many are not easily seen unless you are very experienced. The presence of inclusion is not as serious in colored stones as in diamonds, and they don’t usually significantly reduce the value of the stone. However, the kind of inclusion seen in colored stones can be important. they often provide the necessary key to positive identification, determine whether a stone is natural or synthetic, and possibly locate the origin of the stone, which may significantly affect the value. With minimal experience, the amateur can also learn to spot the characteristics bubbles and swirl lines associated with glass.
The loupe can tell you a great deal about the workmanship that went into cutting a gem. It can help a professional decide whether a gem is natural, synthetic, a doublet, or glass. It can provide the clues about the gem’s authenticity, its durability, and it point of origin. But spotting these clues takes lots of practice and experience.
When you a loupe, remember that you won’t see what the experienced professional will see, but with a little practice, it cn still be a valuable tool which might save you from a costly mistake.
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When it is published, May I request that you include my name and resource box (the bio., contact and copyright information that follows the article. I would also appreciate if you could send me an e-mail of notification along with a complimentary copy of publication.
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Posted in jewelry February 27th, 2008
Vintage or antique jewelry is worth a lot of money in most cases and it can get really expensive trying to acquire a collection. Actually with a little research and effort you can find antique jewelry wholesale just like any other product if you are willing to invest a little time.
The majority of the population would probably tell you to look on eBay or other online auction sites but the fact of the matter is that these really aren’t good sources for finding antique jewelry wholesale because the sellers at the sites usually know the value of what they are offering up for sale. There are other ways to find vintage jewelry at or even below wholesale so let’s take a look.
One very easy no cost way of finding antique jewelry wholesale is checking your local paper for garage sales, estate sales, and even divorce sales. In a lot of cases these people may have items that they don’t know the value of and your chances of finding something are great. It is very possible for you to pick up items worth thousands just buy rummaging through sales like these on a weekend.
When you are trying to pick up jewelry in this way don’t study the items too hard, you don’t want to give the hint to the owner that it may be worth a lot of money. The best thing to do is kind of glance over the items. Don’t feel bad about getting a good deal or feel like you are taking advantage of someone. If it was truly important to them they would have taken the time to have the item appraised. If all they want for something you are looking at is a quarter, give it to them and get out of there before the look of surprise and joy on your face gives it away!
Looking for jewelry in this way is a lot of fun, almost like being on a treasure hunt. You never know what you will find on these weekend excursions. I have found very valuable items in this way. I once found a vintage cedar hope chest worth hundreds of dollars that I paid $30 for! You can also give eBay a try, just bear in mind there thousands and thousands of other people doing the same thing!
Try misspellings to lessen the competition and have a better chance at getting the jewelry you are looking for at the lowest price possible.
Gregg Hall is an author and internet marketing consultant living in Navarre Florida. Find more about buying wholesale and jewelry wholesale at http://www.buywholesaleclub.com
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Posted in jewelry February 26th, 2008
Looking good is a basic human tendency. However, the amount of money that one would like to spend on looking good varies from one person to another and is subject to many factors. Our sense of style and taste is one of the vital factors that determines what we buy. If you are one of those who do not compromise on your accessories because of the cost involved, then you are bound to possess an enviable collection of “fine” jewelry.
Which jewelry, some of you may ask, can be categorized as “fine” jewelry? A bangle made out of brass may look just as “fine” to you as one made out of gold. Plainly speaking, fine jewelry may be defined as jewelry made out of precious metals such as gold or silver and set with precious or semi-precious stones. However, this is neither a final definition nor an absolute one. It conveniently leaves out the finest jewelry of all times, platinum jewelry. Also, it is not always necessary that the precious metal should be set with diamonds or other stones to be able to qualify as “fine” jewelry.
Any jewelry that is precious and is made out of metals or stones that we consider precious and expensive falls into the category of “fine jewelry”. The finest gold, silver, platinum and diamonds are chosen to be used in the crafting of fine jewelry. Designed specially for the discriminating eye, fine jewelry is available in exclusive designs and is immaculately crafted. Bridal jewelry, wedding bands and diamond rings set in gold or platinum are all specimens of fine jewelry that are designed with immense articulation and an eye for detail. Fine jewelry is like an heirloom, a work of timeless ethereal perfection, which stays in bloom for all times to come.
