Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Freshwater Pearl to Enhance Your looks

All jewelry is meant to enhance the looks of the wearer, but there is something special about the pearl. It not only enhances the looks of the wearer, but also gives a sense of calm as well. Freshwater pearl earrings come in many lavish colors, shapes and sizes. Set in various metals such as white gold solid or plated, yellow gold, rose gold and silver, these freshwater gems are truly beautiful to behold.

Plumeria flowers, dolphins, sea turtles, fishhooks and other tropical representations are the settings for these freshwater earrings. Rose gold settings go extremely well with our lavender colored freshwater pearls. Yellow freshwater pearls look great when set in yellow gold settings. There are many pearl and setting combinations that can be a feast for the eyes.

Aloha Pearls’ freshwater earrings come in many dazzling colors. We have exotic black freshwater pearl earrings that are a blue/black color resembling the Tahitian pearls. Other colors are traditional white, pink, lavender and peach.

Baroque freshwater earrings are very popular. These are irregular shaped pearls that dangle from tropical settings made of gold or silver with pendants or necklaces to match. Coin pearls, stick pearls, round and near round pearls are the many different shapes that we make our freshwater earrings from. All of these precious stones will give pleasure to the wearer and enhance your looks many fold.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Choosing an Oyster With Pearl

All cultured oysters have pearls inside. These mollusks have pearl nuclei implanted in their gonads, therefore they must produce a pearl, and this is what cultured pearls are all about. There are many myths regarding how to choose an oyster that may have a unique pearl inside, but these could very well be just myths. There are different types of mollusks that have their own range of colors for the pearls they produce, for example, the Pinctata maxima is a very large South Sea oyster that produces pearls of the silver and golden variety, better known as the South Sea golden pearls. Pinctata magaritifera oyster produces the famous Tahitian black pearls and so on. All pearls come in various sizes and shapes.

There are three types of oyster with pearls to choose from and they are oval freshwater pearls, round freshwater pearls and round saltwater pearls. These are all high quality pearls with beautiful luster. These pearls come in an array of colors and each color corresponds to a particular mode of nature, like passion, fortune, good luck and success. All of our oyster-with-pearl combos are quite reasonably priced and fun to assemble. No tools required, a child could do it; in fact, the children are quite fond of these pick-a-pearl from the oyster.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Everything You Should Know about Wish Pearl

Wish pearl is the name we give our pick-a-pearl from the oyster set. Perfect pearls are taken directly from the oyster by the customer and placed in a lovely locket to make a stunning necklace. Once the wish pearl is taken from the body of the oyster, three design choices of pendants are available to display your new pearl. Plated in white gold, these popular designs of a sea turtle, plumeria flower and sea star display the pearl very nicely. These lovely pearl pendants are easy to assemble and fun. Each oyster contains at least one colorful lustrous pearl and each color represents a mode, or instance, pink represents passion, white represents fortune, black represents good luck and so on. Wish pearls come in three types.

The first is an oval or egg shaped pearl, the second type is a perfectly round pearl and the third type is a salt water pearl. All these pearls will fit nicely in any of the three types of pendants that comes with it. The plumeria or Hawaiian flower, the sea turtle and the sea star are the three designs that are available to place your whish pearl inside. Once the pearl is taken from the oyster, rinse with water and towel dry, that is all that is required assemble these tropical pendants. Children as well as adults can enjoy wearing these elegant necklaces plated in white gold.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Wish Pearl - Choosing Pearl Jewelry

Men, women and children alike enjoy opening the oyster’s shell to find a perfect pearl with brilliant colors and amazing luster. There are two types of mollusks with three types of pearls.

The freshwater mollusk produces a round and oval shaped pearl and the third type of pearl comes from the second type of mollusk or the saltwater oyster. These pearls are perfectly round, highly lustrous and practically flawless. Make a wish! Pick a pearl! Good luck and prosperity is yours when take the pearl from the host with your own hands.

