Love with Crystal VI --- Tips about Shopping for Crystal Jewelry

(A) Material: No gas or liquid inclusions shaped in star points, clouds and wadding in a piece of crystal jewelry made of find and quality crystal could be found, and to select those jewelries made of crystals with pure, smooth and limpid characters, if you find touches of irregular rupture stripes, points in the crystal, which can be decided to an inferior.


(B) Workmanship: There are two types of crystal products processing techniques: grinding and carving, for example, crystal necklaces, bracelets and crystal earrings are belong to grinding pieces, and crystal statues of Kwan-yin, inner-carved snuff bottle belong to carving pieces.

A fine made crystal jewelry with exquisite and elaborate craftwork will not only display the exterior beauty of crystal jewelry such as the designs, styles and symmetrical features, but also could dig out its inner beauty such as its limpid and brilliant quality, artful colors extremely.

(C) Polishing: The quality of polishing will have a direct impact on the value of the crystal jewelry. In the process of the machining the crystal must go through a procedure of silicon carbide polishing, and a careless and coarse workmanship will leave traces of friction on the crystal surfaces. Fine crystal jewelry are all with good natural transparency and shiny luster, as a local saying as ”made by hot enough fires”.


(D) Eyelet: As to those bunched string pieces of crystal jewelries such as necklaces, bracelets and Rosaries, it’s necessary to view whether the eyelets of crystal beads are flat and straight or not, the sizes of eyelets are fine shapely or not, and in which there are no small cracks too. At the same time the walls of eyelets should be clear, clean and transparent, and have no "white marks”.

(E) Color: Even within the same type of crystal jewelry, there are a variety of textures and colors in the different parts. The crystal jewelry in a particular plain color should made of crystals with same colors, while the crystal jewelry of crystals with different colors, it’s required to have a texture and tone that is attractive and elegant.


(F) Appropriacy: When you are shopping for a piece of crystal jewelry, you should to wear it for a try, and to see whether the size, elasticity and length of the jewelry are all suit for you. For an enchased jewelry, it’s necessary to make sure that the crystal jewelry is strong, standard and shapely. In addition, another thing should take for consideration is the design, style and color of the jewelry is fitted with your fit, your skin color, your face and your clothing.

Love with Crystal V – How to Identify True and False Crystal?

(1) Through Eyes:

In the forming process of natural crystal, they often have been impacted by the environment and contained a few impurities, in which when viewing in the sun we can see a touch of small and symmetrical across strips and catkin shape materials, while false crystal jewelry are generally smelted by defective quartz and glass residues, and produced through a polishing and colored up process, so in which there are no symmetrical across strips and either catkin shape materials.

(2) Licking with Tongue:

Even if in the hot dog days of summer, licking the face of natural crystal with your tongues, you can feel the cold and cool feelings, while there no such feelings about false crystals.


(3) Method of illumination:

View natural crystals erected in the sun, you can see their beautiful sheens and luster regardless of which point of view, while false crystals are incapable of.


(4) Hardness:

The hardness of natural crystal is excellent, there will no marks left on if you use a gravel scratched on it gently, if streaks were left on, it must be a fake.


(5) Checking with a Polarizer:

Showing value variations when rotated by 360-degree under a polarizer are natural crystals, while showing no changes are false pieces.


(6) Two-Color Checking:

Natural amethyst has two colors, while false amethysts have no.


(7) Checking with a Magnifying Glass:

Checking the crystal with a 10-times magnifying glass, in which if bubbles could be found, it can be judged basically as a false one.


(8) Checking with Hairs:

Putting the crystal jewelry on a hair, in which if a double shadow of the hair could be seen through your naked eyes, the crystal can be judged as a true one for natural crystal embodies with the character of birefringence namely double refraction.


(9) Detecting by a Thermal Conductivity Analyzer:

When checking the natural crystal with a thermal conductivity analyzer regulated to its green 4, the instrument’s indicative frame will rise to the yellow 2, while using it to detect false ones there won't show any rising. When the detecting area of the checked natural crystal added, the analyzer's indicative degree will rise to yellow 1.