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Posted in jewelry shop February 25th, 2008
No jewelry collection is complete without a good-luck charm. A horseshoe is considered a lucky charm in many parts of the world. It is believed that a horseshoe keeps evil away. So what better way is there to sport a lucky charm than to wear jewelry shaped as a horseshoe?
It is incredible how artistically the theme of horseshoes can be used to craft beautiful pieces of jewelry. From necklaces and pendants to rings and earrings, any type of jewelry can be fashioned after a horseshoe. Youngsters these days are sporting trendy horseshoe-shaped body jewelry like eyebrow rings, belly-button rings, nose rings and tongue rings.
Furthermore, the variety of designs available in the market is unlimited. Jewelry designers make use of all kinds of material to craft stunning pieces of horseshoe jewelry. It is cast in a range of precious metals like silver, gold, white gold, platinum and even surgical steel. More often than not, horseshoe jewelry is studded with diamonds, which impart a dazzling look to it. Other gemstones like peridot, rhinestone and black onyx are also used quite frequently. Some of the modern-day jewelry is also made of acrylic and titanium.
Though a simple horseshoe with its mystical shape looks exquisite, jewelry artists often innovate with the designs, crafting jewelry with two or more horseshoes. Some designs have a horsehead placed beautifully inside the horseshoe. One can also get rings with letters of the alphabet inscribed inside the curve of a horseshoe. Some creative designers have gone as far as making horseshoe jewelry that glows in the dark.
With its immense variety and mystical significance, horseshoe jewelry forms not only an important part of any jewelry collection, but it also acts as a perfect present for horse enthusiasts.
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Posted in jewelry February 24th, 2008
Buying gifts for friends or loved ones is not always easy. Even those closest to you are often hard to buy for when it comes to gifts. You may not know what they like and dislike, or what they need and don’t need. If you’re not careful, a joyful gift-giving experience can turn into a nightmare of panic! The good news is you can often find great, affordable gifts online that are sure to be adored for years to come. Use this checklist as a guide.
Get Organized
Keep an up-to-date list of birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and other special occasions where gifts are involved. You’ll be surprised at how keeping a list of these dates will help you stay ahead of the game.
Shop Early
Buy gifts online a month or two before the occasion. You can take your time to find gifts that are unique and affordable. Whether shopping for jewelry, electronics or household items, you will need to allow time for searching and shipping. Searching online can mean sifting through hundreds of products to find that perfect gift. And, shipping could take several weeks. So, allow enough time for both.
Gifts that Make a Difference
You’ve decided to give an unusual gift this year - one that will really make an impression. But, you aren’t sure what that gift should be. Be mindful of the person who will receive the gift. Do they have an old vehicle they’re trying to fix up? Check out the automotive parts section of an online shopping mall. Even a car alarm or a radar detector might work, depending on the person!
Are you buying for someone who has a home office? Try a new office telephone. Buying for your wife? Try lingerie or other clothing garments that she’ll adore. Younger kids always enjoy toys, while a teenage boy might like a sports product with his favorite team player. Leather goods always make great gifts as well.
More Gift Ideas
What hunter wouldn’t like a new set of knives? Women and teen girls are easy to please with a new handbag that matches their favorite outfit. A movie fan will enjoy a new DVD player. Or, the pets section of a site might reveal some great gift ideas for a pet owner. The possibilities are endless.
Amazing Gift Prices
An advantage of an online mall is you get the benefit of hundreds or thousands of gift items while shopping at one location. And often, these gifts are priced at “flea market” prices! The items are often sold at wholesale prices, and the manufacturer may dropship the items as well.
With so many choices, buying gifts for any occasion can be fun and affordable. With the Internet, you have a world of gift ideas at your fingertips!
Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
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Posted in jewelry shop February 23rd, 2008
Aquamarine drives its name from the Latin term sea-water, and one look at this elegant gem’s blue hues easily explain why.
