So much to catch up on!
@icy_jade I gotta - half laugh and half cringe at the idea of the vendor telling you outright that no golds look good on you



I guess honesty is a virtue? Sometimes? Maybe?
So if yours were this colour all the time - they’d be quite a bit more forgiving, I’m thinking...
But golds shift
so much. Just like orange and red gemstones. Once upon a time I’d have had trouble imagining that a single strand of pearls could look like both this pic and your other pic where the orange shows through. Now, owning some golds myself? Totally get it!!
I had a friend in college - we were exactly the same build but she was a light skinned, grey eyed, ashy blonde. We used to try to share clothes because - well, we really were almost identically sized, couldn't let that go to waste. But the only things we could both wear were blacks and whites and light greys. Oh - and denim of course. She looked better in most of my clothes than I did in hers, annoyingly - I remember once we both wore the same dress in this colour and she was radiant fresh out of the shower whilst I had to cake the blush on just to not look jaundiced, forget "good"
Based on these palettes I’m closest to a Dark Autumn. Basically opposite from you. I have darker skin but I’m very very not-saturatedly coloured... Everyone always says dark-skinned women should wear jewel tones, but blue-tinted colours and almost all brights wash me out. Other than the lighter yellows and greens and the true blues his palette is pretty dead on for me I think, warm and earthy. Blue akoya - I don’t know why I chase blue akoya the way I do, they honestly don’t flatter me at all and I know it
For my golds I want a dark orange body, as deep as we can go before casual glance says “brown”, and a strong green overtone. Andrew said he’s that confident his supplier can achieve the lustre that I want, but the colour is more of a question mark. For this one - SS pricing is insane, if we can’t find exactly the right colour I’d rather skip entirely than buy “close but not quite right”. Learnt my lesson on that front

So we’ll see what turns up
Your peacocks
are a delight


Those overtones are terrifically vivid - and almost all the pearls show a full rainbow, that's so special

A long time ago I bought a neckful of baroques from Pearl Paradise to try colours. I wound up keeping the three closest to wrist in this pic. I waffled over the teal third from right, ultimately returned it, regretted it as soon as I saw it relisted and tried to re-buy it - but by the time I checked out it'd sold. #Regrets. The copper strand third from wrist was my favourite of the bunch, really bright overtone on these. I don't wear them nearly as much as I should...
