Safe & Reliable: How To shop At Online Jewelry Stores

Online Jewelry stores are the latest of the “retail dominoes” to fall, and a god-send for the time-and cash strapped modern citizen. There’s no need to hassle with the driver, the parking or the snooty jewelry store salesman anymore, when you can now check out your favorite gemstone or diamond right there at a click of the mouse.  Of course, if you are a harassed fiancé with absolutely no clue of how to buy a diamond or even what the real McCoy looks like, you need a lot of education. But for the rest of us, who want to benefit from the vast price differences between brick-and-mortar stores and e-commerce shopping, these are only a few tips.

First off, browse and browse like there’s no tomorrow (there is, but it’s hard to believe). Most online jewelry stores offer discounts and giveaways, all year round, so the more you browse, the better the deals you’ll dig up. The choices are unlimited, so if you’re really unsure, walk into a brick-and-mortar near your area and look around. If a style or design attracts you make a note of it, i.e., the cut, stone setting etc., and look for something similar online. You may not get the exact same thing but it will be close.

Diamond RIngsNext up, how genuine is the piece of jewelry you want to buy? There are several institutes and organizations that value your diamonds and gemstones. Nowadays, most online jewelry stores whether they’re the big conglomerates or the mom-and-pop variety offer certificates along with genuine gemstones.  The most well-known are the GIA (Gemological Institute Of America), AGS (The American Gem Society), EGL (EGL (European Gemological Laboratory) International), IGI (International Gemological Institute), etc. Thelist goes on but the ones named in this article are popular in the United States.

Most online jewelry stores include a diamond certification with the product. You can view the certificate online and also except to get one when you buy the diamond. You can also get an independent appraisal from a (GG) graduate gemologist. This will give you the monetary value of the gemstone. If you’re looking at buying a diamond ring or a necklace as an heirloom or keepsake to pass onto your children and grandchildren, then ensure the diamond has substantial monetary value. A certification tells you the genuineness of the gemstone, usually a diamond. An appraisal gives you an idea of the monetary value of the gemstone at that time. In general, a gemstone’s value doesn’t dip drastically, so they’re a safe bet to invest in.

And lastly, do you want a large gemstone that’s not very expensive, which means the gem’s not so valuable after all. Or would you rather have a smaller but better quality gemstone? Remember an online jewelry store isn’t very different to a brick-and-mortar one. They’re looking at their profits as well as the word-of-mouth advertisement a happy customer is likely to generate. So do look around for customer reviews about online jewelry stores, and you’ll get a good idea of which ones to choose.

What’s Special about Birthdays?

Everyone has birthdays. What’s so special about the day your mom gave birth to you? After all she did all the hard work and the rest of the family did all the worrying. Why is all the attention of the anniversary of the day you were born focused only on you? To put it simply, every year you celebrate the anniversary of your birth or your ‘Birthday’ is a milestone. A marker to let the world know you’re alive for one more year and your parents want to share the sheer joy of having you in their lives. Birthdays are anticipated for the gifts it brings and the great fun to be had by the Birthday Baby as well as her friends and family.

As you grow, it’s not only a special day filled with cake, chocolates and new clothes, but the gateway to a new year filled with opportunities. Birthdays are a unique celebration as they are meant only for an individual but everyone known to the Birthday Baby wants to be in on the celebration. Giving gifts is one way of assuring the person celebrating her birthday that she is loved and cherished. Most times, giving gifts is fraught with danger, as the person giving the gift is unsure about how well a gift is received.

The best gift to give, especially to a woman, is jewellery. Except rings, for which you need to know the ring size, you can give any type of jewellery and it will be received with great delight. Even men love getting gifts like sterling silver bracelets, rings and watches set with cubic zircons. For very close friends, Orderyourchoice.com in India has a trendy range of anklets designs to make even the most conservative girls squeal in delight.

The range of jewellery gifts for men to are growing on virtual shelves. The Anvita range of sterling silver rings for men features rings with chain -link ring shanks that are very comfortable to wear even at the office. The Diagonal Stripe Silver Band is a great example of a men’s ring that can be worn with formal and casual clothes- especially suitable for Dads and Uncles who may be shy about wearing prominent jewellery.

Husbands wonder every year what to gift their wives. Many of them end up giving practical things that aren’t romantic at all. Romance means Jewellery and it’s not all that expensive to gift sterling silver jewellery studded with cubic zircons or imported Austrian crystal jewellery. The most shimmering and sentimental gifts include the latest mangalsutra designs that a wife would love to flaunt when her husband takes her out to dinner. 

