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.