Choosing pearl jewelry for these special pearls that are still within the oyster are quite an experience. One gets a better appreciation of the pearl once the wish pearl is taken from the body of the oyster. Three design choices of pendants are available to display your new pearl. Plated in white gold, these popular designs of a sea turtle, plumeria flower and sea star display the pearl very nicely. These lovely self assembled pearl pendants are elegant.

Each mollusk holds a colorful surprise within its shell. The wish pearl container is easy to open and comes with a color chart that tells what each pearl color means. Instead of choosing a pendant for your wish pearl we have cell phone straps that attach to your techno gadgets, backpack or purse. The same three designs for necklaces are also used for the cell phone. These make excellent gifts and party favors. You can order as many as you like. See our web site for more information.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Tahitian Pearl Necklace: The Epitome of Elegant Simplicity

Tahitian pearls are the dark jewels of the Pacific Ocean. The pristine archipelagos of French Polynesia are home to the pinctada margaritifera mollusk that produces the famous black pearl. Peacock blue, pistachio green, and blueberry are just a few of the rich colors that can be found in these Tahitian pearls.

“Elegant simplicity” finds repose in a shimmering strand of peacock Tahitian pearls. A favorite among many Tahitian pearl lovers; these emerald-like gems with their red and blue overtones are unrivaled. There is nothing more that needs to be said. Any lady, who dons such a beautiful Tahitian necklace, is truly displaying the epitome of elegance and simplicity.

Multi-colored Tahitian strand necklaces emanate rays of light and color that soothes the mind. We have quite an assortment of these necklaces to choose from. These pearls range from 9.0 mm to 11.0 mm in size. Tahitian silver pearls are very enchanting. These rare silvery Tahitian pearls that are sorted and matched for color, then arranged in a graduated order with the larger pearls toward the center of the necklace. Because of the rarity of these large silver Tahitian pearls, it takes years just to make one strand.

Tahitian chocolate pearl necklaces are entering the markets with approving eyes. These golden brown processed pearls compliment the human flesh tones and come in all the standard Tahitian pearl sizes.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Selecting Akoya Pearl Earrings


Akoya pearls come in several colors and sizes. These beautiful pearls are set in lovely earring settings. Golden studs or dangles with diamonds or crystals that increases the beauty of those who wear these classic gems. Whether these cultured pearls are set in hoops or dangle bars, they sway every so gently as the wearer moves about. For those earrings with crystals or diamonds, the light catches these gems as they dance on the ears giving them an effulgence that matches the gleam in the eyes of the lucky lady who adds these akoya pearl earrings to their ensemble.

Akoya pearl earrings have a luster that equals the famous peacock Tahitian pearls. These very hard and round pearls are smooth and shiny like glass. Their rich colors are classic and pure. Many people think of akoya cultured pearls only as traditional - and beautiful - white pearls, but they actually come in a variety of colors. Pearly white, pale yellow, golden and blueberry, even a silvery blue that boggles the mind. These are some of the amazing colors of this type of pearls. Many of our akoya stud earrings come with matching necklaces and bracelets.

There are multi-strand bracelets of perfect matching and clasps of white and yellow gold. All of these bracelets come in light or dark colored akoya pearls.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

How to Choose Freshwater Loose Pearls

There are so many wonderful types of freshwater loose pearls to choose from here at ‘Aloha Pearls’. How does one choose from so many varieties, and how does one know what shape and size to purchase? These questions are easily answered. One only has to know what type of jewelry or purpose the pearls will be used for. If you want to make earrings, or a bracelet, perhaps a beautiful pendant or broche, you will have to have a design in mind. Will it be a teardrop pendant or a cluster pendant? A bracelet made of uniform pearls will require sorting out nearly identical pearls of the same body color, shape and size. Once you know what your loose pearls will be used for and how they will look as jewelry, then you are ready to sort through our large collection of loose freshwater pearls.

We have: golden freshwater loose pearls 11.0 mm to 12.0 mm, blue drop freshwater pearls 7.0 mm to 14.0 mm, we also have free form pearls or one-of-a-kind pearls that make unique pendants and rings. The buyer can purchase many colors in freshwater pearls such as: black, white, pink and lavender. All of our freshwater loose pearls are available for purchase at wholesale.