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Looking after your costume jewelry will mean you get to enjoy it more often for a much longer time. With just a few simple ways you can care for your much loved fashion jewelry so you get to enjoy it for as long as you want.

Protecting Your Costume Jewelry

Costume jewelry and water just do not mix. So avoid swimming, showering and bathing in your costume jewelry. If it does get wet make sure you carefully and fully dry it out. So this also means avoiding leaving your fashion jewelry in moist places like the bathroom.

Perfume, hairspray, soap, facial creams, moisturizers and sunblock creams are also to be avoided. Put them on first before your jewelry and then gently clean your costume jewelry when you take it off.

Any really dry or moist environments can do harm to your beloved costume jewelry - just like it does with cultured pearls. So as a general rule look after all your jewelry with treasured cared and respect.

Storing Your Costume Jewelry

As a general rule keep your costume jewelry in a clean, gently lit environment and out of direct sunlight.

Showcasing your favorite beaded necklaces, earrings and other costume jewelry pieces with jewelry display stands is a great way to brighten up your bedroom while getting to enjoy the colorful jewelry theme designs you love so much.

Earring holders, necklace stands and ring stands are great ways to also save your jewelry from getting caught up in nasty tangles they get into in jewelry boxes that can scratch and damage.

Usually vintage costume jewelry is store in individual boxes, wrapped in acid-free paper to protect it. Vintage jewelry needs extra special care, especially as some of the Bakelite and similar components can become brittle with long exposure to sunlight.

Cleaning Your Costume Jewelry

Cleaning costume jewelry is done gently with a cotton bud and with a little bit of distilled water that is fully dried off. Make sure you avoid acids and other stringent cleaners as they can remove colors as well as breaking down any jeweler’s glue so pieces loosen and fall out.

So keep the cleaning simple and gentle and your costume jewelry will last for ages for you.

Enjoying Your Costume Jewelry

The best way to get the most from your costume jewelry is to wear it and enjoy it. Show it off at home with jewelry display cases, earring tree holders and necklace holders so you get to see it even when you are not wearing it out and about.

By taking tender loving care of your favorite jewelry, whether it be costume jewelry or the fancy fine jewelry you will get to enjoy it for many years ahead.

Just as the costume jewelry designer creations of the vintage jewelry styles of last century are fashionable collectibles today your well crafted handmade costume jewelry can become the collectable jewelry of tomorrow with the right care.

The most important thing is to enjoy your jewelry because that is what all jewelry designers want when we are making it for you.

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Belinda
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Costume Jewelry is a wonderful way to bring color to your seasonal wardrobe without the expensive investment of fine jewelry. Costume jewelry is affordable, popular and fashionable. With costume jewelry you can create your own style for each season with new and favorite pieces that cross over seasonal fashions.

Create Your Own Style with Costume Jewelry

With the rich heritage in design and style you can create your own style with costume jewelry. I know I have costume jewelry sets for different looks and different outfits.

Costume jewelry is also known as fashion jewelry with the term really becoming popular in the 20th Century, even though it has been worn from the year dot. We love adorning ourselves whether that be with precious gemstones or with handmade glass beaded jewelry. Now the costume jewelry of the last 200 years is being collected and celebrated and being used for inspiration for contemporary designs.

Swarvoski Crystals Technical Breakthrough

The skills in cutting and setting techniques made a huge leap in the 18th and 19th centuries, including the crystal machine cutting revolution of Daniel Swarvoski that created the Swarvoski crystals we all love today.

Just across the border in Bohemia, now Czech Republic, high quality paste stones and lampwork beads were being created to meet the growing demand by the blossoming European middle-classes. The regional competition between the jewelry manufacturing countries created top quality, colorful and creative designs that we are still benefiting from today.

For the first time jewelry designers had a wide choice of components with which to work. The costume jewelry designs quickly became extravagant as designers could take greater risks with the non-precious components that they could not take with expensive gem stones like diamonds. So costume jewelry design ended up leading fine jewelry design and still does in many ways today.

Costume Jewelry Revolution Right Here, Right Now Costume jewelry is going through another revolution today with the emergence of manufacturing China, the internet with its breaking down of access barriers for independent jewelry designers around the world.

