I'm a June baby and June's birthstone is... cue drum-roll... the pearl... despite the fact that pearls aren't actually stones according to Wikipedia "It is thought that natural pearls form under a set of accidental conditions when a microscopic intruder or parasite enters a bivalve mollusk, and settles inside the shell. The mollusk, being irritated by the intruder, forms a pearl sac of external mantle tissue cells and secretes the calcium carbonate and conchiolin to cover the irritant. This secretion process is repeated many times, thus producing a pearl." but are formed by secretion in response to an irritant,a la tears and nose poop I guess. Not a romantic process for such beauty, but hey...
Stones or not, I do like wearing pearls. They have a soft luster, they pretty much go well with anything and they can dress up an outfit in no time. Unfortunately they are also favored by matriarchs. The key to not look matronly seem to lie in limiting the size of the pearls and pairing them with clean and simple necklines.
I'd recently utilized my birthday privileges at Goldheart and acquired a set of pearls - a short necklace and a pair of pearl ear studs. They are cultured so they aren't expensive and they're round and white with a pale pink hue. Quite different to the necklace I got in Bermuda a few years back which is much longer (I can wind it around 3 times), irregularly shaped and pink to salmon pink in color. One day, I hope to get a string of grey/black pearls, just because they look so cool and I'm pretty sure they'll be as versatile as their white and pink sisters. Come to mama! =D
Stones or not, I do like wearing pearls. They have a soft luster, they pretty much go well with anything and they can dress up an outfit in no time. Unfortunately they are also favored by matriarchs. The key to not look matronly seem to lie in limiting the size of the pearls and pairing them with clean and simple necklines.
I'd recently utilized my birthday privileges at Goldheart and acquired a set of pearls - a short necklace and a pair of pearl ear studs. They are cultured so they aren't expensive and they're round and white with a pale pink hue. Quite different to the necklace I got in Bermuda a few years back which is much longer (I can wind it around 3 times), irregularly shaped and pink to salmon pink in color. One day, I hope to get a string of grey/black pearls, just because they look so cool and I'm pretty sure they'll be as versatile as their white and pink sisters. Come to mama! =D
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