Real pearl

Real pearl

Pearls have always been one of women's favorite jewelry. In the market there is a wide range of jewelry, and it is often difficult for consumers to distinguish the real pearls from the fake ones.

Here are 10 simple rules:

Observation

These are unique. When you look at each on a necklace, the color, shape, size and luster they are not all exactly the same. Because they have been made by nature, each of theses has its individual "personality." Fake jewelry usually has the same size and shape.

ShapeTrue pearl does not have a particularly neat shape. Naturally, grown pearls are very difficult to have a necklace all the same shapes, especially those that are rounded or that are particularly uniform in size. The perfect pearl is so rare, that's why perfect pearls with big size and good luster usually sell for hundreds of thousand dollars.

Touch

Even when the weather is hot, true pearls have a sense of cool. Plastic beads generally feel warm. Real pearls give a sense of cool when they are in your hand, while imitation has a sticky feeling when rolling and sliding. If the imitation is pure glass beads, the weight is usually heavier than real, but if imitation beads are waxed glass, it will only have about half of the weight of real pearls.If you hold one in each hand (could be from the same necklace) and rub them against each other, there is a sense of an uneven feeling (jerky rough feel) If the pearls are real, then a powder will be produced when you rub them together. But if the pearls are fake, they will have a slip or smooth surface.NOTE: don't be afraid to rub them together, it will not harm your real pearls. Just blow away the powder and your pearls will still have their usual luster.

Sound

When you shake and knock an entire string of pearls, the real pearl jewelry will have a softer more comfortable sound and the fakes will sound thin or tinny. If you bite a real pearl and scrape it slightly with your teeth, you can feel and hear the sandy, grainy surface of the jewelry. But a fake will be slippery with no sound. And if the fake is plastic, sometimes your teeth will make depressions in the pearl.

Magnifier observation.

Use 5x or 10x magnifying glass to observe the surface, if they are real jewelry (including natural and cultured ), the surface seems to be grown as grain, like the wind over the dunes; but, if you see the rugged eggshell surface, then they are imitation.

The above 5 ways described are generally used for identification and will not damage your pearls. However, the following 5 ways are for Professionals only.

Knife

With a knife or scissors scraping the surface of the real pearl, it will only fall number of powder; and in the artificially coated beads scraping, blowing a layer of film will expose the true face of the glass; if uncoated glass beads scraping action, it just gives a smooth feeling.

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