Gone are those days when you wore jewellery only on special occasions. It’s 2021 and Zariin is here to tell you to wear jewellery every day. There are so many benefits that are associated with wearing jewellery every day, especially if it’s gold jewellery. Along with these benefits, we have also enlisted some of our easy-to-wear, 22kt gold plated, everyday jewellery below for you to choose from.
Overcome All Your Moods
For when you’re feeling stressed, sad, upset or anxious – you have jewellery to lift your moods. There are times when you might feel like nothing is working out for you. And while we all have such days, you can switch your mood by wearing Zariin’s gold plated jewellery. When you wear jewellery that makes you feel good and put together, you find yourself to be more expressive. It also gives a boost to your emotional wellbeing, makes you more mindful and the feeling of a powerful metal like gold on your skin can act as a de-stressor, a much-needed tool today.
A great piece of 22kt gold dipped jewellery that you never have to take off is our Flow Of Chakra Necklace with 7 gemstone beads that denote a chakra each. Chakras are energy points in the body that are believed to affect your mind, body & soul. If subjected to stress, the chakra linked to the subject or emotion can be blocked thereby, preventing you from your best state of being. The necklace includes delicate beads of Red Jasper, Orange Carnelian, Citrine, Malachite, Blue Topaz, Lapis Lazuli and Moonstone.
Walk On The Road To Positivity
Keep the negativity at bay with the Evil Eye that wards off bad luck. It is believed that when someone is envious of you, they can send bad luck your way. Wearing evil eye jewellery every day can protect you against bad energies and channel your good fortune.
One of our favourite pieces for this purpose is the Power Of The Eye Bracelet. This 22kt gold dipped bracelet easily slips into your everyday dressing and is the easiest way to adorn a protective piece of jewellery. There are many other collections that work with talismans to cleanse your aura and protect you from toxicity. You can also read more about The Charms Story Collection, here.
Natural yellow diamonds come in a wide variety of colors and shades, making these rare gemstones all the more special and unique. Unlike clear diamonds, which are structured of 100% carbon molecules, the colored diamonds include a second element. These diamonds attribute their unique coloring to trace amounts of nitrogen in their atomic structure. The nitrogen refracts the light in a slightly different way, resulting in a very distinct color. Yellow diamonds come in hues ranging from a deep brownish-yellow to a vibrant sunshine gold color. You can also find yellow diamonds in a soft, translucent whitish yellow hue.
4 Types of yellow diamonds
1. Canary Diamonds
Canary diamonds are the first type of yellow diamond that usually springs to mind, named after their intense, vibrant canary yellow shade. These gemstones are beautiful paired with yellow or white gold, making for some very eye-catching yellow diamond engagement rings.
2. Zimmi Yellow Diamonds
This type originates from southern Sierra Leone, and is known for its exceptionally strong dazzling yellow. Due to the unique geological conditions under which these diamonds form, Zimmi diamonds are so rare that they make up only 0.8% of all yellow diamonds on earth. The Zimmi may be the youngest type of yellow diamonds that we know about.
3. Cape Diamonds
Paler yellow diamonds are known as Cape Diamonds, because they’re found in the Cape Province in South Africa. Geologists often debate whether these enchanting small light diamonds should truly be classified as “yellow diamonds,” as they fall somewhere in between yellow and white on the D-Z color scale. This label changes nothing in terms of the cape diamonds’ exquisite beauty, but it does place them in the range of greater affordability.
4. Champagne Diamonds or Cognac Diamonds
Dark yellow diamonds are the rarest of the yellows, and they typically cost the most. Known as Champagne Diamonds or Cognac Diamonds, these precious gemstones possess an internal fire of golden light, and claim some of the biggest diamonds ever recorded. Earth’s current largest cut diamond is called Golden Jubilee, an enormous 545.65 carat Champagne Diamond owned by the royal family of Thailand. Its discovery in 1983 superseded the more famous Great Star of Africa, a 530.4 ct. Champagne Diamond found in 1908.
Color
The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) uses the D-Z scale to define the exact color of diamonds. D is the clearest and most colorless; Z is the darkest on the scale. Interesting to note, the pricing of diamonds is greatest at the two ends of the spectrum, since both absolutely clear diamonds and vibrant yellow diamonds are the most rare.
Clarity
Clarity means the absence of abrasions, inclusions, and blemishes. The GIA specifies 6 possible degrees of clarity in a diamond:
Cut
The quality of the cut determines the number of facets on the face of the diamond, and therefore has a great deal to do with its sparkle. Cut quality is measured by symmetry and polish, and graded on a scale of Excellent, Very Good, Good, and Fair.
On a grey January morning in 2019 Meghan Markle emerged onto a London street on her way to a meeting. She wore a smart coat and heels, but it was not her clothing that caught the attention of the world. It was a pair of glittering drop earrings embedded with diamonds that had been grown in a lab.It took just five days to grow the diamonds adorning Markle’s ears according to Sidney Neuhaus, co-founder of Kimaï, the company that made them.
Based in Antwerp, the capital of the world’s diamond business, both she and her co-founder Jessica Warch grew up in diamond families. Nauhaus’s father owns a diamond jewellery shop, and her grandfather worked for De Beers, making his career in diamonds after World War Two. Despite their illustrious family histories in the trade, Neuhaus and Warch chose to break away from conventional diamonds because of the environmental and humanitarian toll of extracting them. Millennials and now Generation Z – who together are the main purchasers of diamonds for engagement rings – are moving away from conventional diamonds, with nearly 70% of millennials considering buying a lab grown alternative. (Read more about the rise of guilt free gems.)
So what are lab grown diamonds, and are they really a more sustainable alternative to traditional mined diamonds?
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First up, a lab-grown diamond is a diamond: chemically, physically and optically identical to a mined diamond. Naturally occurring diamonds are forged in the crushing pressure and immense heat of the Earth’s mantle around 100 miles underground. Most were formed between 1bn and 3bn years ago at a time when our planet was hotter than it is today.
Lab-grown diamonds are also created using extreme pressure and heat, but inside a machine rather than the bowels of the Earth.
There are two ways to grow a diamond. Both involve starting with the “seed” (a flat slither) of another diamond. The first lab diamond was made using a High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) system, where the seed is then placed amidst some pure graphite carbon and exposed to temperatures of about 1,500C and pressurised to approximately 1.5 million pounds per square inch in a chamber.
More recently, another way to grow a diamond was discovered, called Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). This involves putting the seed in a sealed chamber filled with carbon-rich gas and heating to around 800C. Under these conditions the gases begin to “stick” to the seed, growing a diamond carbon atom by atom.
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