Earrings – elegant detail of your image
When we want to change something in our lives, we go shopping and try to renovate our wardrobe, or go to the hairdresser to change our image. We are ready to turn over this page of our life and start everything from the beginning. The Blondie becomes a brunette and tells us “I am ready to start a new life”! It is easy to find out the style of the person’s wardrobe just by taking a look at her image and clothes. Such modern accessories as stylish earrings, necklace or a signet-ring will tell about their owner more than the most comprehensive CV.
Modern designers – jewellers produce new, various models of earrings. Why? Just because our modern woman is unpredictable – today she is on a romantic wave but tomorrow a fatal seducer and heart-breaker. The task of the earrings nowadays is to harmonize with the woman’s essence, soul and mind however it might change in a minute. Therefore there should be some more earrings in every woman’s jewellery box that might suit to every situation and mood.
Earrings – history and traditions.
Probably, the earrings are experiencing the peak of their popularity nowadays however despite of this fact – this jewellery is one of the oldest in the world.
Going deeper into the history, we can find information that initially, the earrings were men’s jewellery. Our ancestries tried to protect themselves using the talismans that were put throughout the body. It is known that the first earrings appeared some thousands of years ago in Ancient Asia. Skilled masters made the earrings for men. Ancients Assyrians and Egyptians demonstrated their high social class with the help of earrings. Silver and gold earrings with gems – sapphires, emeralds, rubies – were very popular in ancients Eastern countries.
Ancient Greece and Roma were famous with their jewelleries manufactures as well. Gold earrings, most likely, take the first place in total number and variety of earrings found in the Pharaohs sepulchres. Beautiful Roman and Greek women were pleased to wear their elegant pearl beads earrings demonstrating their wealth and high social position. The notables preferred the variety of gems and were wearing the earrings with sapphires, rubies and topaz.
As it is known, the earrings played not only the role of the jewellery – several traditions and customs appeared because of the earrings. For example, Gipsies made boys wear earrings if they were born after the baby who had died. Every earring in the pirate’s ear showed the ship that was occupied. Experiences sailors put the earrings when crossing the equator. Robbers and thieves did it demonstrating their belonging to the social dregs and protesting against the church.
Ancient Russia also started its earring tradition quite a long time ago. For many centuries the earrings were unusual jewelleries in Russia. When put into the girls’ ears, they demonstrated their social status and the history of the family. For example, the populaces were wearing the earrings made of iron or cooper but rich tradesmen could afford to buy silver earrings. New grand duchesses had to wear gold earrings with rubies and emeralds.
Today, in the 21st century, the wearing of expensive earrings is a part of an image. If the youngsters have expensive earrings made of precious metal, it shows that they are attracted by some culture trend or they have different sexual orientation. Earrings today are the decoration not only for ears, but for the whole body. Piercing is a kind of hobby, art or reason to be noticeable.
Today the earrings are as popular as before several thousands of years. There are many kinds of earrings that differ by their construction and visual appearance. Both men and women are wearing earrings today in all countries of our world.
How to choose the earrings – some tips
Earrings are jewelleries and it is not so easy to get the ones that suit you. The choice of this decoration should have to be carefully considered. The form of the face and the age has to be taken into account before buying the earrings.
The earrings accent the attention towards the owner’s face. If they are well smote the emphasis is correctly put and the best qualities of the face and figure are underlined but the deficiencies – hidden. Earrings can make your face look fresh and attract people’s attention to your eyes. If you want to succeed in choosing jewelleries, define for yourself what exactly you want to accent – hands, eyes or neck. And then it wil be easy to choose one elegant jewellery. Quite universal is a two items set. A great present for every lady is a classical jewellery set. We should not recommend you to obtain bright stones rather choose dark or white as they will be actual after 10 and 20 years as well. A great choise is a stone at a colour of your eyes or hair!
Earrings and age
Young girls should have to wear small, tiny and modest jewelleries – gold, silver or platinum earrings. Remember, the simpler your earrings are, the bigger effect they provide.
You will look great wearing Gipsy style earrings moving together with your motion however think about your image before putting them on.
If the earrings harmonize with your clothes, try the eastern style earrings with colourful stone decors or big circles a la „Hippy Schick”.
Ladies at a respectable age should not have to use too much accessories in their everyday life. Accessories are more or less suitable for the women up to 35. Older ones should afford gems and precious metals – diamond emerald, earrings, use topaz or amethyst: it the exactly the style of your age and the guarantee of a respectful image.
Earrings and figure
Not only has the age played a significant role choosing the earrings but also your figure. Short ladies should not choose long earrings – you might disappear in the general impression!
Long and slim ladies will look marvellous wearing rectangular or round earrings – they will accent your shoulder line and beautiful neck.
Nowadays, the fashion is tended to massive decorations but be aware – the earring do not have to stretch out your ear lobe. It looks terrible and can traumatize your ears.
