How to choose earrings

The key of knowing “how to choose earrings” is to find the ones that complement your face. Because earrings are a fantastic way to enhance your appearance or to complete an outfit you must remember that they must always add balance and shape to your face. Here are some tips that will have you quickly on your way of finding the right earrings.

Round Face

Round faces need earrings to provide length, such as long, dangling or rectangular-shaped earrings. Since the vertical lines emphasizes more on length, the face begins to look slimmer and longer.

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Dangling Sapphire and Diamond earrings from JR Jewelers

• Oval Face

People with oval-shaped faces are the most lucky ones. Their faces are very proportionate and they can wear almost any style of earrings to enhance their appearance.

• Rectangular Face
  

Rectangular-shaped faces have more length than width and need earrings that do not emphasise length. Small studs work well and long dangling earrings should be avoided.

Diamond earrings

Square Face

As long as you avoid harsh angles and square shapes, you can wear just about anything in the earring category. Hoops and curved edges will add the necessary roundness, and drop earrings, long tear drops, or multi-tiered dangling earrings will give a square shape some length.

South Sea pearl and diamond earrings

Heart-shaped Face tends to have a wide forehead and cheeks which narrows to a point at the chin. This face shape is complimented by adding width at the jaw line with triangular-shaped, tear-drop or chandelier style earrings.

Sapphire and diamond earrings

Sharp features: Wear round earrings or earrings with curves in order to sweeten up your face shape (hoops or round beaded earrings). The curves soften the features over all to enhance and create a very flattering look for women with such sharp features.

Flat Features: The best way to sharpen face shapes with flat features is to wear angular earrings. Earrings with points like stars, triangles, and diamonds work well with women with flat features. You can have some extra fun with geometric shaped earrings.

Multi Color semi precious stone earrings from JR Jewelers

Petite women need earrings that bring the viewer’s eye up. They have to choose earrings that compliment their size. It’s important paying attention to dangling earrings (and the space between the ears and shoulder). Longer earrings will block that space and give the appearance of a shorter neck line.

Ladies of average height are not restricted by height. They can wear any style of earrings that also flatters their face shape.

Diamond chandelier earrings

Tall women need to pay attention to the space between their ears and shoulder also. They need earrings that don’t get lost in that space such as long, dangling styles.

How to choose Necklaces?

Here’s a small guide on How to Choose your Necklace according with the dress neckline. It is important to know the basics on choosing the pendant or necklace. Your look must have equilibrium and a bit of harmony in order to appear stylish and graceful. Good luck!

• Wear a statement piece that is sure to draw attention, like a contemporary multi-circle diamond pendant, or 100 inches of freshwater pearls wrapped around thrice.
• Add a burst of color to your look by letting a vivid gemstone take center stage, like a stunning green amethyst pendant.
• When it comes to halter, sweetheart and V-necklines, your jewelry of choice should accentuate your plunging décolletage.
• In the case of a halter, try a cascade of diamonds or pearls strung from a single strand – this Y-drop design will emphasize the vertical shape of your neckline.
• For sweethearts and V-necks, choose a unique pendant that hangs from a thin chain long enough to dip in the center, therefore creating the same motif as your neckline. Off-the-shoulder necklines require fine jewelry that brings focus to your collarbone.
• When going strapless, you can allow yourself to be bold with your ornaments, because your exposed neckline and shoulders serve as an exquisite blank canvas.
• Choose something light and refined that sparkles, but isn’t overwhelming is size.
• For an allure of subtle sophistication, allow a pearl and diamond pendant to hang delicately on your neckline.
• Spaghetti straps give the impression of a graceful weightlessness, so your necklace should reflect exactly that.
• Go for a look that is simple yet dazzling by letting a diamond pendant sparkle against your neckline.
• If you are feeling a little more daring, turn that single stone into a vibrant gem and add a colorful flavor to your wedding attire.

Remember that while a sparkling triple-tier necklace might look dazzling on its own, it might totally clash with your overall look. So whether you choose to drape yourself in diamonds or wrap your neckline in pearls, take the time to consider the design of your dress and your hairstyle before making any decisions.

Amazing Diamond Facts

If you had one thousand piles of diamonds and one thousand diamonds in each pile, only one of those diamonds would be a 1-carat diamond. It would take 5 times that quantity to find a 2 carat stone. DeBeers, the world’s diamond supplier, has no answer to the question how many stones have to be mined to get a 3 carat stone. 80% of all diamonds mined are industrial quality; only 20% are gem-quality. Gem quality diamonds are found in only four places world-wide: Africa, Russia, Australia and Canada

Mining Cost: 250 tons of earth must be removed to find one 1-carat stone. (a one carat diamond is the size of a pea and weighs only one-fifth of a gram). Diamonds are the most sought after substance on earth. Diamond miners have invested into state-of-the-art technology to search for diamonds where only explorers have gone before. They have developed equipment to dive to the darkest depths of the ocean and sweep the ocean floor.

1. Cut: It takes ten years training and cutting thousands of smaller diamonds before a diamond cutter is allowed to even touch a one carat stone. Cutters start on 3 and 4 pointers, then they move up to 10 and 12 pointers. They must master the smaller sizes before they can move up to ¼ carats, then years to up 1/3 carats, ½ carats and then ¾ carats.
2. Endurance: A diamond is approximately 140% harder than the next hardest substance known to man. It is the only substance whose beauty is unaffected by age. A diamond can be worn 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for decades upon decades before passing it down in the very same condition as the day it was purchased.
3. Antiquity Value: Diamonds are scientifically dated at 3.4 billion years old. They are so old, scientists are now using them to tell us how and when the oldest parts of our planet were formed. There is nothing for sale that is older.
4. Investment Value: A diamond is an investment in love, not in dollars. Since 1940 diamonds have doubled in value every 10 years. However, their greatest value lies not in their monetary worth, but in the emotions invested within them. Most women would never sell their grandmother’s diamond ring. A diamond is an investment in life, in someone you love.