How to Impress a Woman with Crystals

How to Impress a Woman with Crystals By Paul Shane

If you think women are hard to impress, then you can never get further from the truth. Whether you are meeting someone for the first time or you are living with her for years, you can always revive the charm and romance between the two of you with nice and beautiful gifts like crystal jewellery. Crystal jewellery work wonders when you need to woo your girl. Whether she is 15 or 50 years old, you can cast a spell on her with beautiful trinkets available in different colours and different designs.

And the best thing about crystal jewellery is that they are available in a wide range of designs and beautiful colours – designs and colours that were never imagined before.If you go to various dating web sites and forums, you would find lots of queries like – it's my first date with this girl, what do you think should be a good gift on the first date? Or, she is angry and upset due to some reason, I want to give her something that should appease her and cool her – what do you suggest for the gift?Plenty of such questions often nestle in our minds and find their place in online forums, or to a friend over a cup of coffee or in the agony aunt section of newspapers, magazines and journals.

But to all problems, there is one simple answer – crystal jewellery. They are the time tested formula for making your gift beautiful and pleasing. And what is most important is to make the person feel happy receiving the gift. In such jewellery, you can relax and have blind faith in your gift idea. A perfect gift for different kinds of occasion, crystal jewellery does relieve you of a lot of thinking and pondering over what to give and the best part is, they really impress girls of all ages.

Ancient Jewelry

Ancient Jewelry - Its Enchanting History By Jonathan Blocker
Loose diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but the practice of wearing jewelry is not new. In fact, women as well as men have been adorning themselves with jewelry since the Stone Age; paleontologists have found burial sites over 100,000 years old containing Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon remains in which the deceased was decorated with animal-claw or bone necklaces and carved stone pieces.Wearing loose diamonds mounted in jewelry is a relatively new development, however. The wholesale diamond jewelry market did not exist much before the Victorian Age, although loose diamonds have been used, worn, treasured and fought over for well nearly 3,000 years.

Loose Diamonds of FameLoose diamonds do not normally exist in nature. Diamond itself is found in very few places in the world, due to the fact that it forms deep beneath the earth’s surface.One of those rare places was India. Fragments of diamonds in their natural, rough octahedral form could be found along several of India’s rivers, which flow south out of the Himalaya Mountain Range. However, for centuries, the most famous source of the world’s diamonds was the fabled city of Golconda in the Indian state of Hyderabad. Between the founding of Golconda in the 12th Century and its annexation into India in 1948, Golcondi craftsmen have produced many of the world’s most famous loose diamonds, such as:- Darya-e Nur , one of the Iranian (Persian) Crown Jewels- Nur-Ul-Ain, prominent pink diamond in the tiara worn by Iranian Empress Farah at her wedding to Reza Shah Pahlavi- Koh-e-Noor, presented to Queen Victoria by British P.M. Benjain Disraeli in 1877- Hope Diamond, currently on display in the Smithsonian Museum- Regent Diamond, currently on display in the Louvre Museum in ParisThe earliest use of loose diamonds set in jewelry however is the crown of a Hungarian queen who reigned during the late 11th Century.

The stones in this crown are uncut; however, within a few hundred years, diamond jewelry had become quite popular with European royalty.The Modern Diamond IndustryLoose diamonds were polished during the 1300’s, but the practice of diamond cutting did not begin until the mid-16th Century in the city of Antwerp in what is now Belgium. It was here that the first diamond-cutter’s guild was formed, and the professional diamond appraisal industry and wholesale diamond jewelry market was born soon after.To this day, Antwerp is one of the centers of the wholesale diamond jewelry trade.Mining DiamondAs was the case in India, diamond was mined in and around riverbeds. Dry-digging started in South Africa in 1866, not coincidentally near Africa’s Great Rift.

Today, most diamonds are mined in the western Canadian provinces of Yukon and Northwest Territories as well as nearby Siberia. Most of these are of industrial grade; however, they are also sources for diamonds marketed by certified jewelry wholesalersDiamond AppraisalReputable jewelry wholesalers make sure that their stones have undergone a rigorous diamond appraisal in order to confirm their quality and value. Ideally, such an appraisal is undertaken by a firm that is independent of and unconnected to the producer of the stones.

Diamond Certification

Diamond Certification Versus Appraisal By Jonathan Blocker

Those who are planning the purchase of wholesale certified diamonds from jewelry wholesalers do well to educate themselves on issues related to the diamond market – including diamond appraisal and diamond certification. Although these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they are in fact two different things, both of which are necessary in order to determine the market value of certified loose diamonds.CertificationThis is also known as a “diamond grading report.” It is used to describe loose diamonds in terms of mass (carat), clarity and color.

This report is prepared for jewelry wholesalers, retailers, collectors and investors by geologists who specialize in the sub-field of gemology, or the study and evaluation of precious stones and gems.Certified loose diamonds are those which are accompanied by such a grading report. This report gives information about the diamond’s objective physical characteristics – those which can be measured with scientific methods and tools. Such a certificate will include an evaluation of the gem’s clarity and color as well as its symmetry and “fire,” or light reflecting characteristics. Obviously, a clear diamond without visible flaws (such as a “cottony” appearance within) is far more valuable than one that contains scratches or internal blemishes.Rather than receiving a monetary value, certified loose diamonds are evaluated on different scales, which includes the “SI3 Clarity Grade” and a Color Scale that uses numbers and letters D-Z.

The latter describes the gem in terms of hue and saturation, with colorless gems being at the beginning of the scale and those with deep color at the end.While the diamond market and industry is controlled by a relatively few individuals and corporate entities, most jewelry wholesalers agree that the most reliable certifications are done through either the Gemological Institute of America or the American Gem Society Laboratories.It is important to understand that such labs cannot certify gems that are mounted. However, a reputable jewelry wholesaler should provide you with a certificate at the time of purchase.AppraisalUnlike loose stones, a diamond appraisal can be performed on mounted stones (those placed in settings). Unlike certification, it is less objective, and based on estimations made as a result of what can be seen. There are several different techniques for this, but the main purpose is to determine the diamond’s monetary value.

Jewelry wholesalers base their selling price primarily on such an appraisal.The Importance of IndependenceIt seems obvious that any certification and/or appraisal should be done by and outside, independent agency, but less experienced diamond buyers may not consider that jewelry wholesalers using their own in-house appraisers will have a natural tendency to overvalue their own merchandise. For that reason, it is important to have any diamonds you are considering certified and appraised by an outside third party that is not affiliated with your jewelry wholesaler.