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12 Tips To Take Care Of Your Costume Jewelry

Costume jewelry is noted for its fashion design and pleasing price. More and more talented designers have set foot on wholesale costume jewelry market. People, especially young girls, are easy to find exquisite jewelries from retail dealers or run a<a href="http://www.cheap-wholesale-costume-jewelry.com"> wholesale costume jewelry business to sell four-leaf clover or insect amber pendant</a>, etc. However, not every one knows how to take care of the costume jewelry, and here are 12 Tips for you.

 

1. The best way to protect your costume jewelry is to usually wear it, for fat and fatten on your skin will add natural and mild luster to your jewelry.

 

2. Please remove your four-leaf clover before sports, heavy manual labor or repair, in case of any damage or abrasion.

 

3. Don’t forget to take off your fashion jewelry before bathing and sleeping, so that it will not clasp your hair, clothes, etc. In most cases, it is very hard for you to get rid of the mess.

 

4. Swimming especially in salt water with costume jewelry is not recommended.

 

5. Avoid direct contact with sulfur. Silver jewelry, in particular, easily occurs chemical reactions with sulfur.

 

6. Store in a sealed bag if you decide to put them away. Make sure there is no air in the bag. When silver is directly exposed to the air, the chemical has an oxidizing effect on the metal, causing the silver to be an ugly black.

 

7. Do not put four-leaf clover with different resistances close together. This can bring wears and tears and.

 

8. Check your four-leaf clover monthly if you often wear them. Mend it promptly when there is any damage or loosen.

 

9. Prevent four-leaf clover from extreme heat or cold, because costume jewelry is very sensitive to the change of temperature and some of them may get damaged. For example, stones on amber insect pendent may crack because of a quick shift of temperature.

 

10. It would be better to wash four-leaf clover once a week for those who usually wear them. Here are two simple ways and you can choose one of them wisely. Use a soft bristle toothbrush, with some lukewarm water or nitric cleanser, for cleaning around four-leaf clover stones. Dip the jewelry into 95% alcohol solution for about twenty minutes. One thing you have to keep in mind is to completely dry your jewelry after washing under clean water, especially before putting it away. Moisture produces tarnish on silver and can weaken springs and clasps on jewelry.

11. Use a cotton bud for decorations only to polish jewelry with smooth surface, just like insect amber pendent. After two minutes, the pendent would be much fresher and more shining.

 

12. Toothpaste is best for hallowing decorations, which are often used and covered with accumulated dusts. Put some toothpaste on a toothbrush and brush your jewelry carefully and gently. Don’t forget to pat it to dry enough and put back in an enclosed place.

 

I hope you’ll find my tips useful.

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Loui Lu is CEO of cheap-wholesale-costume-jewelry.com. For more information on wholesale costume jewelry, four-leaf clover,insect amber pendant,fashion jewelry wholesale , visit them on the web at http://www.cheap-wholesale-costume-jewelry.com

I had a glass necklace pendant that broke. The part that has the loop for the string. Is there anyway i can?

still use it somehow? Like any arts and crafts suggestions?

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11121426/Murano_Glass_Green_Silver_Leaf_Pendant_Necklace.jpg

it sort of looks like that

with a small drill and some patience, maybe you can put a hole in it and re-string it? or get some similiar colored but smaller stones and hot glue them all around a picture frame? that peice would be right in the center, probably at the bottom, or maybe in a corner.