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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 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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With the changing seasons we look to the coming color palates to see what is new and exciting for jewelry trends. Well there is good news and then there is great news. The good news for jewelry lovers is the expected lovely warm colors are coming in jewelry design and the great news is there is celebration of our beloved favorite jewelry tones as well.

There is much to celebrate with the upcoming fall and winter season in jewelry trends with an explosion of colors for the cold weather wardrobe to lift the spirits, so it will be a hot season for lovers of jewelry.

The most surprising color trend for the fall & winter 2007 - 2008 season is yellow - generally the color we connect to bring sunny times - but as a way to challenge the closed in winter days yellow is coming to brighten up our daily lives. Refreshing gemstones like citrine, yellow topaz, amber, and chrysoberyl and simulated canary diamond jewelry, topaz glass beads and the cubic zirconia substitutes will keep you on top of seasonal jewelry trends.

A great counter point color for yellow is the ever popular shades of purple that will be highlighted this fall & winter 2007 - 2008 jewelry designs with complimenting tones of pink. So pink diamonds, amethyst, pink topaz, rose quartz, fluorite and rhodonite gem stones as well as pink pearl jewelry will all be bringing love and balance into our fashion jewelry wardrobes.

Another hot pick for your fall and winter jewelry wardrobe is the ever popular color blue with it staying in style to make all us lovers of blue happy. So look for jewelry designs with sapphires, lapis lazuli, blue jade, aquamarine, blue topaz, turquoise, blue opals, blue moonstones, as well as the handmade lampwork beads in blue and the blue cubic zirconia tones. The range of shades of blue will let you match the best ones for you.

The popular fall & winter 2007 - 2008 color trends also include the favorite and classic black. It is a wardrobe favorite with how easy it is to wear and never really goes out of style. In the world of jewelry black is showcased to its best effect with jet, black onyx, black diamonds and black pearls.

Keeping with traditional favorites with the fall & winter 2007 - 2008 color trends the perennial hues of pumpkin, silky gray, chocolate brown will have you in style and on trend. So look to tiger’s eye, smoky quartz, cinnabar, or even the simulated champagne diamonds and substitute cubic zirconia and you will remain on top of the seasonal jewelry trends with your jewelry wardrobe favorites. Simply match your much loved jewelry with new season jewelry pieces.

So for the fashion conscious consumer having the perfect accessories with your upcoming fall & winter 2007 - 2008 jewelry designs has never been easier. The trick is to pick classic design that will stand the test of time. Whether the fashion jewelry has genuine gemstones or handcrafted beads you can enjoy classic design that never really goes out of style. There will always be some colors that are hotter than others but we all have our own style and can pick and choose from the jewelry tones what suits us best, that make us shine, including matching our old favorites.

To best show off your favorite jewelry create a collection of fabulous jewelry display stands.

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Belinda

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