Sleeping with Earrings

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Sleeping with Earrings

Should I Take My Earrings Out to Sleep? It is generally recommended that you take your earrings out when you are sleeping. If you don’t want to take your earrings out, there are some ways to be more comfortable sleeping with them.  These include: using speciality earring backings, changing your sleeping position and using a speciality pillow such as a ring or u-shaped pillow. It's not just uncomfortable to sleep with earrings. There are other health related reasons to take your earrings off before going to bed at night.  These include things like skin irritations and skin infections. Wearing earrings to bed may be OK...

5 Reasons Why I Love Stud Earrings

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5 Reasons Why I Love Stud Earrings

  I love stud earrings. I wear studs all the time, and as I look around the office I see I'm not alone.  Here is why I think that is ... 1. Studs are so easy to wear Throw on a pair of everyday stud earrings and you don't have to think.  You don't have to worry if they will get caught on your favourite new top or in your hairbrush when you are doing your hair (or is that just me 😉).  I love how versatile stud earrings are. They can be worn at any time of year, with...

Trend Alert - Signet Rings

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Trend Alert - Signet Rings

A signet ring is a must have for any jewellery lover.   Recently lots of 70’s and 80’s jewellery styles have been making a comeback, these include coin necklaces, threader earrings and now signet rings. Signet rings were once worn on men's pinkie fingers, but now the trend is for both men and women to wear the reinvented signet rings. The signet ring goes back as far back as 3500 BC, when kings and religious leaders wore signet rings and used them to mark and seal documents. The document seal could not be opened without damaging it and showing it has been read or tampered with.  Signet rings were also commonly...

Why you need a necklace extender!

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Why you need a necklace extender!

Do you have a necklace you love, but it's too small for your neck or too short to go with your outfit, or sits at the wrong level in your perfect layered necklace look? Then you need a necklace extender.  A necklace extender gives you the flexibility to wear your favourite necklace at different lengths, so you can get the exact length you want.Our simple Necklace Extenders allow you to lengthen any of our necklaces by up to 5cms. They are available in 925 sterling silver, plated with rhodium, 14kt gold or 14kt rose gold to match all our lovely necklaces....

Turquoise jewellery is back

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Turquoise jewellery is back

Turquoise jewellery is a beautiful, magical colour with indescribable blueish, greenish hues; sometimes with webbing, sometimes without. It has a rich heritage reaching from ancient Egypt to the Native American cultures.  Turquoise is incredibly versatile, lending itself easily to anyone’s personal fashion style. Just like the classics, if like me, your wardrobe is full of monochrome outfits, turquoise can provide the perfect a pop of colour and energy to your outfit. If you’re wearing black, white, or denim, it's so easy to add some turquoise jewellery to give your outfit some edge.  The casual, laid-back, boho fashion style works really well with turquoise jewellery too. You can...

What does Boho Style mean?

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What does Boho Style mean?

Boho Style Boho is short for bohemian, and is the epitome of a style inspired by the lifestyle of free spirits and hippies of the 1960s and 1970s.  It's said to mirror the pre-Raphaelite women of the late 19th century. Boho style is characterised by long flowing skirts and dresses, peasant blouses, ethnic highlights, embroidery or ornamentation with beading, fringed handbags, and jewelled or decorated sandals. The chic boho look is often layered and colourful. Boho Jewellery Bohemian or “Boho” jewellery has been making a real comeback in the last couple of years. So what is Boho Jewellery? Boho Style jewellery, like clothing, represents...

Rock your Choker Necklace Style!

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Choker Necklace

The infamous choker necklace was a style staple once left behind in the nineties, but now it's back, and bolder and better than before! We've given the choker necklace a modern makeover with added elegance and extra style, making them the perfect addition to all your necklace layers. A great way to create your own weekend style is always a pair of blue denim jeans and a cozy white top. Why not finish it off with a choker necklace?  This weekend style wouldn't be complete unless it was layered with your other favourite necklaces. Mix different lengths, simple or coin pendant necklaces and stick...

Types of Necklaces

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Types of Necklaces

Choker Chokers are a type of necklace that are normally 35cms to 40cms long and worn close to the neck.  They will complement most clothing necklines as they sit above the clothing. Chokers are often made of gold, silver, leather, velvet or thick string. They can be as casual or as formal as you like.  Lariat Necklace A lariat necklace is designed with no clasp points, it's a scarf-like necklace that wraps around the neck and has just one strand hanging down the other.  Lariat necklaces can also include a knot over the chest part.  They are is sometimes called a lasso necklace because...

Ear Piercing Locations

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Ear Piercing Locations

  Earrings are jewellery attached to the ear via a piercing or hole in the earlobe or another external part of the ear. Earrings can also refer to clip on earrings, which clip onto the lobe and do not require an ear piercing. Earrings are worn by both men and women, although more commonly women.  Earrings have been worn as jewellery by different civilisations throughout history.  The most common location for ear piercing is the earlobe.  Multiple earlobe piercings is also becoming more and more popular in Australia.  Locations for piercings other than the earlobe include: lobe anti-tragus conch snug...

How To Measure Your Ring Size

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How To Measure Your Ring Size

To help you find your ring size, our jewellery experts have put together this ring size guide including a link to our ring size chart and tips for measuring your finger at home. It's super important to ensure you know the size of whichever finger you are buying a ring for so you get the perfect fit for your new ring. If you're shopping for someone else, the best way to find her ring size is to ask. If you're planning a surprise, get help from their friends and/or family. Hopefully, they can ask without raising too much suspicion. The...

5 Tips for Layered Necklace Looks

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5 Tips for Layered Necklace Looks

  Layered necklaces are an on-trend jewellery fashion that everyone wants to get right.  Whether it's for an everyday or an evening glamour look, a neck full of layered necklaces is the foundation of your jewellery style. Check out our key tips to help you to layer your necklaces. Wear at least 3 necklaces together.Layering of necklaces only really shines once you add your 3rd necklace.  One or two necklaces create a more simple look, the 3rd one make the layer. Mix up the lengths of your necklaces.Choose necklaces in three different lengths - short necklaces, mid-length necklaces and long necklaces; to get the...

Types of Earrings

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Types of Earrings

Stud Earrings Stud earrings are probably the most classic earring style available, everyone has a go-to pair of stud earrings. They usually consist of a small decorative piece held in front of your ear by a metal backing. Stud earrings are the perfect earrings for everyday wear, and depending on the size, can be beautiful when worn layered or individually as a statement. Typically, stud earrings consist of a head, which holds the decorative earring front to a post.  The earring post goes through the piercing in your ear. The earring post is secured to the ear with a backing....