Even if you consider yourself well-educated when it comes to the pearl market, you may sometimes see a word that you don’t recognize: Hanadama. The Hanadama is a pearl classification which designates the very best of the best when it comes to Japanese Akoya pearls. Choosing a Hanadama pearl necklace…
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Purchasing Pearls: Where to Start
If you are new to the pearl-purchasing world, you may be unclear as to what, exactly, you are (or should be) looking for. Unlike other gemstones, pearls truly vary from one another in a number of ways. You could intend upon finding a nice, simple white strand and end up…
Spring is Near
If you’re not among those with the good fortune of living in a temperate climate year-round, you are likely starting to long for Spring. Everyone loves a Winter Wonderland during the holidays, but after the excitement of the New Year begins to wane, the cold weather becomes a bit exhausting.…
Your Wardrobe: Sometimes Less is More
If you’re a fan of fashion, you may dream about having a huge walk-in closet with racks and racks of clothing, full of couture pieces as far as the eye can see. Unfortunately, for most of us, that dream simply isn’t realistic. We are stuck standing before our “regular” closets…
Dreaming of Spring
A “Winter Wonderland” is a beautiful thing, but those rosy feelings usually don’t last long into winter. Once the holidays have passed, our love for the winter season tends to wane as the snow turns to slush and our mind turns to memories of warmer weather. Fortunately, while April and…
Pearls: The Perfect Gift for Your Valentine, or for Yourself
Cultured pearls are truly a marvel, and the Chinese have effectively become masters of the freshwater cultivate pearl industry. Although cultured pearls date back as far as the early 1900s, the Chinese didn’t start to implement the practice until the 1980s. Although it took about a decade for them to…
Pearls: Everyday Wear, Or Special Occasions?
So, you’ve just received a new piece of pearl jewelry. Maybe it’s your first strand, or maybe it’s a new pair of earrings to add to your collection. Either way, you’re faced with a question: “When, and how often, should I wear my new pearls?” There is, unsurprisingly, no simple…
Trying to Save the Planet? Wear Pearls!
Ok, so the above title might be a little too simple. Choosing to wear pearls will not, of course, save the planet. But just as the environmental concerns facing our society took years to develop, reversing our negative impact on the earth will also take time. But you can do…
Pearls: The Big Change
The fact that so-called “average” people can purchase pearls with relative ease is the result of a major change in the pearl industry which greatly impacted the jewelry-loving masses. But what, exactly caused this change which made pearls affordable to the average purchaser? The answer is both an economic and…
Making A Wise Pearl Purchase
As with many items of beauty, a lovely piece of pearl jewelry can put you at risk of making an impulse purchase. But with the great amount of information available on pearls and their cultivation and supply methods, it really is not difficult to acquaint yourself with this gemstone before…