I got my pretties after dark, and my indoor photos were awful. I'll try again in daylight. I could see it driving pearl sellers nuts trying to give customers a certain color, when what color these pearls are depends so much on the lighting and what color they're up against.
Our regular overhead house lights with the pearls in their black boxes didn't flatter them that much. The smallest (lavender, top ones) appeared sort of mocha grey, the largest (lavender, bottom ones) were sort of grey pinkish, and the middle ones (peach, third down) sort of whitish.
I put them on white paper, and the smallest ones became a lovely soft metallic rose. The medium ones were soft light metallic pink apricot. The word that came to mind was "romantic" for those two pairs. Up close, the pale middle pair had a green glow and it seemed you were looking through the exterior of the pearl to metallic within. The large ones appeared to be silver.
Next, I put them under fluorescent (fish tank) lights. Wow. The big lavenders went bright pink!The small lavenders went metallic smoky pink mocha and I kept thinking "jazz club" (but of course I am not entirely normal). The pale ones still looked soft apricot pink but instead of metallic, they then looked translucent all the way through, like milky see-through glass.
My new pearl earrings all want to go be seen under IHOP (International House of Pancakes restaurant) lights now,
but tomorrow I'll post daylight photos. These are so fun to play with. Anybody else notice this extreme appearance difference with the metallics?
