Black Jade
Brilliant_Rock
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I was reminded today to always try jewelry on IRL before buying anything online. I have been thinking of buying various things, including a colored gemstone asscher or emerald cut. I went to the nice brick and mortar near my home today and tried on things similar to the things that attracted me. I won''t be buying that asscher! Square cuts look terrible on my fingers. So does anything with straight lines. I tried on a $68,000 emerald cut ring, beautiful in the display case, a huge D IF central stone, and two emerald cut diamonds flanking it on the side--well, it''s a good thing I couldn''t afford it anyway. It REALLY looked bad. I was surprised how bad.
I love the elegance of straight lines and geometric cuts but the only stones that were flattering were the rounds, the ovals and marquises. And those couldn''t be too big. It is strange, I have very long fingers, piano playing fingers people often say (I do play the piano), but somehow they are made so that there is very little room between my hand and my knuckle. I can''t stack a lot of rings and I can''t wear large stones. The only way I could wear something as large as even 2 carats and have it look flattering, it has to be very narrow, like a marquise. I can''t do sidestones unless they are TINY. I tried on a beautiful ring with tapered baguette sidestones today--same thing. Looked really bad.
It''s very strange.
If I want to wear bling, I have to put it on my ears, I guess! My 1.81 ctw earrings look great on me. I tried on little jackets and that looked good too--I don''t think I would ever wear bigger studs than 1 carat in each ear (which my .91''s basically look like), but I would wear jackets.
Trying on diamond tennis bracelets recently--the 2 ctw looked good, the 3 ctw didn''t. I don''t know if this was also because it was too long and needed links taken out. But I seem to need delicate things (with the exception of earrings). I noticed before that I cannot wear large necklaces, either, and definitely cannot wear too many.
Maybe its because I''m petite?
I love the elegance of straight lines and geometric cuts but the only stones that were flattering were the rounds, the ovals and marquises. And those couldn''t be too big. It is strange, I have very long fingers, piano playing fingers people often say (I do play the piano), but somehow they are made so that there is very little room between my hand and my knuckle. I can''t stack a lot of rings and I can''t wear large stones. The only way I could wear something as large as even 2 carats and have it look flattering, it has to be very narrow, like a marquise. I can''t do sidestones unless they are TINY. I tried on a beautiful ring with tapered baguette sidestones today--same thing. Looked really bad.
It''s very strange.
If I want to wear bling, I have to put it on my ears, I guess! My 1.81 ctw earrings look great on me. I tried on little jackets and that looked good too--I don''t think I would ever wear bigger studs than 1 carat in each ear (which my .91''s basically look like), but I would wear jackets.
Trying on diamond tennis bracelets recently--the 2 ctw looked good, the 3 ctw didn''t. I don''t know if this was also because it was too long and needed links taken out. But I seem to need delicate things (with the exception of earrings). I noticed before that I cannot wear large necklaces, either, and definitely cannot wear too many.
Maybe its because I''m petite?
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