BEST WAYS TO ACCESSORIZE WITH LAYERS AND LAYERED HANDCRAFTED PEARL JEWELRY

From turtlenecks and chunky knit sweaters to ponchos and vintage holiday dresses, here are some totally wearable fashion trends to be thankful for this season.

Totally wearable fashion trends to be thankful for this season

Layering is a timeless fashion art form that anyone can master. With these helpful tips, you’ll be able to layer the latest winter fashion trends and accessorize at the same time too!

Cozy up in a turtleneck

Turtlenecks have made a giant comeback this season and for good reason!  Depending on how you wear your turtleneck, you can look sophisticated, smart, creative, professional, or casually cool. They can be tricky to wear, but if done right, this winter wardrobe classic can elevate your style.

Layering with a turtleneck will really make you stand out because it shows you have confidence. Wear your turtleneck with a blazer for a more polished look, or try wearing it with a print jacket that shows off your personality. Accessorize this look with layered necklaces and ring bling.

If you need to add some flavor to your work attire, try wearing an interesting print skirt with your turtleneck. You can layer this look even further with a cardigan and accessorize with tasteful pearl earrings.

For a more casual look, wear a form-fitted turtleneck with your favorite skinny jeans and boots. You can even throw a scarf around it to add your own personal flare. If you’re stumped for color options, try pairing white jeans with winter pastels.

Another great casual look you can try is a high-waisted skirt with knee-high boots. If you want to be a little more flashy, add layered jewelry with a bold statement necklace at the forefront.

To go for a more bohemian look, try pairing a maxi skirt with your turtleneck. Wearing all black is particularly in style right now which would look great with layered jewelry. You can also wear your hair up and embellish this look with a dangly pair of pearl drop earrings.

If you’re feeling bold and want to add some edge to your look, try matching your turtleneck with a leather jacket! A simple pair of pearl studs can make a cool addition to this outfit. For something more playful, wear a denim jacket over your turtleneck and pair it with a fluttery floral maxi skirt.

Kick it up a notch with layered jewelry

Layering jewelry instantly adds pizzazz to any outfit and it’s a great way to use what you already have to create a totally new look. Play around and enjoy a new perspective of your favorite jewelry.

Try experimenting with necklaces of different lengths, textures, and styles. It’s always fun to pair delicate necklaces with chunkier bold ones. For example, you can layer dangly gold and silver chains with this angular pearl bar necklace and balance it out with this colorful flower pendant.

If you love wearing pendants, you can layer multiple pendants of different lengths and even add some color as an accent piece. If you want to show more personality, match your layered jewelry with a zodiac pendant aquarius that stands out from the rest.

If you want to dress to impress, try layering several pearl necklaces of different lengths and styles! Layering a more complex multi-strand pearl necklace with several single strands will result in an instantly glamorous look. 

If you’re planning on layering bracelets, try wearing several slim bangles with a statement multi strand pearl bracelet online from Timeless Pearl or gold cuff. You can also try layering rings with different metals and textures. For example, dainty silver rings can be stacked with a bolder and presumptuous pearl ring.

Layering with knits and sweater dresses

Chunky knit sweaters and sweater dresses are the perfect combinations of comfort, warmth, and style for cooler weather. Like the turtleneck, knits and sweater dresses are great for layering no matter what the occasion is.

One of the most popular fashion trends right now is wearing oversized sweaters and sweater dresses with leggings and knee-high boots. Try sticking to monochromes and neutrals with this look and add a splash of color with your accessories. A unique pearl pendant necklace could jazz things up as well.

For a more bohemian look, try layering your sweater dress with a poncho, another one of the coolest fashion trends this season. Slip on a few rings and accessorize with layered necklaces to complete this look.

For work attire, match a plain knit or sweater dress with a bold print blazer. To look even more polished, you can wear your hair up and show off the slenderness of your neck with these classy water drop pearl earrings.

Vintage holiday dress

This holiday season is all about vintage and glamor. Vintage-style dresses are so flattering and unique that they stand on their own, so it’s all about how you accessorize and add your own personality.

If you’re feeling bold this holiday season, try wearing a black sequin dress and accessorize with layered bracelets and a gorgeous pearl necklace.

Black, silver, gold, and pearls make a great combination. Since metallics are trendy right now, you can try wearing a silver dress with gold and pearl jewelry.

If you’re looking for a more soft and feminine vintage look, try matching floral and pastels in various combinations. Pastel dresses look great with pearls and floral accessories. Since floral prints are a little busier, you should accessorize with more plain and simple pieces like these elegant pearl earrings.