Choose precious metals for everyday use. Indulge your ears with an expensive purchase because everybody knows that ladies love with ears. Gold, silver, platinum earrings will decorate your ears and you will not be caught into the trouble as it sometimes happens with the bijouterie.
Earrings and face
Women with oval form of the face it is much easier to get the most suitable earrings. Just one warning – earrings with narrow and long pendants will make your face look even longer. Round earrings will be the best for you as they will widen your cheek bones.
If your face is narrow and oval, pay attention to the earrings with different geometric forms. Big squares, triangles will widen your face but polyhedrons will give it a size. Avoid of earrings that look like a drop and the earrings with flat long pendant are not yours as well.
The ladies who have square form face have to soften the face oval and round earring will be your best choice. You will also look great if you choose a flower form earrings.
Women whose face form is wide have to choose long earrings as they will make your face look a bit longer. You should not choose small and tiny, oval and round earrings – you will not look well. Jewelleries that give bigger size – massive ones – are not your best choice as well. Your ideal earrings are a combination of a small drop and long pendant as it will make your face shiny and tiny.
Of course, there are no girls with totally square form face. Saying it, we more speak about the visual lack of chin, the individuals whose chin disappears in the whole face. For such ladies we recommend simple earrings without extraordinary accents. These earrings might have sharp lower part or round edge but you should avoid of the earrings with flat base as they will accent the asymmetry of your face.
It is known that the difficulties might arise when you are trying to soften the face oval – your solution is the emphasis on the upper part of the face. A drop form earrings, the earrings with streamline forms, elegant and luxury ones with vertical lines and tiny strips will help you to reach a maximal effect.
According to the psychologists, the people with round face form can easily get the opponent’s trust. Sometimes they seem too nondependent. Small drop-form earrings will help the lady look a bit more self-confident. These earrings will give the sharpness to your gentle face and its expressions. Use the earrings with geometrical forms – for example a prolonged triangle will be yours for ever. Do not choose oval or round earrings.
It is rather difficult to find the earrings for the lady whose face has a triangular form. Such a face form rapidly narrows at the lower part of the face. Therefore the task for the earrings is to soften the sharp lines. The specialists recommend putting out small earrings – like nails, hearts or circles – that assist in softening the expression of your face. Never buy long earrings as they will make your face form even much sharper.
if the form of your face is heart-like, we offer you to use big circles. This form will stimulate the widening and correction of the lower part of your face.
Earrings help to correct the deficiencies – they sidetrack attention from the nose that seems too big and for that reason choose beautiful earrings with big pendants and modest necklace. But if you think that your problem is big and prognathous chin put the accents to the upper part of the face: small earrings with diamonds or pearls.
Earring and hairstyle
Short haircut for a woman in a combination with big earrings might causes the disharmony of the overall image. You should prefer small earrings.
If you have long hair, try big and impressive earrings.
If you have a upward hairdo thay open the sexiest part of woman’s body – the neck – accent it will most but impressive flirtation.
Thin hair? Very short haircut? Use effective earrings and everybody will believe that you are at the peak of elegance.
Consider on the choice of the necklace and harmonize it with the earrings.
An impressive necklace will greatly go together with modest earrings. If you do not have a necklace, the earrings will attract everyone’s attention.
Lock is an important part of the earring!
Buying the earrings, they have to be carefully examined. Pay attention to the design, stones and a lock that is one of the most important parts of the earring. The lock has to serve you many years; it has to be secure and easy to use. Its form and size has to be proportional to the size of earrings. It cannot be too sharp not to traumatize the ear lobe and cause any discomfort.
Everyday earrings and the ones for the special occasion
The earrings you will choose for everyday use will definitely differ from the ones provided for special occasions. Choose expensive and elegant earrings for special occasions and you will look perfect. They should be made of a precious metal and gems. Such earrings should not be used in a combination with casual clothing. Take ordinary and simple earrings going to school and work. Small stone, well done lock and universal form – these are the keystones for your everyday earrings. Original masterpieces are preferable for special occasions.
Follow the fashion trends!
We all know how changeable is a fashion. Therefore it is worth to pay attention to the latest fashion trends also in the matter of jewelleries. However, if you choose expensive jewelleries, listen to your sense of taste – it will never trick you. There are lots of varieties both in earrings and jewelleries generally – look at your face and figure and decide whether they suit you. There is no sense to buy jewelleries just thinking that they are stylish. The fashion changes, the earrings remain being kept in your decoration box. If you have succeed in getting the best jewelleries for you – congratulations as we will be more than happy if our tips have helped you realizing your wishes!
Earrings for all life events
Today the earrings are made of different materials – starting with platinum and up to the plastic. The earrings have different forms and types – they are various and interesting, providing an original designer’s solution. Taking on account the locks, there the following types of the earrings:
Earrings – nails: modern accessory. It will look perfectly to every face oval and clothing style.
Earrings-pussets: various forms decorated with stones, gems and pendants.
