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[Red]

I wore a few of my Sea of Cortez keshi pieces today.

The earring with the Winza ruby has a natural SoC pearl (per Douglas, whom I trust to get it right), while the earring on the right is made with a pair of alexandrite that I had. The pendant contains with "Best, Biggest" keshi that year and was harvested on June 6, 2019. The six small stones around the 10mm garnet are alexandrite which can change color between green and purple. Jewelry was designed by T Lee.

There is more about the design of these pieces in the 2019 Pearls by the Bay thread beginning with this post.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/pearls-by-the-bay.12622/post-324733

 

[Katbran]

I love those pieces Red , the pearls are gorgeous and the stones.... those greens especially !!!

 

[Pomelo]

Wearing my new Tahitian 10-12mm keshis - I like the size and especially how they’re relatively flat so sit closer to the ear, which makes them very comfortable.

I heard that keshis don’t need as much “looking after” - is this true please? I would love it if I could sweat and shower in these

Connected to this - is there a thread on the science behind how pearls lose their luster please? I tried looking for a thread on this topic but couldn’t find one.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Nacre is nacre, regardless of the pearl. If your water is chlorinated, I would not shower in them regularly.
Sweat can be rinsed off when you remove the earrings.

Luster can be damaged by exposure over time to lots of things.
• Chemicals: perfume, cosmetics (including sunscreen-- but wear it anyway, and wash it off later! Same for mosquito repellants), hair products, environmental pollutants etc.
• Mechanical forces: abrasion from rubbing against anything harder than nacre (so store pearls by themselves away from other jewelry)
• FWP are given a luster treatment to tighten the nacre. I'm not sure it is known whether the luster thus achieved reduces over time, and if so, how long that takes.

 

[jeg]

Thanks so much, 2thdktr!

BWeaves, you’re doing quite well with your impulse buys! The Pomme de la Mer and new blue Akoya pendant…!!! Fantastic!

Red, I always love seeing your unique pieces. The keshi are so colorful, and set off by the setting and gemstones. Really a wow!

Pomelo, I love your choice of keshi studs! Not only do I love them, but I thank you for reminding me that I need to get out my own Tahitian keshi studs. Mine are around the same size in a silver blue. I wore them all the time and have long forgotten about them. I don’t know who to credit with this but I’ve heard for pearl jewelry, “It’s the last thing on and the first thing off.“ Keshi will not be any more or less durable than any other type of pearl unfortunately. I don’t baby my pearls at all, but I don’t wear them to the gym or to shower or to sleep. Your pearl choices are fascinating me because they are not the typical “gateway” pearls that most people choose.

A mix of pearls- Akoya keshi necklace from Kojima with a SS pendant from PP. The long keshi necklace with vintage gold turtle clasp and the large Tahitian pendant are also from Kojima, and the baroque natural grey Akoya studs (9-9.5) are from Takahashi.

 

[Pomelo]

Nacre is nacre, regardless of the pearl. If your water is chlorinated, I would not shower in them regularly.
Sweat can be rinsed off when you remove the earrings.

Luster can be damaged by exposure over time to lots of things.
• Chemicals: perfume, cosmetics (including sunscreen-- but wear it anyway, and wash it off later! Same for mosquito repellants), hair products, environmental pollutants etc.
• Mechanical forces: abrasion from rubbing against anything harder than nacre (so store pearls by themselves away from other jewelry)
• FWP are given a luster treatment to tighten the nacre. I'm not sure it is known whether the luster thus achieved reduces over time, and if so, how long that takes.

Thank you!

So if I’ve got it right: when chemical and mechanical forces can damage the nacre, it causes light to reflect and refract differently. Therefore, instead of seeing sharp lustre (which I guess is light reflection), light waves are scattered and therefore the pearl looks dull.

And so, does that mean pearls display less orient/ iridescence when they are damaged too (less refraction)?

 

[Pomelo]

Thanks so much, 2thdktr!

BWeaves, you’re doing quite well with your impulse buys! The Pomme de la Mer and new blue Akoya pendant…!!! Fantastic!

Red, I always love seeing your unique pieces. The keshi are so colorful, and set off by the setting and gemstones. Really a wow!

Pomelo, I love your choice of keshi studs! Not only do I love them, but I thank you for reminding me that I need to get out my own Tahitian keshi studs. Mine are around the same size in a silver blue. I wore them all the time and have long forgotten about them. I don’t know who to credit with this but I’ve heard for pearl jewelry, “It’s the last thing on and the first thing off.“ Keshi will not be any more or less durable than any other type of pearl unfortunately. I don’t baby my pearls at all, but I don’t wear them to the gym or to shower or to sleep. Your pearl choices are fascinating me because they are not the typical “gateway” pearls that most people choose.

A mix of pearls- Akoya keshi necklace from Kojima with a SS pendant from PP. The long keshi necklace with vintage gold turtle clasp and the large Tahitian pendant are also from Kojima, and the baroque natural grey Akoya studs (9-9.5) are from Takahashi.
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Thanks @jeg , I can only say that I have been sneakily learning from pearl masters during my many years in lurkdom. It’s been a (very fun!) education, and I’m grateful that so many people shared their learnings and “enduring perfection” pieces with me in the other thread (thank you @Red for that excellent phrase!).

