Designer Gemstone Jewelry

Gold Disk Necklace , Earrings Tourmaline Stones, Chic Pink Cottage

Heidi Klum -Large button over piercing in addition to a very long shoulder duster.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus : Stud over piercing which has a short chandelier drop

Christina Applegate : Stud earrings

Tina Fey : Stud over piercing which has a 1 inch drop and round gem in the bottoom

January Jones – Small stud which has a 1 inch drop and then a larger round gem right at the end.

From this examples above, none these well dressed women possessed exposed pierced holes. One may conclude from this that designed for formal wear, don’t expose the holes in the lobes.

The history of earrings seems to go out with back to the earliest of that time period. The examples found in the ancient countries were the majority of a variation of this hoop earring, a style that’s still popular today. In Cyprus, from the middle with the 2nd Millennium BC the most popular earrings were painted terracotta like stylised nude females. Earlobes were pierced a few times and large terracotta hoops suspended from them.

In Ancient Egypt jewels were an important part of the costume, worn by men, women and children. Jewelry was also used to adorn statues. The earrings were in a variety of hoop styles. Earlobe piercing was seen and earlobes were quite often extremely elongated and deformed by the use of very heavy ear decorations from early childhood.

In the late 4th Century B . C . earrings were becoming much more elaborate in design. Your earrings often had terminated pendants and chains. Filigree, granulation, leaf, rosettes and doves were all used to decorate the boat or lower half of the hoop.

During the middle Ages and the Renaissance it was a lean time for earrings as a result of fashion of high collars in addition to a headdress that often protected the ears. It took centuries as much about the 1530s for the earring to emerge ever again as hair and headdress designs changed. The new earrings were like plain gold hoops with a pearl drop. It was not until the 17th century that the earrings started to make a real comeback, again they often contained pearls.

By the biggest market of the 17th century earrings were a critical item and they became more intricate and interesting. They used ruby, pearls, emeralds and enamel in floral motifs.

18th and 19th centuries saw some beautiful and elaborate designs, often using semi-precious gems. Also diamonds and pearls and intricate goldsmith techniques.

Early inside 20th century around 1910 to 1930 Art Deco style was popular. Around this time head piercing began to be thought of as barbaric, and clamping earrings to the lobe with a screw fitting became popular.

1947 noticed the feminine new look by Dior. This set the scene for earring design to return to the fore in a creative new way.

1970s saw earring design become larger and more varied. The ever popular hoops were back in demand, many of these hoops were decorated with precious stones.

Then in the late 1970s ear piercing began to become popular again. This trend has continued up until today when almost every woman, a large amount of men and children get their earlobes pierced.

Today the styles are very diverse from studs to help shoulder dusters.

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