THE LONG & SHORT NECKLACES

Necklaces are the first jewellery that is gifted to Indian children. Chains are gifted to newborn children by their doting grandparents & relatives. This custom continues for boy children while girls start receiving earrings after their ears are pierced. Necklace lengths range from close to the neck or ‘choker’ style to ‘lariat’ length chains that reach to the waist. Indian brides usually wear several lengths of necklaces during their weddings to show that their parents have showered them with enough.

What are the different lengths of chains that can be worn as daily style? It’s very helpful to know the lengths of necklaces, while wearing different neckline styles with them. A stylist may advise you to wear a choker necklace with a turtleneck blouse or a lariat length necklace with a halter necked blouse. It helps to know what fashion models & designers are referring to, when you shop your ensembles.

Choker Necklaces

Worn close to the neck or around the neck, these necklaces are usually 14 inches in length. Collar length necklaces are even shorter at 12”- 13”. These are great for wearing with boat necklines or off- the- shoulder & strapless outfits.

Princess Necklaces

The most common type of necklaces – they come as sets when you buy earrings online. They’re commonly 17”- 19” in length & feature delicate pendants. The necklace length rests on the collar bone & is visible through formals shirt collars & outfits. Women prefer them as they’re less ostentatious & can be worn with decent 1cm or 2cm pendants.

Matinee Necklaces

These necklace chains are 20” – 24” in length & lie just below the collar- bone, depending upon a woman’s neck size, they could even reach up to slightly above the bust. Very young girls wear matinee length chains as statement necklaces with huge pendants. Some like the White Zircon Studded Necklace look like diamonds on white are perfect accessories & don’t need earrings to complement them.

Opera Necklaces

At 28”- 34” long, they’re dramatic & can be worn as a single strand or looped twice around the neck, forming a 2- row necklace for dramatic effect. Long Italian Necklace with Mermaid Purple Pendants the perfect example of opera necklaces that look great when worn with chic eveningwear.

Rope & Lariat Necklaces

Mostly seen in natural pearl ropes, these can be looped to form 3 or 4 rows necklace chains, giving the illusion stacked necklaces. A Tri Color Necklace can also give the illusion of 3 to 4 rows of chains & is great when you want to give the impression of wearing several chains but don’t have varying lengths.

A Long Italian Necklace with Mermaid White Pendant is a great accent for embroidered salwar suits & dressy knee- length outfits. Choose your necklaces according to the occasion. The general rule of thumb is that longer & heavier necklaces are worn for festive & party occasions. More practical necklace length like the princess is every day wear.

Here’s How to Take Out Knots from A Silver Chain

We all love chains- who doesn’t? The simplest accessory that’s so mutable with a simple change of pendants. The best way of storing plain chains is to hang each chain on separate hooks or store in separate pouches. It’s when we forget & dump them in a heap at the bottom of our jewellery boxes that the chains get tangled up. Anyone who’s tried to separate a ball of chains knows how difficult it is.

In this blog, we’ll be showing you the easiest way of untangling silver chains. It’s still hard work, but this technique is guaranteed to cut the detangling time in half.

Undo the Clasp or Fastening

Long lengths of chains tend to get much more tangled & are less easy to untangle. If your sterling silver chain happens to have a hook or clasp of some kind, undo it. If you have several chains tangled together- patiently untangle each one.

Undoing the clasp separates the chains enabling the two ends to slide through the knot.

Lay out your necklace(s) on a flat and hard surface. Separate as much of the necklace(s) as possible on the flat surface.

Place Chains on Flat Surface

The knot of chains is more visible when you place them on a flat surface & prevents confusion about which end belongs to which chain.

Prevent further tangles while working through the knotted chains when you place the necklaces on a flat surface.

Apply Oil

This one’s easy- apply oil onto the knot & gently massage the oil into the knot. The oil will slip into all the cracks & corners of the knot, making it easier for the chain to slip out from the knot.

Baby oil is light & doesn’t cling unlike coconut or mustard oil. If you want to wear the chain immediately after untangling use baby oil- it wipes off easily.

Use Needles to Untangle

Knitting needles or sewing pins to get the tangles out are less painful instead of your nails or fingers.

Using only 1 pin, slip in the pointy end into the knot, working it back & forth, loosening the knot enough to slip the ends through.

TWO pins are even better than one!

Stick both needles through the middle of the knotted chain. Pull the needles away from each other again & again until the knot comes loose. Once the knot has worked loose, you can use your finger to separate the knots.

Using only 1 pin, slip in the pointy end into the knot, working it back & forth, loosening the knot enough to slip the ends through.

TWO pins are even better than one!

Stick both needles through the middle of the knotted chain. Pull the needles away from each other again & again until the knot comes loose. Once the knot has worked loose, you can use your finger to separate the knots.

