Things to keep in mind while buying pearls

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Looking beautiful and gorgeous is the wish of every girl and woman. They wear beautiful outfits to make their looks attractive; they follow fashion in trend. If we talk about female fashion, various accessories are trending nowadays as a part of fashion. Those accessories may include a purse, handbag, belt, jewellery, hair accessories like pins, etc. Almost all girls are ladies who love to wear pieces of jewellery; there are various types of jewellery such as hand jewellery like rings, bracelets, neck jewellery like necklaces, ear jewellery like ear-rings, etc. Such pieces of jewellery can be made up of gold, silver, platinum, diamond, pearls, etc. Pearl jewellery is in trend nowadays. Pearls are simple and sober, but its simplicity and soberness add charm to our looks. The outfits of ladies seem incomplete without the combination of matching pieces of jewellery. Simple and sober looking pieces of jewellery are more liked by ladies than other over shining jewellery. As pearls are natural, they are hardly perfect in shape, if you ever find a pearl perfect in shape; perfectly smooth, then that can be fake. Real pearls are rarely perfect; pearls usually have minor defects in shape. Pearl jewellery likeĀ pearl bracelets, pearl necklace, pearl bangles, look very beautiful. While buying pearl jewellery, there are a few things that you should keep in your mind.

Following are the things that you should keep in mind while buying pearl jewellery:

  • There are two types of pearls mainly, first is formed with freshwaters like lake water or rivers, and the second is formed with saltwater like the seawater. Freshwater pearls take a shorter period to form and are affordable. In comparison, the seawater pearls are expensive and take a longer time to form. If you want to spend less money then you can buy freshwater pearls.
  • You should consider the lustre, the symmetry of the pearl, and the surface quality of the pearl. Lustre means how light reflects off the pearl surface; the sharper the lustre means more the value of the pearl. Pearl, with a smooth and clean surface, is more valuable than other unclean and hard pearls. Perfect round shaped pearls are the rarest; the perfect the shape means more the value of the pearl.
  • As already mentioned above, pearls are natural; they are hardly perfect in shape; if you ever find a pearl perfect in shape, perfectly smooth, then that can be fake. Real pearls are rarely perfect; they usually have minor defects in shape.
  • Another thing that you should keep in mind is that you should buy pearls only from a known dealer of the pearls. There is much fraud present in the market selling artificial pearls at the price of original pearls. Therefore, buying them from the known dealer is the safest.

All the points mentioned above show the precautions that one should be aware of while buying pearls. There are many beautiful and colourful pearls available in the jewellery market like white pearls, light pink pearls, dark pearls, silver pearls, golden pearls, etc. You can also buy them online by searching the pearl dealers on the web.