Tuesday 25 July 2017

Gold Testing (What Gold Buyers Don"t Want You to Know!)


Right, hi guys. Today I’m going to show you how to check the karat, the weight, and the value of your gold before you send it out to any gold buyers in the mail and or take it to your local jeweller. Get rid of it, trade it out for cash for gold.


Alright so we’re going to start with this 21 karat gold chain I have here, you can see that or not, come closer and but we can do is take a loop right here which I got actually on eBay with all of this stuff right here. This is all the testing solutions for platinum, 22 karat gold, 18 karat, 14 karat, ten and also silver. Got a little stone right here, I’ll show you how, what that is used for in a second and also a jewellers scale right here.


I got all of these things right here on eBay for 20 bucks okay super cheap and super worth it if you’re going to you know if you’re considering selling your gold jewellery. So you know, have a good idea of what it’s worth before you just blindly put it in the mail and get whatever you get not knowing you know what it’s really worth. Because people will pay you less, not more. So on that note to test this necklace to see if it’s really you know a 21 karat piece, because a lot of times some pieces will be stamped one thing but not read for what it is stamped for it, could be you know nineteen karat or 18 karat versus 21, sometimes that happens you know.


So what we’re going to do is take this chain and rub it on this stone so we leave a trace of the necklace on the stone. What we’re going to do now is take the highest solution that I have here, the 22 karat, you always no matter what you’re testing, always start with a higher grade of solution and by the way this is a blend of muriatic and nitric acid; highly corrosive, don’t get it on your skin.


9ct Round Curb Chain (HM-CUR-0005)-335It’s very easy to manage in these little eyedropper bottles, so just put one drop on the stripe that you put on there, just smear it on there and you wait a few seconds and start to see what happens here is that if the karat of gold it’s less than the solution that you are using on it, it will be dissolved, it will be pretty much disappear under the solution. See how you can see the gold stripe is kind of clearing up, it’s breaking up, the acid is eating the base metals of the little the gold that’s in there, breaking it off the stone. So you know it’s definitely not a 22 karat chain, okay doesn’t say that it is, but that’s what we have to start with.


So we’re going to wipe it off that stone, we’re going to make another stripe of gold on the stone, okay and then we’re going to go down to the next solution, the 18 karat solution. Now again just a drop is enough, just rub it on there and see what happens.


Now you may or may not be able to see this but the gold is still on the stone. Okay you can still see the gold particles they’re not lifting off the stone so much as they were when the 22 carat solution was on there. So we know it’s definitely at least 18 carat, if not higher.


Let’s give it the benefit of the doubt that is a 21 carat gold chain. Clear that up, put that aside, next thing we’re going to do is weigh it. Okay you’re on the jeweller scale you turn it on and you don’t touch it, you don’t touch the table or anything let it set itself at zero and gently put the gold on there and it shows 24 grams.


You see that? Put it over, 24 grams okay and with that we’re going to calculate the value of the gold. Today on kitco.com, which is the website that most gold buyers refer to when they are checking the precious metal price, the current metal price of the day whether it’s platinum, gold, silver what-have-you. Today was 1181 or when I checked it, it changes all you know minute by the minute by the hour it was 1181 per troy ounce.


Now there are but I have 24 grams here how does that relate to a troy ounce? Well there are 31.1 grams in a troy ounce, so what we’re going to do, the way we’re going to calculate this, is we’re going to start with the world spot price per troy ounce which is 1181.  Okay 1181 and we’re going to divide that by 31.1 because that’s how many grams are in a troy ounce.


So we’ll see how much per troy ounce gold is going or how much per gram gold is going for. So divided by 31.1 equals 37.97; okay $39.97 per gram for 24 karat gold. We do not have 24 karat gold here, we have 21 karat gold, divide this by 24, breaking down per carat 24 and then we have to multiply that by the karat that we have. To see what that worth is, times 21 karat equals, so we have here is $33.22 for the karat I have.


