If there are many metals capable of sublimating your jewelry, only two dominant colors dress them:gold and silver. Coppers and bronzes, giving off the same reflections, belong to the gold family. As for white gold, its color puts it on the side of silver. How to choose your earrings? By discovering which color sublimates you the best! Each woman displays a dominant, depending on her skin color, eyes and hair.
To determine it, stand in front of a mirror, equipped with two scarves or sheets of paper, one gold, the other silver. Successively place one, then the other next to your face:one gives you a healthy glow and illuminates you, the second turns you off and gives you a dull complexion.
As a general rule, pale, white or rosy complexions, with light eyes and dark or very light hair are enhanced by silver earrings. Golden, matte or black skin, dark eyes or red and brown hair prefer gold jewelry!
Yellow gold is a jewelry favorite, leading earrings. Rarely used pure in jewelry for its lack of hardness, it uses alloys with other metals:palladium, silver, copper, platinum, manganese, zinc, nickel... Each combination results in a color, a hardness and a duration of different life. White gold, for example, is an alloy of pure gold and palladium.
As for choosing your gold earrings? Color is a matter of taste, with gold offering hues ranging from white to pink, through yellow and gray. The purity of the jewel, on the other hand, is counted in carats:24 carats correspond to pure gold. The lower the percentage of gold, the lower the number of carats!
Like gold, fancy silver earrings use silver and copper alloys, the quantities of which are expressed in percentages. This results in large differences in price and durability. The color, on the other hand, is almost always the same! Choose your silver jewelery according to your budget, but also the lifespan you want to give it:for family jewellery, it is better to bet on quality, with an alloy of 96% silver and 4% copper. .
Platinum is one of the rarest metals. Particularly resistant to time, it is also, therefore, particularly expensive. It is only used for high-end fine jewelry, gemstone earrings or wedding bands. If you are looking for valuable jewelry to pass on from generation to generation, or simply a risk-free financial investment, this is the place for you!