Love with Crystal III --- Find Your Perfect-Match in the Assortment of Crystal Jewelry

* Imitated Antique Crystal Jewelry in Rich Luxurious Style

Suitable Occasion: Dress-up Banquets

Suited Fit: Suitable to wear with a single-colored dress of smooth and glinting fabric. The design of crystal jewelry will make you brilliant and outstanding much in a black cloud of black dresses. The crystal necklace worn on your neck made of square and round crystal beads, and these large and small crystal beads embedded in an antique silver metal base, is so elegant and classic just like a crystal chandelier in an ancient palace.

Tips:

1. For its characters that grand too much, this type of crystal jewelry is only suitable for wearing on large-scale banquets, and to which the suited apparel also calls for an evening dress with excellent quality and simple style.

2. The piece of crystal jewelry could be color clasped in a small area with the evening dress.

3. As Chinese women are generally smaller and more slender in the body, so if you choose to wear a piece of gorgeous jewelry of crystal in a variety of colors, it’s best to focus only one point on the body, for example, between the earring and necklace, select only one. If you choose a finger ring or a bracelet, you’d better to remember that the color of which should be same with the crystal you wearing over the shoulder.

* Crystal Jewelry in Elegant Style


Suitable Occasion: Dinner or Meetings with Colleagues

Suited Fit: Wear this piece of crystal jewelry with your coat in the color of light beige. For gentle ladies, banquets are too grand to them, they does not enjoy for those resplendent crystal chandeliers, and will feel uncomfortable in the spouts on the party, while to have a dinner with her colleagues, which is more freely and casual, is a chance cherished to relax themselves. So in this year you should choose a piece of crystal jewelry instead of a traditional pearl necklace to fit your clothing that simple and light-colored.

Tips:

1. As casual and comfort cardigans and high-collar sweaters are most familiar in this season’s gatherings between you and your colleagues and friends, so it’s most general to choose a piece of crystal necklace or a pair of crystal earrings to match your clothing.

2. As to the design of cartoon style, a piece of crystal jewelry with a more feminine design is more suited for you. Since as a finest lady you are bound to show your ladylike manners and elegance, so it’s an inadvisable choice for a piece of lovely style jewelry, and it’s far better to choose a flower pattern jewelry which looked more feminine.

3.Not to choose a piece of jewelry that is designed too exaggerated. After all, colleagues are not your close lady friends, in front of who you should keep your ladylike manners as a real lady, so it’s best to choose jewelries that more moderate, while an over-exaggerated jewelry will do nothing but to break your integral beauty.

4. Being away from those jewelries with garish colors.

As a lady you need elegant and gentle temperaments, whether to choose your clothing or the jewelries fitted with, it’s best to choose a single-colored or light-colored clothing, which could bring tranquil feelings to peoples around you, so, when to choose a piece of crystal jewelry that matched with your lady manners, you should avoid choosing jewelry with strong contrasted colors .

* Crystal Jewelry in Exaggerate Style


Suitable Occasion: Crazy Parties

Suited Fit: Wear with colorful and gorgeous clothing. Such as a tight T-shirt in bright red, or a piece of half-shoulder bared design clothing, are both right choices.

Tips:

1. In recent years, many jewelry brands all went to great length to promote their golden or dark line crystal jewelries, you may take upon yourself to try these jewelries with deeper colors, even to match with clothing in black and white, it could display the unruly but moderate characters you own fully, it is the main color that just represents "Man Show".

2. The field of crystal fashion accessories has been focused on all along in recent years, it is valuable and a good chance for you to use these sparkling crystal ornaments to display yourself properly. The only thing you should remember is to choose relaxed and leisure style clothing to fit with the crystal jewelry in such a style, only in this way you could perform your alternative features fully and perfectly.

* Crystal Jewelry in Delicate and Lovely Style


Suitable Occasion: Sweet Dates

Suited Fit: Wear with clothing with high chest lines and puff sleeves, especially those skirts set with laces or bows, all these adornments are featured elements that go well with girls who are gentle and cute.

Tips:

1. Crystal jewelries with fresh and clean colors such as sky blue, fruit green or light pink, which are very sweet and beautiful, are right choices when you are going to date with your lover.

2. Designs of cartoon style, heart-shaped pendants or earrings in small flower patterns are right choices that worth for consideration, to choose a brooch in flower shape to break through traditions occasionally is also a smart decision.

