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With your skin and hair tones, you'd also look lovely in south sea gold pearls, or naturally golden Akoyas, I think (I AM the voice of pearl temptation!). Those colours wouldn't suit me at all, sadly, although I think they are beautiful in themselves. As an example of how delicate can work...

I use these - the eye collapses as necessary. They don't last forever, but they are great, and the thread doesn't tend to slip out of the eye, either. http://www.cooksongold.com/Beads/Twisted-Wire-Needles-Fine--------0.23mm---Pack-Of-25-prcode-968-010

I think, if I were you, I too would go for the silver freshadamas. Both silver and rose suit your skin, but the silvery overtones are a little bit more "ooomph!" against your skin than the rose overtones, I reckon. They are both really lovely on you, though, so either would be a great strand to...

My Dad will be in Hong Kong - but sadly, not for pearls. He'll be there for legal work, just at the same time (-: He's had a pearl-business type schedule of late, been all over the place - Nigeria and Rwanda in the last couple of months.

I'm going to have a wild guess here - "poofy" doesn't have quite the same connotations in the USA as it does in England..... You wouldn't, I imagine, call it a homo pearl.......? Or a gay pearl...........?

I have some lavender nice quality round freshwaters that are 8mm (those lavender drops are small, 5.5mm long each). It was my Mama admiring both lots of my lavender pearls - the drops and rounds - that made me get her some for her birthday. They are quite large, my mother's pearls, I think 10mm...

1 kg of gimp? How many pearl necklaces do you reckon that'll make, Wendy?

I've never used commercial jewellery cleaner - gin and / or normal soap was what my Granny taught us to use. And gin does bring gemstones to a lovely shine.

Wendy found it - silver and amethyst, perfect for the pearls.

If she doesn't, she hasn't been paying attention (-: The Christmas before, I gave her a tin-cup tahitian necklace and earring set, that she wears a lot. Tahitian pearls look great on almost everyone.

My darling Mama's gorgeous, with or without pearls (-: She's 65, but manages to look a good decade younger.

She looks lovely in it - you need to imagine she's not wearing an apron for the full Christmas posh effect, though (-: And no, not in a bar lol

Love all the "real life" pearl shots! I'm a bit limited in what I can wear in day-to-day working life. Our dress code is pretty strict at the Bar in England and Wales - either very plain black / dark grey skirt or trouser suit, or equally plain black / dark grey dress and jacket combination...

Have you checked over the metal for a hallmark? If it's a British piece, it's likely to be hallmarked, and that would tie down year, type of metal and city where it was hallmarked.

They are really lovely. I'm not always a fan of mixed-colour strands, but those really work.

They are gorgeous pearls, and a lovely necklace - the small ones really do set the bigger ones off, a great re-style.

That Tahitian rope is utterly gorgeous.

They are really, really lovely, and suit your skin perfectly.

The pearls were from Wendy, of this forum. Who has some lovely pearls, absolutely gorgeous ones.

Not that many, even the Duchess of Cambridge had a bit of a belly when she left hospital, and she's stick-thin.