Okay that’s on the world spot, that’s not what we’re going to get. We are going to multiply that by 24 grams, all right and that gives us $797.45 on the world spot price. But we’re not going to get a hundred percent of that, you know we’re going to take whatever, we’re going to get the difference between the gold buyer, what the gold buyer will pay us.


Typically they’ll keep, you know, if you’re just taking a couple pieces it’s between between 10 and 30% that the gold buyer will keep and you will get the rest. So we get 70 to 90 percent of what the world spot price is of the gold that you have. So on the 797 let’s say I know someone who will pay me 90% okay of world spot price, just for this one piece. A lot of times they’ll pay you more, the more gold the more pieces you have, the more percentage they will give you of the world spot price.


So let’s say so we’re going to multiply that times 0.9 797 times 0.9 equals $717.71; so this beautiful 21 karat gold chain, I can get today, 717 dollars for. On that note get rid of your old gold and cash out know what you’re taken to the bank pretty much, so you don’t get ripped off and good luck.


Video Credit – Sandro Marino



Gold Testing (What Gold Buyers Don"t Want You to Know!)

Monday 17 July 2017

Charm Bracelets


The wire wrapping here is quite secure for adding charms to a bracelet. When using jump rings however, it is necessary for them to be soldered closed. A jump ring will easily open if not soldered, so make sure you visit a jeweller to have the jump rings on your charm bracelet secured. An alternative is to use Link-Locks, these are very secure and can easily be fitted at home with a small pair of pliers or tweezers. You wouldn’t want to lose your charms because you hadn’t fitted them properly.



 


For the charm bracelet base we’re going to start with a length of chain. The chain is cut to the length of what you’d need it for, to fit you and this chain in particular we can either use flush cutters to cut the connectors apart or we can open them up. They’re like these little staples that can be opened and the chain, just take it off. So I’ll save that connector for something else and we’ll start with working with this piece of chain.


To one end we will add our jump ring, so open up the jump ring and put on the lobster clasp. We’ll have our base bracelet ready to go for making it extra pretty, because I particularly really love this chain. But with all the terms added to it is even better.


There we go okay for this charm that we’re going to add I’m going to take a head pin and cut off the head and that gives me a great length of wire to work with. Just cut off the head and now I’ve got a length of wire and on one end I will form a wrapped loop. Before I get to the wrapping part I’ll add my charm, so it’s connected securely to the length of wire.


Open the loop, slip on the loop of the charm, close the loop back up and wrap the wire to complete that wrap loop and securely connect the charm. Now we’re going to do a second wrap loop on the same length of wire so you don’t need to make this section too long, too many wraps, once you’ve got enough and everything’s secure we’ll trim the excess.


Tuck in that end and then form the second loop above the first. Again we’ll start the loop get it so that I’ve got a nice round at the top and then open that loop up. Add it to the chain, close the loop so it’s connected to that link on the chain and then finish the wrap. You’ll want to work it until it’s a nice neat wrap, trim the excess and tuck in that tail. Make sure that everything is nice and clean, until it’s as perfect as you want it.


gold bracelet and charms

Now the bracelet is ready for some colour. On an eye pin I’ve strung a couple of spacer beads and this beautiful crystal bead and I will form a wrapped loop. Now this is an eye pin so it’s a little shorter, so you won’t have a whole lot of length of wire to wrap with. You could also consider doing a simple loop and that would be fine too.


We’ll connect it to the chain, pick anywhere you still have a lot of room to work with on the chain, slip it on, close it back up and then finish that wrap. Then once that wrap is secure I’ll use the loop on the bottom that was from the original eye pin. Open that up and I’ll add a bead to dangle which is just a bead add it to a head pin finish with a simple loop; and that gives me a nice extended dangle as well as gives me a some nice movement, on the charm bracelet.


