When choosing your jewelry...

[jewelz617]

Do you choose metals that most compliment your skin tone, or go with your aesthetic preference?

For example, my hair is strawberry blonde and my skin is pale with pink undertones, my eyes are blue. When having my ring designed, the woman making it suggested I go with a rose gold instead of white gold or platinum to compliment my skin tone.

I have to agree, I went with rose gold because it actually did look better on me than the white that I had originally wanted. I never even thought about it before!

 

[yssie]

My aesthetic preferences tend toward what I think looks good on me - to the point where I don''t even really like pieces for their own charm or beauty unless I think I''d look good in them.

New Years'' resolution number five.




I''m Indian, so darker skin, black hair, brown eyes. I really like pale creams - I think unplated white gold is the best look for my skin. Yellow gold tends to bring out the yellow undertones, though I love the colour of high-karat gold, pink gold blends in (pretty, but not what I''d want for an important piece as noone would really see it!), white gold/plat. is very stark and bold.

 

[AprilBaby]

I go with what looks good on my skin. Rich yellow gold. White gold just looks gray/blah on me. On others it looks shiny and gorgeous.

 

[Skippy123]

I tend to tan easily so I tend to like cooler tones like silver, platinum and white gold. I do have yellow gold too. i do love the rich look of yellow gold but do think that silvery colors look best on me.

 

[rainwood]

I have pale skin with blue undertones so only platinum, white gold, and silver look good with my skin tone. I used to wear yellow gold (my original wedding ring was YG) until I realized that it didn''t look good on me and why. Now, I don''t look at anything that''s YG anymore because it just isn''t my color. Fortunately for me, platinum and white gold have been more popular lately than they wwre when I got married but the style spectrum will swing back and YG will be all the rage again.

 

[Fly Girl]

Metal color never seemed to matter to me. Finally, a jeweler mentioned that I can wear yellow or white metals equally well. I guess that is true. About the only metal color I don''t like rose gold with orange overtones. I don''t wear any clothing with orange overtones, so it all fits.

Come on over to the Colored Stones section, and you will find a whole group of people who obsess about gemstone colors as well as metal colors.

And then there is the Pearls section. Another group who worries about how their jewelry looks with their skintones.

Glad you have found what looks best on you!

 

[Dreamer_D]

I choose white metals because they are modern but also will not date

 

[Bella_mezzo]

I swing both ways with metals

They all look good on me, each is different but good. I think the next piece I get will be rose gold though...I''m really wanting some of that!

 

[marcy]

I don''t like rose gold on my skin but WG and YG work well for me. I tend to pick which color looks good with what I am getting (gem or diamond).

 

[cartea01]

I have very pale skin and I pick silver toned metals to compliment. Also icy white diamonds look better with my skin tone than warm ones

 

[clgwli]

I am lucky to have a very neutral skin tone so I can choose which I like. I prefer the look of "white" probably because that is what I have been wearing longer (started with sterling pieces very young). It makes it harder for me to find make up that works, but I don''t have to worry about clothing or jewelry at least.

I say you should pick what you like best no matter what!

 

[elle_chris]

Both. I don''t wear yellow anything as it makes my skin look washed out.

I choose styles that compliment my overall look. Mostly modern straight lines.

 

[Ms. Raptor]

I''m a WG/Plat/Palladium girl. Only the white metals.
My skin has olive undertones even when I''m tan.
I even stay away from green clothing that''s lighter than kelly green and pretty much all yellow clothing because it brings out the green in my skin so much that it often makes me look ill. I''ve actually had people ask me if I''m feeling well (when wearing light yellow or lighter greens) when I feel perfectly fine!

 

[Hest88]

Date: 1/10/2010 7:53:34 PM
Author: yssie
My aesthetic preferences tend toward what I think looks good on me

Ditto. Though, unlike Yssie I do like pieces that may not look good on me. I''m ethnically Chinese and find that yellow gold makes my skin look more sallow. As a result, I only wear white gold/plat.

 

[Liane]

I''ve never even thought about it.

I buy what I like and just assume it''ll look fine while I''m wearing it. If I''m wrong, oh well, no one''s seen fit to disillusion me yet.

 

[Asscherhalo_lover]

Aesthetic preference, which I also happen to thinks compliments my skin tone. My mother always wore white metals, and so do I. I will mix in a little big of rose gold as an accent but I really don''t like yellow gold. I don''t even like the color yellow, lol.

 

[cakegirl]

I wear all of it. My skin is a light olive and I think it all looks equally good. When i have a little tan, my skin matches my rose gold bracelet very closely.

 

[nkarma]

I actually wanted to do Rose gold because I think it is so beautiful and a little "the road less travelled" but I have the complete opposite hair, skin, and eye color than you and thought with my olivish complexion it looked washed out. I love rose gold on fairer skin and think you should go for it.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Yes, I pick stuff that matches my skin tone.

Thing is, though, that my hands always have a bit of color (because I spend all summer out in the sun), but my face/neck both are pale because of sunscreen. Because of that I prefer yellow gold on my hands and white gold/platinum in my ears and as necklaces. (oh, and FWIW, oddly, my face/neck have cool undertones and my hands have warm. I''m a mutant!

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