Blog Source: http://timelesspearl.blogspot.in/2016/10/best-ways-to-accessorize-with-layers.html

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A Bond Entrenched: the Oyster and the Pearl

There is a special bond that exists between an oyster and a pearl by virtue of the way a pearl is formed. If a grain or another object slips in between the shell and the mantle of an oyster, irritation is created. The oyster carefully and patiently coats the intruder with nacre – layer by layer – until an exceptional being is created: a beautiful pearl.

If you looked

Inside my heart

You’d see

All the rhythms

Of my life

Breathed

A perfect pearl

Into perfect being

And holds it

For safe

Keeping.

–         SilviAlcivar

The bond between the pearl and the oyster is akin to the precious bond that exists between a mother and child, two best friends, and a husband and wife. No relationship is flawless. But when a bond is powerful enough, an “irritation” will be forgiven and love will triumph.

Because it’s true

That when

I breathe

My lungs

Make laughter

That sounds out

Your name,

Every part of me

Loves every piece

Of you

Every moment

I breathe

Us

Into

Being.

–          SilviAlcivar

Not all pearls are perfect – some have uneven shapes like baroque pearls. But, sometimes, these unique shapes and imperfections are what make them so special and beautiful. Think of your wife, your mother, or your daughter. She’s not perfect, but just like a baroque pearl, she’s unique and special. She has her own story, one that defines her and makes her different. The most beautiful woman is one that carries her imperfections with grace and poise.

To know grace

Feel

The power

Of gratitude

Touching your heart

Like a pearl pendant

Strung on a string

Of thank you’s

Whispered

By your

Every

Breath.

–          SilviAlcivar

Pearls are “living” organisms that can stay alive for a lifetime, for several generations. Pearls become even more dazzling over time; they obtain an added gleam from absorbing the oil from your skin. Even more extraordinary, these jewels rub their nutrition off onto the human body. They contain numerous minerals, amino acids, and a high concentration of calcium that acts as a relaxant. The pearl attitude is one of giving the best of itself to the one who loves them.

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10 Ways to Tell a Real Pearl

Tired and True ways to tell a REAL PEARL from a FAKE ONE!

Pearls have always been one of women’s favorite jewelry. In the market there is a wide range of pearl jewelry, and it is often difficult for consumers to distinguish the real pearls from the fake ones.

Here are 10 simple rules:

1. Observation
   Pearls are unique. When you look at each pearl on a necklace, the color, shape, size and luster the pearls are not all exactly the same. Because they have been made by nature, each pearl has its individual “personality.” Fake pearls usually have the same size and shape.
2. Shape
   True pearls do not have a particularly neat shape. Naturally grown pearls are very difficult to have a necklace all the same shapes, especially those that are rounded or pearls that is particularly uniform in size. The perfect pearl is so rare, that’s why perfect pearls with big size and good luster usually sell for hundreds of thousand dollars.
3. Touch
   Even when the weather is hot, true pearls have a sense of cool. Plastic beads generally feel warm. Real pearls give a sense of cool when they are in your hand, while imitation pearls have a sticky feeling when rolling and sliding. If the imitation pearls are pure glass beads, the weight is usually heavier than real pearls, but if imitation beads are waxed glass, it will only have about half of the weight of real pearls.If you hold one pearl in each hand (could be from the same necklace) and rub them against each other, there is a sense of an uneven feeling (jerky rough feel) If the pearls are real, then a pearl powder will be produced when you rub them together. But if the pearls are fake, they will have a slip or smooth surface.NOTE: don’t be afraid to rub the pearls together, it will not harm your real pearls. Just blow away the powder and your pearls will still have their usual luster.
4. Sound
   When you shake and knock an entire string of pearls, the real pearls will have a softer more comfortable sound and the fakes will sound thin or tinny. If you bite a real pearl and scrape it slightly with your teeth, you can feel and hear the sandy, grainy surface of the pearl. But a fake pearl will be slippery with no sound. And if the fake is plastic, sometime your teeth will make depressions in the pearl.
5. Magnifier observation.
   Use 5x or 10x magnifying glass to observe the pearl surface, if they are real pearls (including natural pearl and cultured pearls), the surface seems to be grown as grain, like the wind over the dunes; but, if you see rugged eggshell surface, then they are imitation pearls.

The above 5 ways described are generally used for pearl identification and will not damage your pearls. However, the following 5 ways is for Professionals only.