Chinese manufacturers are clever at finding stunning designs through out jewelry design history to copy but they are not focused on creating original jewelry designs. The quality of the Chinese products is improving but it is still miles behind the standard of excellence of the European costume jewelry.

The Chinese fashion jewelry is very cheap and designed for a short couple of seasons life in the most popular colors of the day. While European companies like Swarvoski are solidly working on creative and original costume jewelry designs for each season that will last for decades and are already becoming collectors pieces.

Swarvoski is keeping alive the exciting and colorful heritage of costume jewelry design that is accessible, affordable and leading the way for contemporary jewelry design.

Other independent jewelry designers are using the top quality European jewelry components like Czech handmade lampwork beads and crystals for beaded jewelry, Venetian glass heart pendants for loving necklaces and the bead charms of Denmark’s Trollbeads.

Right Costume Jewelry Designer For You

So when you are going through your jewelry wardrobe and looking at your jewelry color themes for the coming season have fun exploring the online jewelry stores for the fashion jewelry designs that will give you the look you want.

Online jewelry directories can give you great access to talented costume jewelry designs who can even do custom jewelry designs for you.

If vintage costume jewelry is what you are after you can find that online at jewelry stores too as well as designs created today.

Of course online jewelry stores are just one of your options. You can find costume jewelry at nearly all jewelry retailers, at your local shopping mall, arts and crafts fairs, bead shows, wedding expos, markets and fairs, as well as home jewelry party plan showings.

So enjoy your jewelry, adorn yourself in the colors and styles that reflect your personality and style.

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Remember, jewelry is meant to be enjoyed so make sure you make the most of your collection.

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Belinda

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Costume jewelry designs have been a favorite choice for centuries for women and men of all societies. Contemporary fashion jewelry is reaching the same heights of popularity as costume jewelry did in the early 20th Century. Costume jewelry is often made to suit the seasonal fashion colors, is affordable and much is unsigned.

Costume jewelry ranges from cheap and cheerful plastic designs through to the handcrafted necklaces and earrings that are made to last. The best way to ensure your favorite costume earrings, necklaces, bracelets, watches, pins and brooches last is to look after them so you get to enjoy them even more.

Here are 7 ways to look after your costume jewelry:

1. Costume jewelry and water just do not mix. So avoid leaving your fashion jewelry in moist bathrooms, in a wet pile after swimming or showering or in any pool of water.

2. Display your costume jewelry on earring holders, necklace stands, bracelet and watch displays to avoid messy tangles that can harm the jewelry. Jewelry display stands are also great for showing off your jewelry so you get to enjoy it more. (Click READ MORE below for the rest)

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3. When traveling or carrying your jewelry around use a jewelry roll - also known as a jewelry organizer - as it is soft so it protects your jewelry from nasty knocks.

4. Just like with caring for pearl jewelry, fashion costume jewelry does not like the acid from hairsprays and alcohol of perfumes so put your fashion jewelry on after you have sprayed hair spray and perfumes.

5. Many components used in costume jewelry can be sun affected such as wooden beads, bone beads and the like so keep the fashion jewelry out of the sun.

6. Avoid letting your costume fashion jewelry coming into contact with soap, face creams, or moisturizers. If they do rinse clean and pat dry. Make sure the jewelry is fully dry before putting it away.

7. Clean your fashion jewelry gently with cotton buds or a soft toothbrush with a little distilled water. Make sure it is properly dried so to look after the metal settings.

Many talented jewelry designers have created simply stunning costume jewelry, especially with the focus in the 20th Century on colorful and sparkling affordable jewelry designs.

Costume designer jewelry can include CZ jewelry, hip hop jewelry, handmade jewelry, beaded jewelry, Native American jewelry, Swarvoski crystal jewelry, magnetic jewelry, hair jewelry, pagan jewelry, butterfly jewelry, to Victorian jewelry. The range is endless really as costume jewelry is any jewelry made from non-precious gem stones and metals. It is usually made with imitation gemstones like cubic zirconia, lampwork glass beads, crystal beads and faux pearls.

So whatever your costume jewelry style make sure you get to enjoy your beloved fashion jewelry for the years to come simply by caring for them.

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Belinda

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