So we to this point we have our charms added using a double wrapped loop, we have dangles added with a double simple loop and then an additional dangle added with a simple loop on a head pin. One of the other options would be to on a longer head pin create a wrapped loop and add that dangle.


So we’re really just filling up the charm bracelet. Once the wrap is finished we’ll trim the tail, tuck it in, because you’ll be wearing this you want to make sure all the ends are tucked, in so it’s nice and neat, doesn’t catch on your sweaters or your shirt or your skin.


You can add a charm also using a jump ring, just open a jump ring slip on the charm and just make sure you orient the face of the charms to feed the same direction as the other charms, so that everything’s facing the right way. For some added extra texture and some movement, I’m going to take a twisted wire jump ring and add it over, well just choose this one. And it’ll just hang down nicely over the bead because it’s just big enough to still have movement, but not so big that it falls down over the beads. Just continue adding it until the bracelet is nice and full and in any pattern that you like. We’ll take our leftovers and we’re going to move into the next project.


Video Credit –  www.firemountaingems.com



Charm Bracelets

Monday 10 July 2017

Jewellery Repair


 


Most of the large chain jewellery stores you will find in shopping malls today are simply retail stores. This is a far cry from 30 or 40 years ago, before shopping centres became widespread, and the ‘shops’ you visited on the main street were individual stores run by qualified jewellers.


Finding a real ‘bench jeweller’ isn’t that difficult and you will get personal service from the actual jeweller working on your jewellery. Being able to directly discuss your requirements with the jeweller who will be doing the hands on work is worth spending a few minutes to find a local jeweller. Recommendations from friends will help to find someone you can trust or contact the JAA for a list of jewellers local to you.


The charm bracelets that we supply our customers have the charms fitted here at the Chain Me Up in-house workshop. We also produce our own range of handmade bracelets and earrings, but for complex repairs or creating a new design entirely, we have our own jeweller on the Gold Coast. When our customers come to us with a request for something we don’t have or can’t do, we send them directly to our own jeweller. We don’t charge them or receive a commission for the referral.


Having jewellery repaired or valued has become a task that nearly all major stores send to an independent technician, rather than having a qualified in-store jeweller. The upside to this is that the technician will usually be used by many of the stores in that chain and will be both qualified and competent. They wouldn’t get repeat business otherwise and a large retail chain will feed them a considerable amount of work. The downside to leaving your jewellery repairs to a national chain store is that they will add a mark-up to any work they sub-contract out, costing you more.



Just about everyone has had their jewellery repaired at some point in time. Did you ever wonder what happens to your jewellery when you drop it off at the repair shop? Well today we’re filming from our jewellery repair and manufacturing facility right here at our Beecher road location in Flint.


To give you kind of a behind-the-scenes look as to what happened the multi-step process that every item goes through when it’s brought to our store for repair. Now this is where it all happens but this obviously isn’t where it starts. It all starts when our customer brings in their jewellery. We never take lightly the confidence bestowed upon us by our customers when they leave their valuable jewellery with us.


Whether the items have great actual value or just sentimental value, we go to great lengths to see that the items are given the care they deserve. When dropped off the article undergoes its first of four different inspection processes. Our associate inspects the items not only to verify the repair requested by our customers but also to ensure that there aren’t other pressing needs that can be dealt with while the item is in our possession.


After inspection is finished and all details of repairs explained to the customer, the repair is entered into our computer system detailing a description of the items and a description of the repairs to be done. A digital photograph of each item is also taken, from multiple angles if necessary, that will follow the item as it progresses through each process of the repair.


We then scan each envelope into our computer so that we know exactly where in the process each particular repair is at any particular time. If the item is a watch the job is handed off to our in-house watchmaker and founder and my father Bob Gaines.  Anything else is carried to our in-house jewellery repair facility.


Many jewellery stores have to shift their jewellery out to be repaired to a facility out of the city or sometimes out of state, but no frequent flyer miles for the jewellery left here at Gaines. Barring something very unusual this is as far as any of the jewellery goes.