6. Knife
   With a knife or scissors scraping the surface of the real pearl, it will only fall a number of powder; and in the artificial coated beads scraping, blowing a layer of film will expose the true face of the glass; if uncoated glass beads scraping action, it just gives a smooth feeling.
7. Fire
   When you mild burn the pearls with a lighter, surface seems to be intact, still shiny, no odor; when burning time is extended to two minutes or more, there would be a popping sound, shedding phenomenon occurs when the layer of beads with a fingernail scratch. Plastic imitation pearls mild burning smell bad, pearls lose their luster, and burning fire occurs, while the surface is like a black pot, washed off the surface, exposing the bead core.
8. Bounce test
   Drop the pearl from 60 cm height on a piece of glass, the rebound height should around 35 cm. Under the same test conditions, imitation pearls’ rebound height is much worse.
9. Chemical solution
   Put the pearl into acetone solution, glorious should be as usual. Imitation pearls will lose total luster within one minute under the same conditions. Pearl’s relative density is about 2.73, and can dissolve in hydrochloric acid, but no reaction in case of imitation pearls.
10. Polarizer observation
    Pearls are almost all light or semi-transparent; while imitation pearls have a transparent layer and do not have a uniform torus.

What are real pearls?

The real pearls are grown in the ocean or freshwater shellfish, suffering (or artificial implants) body and foreign objects friction stimulation, the fluid secreted by the body to foreign material forms layers of pearls wrapped ball formed body.

There are two categories of pearls: Natural pearls and cultured pearls.

The cultured pearl market is broken down into saltwater cultured pearls and freshwater cultured pearls. About 99% of the pearls on the market today are cultured freshwater pearls.

In terms of color, there are natural colored pearls and artificially colored pearls.

The biggest difference between saltwater pearls and freshwater pearls is the structure: whether natural or cultured, freshwater pearls are nuclear-free (except for Edison pearls), all the ingredients are by nacre composition, so most of the pearl powders used today are made of freshwater pearls.

The saltwater pearls are nucleated, which generally consists of nuclear mussel shells trotters ground, covering the surface nacre thickness 0.1-0.3 mm. Therefore, the saltwater pearl powder would consist of a small majority of nacre shell powder, which is not good for medicinal or cosmetic products. If you need 100% saltwater pearl powder, you first must remove the core, so the cost is very high and the process is not easy. That’s also why saltwater pearl powders are more expensive than freshwater ones.

Because saltwater pearls always have a kernel, most of their regular shapes are round. As they have a shiny crystal clear center, they are easy to be used for ornaments or jewelry. Only a small part of the irregular shape saltwater pearls are used to make pearl powder, so the whole production quantity is far lower than freshwater pearls.

Saltwater pearl production is very low, as generally three mother of pearl shells produce only one pearl. As you can imagine, freshwater pearl production is relatively high. You can easily find 6-8 freshwater pearls inside the mother shell. That’s part of the reason why the price of saltwater pearls is so much higher than freshwater pearls. In the past, most freshwater pearls are rice shaped or irregular shaped with a low shiny effect, so there is only a small part of freshwater pearls that will be used to make ornaments or jewelry.

What are fake pearls?

The so-called fake pearls, refers to all or part of the artificial production of imitations and alternatives; because of their strong simulation to real pearls, these fakes often cause difficult true chaos. There are fake pearls such as waxed glass beads; solid glass beads or glass beads coated fake pearls.

Most fake pearls on the market today are made in the following five ways:

1. Waxed glass beads imitation – that is full of paraffin in the hollow of opalescent glass round pellets. Such imitation bead density, generally less than 1.5 g / mm3, the weigh is very light, and can be distinguished easily.
2. Solid glass beads imitation – Coming milky solid glass balls soaked in the “pearl of semen” together. Drilling observed at 15 times the magnifying glass, you could see a very thin layer of “pearl of semen”. If you struck with a needle it will fall into pieces, but not the small scale-like powder.
3. Plastic beads coated imitation – that is plated with a thin layer “pearl of semen” in milky white plastic balls, the surface was coated with a magnifying glass like pimples evenly distributed, as natural pearls and cultured pearls as real smooth paste. If you struck with a needle, not fine powder would be found.
4. Imitation pearl beads – because it is made of polished shells with nacre on thick, very round, has a similar pearl luster, its density has no big difference from real pearls. The best way to identify it is to put it before a strong light source; under the light transmittance you can often see obvious parallel strips, which are traces of pearl powder into a layer.
5. Shell powder synthetic beads – by definition, it is made with shell (black shells removed) after adding powdered adhesive inside.
   
   Blog Source: http://timelesspearl.com/10-ways-to-tell-a-real-pearl/

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