Archive for June 2008
Celebrity Jewelry Trends
Many jewelry trends start on the red carpet. Paying attention to the jewelry celebrities wear keeps you in touch with the latest fashions.
Dress up with diamonds
Marilyn Monroe once sang, “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” and today’s red carpet regulars couldn’t agree more. Diamonds of every kind—from modern diamonds to vintage diamonds to white diamonds, yellow diamonds, pink diamonds, and blue diamonds—continue to dominate at the Hollywood award shows with everyone from Angelina Jolie to Oprah wearing them.
Tom Cruise recently surprised Katie Holmes with a single-strand diamond choker. Not long after that, she started wearing a five-carat Edwardian-style diamond engagement ring. Experts say that Edwardian diamond engagement rings will be one of this year’s favorite engagement ring styles. Heidi Klum is wearing a huge canary yellow diamond heart, a birthday gift from husband Seal. He bought it to match the canary engagement ring he gave her shortly before they married. Also expect a return in popularity of diamond initials, stemming from Madonna wearing her diamond “M” at the Live 8 concert.
Draw attention to your face
Celebrities often wear earrings, necklaces, and hair ornaments to events, knowing photographers often take pictures of them from the neck up. Celebrities want to put the bling where it shows and draw attention to their faces. When Scarlett Johansson’s picture appeared as she was receiving the New Power award, she was right on trend with a pair of long dangle earrings with pearls on the end.
Embrace bangle bracelets
Stars continue to wear bangle bracelets when they’re out and about. Kyra Sedgwick was recently seen with her right arm full of skinny gold bangle bracelets and her left with a single wide jade bangle bracelet. Halle Berry also wears an armful of skinny gold bangle bracelets, some of them studded with diamonds. The girls of Malibu and Santa Monica, Kate Hudson, Courtney Cox, and Jennifer Aniston, all wear wooden beads and bangles as part of the laid-back Bohemian style.
Give your jewelry a dual personality
The public eye frequently focuses on celebrities, so some of them don’t like to be seen in the same jewelry too often. These celebrities think of ways to mix their jewelry up and make it look different. For example, at last year’s Oscars, Scarlett Johansson put vintage brooches on a ribbon, which she then used as a headband. Another celebrity had her hairdresser put a strand of pearls in her up-do. Cate Blanchett wore pink, yellow, lavender, and green sapphire daisy brooches in her hair. Daytime Emmy winner Eden Riegel of “All My Children” put a brooch on a chain and turned it into a diamond necklace. The popular pearl belt is often just a long strand of pearls. Other celebrities put crystal brooches or vintage rhinestone brooches on daytime bags to turn them into evening bags.
Like the celebrities, have fun with your jewelry, and mix it up. One piece of jewelry and a good idea can create a whole new look.
Popularity: 37% [?]
Today’s Hottest Jewelry Fashions
Trends come and go, but quality jewelry withstands the test of time. Even if a popular jewelry fashion retires for a season, it never fails to come back, and when it does, you’ll have a piece of jewelry that fits. Some of the latest trends in jewelry include:
* Rose gold jewelry: If you’re lucky enough to have the rose gold watch your great-grandmother passed down, start wearing it immediately. If not, invest in rose gold earrings, rose gold rings, or a rose gold watch like the one adorning Sheryl Crow’s wrist.
* Jewelry inspired by nature: As Bohemian and folkloric trends begin to fall by the wayside, refined jewelry with nature-inspired themes take center stage. Look for leaf jewelry, including silver leaf earrings, jeweled leaf brooches, and gold leaf necklaces, as well as acorns carved out of agate or amber. Butterfly jewelry, especially butterfly brooches, continues to soar to the top of everyone’s must-have jewelry list. Mariah Carey, known for her love of butterfly jewelry, is certainly doing her part to keep the butterfly popularity going. She was recently spotted wearing a multicolor butterfly brooch rumored to be worth millions.
* Dark, moody stones: Dark jewelry is smokin’ hot. Look at stones that have an earthy, exotic look such as black onyx, black jade, Australian black opals, black pearls, and black diamonds.
* Dangle earrings: Dangle earrings are the new it earrings. Long diamond dangle earrings can be dramatic for night while demure gold dangle earrings can work nicely for day. Pearl dangle earrings give you all-day classic glamour, but save those extra-long shoulder sweepers for evening. For maximum wow factor, try hair in an up-do or back in a ponytail with your dangle earrings.
* Piles of pearls: Pearls can make you look classy or trendy. For a classic Grace Kelly look, wear a single short strand of pearls. To get the hottest look, wear various types of pearls in different lengths. Mix strands of pink pearls, black pearls, and freshwater pearls. Sharon Stone recently purchased beautiful black pearls in Tahiti. She also wears her freshwater pearls mixed with a strand of puka shells along with a white tank top and jeans.
Popularity: 19% [?]