After a thorough cleaning one of our Goldsmith’s does yet another inspection of their own before work on the article begins. We do a variety of bench work in our facility ranging from prong work to sizing to intricate design and actual jewellery creation. One thing we are proud of is the fact that we own one of the very few laser welding machines in Genesee County. This new technology allows us to work on a heat sensitive items in a manner that allows us a better repair and it’s safer for the article itself.


While the traditional method of joining gold is to use gold solder the laser welder allows us to actually melt the metal together. With the laser being so focused all this is done while holding the article in our bare hand it’s, truly remarkable.


Once the work is completed each piece endures a rigorous polishing cleaning and steaming process. It is after this process is complete that the true beauty of the article becomes evidence. Before releasing the item our Goldsmith’s do yet another inspection just to make sure the repair is correct and the stones are tight and it’s ready to go.


As a final check each job then goes through one final inspection done by myself or one of our associates, just to make sure everything is clean secure and ready to be worn by the customer. Once that is done the customer is notified that their item is ready. Well I hope you enjoyed our little how we do it repair video. Thanks for allowing us to give you a little behind-the-scenes looking to our repair shop and how things work. Remember if you like to be notified when we put out more new informative videos be sure and click the follow us links it’ll pop up here in just a minute and we’ll see you next time.



Jewellery Repair

Tuesday 4 July 2017

7 Jewellery Mistakes Men Make


So what’s the biggest mistake that men make in your opinion when it comes to jewellery?


Guys, write it down in the comments below before we get too deep into this video. I’m curious because in this video I’ve got 7 common mistakes that men make when it comes to jewellery and I’m going to flip those around and I’m going to give you 7 tips on how you can wear jewellery and look great.


So my goal with today’s video gentlemen is to point out the mistake and then flip that around and show you how to use it to your advantage because I want you to think about this. Hopefully I’m going to challenge a few of your concepts when it comes to when to wear jewellery, how should it be worn and even a little about what it actually does.


Now when it comes to jewellery what I’m talking about in this video; bracelets, talking about watches, gold necklaces, we’re talking about rings. Basically ornamental pieces that send a signal and that takes me to mistake number one.


Mistake number one that men make when it comes to jewellery is they assume that it is feminine. Somehow if you’re wearing a necklace, if you’re wearing a bracelet, that this is in the realm of women. That a man should only wear maybe a wedding ring or that he should only maybe wear a watch. Guys, that cannot be further from the truth. We look historically, jewellery, rings all of this stuff it has symbolised power, it has symbolised status, it has symbolised wealth, it has symbolised where you came from and what family you’re a part of. We go back thousands of years, we look at ancient burial sites, where you will find the heads of the tribe. They were buried with their beads, they were buried with the teeth or the bones of the animals they had killed.


More modern, we see that if you were rich, if you could afford to have gold jewellery, you were perceived as a higher level status person in society. Now today, especially in the modern American society, we tried to move away from that but understand that people still pick up on this. There are many parts of the world where this is still a big deal. Understand that for many people when you wear this, it is still a symbol of status.


Mistake number two that men make when it comes to jewellery is that they don’t wear it with confidence. Gentlemen, you have to believe in what you’re wearing and you need to practice wearing it. Two parts there, first off you have to like the jewellery, it has to be something that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you’re like, ‘I like the way that looks’, then this part too, you need to practice wearing it. The first time you start to wear a bracelet it’s going to feel odd the first day. After the second day you’re not going to notice it as much and by the third day, you don’t even notice it at all until someone actually compliments you on it. Until somebody says ‘hey that’s a nice bracelet’ or ‘where did you get that, can I see it’ and that’s the cool part. When you start to wear it with confidence it becomes a second skin, it becomes a conversation piece. Now guys, this video is brought to you by Zorrata, they’re the ones that sent me this bracelet. I’ve got some other ones here so if you go check out their website, let me know which bracelet in particular you like, I’ve got some I’m going to be getting rid of and you guys know what that means, I’m going to send them to you guys but you need to go to their website. Did you like their royal collection, did you like their lion collection. What do you think of their anchor bracelets and by the way their anchor bracelets are one of the most popular sellers. It’s a very simple bracelet, let’s start off with, I know many opf you guys love the look of the anchor bracelet, there’s actually a unique stone set right into the anchor. What I love about bracelets like this guys, is they’re not going to break the bank but they will definitely level up your style if you can pull it off with confidence.