According to legend, Aquamarine was the treasure of mermaids and had the power to keep sailors safe at sea. It was also thought to possess a number of other mystical properties, including the ability to help couples smooth out their differences; protect against he wiles of the devil; cure headaches, insomnia and other ailments; quicken the intellect; and attract new friends. It is the symbol for youth, hope, health and fidelity.
It is also the birthstone for March and recommended gem for couples celebrating their 19th wedding anniversary.
A variety of mineral beryl, like the Emerald, Aquamarine is found in many exotic places around the world, including Afghanistan, Angola, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Russia, Zambia, and Zambabwe. But most of the gemstones available in the market today come from Brazil.
Aquamarine is found in a range of blue shades, from pale pastel to greenish blue to deep blue. Deeper colors are unusual in smaller sizes; generally, it takes a larger stone to hold a darker shade. The most prized Aquamarines are those displaying a deeper, pure blue, with no green tints. These are rarer and therefore more valuable. But if you prefer those with a greenish hue, you should be able to get them for a bargain price.
Like with any gem that is pale, Aquamarines should be “eye Clean”, no inclusion visible to the naked eye, since internal flaws are more noticeable in a pastel stone. This shouldn’t be much of a problem, unlike its emerald sister, Aquamarine is known for being relatively free of inclusions. This is why Aquamarines are frequently cut with large step facets to show off their flawless surfaces. The most popular cuts for Aquamarine are oval and Emerald.
Settings for Aquamarine can also safely expose more of the gemstone than is possible with Emerald. Aquamarine’s tendency toward having few inclusions makes it less susceptible to nicks or cracks than many other gems. With an 8 ranking on the Mohs hardness scale, the stone is very durable and can stand up to everyday wear. Its clear, pale brilliance makes it an appropriate stone for all types of jewelry, and it combines well with all jewelry metals and is flattering to most skin tones.
Aquamarine is commonly heat treated to permanently remove green overtones. Unlike its sister stone the Emerald, Aquamarine generally is not plagued by surface fractures, which means the stone is not usually treated with filters, resin or oils. Even so, avoid mechanical cleaners. To clean Aquamarine, use warm soapy water.
The largest known Aquamarine is 243 pound stone found in Brazil in 1920. It was cut into many smaller stones and a 13 pond uncut piece resides in the American Museum of Natural History. Another noted Aquamarine is an 879.5 carats flawless, step-cut, sea green stone on display in the British Museum of Natural History.
The article above can be used on your web site or newsletter. When it is published, May I request that you include my name and resource box (the bio., contact and copyright information that follows the article. I would also appreciate if you could send me an e-mail of notification along with a complimentary copy of publication.
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Posted in jewelry shop February 22nd, 2008
Blue Topaz has become one of the most popular gemstone on the market today, because of its clarity, durability, availability and affordable cost. Yet, it is a shade of Topaz rarely found in nature. The stone’s watery blue color is most often created through a combination of heat treatment and irradiation.
Topaz is one of the well known pegmatite minerals that also includes beryl and tourmaline. Blue Topaz is the birth stone for month of December and is also recommended gemstone for couples celebrating their 4th wedding anniversary.
Blue Topaz has a definite, uniform color ranging from sky blue to Swiss blue. It is sometimes confused with the more costly Aquamarine, yet whereas Aquamarine sometimes has a greenish blue or bluish green tint, Blue Topaz will always look blue or bluish gray. The one exception is for surface enhanced Topaz, a process introduced in 1998 that enhances the stone’s appearance and brings out colors such as blue to greenish to emerald green.
Most Blue Topaz starts life as a colorless or slightly tinted Topaz from places like Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and china. It is then irradiated, to incite the color change, and heated, to stabilize the change. The result is a permanent Aqua shade. To get deep blue color out of Topaz, treaters use neutron bombardment in a nuclear reactor and market the final product under the name “London Blue” Topaz. In fact, neutron bombardment is the only means by which to produce smaller calibrated stones with deep blue color.
Despite the stone’s exposer to irradiation, expert say it poses no health hazard whatsoever to the wearer.
In addition to blue, the stone comes in a variety of colors, including golden yellow, orange yellow, reddish orange, sherry red, deep pink, honey brown, light green, and many shades in between.