Whats a Jelly Belly?
When you are looking to buy vintage costume jewellery you will notice the term ‘jelly belly’ used to describe anything from coloured cabouchons to moonstones, hopefully by the end of this you will be a bit wiser. A jelly belly is a clear lucite (thermoplastic acrylic resin) shape often set in sterling silver or metal. The first ‘jelly bellys’ were produced from 1938-39, but the maximum production was from 1943-45. Sterling was rationed and very expensive,so adding a piece of lucite to the design made producing large eyecatching designs a reality. Many costume jewellery manufacturers used the jelly bellys, but most famous are the Trifari and Corocraft sterling designs, which incorporated fantastic design with breathtaking quality of materials and craftsmanship.
Popularity: 42% [?]
Avoid The Jitters Of Jewelry Shopping
Buying jewelry is one of the most exciting shopping instincts among women. Women all over the world are fascinated by jewelry in any form, any time, and every wise and smart man on earth knows that the best way to please a woman is to gift her jewelry. Some mysterious feminine logics say jewelry is as important as their other daily necessities like shoes and make-up.
However, there are many reasons why people buy jewelry. Women take it to satiate their own need. Men purchase jewelry as this is the best way to satiate a woman`s desire. Some people buy jewelry to gift others on some special occasions. Whether jewelry is cheap or expensive, it is bought for a long-term purpose as it is associated with a person`s sentiments and emotions. Purchasing jewelry can be highly exciting if you are familiar with its designs, various forms and other details.
Types of Jewelry:
Jewelry can be of standard design or custom-made and prepared of any metal- gold, silver, diamond, glass, platinum, etc. Gold jewelry is the most popular among all other material. From the ancient times jewelry lovers have preferred it and the designers have given shape to this yellow luster. The prime thing to know about the gold jewelry is the karat. As pure gold is generally not used for it softness it is mixed with some other metal to give shape. Karat is the proportion of gold in a piece of jewelry. Generally jewelry is found of 20-k, 18-k, 16-k, 14-k, 12-k. professionally, less than 10-k jewelry are not considered as gold jewelry.
Diamonds are Forever:
Diamond is the best form of jewelry one can purchase. Considered some major aspects of diamond like its carat, color, cut and clarity the diamond jewelry can be judged with its another aspect that is design. The luster of the diamond in the jewelry greatly depends on its cut. However, the price of the diamond is calculated considering all these aspects.
Platinum Jewelry:
Platinum jewelry is highly expensive and can be combined with some other metal to prepare jewelry. Most of the jewelry products are made using some precious and semi precious stones and gems. Even they are carved on some metal jewelry. It would be better on the part of the buyer to have some prior knowledge before purchasing jewelry designed with gems and stones. Amber, emerald, jade, nephrite, lapix lazuli, pearl and many more are choice of women to adorn their beauty. It is advisable to check and ensure the originality and quality of the gems and stones before purchasing them.
How to Purchase Jewelry:
If you are purchasing jewelry for your own, you know what your choice is. But if you are buying it for someone else or for a gift purpose, it is better to consider certain aspects for making your dealing the right one. Consider the choice and lifestyle of the person and her personality as well who is going to wear the jewelry. It is not always right that the more expensive the jewelry, the more beautiful it will look on the person who wears it.
Selecting a trustful retailer would help you get the best of your price. Remember that if you are new to buying jewelry, you are less likely to get a good deal from the seller. To avoid having to pay more for what you can get in less, make it a point to bring someone with you who has got substantial experience in buying jewelry. Buying jewelry online is also a wise decision. Usually, online jewelry sellers offer you their products with reasonable prices and you can count on their qualities as well.
Popularity: 45% [?]
Instant Payday Loans
Cash loans are short term loans. These loans can be used to meet the unexpected emergencies of life. These loans are also known as payday loans, cash advance loans and instant loans. These loans can be availed by the bad credit borrowers also. People suffering from CCJ, arrears, defaults and late payments are eligible for this loan. There are other loans like cash advance store loans, instant payday loan, cash checks services, little Cash loans and pawnshop cash loans.
Online medium of securing these loans are free of paper works. You need to give your bank account details and personal details to the lenders. Within few hours your loan gets approved and the loan amount is transferred to your bank account.
The APR for this loan is 6.1%. The loan amount you can borrow through the cash loans varies from £1000 to £25000.You should be of 18 years of age to apply for this loan. You should have monthly salary of £1200 to get the loan.
These loans have flexible features like easy repayment facility, fast approval of loans and credit status does not matter for this loan. There is no credit check for this loan. No security is required. All the transactions are done electronically through the bank account.
You need to deposit post dated cheque to your lenders. The amount written will be the total of the loan amount and the interest charged on the loan. When the salary comes to that account, the amount of the cheque is automatically deducted. These loans have high rate of interest and short term for repayment.
Popularity: 33% [?]