Mara
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Well I guess they are a colored stone...so here they are. In Tahiti, black pearls are all the rage...they eschew things like diamonds (one gal told me they are too common!) for these beautiful dark dark spheres.
I'm not one to buy into 'hype', esp when I figured they were probably accompanied by a huge markup...but we were at a local tiki village show and they had a store so I saw them for the first time there. Hadn't even gone into the store are OUR hotel....what do I need with black pearls? I save my money for DIAMONDS!
The gal was really sweet and trying hard. She gave me the history of the pearl and also told me how they grew them. I told her I love diamonds and showed her my bling. She said it was pretty. I wandered away after looking half-heartedly at some pearls, they were beautiful. I wasn't that jazzed about buying something I considered man-made for too much money. But...they sure were pretty.
During the show, I was telling Greg about the pearls and how they were actually very beautiful with great lustre, and he said when we got back home I should look into buying one online. Online? We're IN Tahiti! I dont want to buy them online. I had seen some cheaper ones that were still lovely (the pricing and grading structure does not mean that a class C pearl is not going to be visually as appealing as an A....) so I thought about getting one for a necklace. Then I thought..realistically would I ever wear that? So I thought about maybe two loose pearls to have set into earrings here back home. Gold is prohibitively expensive there, so the pearl may be $300 of a $500 necklace.
I went back in and the girl spotted me right off. I smiled at her and she floated over. 20 minutes later and with Greg's approval, I had selected a set of lovely 'celadon' 8mm black pearls (they are dark gray with a tinge of green), one is class A and one is class C (A means the surface is less than 30% blemished (tiny tiny inclusions); and C means that the surface is less than 60% blemished (again, tiny inclusions, not even really visible). They both look lovely...have a great lustre. I want to do something fun with them, like eurowire dangling earrings. They weren't that pricey and now I have something of jewelry to remember our honeymoon by!
Greg congratulated the salesgirl and told her she did a great job in converting a diamond lover over to owning a pair of black pearls!
Here are pictures...by the way they are NOT as green as pictured here...the light can really make them change into various colors..in reality the color is more very dark gray, with a tinge of green.
I'm not one to buy into 'hype', esp when I figured they were probably accompanied by a huge markup...but we were at a local tiki village show and they had a store so I saw them for the first time there. Hadn't even gone into the store are OUR hotel....what do I need with black pearls? I save my money for DIAMONDS!
The gal was really sweet and trying hard. She gave me the history of the pearl and also told me how they grew them. I told her I love diamonds and showed her my bling. She said it was pretty. I wandered away after looking half-heartedly at some pearls, they were beautiful. I wasn't that jazzed about buying something I considered man-made for too much money. But...they sure were pretty.
During the show, I was telling Greg about the pearls and how they were actually very beautiful with great lustre, and he said when we got back home I should look into buying one online. Online? We're IN Tahiti! I dont want to buy them online. I had seen some cheaper ones that were still lovely (the pricing and grading structure does not mean that a class C pearl is not going to be visually as appealing as an A....) so I thought about getting one for a necklace. Then I thought..realistically would I ever wear that? So I thought about maybe two loose pearls to have set into earrings here back home. Gold is prohibitively expensive there, so the pearl may be $300 of a $500 necklace.
I went back in and the girl spotted me right off. I smiled at her and she floated over. 20 minutes later and with Greg's approval, I had selected a set of lovely 'celadon' 8mm black pearls (they are dark gray with a tinge of green), one is class A and one is class C (A means the surface is less than 30% blemished (tiny tiny inclusions); and C means that the surface is less than 60% blemished (again, tiny inclusions, not even really visible). They both look lovely...have a great lustre. I want to do something fun with them, like eurowire dangling earrings. They weren't that pricey and now I have something of jewelry to remember our honeymoon by!
Here are pictures...by the way they are NOT as green as pictured here...the light can really make them change into various colors..in reality the color is more very dark gray, with a tinge of green.
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