Topaz holds the distinction of being the gemstone thought to have the wildest rage of curative powers. According to legend, the stone can dispel enchantment and improve the eyesight. The ancient Greeks believed that it had the power to increase strength and make its wearer invisible in times of emergency. Topaz is also said to change color in the presence of poisoned food or drink. Throughout history, different cultures have believed that the stone could cure insomnia, asthma and hemorrhages; bring friendship; promote patience and a pleasant disposition, and ensure fidelity. To the ancients, it was also a symbol of love and affection and was even thought to ward off sudden death.
With A ranking of 8 on the Mohs scale of hardness, Blue Topaz is exceptionally strong and durable and well suited to everyday wear. However, it should be protected against hard blows that can split, crack or chip it.
The article above can be used on your web site or newsletter. When it is published, May I request that you include my name and resource box (the bio., contact and copyright information that follows the article. I would also appreciate if you could send me an e-mail of notification along with a complimentary copy of publication.
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Posted in jewelry February 21st, 2008
Back to the era of the Hawaiian monarchy, the origin of Hawaiian heirloom jewelry can be found. The Hawaiian kingdom had long enjoyed a favorable relationship with England.
In February 1862, Prince Albert, husband to England’s Queen Victoria, was dead. During the queen’s time of grief, only mourning clothes and black-accented jewelry were acceptable apparel at the royal court. Meanwhile, jewelry accented with black jet or enamel and carved with floral, vine or scroll designs became the fashion trend in England. These pieces came in the forms of rings, broaches, pendants and bracelets.
Reacting to Prince Albert’s death, a 23-year-old Hawaiian princess named Liliu Loloku Walania Kamakaeha (Hawaii’s last Queen Liliuokalani) ordered two gold that precisely followed the style and detail of the black-enameled English mourning jewelry.
In 1887, Hawaii’s Queen Kapiolani and Princess Liliu were invited to Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. At the Jubilee, Queen Victoria bestowed them precious gold bracelets with each name of theirs imprinted in Old English Lettering filled with black enamel (here’s an example of hawaiian jewelry). They adored the gift so that they had similar bracelets made for Hawaiian Royal members upon their return to Hawaii. Hawaiian Royal had adopted this sophisticated and hand-carved technique and developed it into its unique design inspired by Hawaiian nature. This Hawaiian royal heritage has been succeeded and lived on as Today’s Hawaiian Jewelry.
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Posted in jewelry February 20th, 2008
These days, there is a call for more “metrosexuals,” or men who are conscious about their looks and clothing, so much that it is actually important for them to be not only presentable, but fashionable as well in civilized society. The television program “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” has revolutionized makeovers for all of us, for it has shown that, yes, it is indeed possible for men to be pleasant to look at without being “girly” or “dandy.” Masculine jewelry, such as man earrings, are a big part of this metrosexuality trend.
Men who can boldly wear necklaces, bracelets and earrings to set off their hair or their eyes are men who have achieved the next level of metrosexuality: accessorizing. In the end, a tasteful selection of jewelry helps to make the man. Rings and necklaces, bracelets and cufflinks, all add to the image of the powerful, self-possessed male.
And man earrings are definitely “in”! Next to necklaces, earrings are the most popular men’s accessories. Quite a few big-name male stars, young idols especially, are making man earrings a fashion must. Think of Johnny Depp (who started off as a teen rebel heartthrob in the television show “21 Jumpstreet”) and David Gallagher (who plays Simon Camden in the TV drama “7th Heaven”).
Men’s jewelry is not just for clean-cut urbanites — in fact in the streets, earrings on men are considered symbols of toughness. Indeed, the man earring, in general, speaks boldly of the courage to have one’s own sense of fashion, to set one’s own trend. Mr. T has his own collection of earrings that make for his tough-guy look, and quite a few hiphop and R&B artists - such as Jay-Z and Usher — have all but trademarked their own jewelry ensembles.
Man earrings play up sexuality without sacrificing masculinity. Worn either on one earlobe or both, it makes a man look more snazzy and cool. Whether they be diamond, gold, silver, or platinum, earrings have become a necessary part of a man’s jewelry arsenal.
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