3. When the necklaces, earrings we worn become humdrum someway, we may turn to consider crystal ornaments, clever and cute as you, it’s to smart to place some crystal hairpins or hair ornaments in your hair (whether straight or curly), which could bring you more charms.

4. As the fresh and pink makeup styles are so popular in this winter, combined with pink crystal ornaments, a cute lady’s loveliness and purity thus to be displayed fully and extremely, so you has become so attractive that it’s difficult to escape the sights focusing of peoples around you.

Love with Crystal II – Give a Glance at the Mysterious World of Crystal (down part)

5) Pink Crystal (Rose Crystal)

Pink crystal is in the first rank in the assortment of love stones, the luster diffused by pink crystal is moderate and attractive light pink lights, which could make you be loved by peoples around, so it has a particular important influence on the office harmony relations and personal connections there of you. Whether with your customers, boss, colleagues or subordinates, pink crystal could bring you a great aid to improve your human relations, also to increase your popularity.


Tips:

1. Wearing pink crystal jewelry on the left hand could soften your temperament, while wearing on the right hand could enhance your attractiveness to the outside world.

2. Pink crystal is easily fade into white when it be putted in a high-temperature, so it best to avoid cleaning it in the the sun.


* pink crystal earrings, lovely and pure

Pink crystal is the most cute ornament in this season, the pieces of exquisitely beautiful pink crystal jewelries, distribute its unique charms and bring endless hopes and opportunities to every girls who are pursuing for styles of elegance and pretty, and perform the lovely pure characters of household girls fully, thus they have become so attractive that it difficult to escape sight attentions of peoples around.


6) Milky Crystal



Milky crystal has a moderate white color as mild water, which emits soft and indifferent lights, could arouse the crystal holder filled with emotions, and it be known as the best stone with the ability of emotion evocation.

Milky crystal could make the holder himself full with loves and mercies, also poured selfless and egoless love into all living creatures that are survived in the times, it endowed with powers of making people become emotional. It could make you no longer considered that the others are meticulous, and no longer kept feelings of inferiority and self-pity for considering that yourself are inferior to others, and could see the characteristics and differences of everyone, while give more confidence on the abilities you own and exert your advantages more freely.

If you always can not open your hearts and minds that other peoples all could not able to understand you, please wearing a piece of white crystal.

The features and energy of milky crystal could give you assistance to break the barriers and restrictions build yourself in your heart, thus to communicate with other peoples with a simple and natural mood.

* milky crystal ring, pure and fresh

7) Rutilated Crystal (Hair Crystal)






Hair crystal is actually a type of natural crystal that contains a variety of inside needle shape minerals, these hair needle minerals with different combinations are distributed inside hair crystals, which are looked as if hairs have been embraced in the crystal, so named as "hair crystal".


Inside hair crystal there are minerals of titanium dioxide, rutile, black tourmaline or actinolite. Hair crystals contained a variety of minerals will be formed hair crystals in different colors, such as: hair crystal contains rutiles will formed into titanium (blond) crystal, red hair crystal, silver (white) hair crystal, yellow hair crystal; black hair crystals contained black tourmalines, while crystals contains actinolites will formed into green hair crystal. In the forming process of hair crystal, for different arrangement and the formation ways there maybe produced fine (very thin) hair crystal as known as "rabbit hair crystal".


* Tiatanium Crystal






* Red Hair Crystal



* Gold Hair Crystal





* Green Hair Crystal

A variety of hair crystals in different colors are all greatly helpful for the heart of us, especially in the function of calming spirits, wearing a piece of hair crystal jewelry could get rid of the nervous moods and calm down soon, and further to consider the next the next step, then to enhance the magnetic field and beliefs owned and find the way to the success finally.



8) Red Crystal

Red crystal, known as rabbit hair crystal, also has a alias of "Venus Crystal", is a type of rutile shaped as a network, there are dense hairs as if a pretty girls hairs twisted softly inside the crystal. It is an expensive crystal in crystal products, whose production is extremely small, so there are few people knew it.

Natural red crystal could inspire spirit, bring you a peaceful soul and tranquil moods, it could used as an amulet to keep from turbid gas and dirty things. At the same time, as endowed with specific energies and vibration power, red crystal could not only has functions of health care, but also helpful for diseases treatment and avoid bad fortunes, so it suitable to be kept as a treasure.