The third mistake that men make when it comes to jewellery is they don’t pay attention to the situation. Understand that if you’re going into an interview and it’s a conservative industry that you wearing a whole bunch of rings, having a nose ring, having earrings, just having jewellery all over the place. It may not send the signal and yes you can say ‘they shouldn’t judge me based off this’ but I understand that people are human. They will judge you, pay attention to those details. Understand that if you go into another culture, if you go into another country they may not perceive that in a positive light.


Mistake number 4 is over accessorising and this basically is wearing too much and not allowing individual pieces to shine. What I mean by that is you can wear less and allow each piece to shine. A lot of guys may like to wear quite a few bracelets or maybe they’re going to go for quite a few necklaces, I like to keep it simple. In addition I like to spread things out, so if I want to wear a watch on one side then that’s where I would wear the bracelet on the other. Now some of you guys are saying ‘Now Antonio, I just love all my pieces and I’m going to wear them all at the same time.’ To me you should have a rotation, especially if you’ve got a few favourite necklaces; you maybe have a few favourite bracelets. Find a rotation that works for you, don’t wear everything at once.


Mistake number 5 is not wearing the ‘right’ piece of jewellery for you. You want to pay attention to proportion, you want to pay attention to skin tone. So proportion, what do I mean by this? I’ve got two bracelets right here. I was sent both of these by the sponsor and Zarrata, when I looked at these, I’m like you know, very similar bracelets, but the one I decided to wear and I’ve been wearing is a little bit smaller.


I’ve talked about this, I am relatively a smaller guy, especially when it comes to wrist size. So because of this I don’t want to wear something that’s oversized or gaudy but if you’re six foot five, 300 pounds and you’ve got huge 8 inch wrists, well in that case, you want to make sure the watch, you want to make sure that whatever you’re wearing is going to be sized appropriately. Otherwise it’s just going to look too small.


When it comes to skin tone you either are cool tone or you’re warm tone. For me the easiest way to look at this is to look at your blue veins. If you can see the blue in your veins, most likely you’re cool toned. If you’re warm toned, you’re not going to be able to see them very well, but what colours have you always naturally gravitated towards gold or have you gone towards silver?


The  6th mistake men make when it come to jewellery is that they do not maintain it. Guys, this is abig one. It can cost you a lot of money especially if you have some precious stones in your rings. Now my wedding ring, relatively very simple, no stones in it but my wife’s engagement ring I can tell you I spent a lot of money on that thing and I did notice that her stone is starting to become loose. I’m going to take it into the jeweller and they’re going to basically tighten it up and make sure that stone doesn’t fall out. Even if you don’t have stones, understand that you don’t want to be using toothpaste and yes it may give that initial first clean, but that’s so abrasive it’s going to damage oftentimes a lot, it’s can actually damage the metal. If you spent a lot of money on your jewellery you want to take it to a jeweller who can treat it with respect and use the right materials. Things like alcohol cleaners, the problem if you’ve got opal, if you’ve got turquoise, if you’ve got emeralds, these are very delicate stones that can be damaged if you don’t treat them correctly. The worst thing is when you try to take care and you do it yourself and you end up damaging. Take your stuff into a professional jeweller.


