Break The Monotony With Green Engagement Rings

Engagement is a special occasion. Engagement rings are often chosen with a lot of love and excitement. But one thing that is always in the sub conscious while choosing an engagement ring is that it needs to be a less ornate than the rings chosen for the wedding. While being very beautiful and elegant and unique in design and the overall appeal, it also needs to be a little less ornate.

Gemstone Studded Green Engagement Rings

Pinks and blues have been over exploited colors in engagement jewelry. Green engagements rings are a fresh change from the regular colors. Gemstone rings are preferred in the engagement rings by many. Go for green engagement rings studded in thin silver, gold or platinum bands. A lot of gemstones are found in beautiful shades of green ranging from light lemon green, to bright leaf green to deep henna and algae green. Any of these colors can be explored for green engagement rings. Rather they offer a pretty good choice when combined with a few highly brilliant crystals or any other gemstone.

A few of the gemstones that are available in different shades of green are citrine, chalcedony and tourmaline, Chrysoprase is also lemon-yellow kind of a green. Different colors give different hues to the metal bands that they are studded in, specially in silver. The darker shades of green tend to have a reflection on the silver, making it look all the more beautiful and mesmerizing.

If light and peppy is your style, get a citrine or a chrysoprase ring, green tourmaline ring is a bright ring with two different finishes available in it. One lustrous with prism like cuts and the other with smooth finishes. Both look nice. Chalcedony is a smooth finish stone that offers very beautiful green engagement rings. The designs and style available in chalcedony – green engagement rings offer a lot to those who looking for something subtle yet smart.

Citrine Ring

Chalcedony Ring

Tourmaline Ring

Turquoise Jewelry: The Charm of Blue-Green Hues

Turquoise gemstone jewelry is a popular trend these days. It is actually a soft textured gem which is known to have a porous cryptocrystalline structure. It comes in varied shades of blue and green and is a renowned spiritual jewelry to enhance trust, kindness and wisdom within an individual.

Turquoise jewelries can be teamed up with evening gowns, formal dresses or any other party special dresses that you want. The simple pieces can be carried at office or small get-togethers too.

Indian, Forehead Jewelry Ornaments

The concept of forehead jewelry comes from India. Drastically different patterns as hair jewelry accessories have also been found in Egypt. But Indian jewelry with it's classic appeal has found popularity beyond boundaries. The Islamic culture also shares the passion for hair and forehead jewelry with its chunk jewelry ornaments worn on one side of the hair, closer to the forehead. All these pieces of forehead jewelry and their usage has been limited Asian and Islamic states only.

Indian jewelry is gold and gemstone rich jewelry. Gold has unusual important in Indian festivals and occasions like marriage. The bride is laden with jewelry from head to toe. There are different types of ornaments that are used for adorning the hair and the forehead. Maangtika is a term used for a small chain like ornaments that is put on the center hair partition of the bride and a small pendant rests on her forehead. This forehead ornament is often made of gold and a mix of gemstones in a variety of colors. Desired mix of colors can be achieved by choosing the gemstones that occur in specific colors like blue, green, red, deep red and black. In this ornament, usually the chain that goes back into the hair is of gold and the pendant is a chunk of any of the red stones like carnelian or tourmaline.

Another ornament is the a little more heavier version that goes towards the ears, along the forehead hair line with a big chunk hanging on the forehead. This is heavier and gives more space for including a mix of gemstones in a variety of colors. The combinations that can be put together are green and red, green and black, red and black, orangish wine shades and more. The stones for these combinations can be red garnet, orange and red carnelians, pinkish tourmaline, emerald for green, topaz for blue, black stone jasper and hematite for the blacks and more. Exploring a few more stones will give you a lot of other options as well. In case its proving to be a expensive deal, replacing god with black silver can also be done. Blackish silever also gives a very rich and elegant look to the forehead jewelry.

Colorful Semi Precious Gemstone Jewelry

If diamonds are a woman's best friends, jewelry is can surely be tagged as their first love. Women absolutely love jewelry and their tastes have been varied in different times. But the love is consistent. However, jewelry is not what it used to be ten years back. New styles and patterns have emerged and won the heart of the young generation of women. Beaded jewelry, button jewelry, string jewelry and many more. Young women have always wanted to take a break from the regular metals like silver and gold. But the above stated styles only make for casual wears. So how do we manage the formal affairs ?

Semi precious stone jewelry or the gemstone jewelry is a smart answer to the question. You can buy jewelry in different colors and styles to match your formal wears and party dresses. Lets have a look at different stones that you can look at in different colors. Studded in a variety of metals – gold, silver and platinum, they look absolutely stunning and brilliant.


Pearls: Pearls are lustrous white stones found in the sea. Pearls have always been associated with elegance and austere beauty. White pearls make beautiful jewelry pieces in all forms of ornaments, be it a ring, ear rings, necklace, beaded pearl necklace, bracelets, etc. It is a very good stone to match with formal wears both Indian and western. Also looks good with semi casuals.


Amethyst: Amethyst are beautiful stones found in vivid purple shades. It is basically a transparent version of quartz, which has crystal-like shine and looks very beautiful when studded as a big huge chunk. It specially looks very nice as big cocktail ring or as a long, chunky necklace. Goes well solo, studded in platinum and teamed with western party wears.


Emerald: The best of green shade that is available in more than one versions of the basic green. Emerald looks beautiful when matched with contrasting gemstones. A garnet and emerald combination looks very beautiful in a choker and ear rings set. Emerald can give a traditional look also. Looks very nice when matched with Indian dresses.


Garnet: Garnet is bright red is a nice deep color that will go with red and black both the colors. It does not have much of a luster but looks very nice with a deep red tone. Can also be matched with other pieces of gemstone jewelry. Gold, silver and platinum all look good with the stone, You can also go for string jewelry with these stones strung in exotic designs.