Thou shalt sparkle

I could have and probably should have dedicated an entire blog to just jewelry itself. There is so much to talk about. So I am going to start with the basics.
There is fine jewelry and there is fashion jewelry. Fine jewelry is made out of precious metals such as platinum, gold, or silver. If there are stones set in this type of jewelry they are usually precious or semi-precious. Most jewelers still consider the diamond, emerald, ruby, and sapphire the "precious" gemstones and all the others semi-precious even though some semi-precious may be valued more than the precious types depending on rarity and clarity.
On the other hand, Fashion jewelry is usually made from brass , pewter, nickel , plastic etc. set with rhinestones, colored glass, or crystals. Usually the materials are gold or silver plated and this plating will easily fade or turn color with exposure to moisture. However, Modern fashion jewelry has taken new turns. Nowadays , nickel is almost obsolete because so many people are allergic to it. Rhinestones and crystals have been mostly replaced with simulated or lab-created gems. They can create in a lab most precious and semi-precious gemstones . These lab created gemstones are made of the same mineral composition as natural gemstones, and are created in laboratories with equipment that simulates the high pressures and heat that nature used to create real gemstones beneath the earth. A lab created gemstone is identical to the natural gemstone it replicates in every way; color, hardness, composition, luster, looks etc. The problem is lab-created gems are too perfect , therefore sometimes looking fake. Even though simulated gemstones are also created in labs , they do not share the same properties as the gem they mimic .Usually a simulated gem will only match in color.

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