Finally, mistake number 7 gentlemen is don’t shower or wash with jewellery. So with this bracelet right here, it has an elastic band in it. I’m not going to be mistreating this, I’m not going to be throwing it in hot and cold water. It will basically cut the life of this significantly, the same actually for many of your rings. They are going to get soap scum on them, underneath some of the stones that are also going to lose their brilliance because you’re going to get hard water on there. Anyone who does any type of cleaning jewellery can tell you that it’s some of the hardest stuff to remove.


Video Credit – Real Men Real Style



7 Jewellery Mistakes Men Make

Monday 3 July 2017

The Best Earring Styles For Your Face



One of the things that I’ve wanted to do for a really really long time is do a video on what earrings you can wear and so often here in the shop, see customers walk in and they have no idea what kind of earrings look good on them and what they can wear and really get them to think outside of their boundaries and they leave here with earrings bigger than they ever thought they could wear.


I came up with this device with this chart to show you the easiest way to try and figure out some of the earrings you can wear that you probably don’t think you can wear right now. The first thing you are going to want to do is you’re going to find the widest place on your face. What we did is a chart here and it’s not terribly complicated. Here we’re showing a lot of times, this is a diamond or oval shape, the widest part of her face is her forehead. In this particular face and this lends itself more to the ovals and the rounds, is it is right across the cheek line. This is very important for you to know and also in a square type shape you’re wider down at the bottom.


The reason this is terribly important that you understand these things is that it is going to help you with the proportions and the length of the type of earrings that you can wear. When we talk about balance and proportion it’s also important to understand your jaw line and what that is. There are 3 types of jaw line, there’s a square jaw line which you see in a square face. There’s a rounded jaw line and all of this is going to affect the shape and the length of the earring you can wear, and also there’s a more pointed.


I want you to consider that when you start to see some of the earrings that we’re going to show you on these faces. I told you the most important thing you have to work with to decide the proportion and the right earring is where is the widest area of your face. I thought, let’s take these in detail and put some earrings to them to show you how it works.


In this particular case the widest area is at the forehead and this is a narrower chin line. This is important because this actually is a very popular face style. What a lot of what we see now will work with this and also some other ones that have narrower jaw lines. The area I look at when I’m looking at where I’m going to put the balance of the earring is right in this area here, where I’m looking to put some kind of detail. The weight of my earring, the bulk of the weight of my earring I want to do here in this particular face style, not up here.


That’s not necessarily a bad thing because one of the things I was taught by a jeweller in Italy was the closer the jewellery goes to your eyes the more you emphasise your eyes. The longer your jewellery goes down, the more it’s going to emphasise your face. This is a sexier look, this is a more romantic look so that’s something to consider that’s beyond of what we can wear.


Let’s do some particular jewellery lines. This is a bigger one, I’m going to tell you I don’t do little very well, and if I do little, I do it with a bright colour because the only times I do little is if I have a really ornate necklace and it calls for just a little bit of light at my face but the focal point is the necklace. In a situation like this if you can see I put an earring like this on its filling the area that I’m talking about, this is very flattering. In fact it doesn’t really show it here, but when this does on a tilt, this is very sexy and I also like earrings that have movement. This is a nice earring as you can see with this particular style. It’s not necessarily that you can only wear that wider, here is another style that I really like. This goes with a lot of them. I’m going to try to do this without dropping him but you can see what’s happening. Again it’s filling in and it’s down in this area here which gives us the most attractive look. It’s also filling a lot of colour to the face, it helps with your skin tones.


Your hair colour is going to make a little difference. This is one of the ones I hear that people can’t wear all the time. It’s a long one but it’s very popular. We get a lot of people, see what’s happening here? Your neck will be affected, if you have a shorter neck you don’t want to get too much under here in this particular type earring but a lot of times if you expose your neck and have your neck line exposed you can wear these a little lower because it’s going to settle a little bit on your neckline. You wouldn’t do this if you have a collar because it’s going to be in the way all the time and I think you’re going to be a little self conscious, but it’s really pretty.


