Pearl Jewellery Collection

By London’s favourite online freshwater pearl retailer

ANGELINA PRINCESS — AAA Rating Pearl Necklace 18″ by Carla Pearls

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Tip    A classic single strand freshwater pearl necklace can be pricy, typically costing from £200.00 to up to £1000.00 in high street jewellers in London. However if you shop with some online retailers you can manage to find top quality ones for less than £100.00. This is because online retailers have much less operating cost (less rent and less staff wages etc.). The key is to go with a well established one that you can trust and who can guarantee for the quality of the pearls, especially if you are not familiar with these things yourself.

About Carla Pearls

The London based Carla Pearls (owned by Carla Jewellery UK Ltd.) is an online retailer with excellent reputation, and serves customers from all over the UK as well as Europe. The website is presented in both English and French.

Carla pearls offers dispatch within 24 hours and delivery within 1-3 working days for anywhere in the UK free of charge, and with a minimum cost for orders outside the UK. As well as a 14-day cooling off period where you can return your purchase with no questions asked (provided that item is not damaged).

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A Story about Pearl Jewellery

Pearl jewellery has always been the most popular choice as wedding jewellery, as pearl has always been known as the perfect symbol for purity, elegance and beauty. Women throughout centuries have always loved pearls. At the beginning, always all pearls were white, however towards the first part of the 20th century, black pearl jewellery slowly came into fashion – in fact when black pearls first came into the market they were not liked at all, especially for their naturally uneven overtone, which is today much appreciated as part of its charm. Fate took a turn when a smart merchandiser positioned black pearls firmly in the highest class jewellery, selling them only adorned with diamonds and gold for exorbitant prices. Magically, the market has adjusted its view on black pearls and within a short time, black pearls were perceived as a much more valuable alternative to white pearls. In the most popular wedding jewellery collection, pearl necklace and pearl earrings set are the most standard, while many ladies opt for pearl brooches and pearl tiara as well. Pearl ring is a less likely choice for engagement ring, however they are still very popular.

Nowadays we are very lucky to have the choice of cheap pearl jewellery – much cheaper than 100 years ago thanks to the pearl culturing technique. In fact the price discrepancy here is astonishing. Pearls used to be an extreme form of luxury only afforded by royalty and the upper class. Today most women can afford to treat herself with a strand of freshwater pearls and better still, the birth of faux pearl jewellery brought pearls further down the market line. Today many fashion clothing are accompanied by rich strands of faux pearl jewellery, giving them a classy and chic look at a very low price. However most real pearl lovers still go for real pearls, since they are affordable anyway – fake pearl jewellery are always much shinier than real pearls and much less subtle, also the feel to the skin is very different as well – fake pearl jewellery do not have the natural warmth and tenderness that comes with real pearls. Teenagers though, with less financial means and more open to alternatives, tend to be a big fan of fake pearls. In fact there’s a subtle different between ‘fake pearl jewellery’ and ‘faux pearl jewellery’. The nuance is that, fake pearl jewellery are usually made of pastic – beads that are coated with a shiny pearl like paint. These pearls usually have a slippery surface which are marble like and they are always much lighter. Faux pearls, or stimulation pearls, on the other hand, are actually made with ‘whipped up’ oyster shell power with chemicals. These pearls are basically a middle point between fake pearls and real pearls, as they are made of the same material as real pearls, but not naturally grown out of oysters. Faux pearls are normally more expensive than fake pearls but cheap comparing to real ones, while they are as heavy as real pearls with a similar quality of surface touch. Faux pearls are a popular alternative to real pearls especially in extra large sizes – they stay similar prices in sizes up to 15mm while freshwater pearl prices increase double or even triple, for every increased millimetre in size starting from 8mm.