Materials

Materials Used in Glammerish's Products

Glammerish.com's jewelry predominately consist of breath-taking and near-flawless Swarovski Crystals, gold filled, vermeil, sterling silver and copper metals, semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls and much more! Our designs varies from delicate and dainty, simple, bold, funky, lovely and intricate to unique and unexpected. We believes that jewelry designs should be not limited by rules and synchronized patterns.

We make every effort to cater to the needs of our customers and be sensitive to their design appetites. We clearly understands that in today's "fashion world" women wear jewelry that coordinates with their outfit and they dress according to their personality, mood and so on. We keep all of this in mind in order to appeal to the personalities and characteristics of all women of all ages.

Swarovski Crystal is considered by many people to be the finest quality, full-lead crystal made today. It contains a minimum of 32%PbO, making the crystal optically very pure. The crystal is then faceted with tremendous precision, creating beautiful prisms. Brilliant colors and/or coatings are added to these crystals to create pendants, stones, and beads of dazzling beauty and tremendous variety of shapes and sizes. Swarovski Crystal is unmatched in quality and distinction.
When Daniel Swarovski first brought a sparkle to crystal, over a hundred years ago, he could never have imagined what a development he was setting in motion. With fantasy, intuition and technical finesse, he and his ancestors have managed to expose all the facets hidden within this fascinating material. Today, sparkling Crystal Components in thousands of colors, shapes and sizes provide a fantastic palette of inspiration for designers and manufacturers. Over and above this, we create sparkling jewelry.

Gold filled metal is an attractive and cost effective alternative to solid 14 karate or any other karated gold.

All gold castings start with pure 24 karat gold. 24 karat gold is too soft to use to make jewelry. For jewelry, this pure gold is mixed with an alloy to provide the strength needed for continued wear. These alloys may be copper, zinc, silicon, nickel, silver or boron to name a few. The mixture of metals then designates the gold as 18K, 14K or 10K and so on rather than pure 24K.

The requirements to label a product as being gold filled:
Gold filled is a hollow tube of usually 14K gold (sometimes 10K is used) that is filled with another metal. The exterior of the gold filled jewelry is solid karated gold and everything you can see or touch is a solid layer of karated gold.
This tube of karated gold is approximately 100 times thicker than gold plate. It is made by bonding with heat and pressure - with normal wear and tear the karated gold will never tarnish, chip or wear off. By law this layer of karated gold has to be at least 1/20 of the total weight of the metal portion of the piece of jewelry.
In the USA this process is referred to as ‘gold filled’. In Europe the same process will be called ‘rolled gold’. Both terms are synonymous with each other. Many jewelry purchasers outside the jewelry trade mistakenly think 'gold filled' is the same as 'gold-plate'. Gold filled is a much higher quality product than gold plated.
As less gold is used, gold-filled or rolled gold jewelry is a cost effective alternative to karated gold jewelry.

Plated-Gold versus Gold filled:
There is no legal requirement for the amount of gold that is ‘plated’ over the base metal. Therefore, your plated-gold jewelry can start to look bad after a few wearing or look good until you are tired of wearing it. *Hence the reason why we are no longer incorporating it into our premium designs .

Gold filled

Swarovski (Austrian) Crystal

Gold Vermeil

Gold Vermeil is made of sterling silver with a high-quality 22kt gold plating. Vermeil componets will lend timeless glamour to your jewelry. Vermeil is a costly alternative to gold filled which results in higher price tag for the jewelry item(s).

Sterling Silver
Timeless, versatile and ever-popular, sterling silver beads are available in a wide range of shapes and finishes for all jewelry designs. Sterling silver beads are composed of 92.5% silver.

Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. The minimum millesimal fineness is 925.
Other metals can replace the copper, usually with the intent to improve various properties of the basic sterling such as reducing casting porosity eliminating firescale, and increasing resistance to tarnish. These replacement metals include germanium, zinc, platinum as well as a variety of other additives including silicon and boron. A number of alloys claiming firescale and/or tarnish resistance have appeared in recent years sparking heavy competition between the various manufacturers and their different formulations. No one alloy has emerged as an industry leader or standard and ongoing alloy development is a very active area. Which is why all sterling silver does not have the same shiny finish and anti-tarnish behavior.
Chemically, silver is not very reactive — it does not react with oxygen or water at ordinary temperatures, so does not easily form a silver oxide. However, the other metal in the alloy, usually copper, may react with oxygen in the air.

Copper has a high electrical and thermal conductivity, second only to silver among pure metals at room temperture.
Copper is a reddish-colored metal; it has its characteristic color because of its band structure. In its liquefied state, a pure copper surface without ambient light appears somewhat greenish, a characteristic shared with gold. When liquid copper is in bright ambient light, it retains some of its pinkish luster.

From the sparkling blue fire of rainbow moonstone to the earthy tones of tiger's eye, semi-precious gemstones display an unlimited palette of color and radiance. We use a great selection of these naturally occurring minerals from the earth. Also use a few man-made stones such as opalized glass and goldstone in our collection. If your jewelry design calls for semi-precious stones, you'll find exceptional quality

Semi-Precious Gemstone Beads

Copper

Our natural pearl designs are made using freshwater pearls. Contemporary freshwater pearls are available in a beautiful spectrum of fashion colors. These pearls are colored using an electroplating process so they will neither fade nor wash away.

Freshwater Pearls