As in charged with ‘fire’ in the five-elements, master the seabed annulus in the sever turns of body and control endocrine system, so could help the crystal wearer to improve the conditions of inside circulation, and has good effects on the treatment of gynecological diseases. If women worn a piece of crystal long time whose skin could become more white and become more beautiful, so the red crystals have functions of beauty.

Red crystal could also inspire people’s morale and enhance its self-confidence.
* Warm red crystal earring, bring you a warm and cozy winter.

9) Quartz Cat's Eye

Quartz cat's eye is one kind of cat’s eye stones, which is always be referred to by mineralogists in China and abroad when they are talking about crystals.

The high grade "green fantom" bracelet set with cat's eyes in the above picture is just belongs to quartz cat's eye.

There are many aliases of quartz cat's eye, for example, cat's eyes, cat's eyeballs, Le-stone (called in jewelry line of our country), it also known as "the East Cat's Eye" or "Sri Lanka cat's eye". In the East, opals as quartz cat's eyes had been regarded as a symbol of good luck, people believes that it could safeguard the owner’s health and be free of dangers and troubles, as long as you posses a piece of quart cat’s eye, you could posses a better future.

Matched with gold, platinum and so on, quartz cat's eye could be made of jewelries, which are not only noble and elegant, but also with special favors. It's could be made into a variety of earrings and suitable for wearing in nights.

Dazzling luster revealed in its limpid and brilliant qualities, sometimes it looked veiled, and sometimes it looked outstanding, against with the lights, it would bring you more charms.

Necklaces made of quartz cat's eyes, coordinated with a variety of dresses in matched colors, are unique and generous, the color of which is not monotonous and is gracious too.
When to appreciate finger rings made of quartz cat's eyes, you may get the ring in the hands and turned it around in the sun to observe the light changes of the cat’s eyes. The cat's eye with straight, bright eye lines and vivid colors, and the spaces on which around the "cat's eye" could reflected several beams of light, is the best one.

Love with Crystal II --- Give a Glance at the Mysterious World of Crystal (Up part)

Crystal is one kind of intelligential minerals, it could bring us good luck while eliminate bad luck, and it has been described as a fairy treasure of natural stones.

The special molecular structure of crystal is a fruit of absorbing the elites of the sun, moon and the earth endlessly, thus endowed with super powerful nimbus and magnetic energy, and with an incredible force for Aura. Keeping a crystal with as to carry a body guardian of King Kong, it has functions of self-cultivation, health care, training of qi, house guarding, gathering wealth, praying, recruiting wealth, worshiping Buddha, removing blocks, prapatti, adding wisdom, help edge, and keeping away from villains and so on.


In the study of Feng Shui, crystal was also called "Feng Shui Stone", because the natural crystal has agglomerated nimbus in universe of thousands eternities, deposited in the crust from a variety of natural elements (minerals) and refined through innumerable years, thus formed in a variety of crystals, each kind of crystal represents a different frequency of energy, and produce different magnetic fields and functions, so in Feng Shui theory, according to the truth of five elements generated and restricted mutually, crystal has evolved into the most important study of five elements as metal, wood , water, fire and earth.

For years crystal experts have constantly studied over and provided a large amount of literatures and examples of crystal lovers and have proved that crystal contains enormous amounts of energy and mysterious magic power, reply on which could not only reversed back lucks into good desires, but also is an ancient culture that worthy to promote all through millions of years.


Crystal Assorment

There are mainly 9 species in the crystal family catefory as following:

　　White Crystal
　　Amethyst
　　Citrine
　　Smoky Quartz
　　Rose Quartz
　　Milky Quartz
　　Rutilated Quartz
　　Cats Eyes
　　Red Quartz　


1) White Crystal
White crystal is a sort of transparent and colorless or white color crystal, natural crystalline is shaped in a hexagonal column. It is the most representative gem endowed with most functions, applications and most helpful in the crystal family, and be called ”The King of Crystal”.

White crystal has the abilities of bringing people a calm mind, a pure and harmonious spirit, and demolishing negative energies around and on people ‘s body, it can amends magnetic fields around and that of people’s bodies, thus to make sick peoples to regain a strong and healthy body, and brings good lucks too; There’s a legend said magically that crystal could not close to witches and wizard for it’s feminine vigor, so white crystal endowed with powers of guarding house, guarding shop and breaking bad fortunes.