Would love you see your silver blue keshis sometime

PS - re: gateway pearls, do you mean round white pearls? I do have three pairs of white/pinked studs (and many many many faux pearls to try on for shape/size), but I bought them for research/luster comparison purposes rather than enjoyment. Once I have more “enjoyment” pieces that can act as calibration, they will probably go to my mum

 

[CortezPearls]

I wore a few of my Sea of Cortez keshi pieces today.

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The earring with the Winza ruby has a natural SoC pearl (per Douglas, whom I trust to get it right), while the earring on the right is made with a pair of alexandrite that I had. The pendant contains with "Best, Biggest" keshi that year and was harvested on June 6, 2019. The six small stones around the 10mm garnet are alexandrite which can change color between green and purple. Jewelry was designed by T Lee.

There is more about the design of these pieces in the 2019 Pearls by the Bay thread beginning with this post.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/pearls-by-the-bay.12622/post-324733

These are GORGEOUS! And yes! I remember these babies! So happy to see them so well LOVED!
And yes...that Natural pearl is natural indeed. We used to get so many naturals back when I was with the pearl farm. Don't know what is happening today.

 

[2thdktr]

I wore a few of my Sea of Cortez keshi pieces today.

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The earring with the Winza ruby has a natural SoC pearl (per Douglas, whom I trust to get it right), while the earring on the right is made with a pair of alexandrite that I had. The pendant contains with "Best, Biggest" keshi that year and was harvested on June 6, 2019. The six small stones around the 10mm garnet are alexandrite which can change color between green and purple. Jewelry was designed by T Lee.

There is more about the design of these pieces in the 2019 Pearls by the Bay thread beginning with this post.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/pearls-by-the-bay.12622/post-324733

Stunning, Red, just stunning. Wish I lived near your jeweler!

 

[jshepherd]

@jeg that turtle clasp!!!!!!!!

@Pomelo I love the look of keshi pearl earrings. They can be so difficult to match, and your pair looks great together.

 

[BWeaves]

RED: Your pieces are always stunning and unique. JEG: Everything gorgeous, as usual. The turtle clasp is adorable. Pomelo: I love the keshi studs. Flat to the ear, so you get a big pearl look with less weight. The nacre on keshi and baroques is much thicker than on round pearls, but I still take my pearls off to do anything "wet" such as walking and sweating, cooking (splashed vinegar or oil), pulling weeds (sweating), working out or swimming or showering (no no no no). I only wear my pearls while looking fabulous in air conditioning. And I can look fabulous in jeans and pearls, or PJs and pearls.

Pink today. All Kojima. Spring Petals pedant (large pink baroque freshwater pearl from China). 40" ombre' keshi necklace, freshwaters white to pink. Feather earrings with white topaz hooks. It's hard to photograph these feathers. They're pondslime color with lots of irridescence and purple flashes.

Years ago, I never would have put these 3 pieces together. PG members (especially JEG, BAS, and Baby Nurse) have really helped me learn to mix and match my pearls.

 

[CortezPearls]

RED: Your pieces are always stunning and unique. JEG: Everything gorgeous, as usual. The turtle clasp is adorable. Pomelo: I love the keshi studs. Flat to the ear, so you get a big pearl look with less weight. The nacre on keshi and baroques is much thicker than on round pearls, but I still take my pearls off to do anything "wet" such as walking and sweating, cooking (splashed vinegar or oil), pulling weeds (sweating), working out or swimming or showering (no no no no). I only wear my pearls while looking fabulous in air conditioning. And I can look fabulous in jeans and pearls, or PJs and pearls.

Pink today. All Kojima. Spring Petals pedant (large pink baroque freshwater pearl from China). 40" ombre' keshi necklace, freshwaters white to pink. Feather earrings with white topaz hooks. It's hard to photograph these feathers. They're pondslime color with lots of irridescence and purple flashes.

Years ago, I never would have put these 3 pieces together. PG members (especially JEG and Baby Nurse) have really helped me learn to mix and match my pearls.

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Gasp! That pendant has an Über-Pink metallic beauty! Love the earrings...the whole ensamble!

 

[Red]

Thank you for the kind comments. Today I wanted to wear red, white, and blue in honor of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and the beginning of the end of WWII.

The blue is my shirt, the red is the scarf and the white are my SS jewelry. I like smaller earrings, so I was delighted to be able to raid Hisano's stash of white South Sea keshi to find two lustrous drops large enough for earrings. The keshi are set in little h settings. These earrings were among the very few pieces of jewelry that i brought with me to Bali in 2017.

The pendant is a white South Sea pearl set by TLee. As far as I'm concerned the little h keshi SS drop earrings are perfection. Light, lustrous and beautiful.

 

[CatMom]

Thanks so much, 2thdktr!

BWeaves, you’re doing quite well with your impulse buys! The Pomme de la Mer and new blue Akoya pendant…!!! Fantastic!

