Whether you're going out for a gala night on the town or looking forward to sharing an intimate evening with that special someone, complimenting your wardrobe with your own unique handcrafted jewelry can be the perfect fashion accent.
What better way to express your personality and uniqueness than with a selection of dazzling handcrafted jewelry? Perhaps semi-precious stone handcrafted earrings can enhance the sparkle in your eyes. Or a handcrafted freshwater pearl necklace might offer a brilliant counterpoint to your traditional black dress.
A good rule of thumb to follow when choosing jewelry is, "The more extravagant the jewelry, the more uncluttered the clothes."
Choose colors that harmoniously blend with the colors of the clothing you're wearing. For women, if your neckline is simple, you can wear a fancy necklace. However, if you lean towards pants then heavy, bold handcrafted jewelry would be an excellent choice.
Whether you design or purchase handcrafted jewelry, instead of choosing shapes that mirror your face's shape, consider shapes that contradict it to a degree. In other words, experiment with long necklaces if your face is round and round chokers and hoops if your face is angular.
Women and men have adorned themselves with jewelry since the dawn of time. According to National Geographic, people might have started wearing jewelry as long as 75,000 years ago.
At first we decorated ourselves with bracelets made of woven grass and wore garlands of flowers to adorn our hair. Then stones and shells were thrown into the mix.
Over the course of time different materials that reflected the age were incorporated into handcrafted jewelry designs. As we advanced from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and the Iron Are, metals were added to the motif.
It's interesting that through the ages handcrafted jewelry styles initially are a reflection of the times and then often revert back to their essential elements and, in a sense regress to more basic shapes and forms.
And jewelry can be so much more than an adornment. It can not only symbolize your love, handcrafted jewelry can reflect your religion, or be indicative of your social status and wealth, and authority.
Is it any wonder that a dazzling piece of jewelry can have such an impact on our emotions and our psyche?
In the twenty first century we have an enormous choice of materials and styles to choose from and virtually anything goes.
Are you feeling a bit primitive? Why not wear a handmade replica of traditional tribal jewelry?
Do you want to reflect the age of the romantic poets - the time of Byron and Shelley? Then why not wear handcrafted replica jewelry of the late 18th and early 19th century?
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