* white crystal necklace, elegant and romatic


2) Amethyst Crystal

Amethyst crystal is the most noble and beautiful member in the crystal family, it also known as "Feng Shui Stone”, Japanese called amethyst as energy stone. As appeared in purple color for there’s a trace of Fe (iron) infiltrated in, as ferric oxide is the main cause of the color of bright purple, while light-colored amethysts are mostly be heated and transformed into yellow crystals (artificial heating is commonly while natural yellow crystal engendered by natural heating that through thousands of million years are very rare).

Amethyst crystal also has other forms, most of amethyst crystals are grown in the introversive mode, which called as amethyst crystal holes, and amethyst crystal clusters grown in extroversive mode are extremely rare (the most available crystal clusters in the market are white crystal clusters).

Amethyst crystal is on behalf of the spirituality, mentality, top-tier love, which could be presented as an engaging gift or a keepsake to admirers. As one kind of traditional amulet amethyst crystals are generally able to drive bad fortunes and bring good lucks, also to improve one’s wisdom, adjusting mood, promoting intuition, help to focus attention, enhancing memory and give people courage and strength.

The color of purple is the dominant key to right-brain world, which control one’s intuition and subconscious minds, it is particularly suitable for Aries persons to keeping amethyst, thus help to collect vigor, improving the vitality of thinking, and help people in trouble to think calmly and to face challenges offered with reality.

Amethyst crystal also is the guarding stone and birthstone of Aquarius persons.

* amethyst pendant, mysterious and noble

3) Citrine Crystal (Yellow Crystal)

Citrine crystal is known as "crystal yellow gem" in the gem community, whose colors are different from light yellow, yellow, orange yellow to gold yellow. Due to its superior brightness and color it could be measured as a top grade citrine as long as endowed with transparent, bright and clean characters, also with a fine visibility quality that superior much to that of topaz, so citrine crystal are favored by consumers much, they often be incised into pendants or rings. Furthermore, as natural citrine crystals are extremely rare in the nature, so its prices are more expensive.

Citrine crystal is a symbol of wisdom and joy, it could bring us full confidence, and reduce fears and guilt senses too, so it has a good ability of calming and adjusting moods for persons who are prissy or nervous more. At the same time, citrine crystal is also the guardian stone for Gemini persons!

Citrine crystal also is helpful for persons who are weak in pancreas and endocrine nervous system, it’s also essential for diabetics, also is helpful for the treatment of stomach cramps and swelling.

As citrine crystal is mainly preferred for money recruiting, so it is an indispensable aid for stock holders, a citrine crystal ball is particularly has a more strong cohesion and is more prominent with this function, So, aside from placing a wealth guardian in home, it’s best to wear a citrine crystal bracelet for a stock enthusiast .


* citrine crystal finger ring, vivacious and gracious

4) Smoky Quartz (or Brown Quartz)

Smoky Quartz or Brown Quartz also known as smoky crystal and black crystal, it is radioactive and contained strong energy implicitly. Most of smoky crystals are formed in hexagonal prism shapes, and sometimes contained ice-break and clouds materials inside same as other transparent crystals. The color shades of smoky crystal are various, different from light brown or dark brown, but sometimes formed into the color of black brown that completely dark. The variety of smoky crystal’s color shade is caused by the influences of natural radiation during the crystal’s forming course.

Smoky crystal is a representative crystal for stability, wearing a smoky quartz bracelet (remember to wear on the left hand) could help you to be more steadily, solid and practical, also it could help you to control your flighty and nervous characters, making your mood field in dispassion thus to calm down your thoughts, so you can look through the complex conditions clearly and make the most efficient direct reaction and way to deal with the response.

Smoky crystal has a strong ability to regenerate, so it could shorten the time of wounds healing, at the same time smoky crystal is significant effective for absorbing negative energy (especially best for absorbing confused gas, or avoiding bad fortunes), it can enhance the function of people’s immune system, give more vigor to human cells, thus to reduce the body’s aging speed and recover the vitality of youth.

In addition, smoky crystal can improve the male’s sexual function significantly, and also helpful for women to moderate her blood and gas and intensifying the curative efficacy of women's disease.

* smoky crystal earrings, mellow and fresh clean

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