Red, I always love seeing your unique pieces. The keshi are so colorful, and set off by the setting and gemstones. Really a wow!

Pomelo, I love your choice of keshi studs! Not only do I love them, but I thank you for reminding me that I need to get out my own Tahitian keshi studs. Mine are around the same size in a silver blue. I wore them all the time and have long forgotten about them. I don’t know who to credit with this but I’ve heard for pearl jewelry, “It’s the last thing on and the first thing off.“ Keshi will not be any more or less durable than any other type of pearl unfortunately. I don’t baby my pearls at all, but I don’t wear them to the gym or to shower or to sleep. Your pearl choices are fascinating me because they are not the typical “gateway” pearls that most people choose.

A mix of pearls- Akoya keshi necklace from Kojima with a SS pendant from PP. The long keshi necklace with vintage gold turtle clasp and the large Tahitian pendant are also from Kojima, and the baroque natural grey Akoya studs (9-9.5) are from Takahashi.
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Love these and the turtle clasp!

 

[Tiger]

I wore a few of my Sea of Cortez keshi pieces today.

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The earring with the Winza ruby has a natural SoC pearl (per Douglas, whom I trust to get it right), while the earring on the right is made with a pair of alexandrite that I had. The pendant contains with "Best, Biggest" keshi that year and was harvested on June 6, 2019. The six small stones around the 10mm garnet are alexandrite which can change color between green and purple. Jewelry was designed by T Lee.

There is more about the design of these pieces in the 2019 Pearls by the Bay thread beginning with this post.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/threads/pearls-by-the-bay.12622/post-324733

Wow, they are such unique pieces! Just beautiful! Twins on the Chorus Stellarum.

 

[Tiger]

RED: Your pieces are always stunning and unique. JEG: Everything gorgeous, as usual. The turtle clasp is adorable. Pomelo: I love the keshi studs. Flat to the ear, so you get a big pearl look with less weight. The nacre on keshi and baroques is much thicker than on round pearls, but I still take my pearls off to do anything "wet" such as walking and sweating, cooking (splashed vinegar or oil), pulling weeds (sweating), working out or swimming or showering (no no no no). I only wear my pearls while looking fabulous in air conditioning. And I can look fabulous in jeans and pearls, or PJs and pearls.

Pink today. All Kojima. Spring Petals pedant (large pink baroque freshwater pearl from China). 40" ombre' keshi necklace, freshwaters white to pink. Feather earrings with white topaz hooks. It's hard to photograph these feathers. They're pondslime color with lots of irridescence and purple flashes.

Years ago, I never would have put these 3 pieces together. PG members (especially JEG, BAS, and Baby Nurse) have really helped me learn to mix and match my pearls.

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Love, love, love the pink!

 

[jeg]

Thanks, Jeremy, BWeaves and CatMom! I love the little turtle clasp, too! Sarah had a few different creatures, but my favorite was the turtle. In fact, the necklace originally had another creature on it and she graciously changed it out to the turtle for me. Thank you for the sweet compliment, BWeaves. I’m so glad you stepped out of your comfort zone to mix it up. I’m all for mixing!

Pomelo, I’m glad you came out of “lurkdom” because it’s more fun to play! Yes, in my mind the classic white pearls tend to be the gateway pearls. Generalizing of course, but sometimes it takes a while to appreciate the irregularities and imperfect shapes. Getting out my Tahitian keshi studs reminded me how much I love wearing them. They are in a more accessible place now!

Tahitian keshi studs from Maui Divers, Hawaii.

Golden Akoya strand from Takahashi, little h earrings, and a tin cup I made with vintage Akoya from Pacific Pearls.US/Kojima.

 

[BWeaves]

As usual, I'm drooling over everyone else's pearls.

The Swan from Pacific Pearls in a setting from a local jeweler. When I bought this unusual, leaf shaped, baroque pearl, I thought it was going to be white. I was so surprised when it arrived and was so colorful. The back side is also beautiful, and has a crease down the center, like a leaf. But after it was set, it reminding me of a sleeping swan. It's in a pressure setting, so I can remove it and set it differently if I grow tired of this setting in the future.

Mismatched blue grey earrings from Kojima. They have a coral branch vibe to them. My pants have an "under the sea" pattern on them, so they feel like they match my pants.

 

[Tiger]

I am terrible at taking pics but I’m trying to make an effort. It’s a Tahitian day today.

 

[shafi]

Ok, look...I mean...wow! Pearl by the Bay, Friends, Drinks and magnificent food...I mean, again: wow!
I'm actually considering going seafoodatarian just for one day. Never had real Dungeness crab and that platter does look amazing.
I'll at least try, or pop some oyster mushrooms to fool myself
Great pieces! Those Ombres jeg really beautiful... SurfnSci love your Cortez keshi bracelet and ring!

Pearl by the Bay really does offer an incredible experience with its Dungeness crab and stunning ambiance. Trying seafood for a day sounds like a fun adventure, and those oyster mushrooms are a clever alternative. Glad you liked the Ombres and Cortez keshi pieces!