So you decided to make a wonderful present for your girlfriend or sister, mother, grandma…etc. All you know is that she likes amber, but you have no clue what to start from. First of all let us to define what personality she has. Definitely an 18-year-old girl will not appreciate classic Victorian style pendant with massive amber piece and floral design. And your grandma will not be very happy with an eyebrow bar except she has extremely young soul and gothic style. So first thing we have to define is style that depends on age and personality. Second step is to decide what kind of jewellery to buy. Take a look what jewellery the person already has.
Most popular kind of jewellery by statistics is rings, but do not risk buying the ring unless you know exactly the ring’s size. If you still decided to buy the ring besides the style, consider the shape of fingers and palm of person. For example if one has square alike palms and short thick fingers the ring with prolonged oval stone would not suit. In this case the better choice is round, square or heart shape of gemstone not very small it may be even massive if the person has some extravagancy, small delicate ring with thin shank would look badly. Opposite, the long gracious fingers require fine thin shank and gemstone or few gemstones that would suit e.g. oval cabochon or baguette shape. If there is not special occasion such as engagement ring or anniversary ring, the circumstances jewellery will be worn in are important. If it will be every day jewellery the best choice is sterling silver and amber ring, simple modern designed and budged price. If the jewellery supposed to be worn on especial events the gold ring with rare expensive gemstone or masterpiece of designer jewellery would suit better.
Second most popular kind of jewellery is earrings, the first thing here is to find out about subjects ears: are they pierced or not. If not I would not give an advice to buy a clip on earrings they are out of fashion and not practical, every woman wearing clip-ons has a collection of single-without-mate earrings. The earrings have few main styles: stud or post earrings, drops, hoops and link earrings. The most important thing in earring business is their suitability to person’s face. The human faces have three main forms that we can describe as simple geometrical shapes: round, oval and triangle. For the round face is not advisable to wear very long link earrings. The oval shape will look nice with long drop earrings or link earrings. The triangle shape is most common and accepts almost every style but small drop earrings or small hoops are the best. The best way is to buy the same style the person is already wearing. The
earrings are pierced into body so it is very important to find out if the person is sensitive to some kinds of metals, never buy cheap fashion jewellery for the person who has any kind of allergy. Quite often the earring are accompanied with a necklace.
Buying the necklace consider the length of the neck, just imagine a big massive round bead necklace on the short neck, it sounds not very good. The style of fashion is important as well. The person wearing mostly closed, high collar clothes would hardly appreciate a shocker or collie, a pendant would work better. The guidance lengths of necklaces: 14-16 inch extremely short may not suit for some necks, 16-18 inch good for most collies and shockers may suit for small or medium pendants, 18 inch and longer usually good for medium and massive pendants. Choosing a chain for a pendant consider not only length but thickness of the chain as well, some times the retailers sells too thin chain with the pendant because it is cheap, as a result the jewellery repairer has another order to do.
Next quite popular kind of jewellery is a bracelet, all the things described above works for the bracelets. Just think of person's wrist, the bracelet should be proportional not too thin or too thick. It is better to buy slightly longer bracelet, usually it is possible to remove one or two links afterwards. If the person linked to extravagancy a big designer bracelet is a good choice.
In conclusion just few words about broaches and pins, this kind of jewellery seems to be nearly forgotten, but still popular among some old fashioned ladies. So if your grandma is wearing classic jackets or coats with wide collars, or knotted scarves be sure she will appreciate a good amber broach in classic style.
