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.

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.

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.

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.

Freshwater Pearl Pendants and the Classic Elegance it Brings

Because of their abundance and relatively low price, freshwater pearl pendants are quite common. Tissue nucleated freshwater pearls often lend themselves to the creation of fanciful pendants made of gold, diamonds and crystals.

Golden dolphins, octopuses, flower clusters and many other tropical designs can be found within our numerous selection of pendants. Three drop and two drop pearl pendants are very popular for the lady of simple elegance. A single drop lasso pendant is a very big seller because of its uniqueness. These drop pendants come with different colors of pearls such as pink, black and white. There are 2 drop pearl earrings to match these classic necklaces.

Freshwater mabe pendants are also very elegant and classic. These odd shaped pendants are in white-gold plated wire and sprinkled with crystals. The pearls are embedded in the shell and the shell and pearl are one piece. If you like things that are unique and different, this is the pendant for you.

Another imaginative pendant design is the ‘diamond hat’ that holds the pearl in its grip and is encrusted with small diamonds. It appears as a crown of a fruit before it is plucked from the tree. Pineapple crown pendants are similar in structure and they hold beautifully colored pearls to look like celestial fruits or berries. All are tropical themes and come with chains of all lengths.

Finding The Perfect Style and Size Cultured Pearl Necklaces

The perfect style and size of cultured pearl necklaces are crucial to a lady’s satisfaction. Because of the different types of pearl shapes in today’s market, the options are vast therefore making a decision on the perfect style takes a little for thought. Cultured pearl necklaces can also be classified as uniform, or graduated. In a uniform strand of pearls, all pearls are classified as the same size. A graduated strand of pearls most often has at least 3 mm of differentiation from the ends to the center of the necklace.

Pearls come in eight basic shapes: round, semi-round, drop, pear, oval, baroque, and circled. Perfectly round pearls are the rarest and most valuable shape. Semi-rounds are also used in cultured pearl necklaces. These symmetrical pearls are properly matched to give balance and a pleasing appearance to the strands.

Sizes of pearls vary greatly therefore the choices are varied in that department as well. Ranging from 6.5 mm to 12.0 mm, these cultured pearls are also strung in many lengths. While most other necklaces are simply referred to by their physical measurement, pearl necklaces are named by how low they hang when worn around the neck. A collar, measuring 10 to 13 inches in length, sits directly against the throat and does not hang down the neck at all. Chokers measure 14 to 16 inches in length, nestled just at the base of the neck. The princess measures 17 to 19 inches in length and these come down to or just below the collarbone. The matinee measures 20 to 24 inches in length and falls just above the breasts. An opera length necklace measures 28 to 35 inches and these are long enough to reach the sternum of the wearer. And finally the pearl rope which measures 45 inches in length and is any length that falls farther than an opera length necklace.

So these are attributes to consider when shopping for the perfect style and size of necklaces.

Cultured Pearl Earrings Add Glamour to Your Movement

Women of all ages and all occupations wear earrings, even men. Today, all cultured pearls are of good quality and come in many varieties of shapes sizes and colors. As far as shapes are concerned, we have several basic shapes such as studs, hoops, spirals, dangles, triangles and loops. Most of our earrings are adorned with diamonds and set in yellow, white and rose gold, and many are sterling silver with cubic zirconium crystals or the famous swarovski crystals. Other fabulous designs are 2 drop and 3 drop dangles made with fine tear drop pearls. These marvelous earrings are plated in white gold and will not tarnish.

Akoya pearl earrings, freshwater, Tahitian and South Sea pearl earrings are the basic types. Our famous plumeria dangle earrings come in all the types of gold; any combination is breathtaking. Imagine yellow South Sea pearls with a rose-gold plumeria attached to it, or lavender pearls set in rose-gold. These South Sea pearl earrings are large pearls with intricate settings.

Copper-colored freshwater coin-pearls or cream-colored coin pearls separated by swarovski crystals make unique earrings. A new design in earrings is the “spiral”. These pearl jewels are actually gold twists that hang from the ears and have a pearl that dangles from the coil of solid gold and is embellished with a diamond of the size 0.08 ct. weight for each ear. All of our cultured pearl earrings carry the essence of Hawaii.