Earrings – circles: popular form of earrings that makes woman look even more womanly. The symbol of romantics and is well suited to smart clothing. They usually fits to the long face oval, they help to widen the face. But as this form is universal, they will look great to everybody.
Earring with English lock: this lock gives additional safety and provides an elegant look. Earring with English lock look more luxurious and they can safely be fixed to the ear. Earrings with English lock have different types of design and form besides they are made of the precious metal only, often decorated with gems.
Earrings with French lock: The lock looks like a loop. However, French lock is not as secure as English one. Anyway, the earrings of that technical style also look very elegant.
Clippers: if you do not want to have openings in your ears, but you are willing to look great wearing the ear decors, use clippers. But remember – the assortment of clippers unfortunately is not as wide as earrings.
Exclusive earrings: usually they are the earrings designed by individual order. They are made of precious metals and supplemented by gems. They can improve every appearance and image and make everybody believe that you are worth of admiration. If you want something original, the exclusive earrings are your perfect choice. Ask your jeweller to realize this dream.
If you are the owner of green eyes, choose elegant earrings with emerald.
The owners of blue eyes will look compelling wearing the earrings with sapphires.
Men’s earring during the centuries
As it is well known earrings are not the decors of only women, they can be worn also by men. Going deeper into the history, we can find information that initially, the earrings were men’s jewellery. Our ancestries tried to protect themselves using the talismans that were put throughout the body. It is known that the first earrings appeared some thousands of years ago in Ancient Asia. Skilled masters made the earrings for men. Ancients Assyrians and Egyptians demonstrated their high social class with the help of earrings. Ancient Rome used earrings to mark the slaves.
During the middle Ages, when the church forbade wearing earrings, the manking had risked to lose this fantastic decor forever. It was a time when earrings became an important part of robbers and pirates’ images. Thanks to it, the earrings survived until the Renaissance. Since then, earrings are an important part of fashionable women and men’s attribute.
Modern men are brave, elegant, individual, emotional and original. Their image has changed during the centuries; they run business, follow the fashion trends and take care not only about their appearance but also about accessories and clothing. The visual appearance demonstrated the men’s attitude towards life and themselves, their social status and behaviour. The men’s earrings fashion trend is one of the modern world’s surprises! Some decades ago people considered that a man wearing earrings has untraditional sexual orientation but today men wearing earrings express the sense of their feelings and life position. The best earrings for men are small circles or nail earrings. Precious metals will accent the wealthy and laconism, do not be afraid of gems. The best choice is modest earrings made of platinum or white gold.
Well chosen earrings are a pass to business success. You can demonstrate your diamond during the meeting to show your status and taste. Business partners will definitely appreciate your image and style. The earring worn by men can tell about good fashion knowledge and other interests. Do not put the old stereotypes towards the man with the earring, rather look at him and appreciate his taste and individual style.
Earring – 2009-2010 fashion trends
The jewelleries fashion tendencies are changeable. Every season there are some innovations and actualities. The main logo of modern earrings – be individual. With the help of expensive and luxurious jewelleries you will always be at the peak of attention demonstrating your taste and privileged status. Many brands today offer to replace diamonds with other gems. The costs for topaz, sapphires, emeralds and peals will be smaller and these gems can guarantee the individual look no worse than diamonds.
The precious metals are also affected by the new tendencies. The yellow gold cannot compete with the light metals anymore. The designers have announced the white metals to be the hits of 2009-2010 fashion tendencies. Platinum, silver and titanium earrings are the most popular ones. More and more silver items have appeared in the designers’ collections.
Somebody will probably say that such fashion is connected with the crisis; however, it is no true. The silver trend has just turned over the next page into its development and history book. Many famous jewellers accept this tendency offering the items made of white metals.
According to one of the most popular French jewellers Thierry Martino “gold and diamonds are boring”! Big stones and massive gold – these are the jewelleries of mature age, more appropriate for persons who have realised themselves in a carrier and support traditional fashion directions.
Eclecticisms and dynamics is a symbol of youth. Try to experiment and play with different combinations leaving alone the traditions and canons.
Massive and bright earrings are one of the logos for the season. Thierry Martino says, “If you think that your jewelleries are bright, flashy and baroque, you have caught the fashion”!
As we have already mentioned before, yellow colour is not a trend anymore however this classical colour is a component part of all fashion displays. The latest trends show the combination of the yellow and white gold.
You can avoid of diamonds this season. Young, successful and wealthy person can demonstrate his status and position using platinum and silver jewelleries with turquoise. It will perfectly harmonize with pearls, sapphires and emeralds.
The earrings with one big stone are also actual this season as well as the ones with many smaller stones of different forms and colours. The fashion experts suggest to buy white metal jewelleries (gold, silver, platinum) and corals – this ring or earring will exclusively decorate everyone during a special occasion. Gems and semiprecious stones have completely replaced the artificial stones.