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Jewelry for Four Body Types

What’s the perfect body type? The hourglass figure obviously! All of us aren't lucky to be blessed with perfect figures. Some of us are round or apple – shaped, some are pear or triangle –shaped, i.e., larger hips & smaller chest, some women strongly remind us of inverted triangles- wider chests with narrow hips. While most fashion magazines tell us to dress according to our body types, few tell us to select jewelry to match body types.

Buxom or round is the pre- dominant body type in India & perfect for rocking saris in. Dramatic style is the only way to go for buxom women, accessories you in heavy jewelry such as the Moksha Baroque Silver Pendant & Earrings, the Rococo Drop Silver Pendant & Silver Earrings and other such dramatic designs. Draw attention away from your waist to your face. Slim chains with dramatic pendants do not draw attention to a heavy neck.

Women with triangle or pear shaped bodies usually feel self-conscious about their hips or behinds. Another way of drawing attention away from your lower torso to your bust is to wear princess length chains with elaborate pendants. Choker or matinee length necklaces too are a good way of drawing the eye up to your best features. The Maya Floral Silver Pendant & Earrings are huge, yet delicately crafted jewelry pieces that can be worn with either ethnic or western wear.

Women with inverted triangle shaped bodies- Are you well -endowed & embarrassed? Never fear! Wear a collared shirt & a chic scarf to achieve feminine & delicate style. Balance out your body by wearing linear Multicolor Crystal Filigree Pendant & Earrings jewelry set. If your fingers are slender & shapely, sterling silver rings like the Illusion White Zircon Statement Silver Ring or a Rosy Butterfly Crystal Ring is sure to draw attention to your best features.

Women with hour- glass figures can wear almost anything! They’re the luckiest, though they need to be careful about wearing large dramatic jewelry as these may overwhelm their delicate or slight frames.

Orderyourchoice.com has a range of jewelry that charm women of all ages. We carry contemporary & semi- formal crystal, zircon, bedded, terracotta & jewelry designs that appeal to women throughout India.

How You Can Find Your Ring Size in Four Easy Steps

Buying Silver jewelleryonline is even cheaper than buying it from a local silver jewellery shop or your family jeweller. In fact, the designs are exquisitely dainty and unusual unlike the chunky designs found in offline silver jewellery stores. But many of us find that buying silver rings for women, men and kids a big hassle online. We don’t have opportunity to fit the rings on our fingers like we do in offline shops and get irritated when the customer support personnel can’t get our ring size over phone.

Well, there’s a real easy way of measuring your ring size accurately. All you need are:

A short thin strip of paper about 6 inches long (a string will do if you can’t find paper)

A marker or pencil to mark the paper and

A ruler with both inches and millimetre markings.

First, wrap the piece of paper around the base of the finger that you want to measure.

Next, take the pen and mark the paper where it overlaps on your finger to form a complete circle.

Then, keep the paper along your ruler to measure it’s length in mm.

Finally, compare this measurement with this chart to find the nearest measurement to yours. This is the size that will fit you.

If your ring size falls between 2 rings size shown in the chart opt for the bigger size.

A few tips for more accurate measurements:

Some men and women have large finger joints, in such cases it’s better to measure just under the largest joint of the finger you want to wear the ring on.

Like your feet, your fingers too swell over the course of the day; try to measure the finger you want to wear the silver rings on near the end of the day or in the afternoon, when they’ll be a little swollen.

Now go back to the ring you fell in love with and start a wonderful journey of buying online jewellery without any hassle and lots convenience.

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Wear Your Zodiac: Taurus Loves Earthy Green

Taurus is the second astrological sign in the Solar zodiac. According to greek mythology, the bull symbolizes Taurus. The symbol is based on the Cretan Bull, the white bull that fathered the Minotaur and was killed by Theseus. The Bull represents a strong-willed character with great perseverance and determination. Known as the Builder, Taurus is an Earth sign. Green and Blue green are the most compatible colours for the Bull.

Taurus are known for their hard-working, resourceful and reliable characteristics. While each womanand girl has individualistic style. All Taureans prefer high quality in all their clothes and accessories. Taurus loves classic, well-made clothing with unique detailing. They are famous for their love of expensive clothes, but demonstrate their practicality by waiting for a great sale before buying anything.

The sign of the Bull presides over the throat and neck, so Taurean girls and women should highlight this area with necklaces. Girls under this sign prefer classy and traditional silhouettes in subtle earthy and pastel hues calms even most headstrong Taurean.

A Cushion cut Emerald Crystal Pendant & Stud Earrings jewellery set in sterling silver is a classic design that complements both saris as well as western wear. Married Taurus women escape the stress of household duties when they wear a Maharani Lucite Green Silver Mangalsutra and earrings set. Taurus is a steady and sensible sign that prefers actions to empty words. Gift a Taurus woman a pair of silver earrings for women or a Taurus man an earthy Bemisaal men’s ring- they’ll treasure your small tokens of affections even after many years.

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