If you want to do that with a collar, this is a great one. This can be as long as you want it and I’ve sold these very, very, long where they were draping down almost to the shoulder.  You see you don’t have to worry because the balance of the earring is up in the jaw line, filling it in and doesn’t she look pretty with that colour? This chain can be as long as you want, I’ve sold them all the way down so this is another pretty look with this one.


There is a trend more so to clip these days. The reason for that is when you do a pierced; it’s going to pull the earring down. Some of these bigger earrings are a little weightier so you need to do a clip. Also a pierced earring can never be positioned exactly on the ear. It’s only going to be wherever your hole is or where ever it pulls down. This idea of a clip being where you can actually position this on the ear where ever you want is really nice because you can put it in detail to your face.


There are earrings that have right and left. The ideal way is to have your earring, and this is a good example, flowing always into your face. See how it looks if it is on this side? So on this earring you want to make sure whatever you’re doing, so it always wants to be flowing into your face. This is a lot of tips for how you want to wear it for this particular style and this is an easy one to show.


The widest part in a round shape is across the cheek line and this shape is a little more demanding. You have to consider if you have a shorter or longer neckline and your hair becomes extremely important in this. One of the easy things right off the bat is, if you don’t do anything, is that you want to start thinking about that area that you have which is right in here. Notice that it’s dropped lower and it’s a little smaller than it would be especially now that might be bigger if you have a longer neck, so you have to take that into consideration.


Here we have an area and see how pretty this looks, I like a geometric shape when you have a round face because it’s a contrast to the round and it pulls away with that constantly doing that. Another area here that’s always good is if you’re going to wear round earrings, it’s always lucky if you have short hair cuts and you can bring the weight where they’re going to widen you out up here. This will help you a lot to wear more types of earrings too.


Another thing that’s different about this hairdo and I’m going to use one of the other earrings, this shape I should say, is you really want to drop. If you have a long neck and a round face I definitely would be wearing the longest earring you can possibly get, because it’s really going to help you. Look at the difference between this and if you drop this earring down here. Again, I’m going to emphasise clip where you can position the earring exactly where you want to. This can be very very pretty and I just might point it out to you, this is definitely very romantic because this is the widest part, so whenever you emphasise up here remember it’s romantic.


These little round faced people are going to be sexy all the time because they’re going to have longer earrings to draw it out. We’ve come to the part now where it’s mostly identified with square faces and it’s where the widest part of you is at the bottom or around your chin line. This is usually accompanied by more of a rounded or squared chin line. What we want to do here is opposite of what we’ve done with the last two faces. We want to bring the weight away from the widest part of your face and bring it up here more towards your eyes and closer to the ear.


Just to show you the difference, here’s an earring we used in one of the others and when we were using it, we were using it like this; we were using the weight to drop down in this area and as you can see with this particular type of jaw line, it’s not as good. If we move it up and bring the weight up around the chin line, look how much better that earring looks. It’s really important to understand that you want to keep the weight away from the widest part of your face and it really show here.


Another good example that we used in one of the others, and this was when we used this one in the round, is remember how we used it in the round, we showed it here and it fit in so nicely. It doesn’t look as well here, look how much better it looks if we take the weight and put it at the top. Again, keeping it in the wider part. Remember a lot of eye makeup here will be very pretty because you’re going to be emphasising your eyes a lot when you have a square face.


Another one that shows it and this also emphasises that you need a left and a right earring. Now a lot of people think you should bring this shorter here but it doesn’t because the line, it goes out. This is one of those right, but remember we have the weight up by the ear, this is the right side for this earring , that goes into the face and look how pretty that is.


These are just some of the ideas we have that can show you the kinds of earring you can wear. You can wear bolder earrings and then the right place and you don’t feel uncomfortable. Showing you some earrings that you can wear with certain face shapes to get you the best results but most important is you shouldn’t be missing an opportunity to make yourself look more beautiful.


Video Credit – Marilyn Hellman



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