Necklace - good matches with strapless gown

Necklace – Matching with Occasion

Necklace is a small gimmick to make your personality prominent, stand out your personal taste, and make you look outstanding and charming. If you have to attend a special occasion, you may like to wear a strapless gown. Do you think your collar bones are your best accessories? Just have a look on these models.

It seems that besides the earrings, they need something else.

Necklace!
Yes! A stylish necklace can make your appearance outstanding.

Undoubtedly, a short one is perfect.


Sometimes we may think of a long one. Choose a long and thin necklace would be good.

Ring - Multi-purpose Jewelry

Ring – Multi-purpose

When you search for ring, it has over 30 usages just in the category of jewelry.
Apparently, ring seems to be a very small part in fashion consideration. If you have such interpretation, you might have overlooked the importance of matching rings in the fashion world.

Ring is a good complement to earrings, necklaces, outfits, and handbag. Rings can enrich your character when they are carefully matched with other fashion dresses. Ring with the handbag can intensify your tastes. Imagine you have a pendant and a ring of black onyx set with small diamond and you are wearing a floor length gown. You have a complement color match (like with like) and a mysterious feeling or taste. While the match with a ring with white colored gemstone can bring out a bright and summer look. Which one you like? It depends upon the nature of the occasion you are attending. As well, it depends on the nature of outlook you want to express.



Undoubtedly, when choosing the ring, you need to consider the nature and color of the outfits, the necklace, the earrings and the types and color of the bags you want to carry etc. This needs a very sensitive mind and the color matches knowhow. A big contrast gives a feeling of wild and energetic.

Have a look on the following rings and find out which ring has better matches.

Necklace – jewelry to make you charming

Undoubtedly, good matched of necklace with the outfit, your hair style and the occasion can make your personality prominent, stand out your personal taste, and make you look outstanding and charming.

Since stone-age, people already use shell and mollusk as necklace to decorate themselves.

There are many considerations for a good match. Match of the necklace needs to match with the style and color of outfit. Length of the necklace is another consideration. You can see how the socialites choose their necklace.

Long or short depends very much of the style and trend and fashion. You can have diamond, precious stone, pearls, gemstones or glass beads in your necklace which have to match with the outfits. V-neck, boat-neck, scoop neck shirts fit perfectly with different types and length of necklace. Here is not only talking about the matches of the necklace color or gemstone color with the outfit, this also implies the necessity to match the color of necklace with outfit, but also the complementary with the skin color. Dark skin matches with white color pearl for instance is a perfect match. While lighter skin color should match with more colorful gemstones to make it looks sharp with better contrast. Other than this, do not forget your earrings.

Jewelry - choice of earrings

Paris Hilton’s Matches of Earrings

Paris Hilton, she is an American socialite, heiress, singer, model, actress and fashion designer. Paris is known for her appearance in sex tape in 2003, and the DUI arrest and driving violations in 2007, besides her high profile personal life.

No matter you liked her or not, here, we are more interested on the jewelry and accessories she wore in different occasions. From the photo collections from internet, you can have an idea on her choice of jewelry and accessories. She had her jewelry matches well with her hair style, dress code and the occasion. I guess nobody has the objection that the styles of earrings need to match with the dress code and hair style.

Do you find any hint for the style of earring she had chosen?
Here are the tips:
Short hairstyle with small earrings.
Long hairstyle with larger earrings.

See how Paris Hilton dress and wear at the Chopard 150th anniversary part at Cannes – floor length gown vs hair style and earrings.

How to choose the gemstone

If you search the jewelry and their trend, you will properly find that the majority are designed with precious or semi-precious stone. Diamond, jade, ruby, emerald and sapphire are considered as precious stones. They are mainly set in a more sophisticated way and of course they are more expensive. If you like the richness of color, with more trendy design as in the costume jewelry and less expensive, the semi-precious stones such as aquamarine, amethyst, aventurine, moonstone, lapis lazuli, rose quartz, turquoise, tourmaline and many others.

You can choose jewelry by their design and the color of gemstone. One more thing you can consider, the stone related to your birth, i.e. “Birthstone”. Do you know which stone is you’re “Birthstone”? he following table gives you a quick reference.

Antique Brass Vintage style Necklace

Necklace using antique brass, FW Pearl and Cherry Quartz


If you search from and ebay and other internet market, you will easily found that popularity of antique vintage jewelry is rising. There are many vintage style and costume jewelry. They are mainly made by antique brass and gemstones or crystals.
Vintage style jewelry is usually considered as of the designs over thirty years old or even longer. The most popular form of vintage jewelry is the Victorian Era which covers up to the early 1980s. The price of antique vintage is variable depending on the designer and the quality of the jewelry. Nowadays, there is lots of vintage style jewelry for your choice. If you like, you can just buy some antique brass and make up your own. You are sure to be the focus among your friends if you wear a fantastic vintage style jewelry piece.

You can follow the steps shown below and use similar material to make your unique vintage style necklace.

Silver Jewelry Caring Tips

Silver Jewelry Caring Tips

I love Silver Jewelry. Silver is one of the precious metals with very ductile and malleable. Therefore, Silver can be used solely or with other materials for jewelry design. I collected lots of Silver Jewelry. My collections are excellent when I bought them but after some times, they became darkened, lost their shinning property and changed their appearance. The tarnishing process is annoying. I really don’t want to wear them any more before I clean them up.

I tried to use the cleansing solution and found the jewelry returned to their new look quickly. However, after few days, my Silver Jewelry turned even darker. I tried many different ways but with very short effect. Finally, I found that to protect my Silver Jewelry is better than clean them up. I just use air tight zip plastic bags to store them and their beautiful appearance kept much longer. For those darkened one, I bought some soft polish cloth without any chemical to clean them. I polish them carefully with patience and time and the result is promising with their shinning property last longer.