Amethyst Earrings
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Amethyst earrings: popular and seductive
Amethyst earrings are among the most popular earrings, thanks to their lightness and deepness illusion created by the gemstone.
Amethyst is what you generally call a “seductive” stone of extravagant purple, believed in Antiquity to protect people against seduction, ironically.
“Amethyst” as name comes from Greek and means “not drunken”, altering the bad effects of alcohol in that culture. Today amethyst is a popular and cheap gemstone, thanks to great availability worldwide, from Brazil to Madagascar or Russia.
You can find amethyst in a pair of earrings, a ring, a bracelet or a necklace, always providing a strange, but powerful sensation to that jewel, while touching.
Jewelry producers use amethyst as gemstone for a large variety of earrings: simply elegant, curls and swirls, stud earrings or dangle earrings.
It depends on your personality and state of mind of the day which pair of earrings will be worn.
Stud earrings have a tiny and delicate aspect, you almost could perceive them at a woman`s ear. The amethyst stone is the major attract on this pair of earrings, it`s bigger and prominent than the rest of earring`s body. A pair of amethyst stud earrings will cost you between 80 – 80 $ if it`s yellow gold enhanced and starting from 100 $, if white gold is used to adorn it.
The simply elegant earrings aren`t that simple as they appear. They are attentively filigreed in yellow or white gold and adorned with small and fine crystals. The effect of any pair of this earrings is a nuance of sobriety and nobility. The amethyst gemstone can take the shape of a heart or a tear-drop, which can indirectly create to your friends a sort of happiness or sadness sensation, while admiring you. Simple and elegant with your budget, starting with 100 $ and ending with 180 $.
The curls and swings pairs of earrings wrap the most bizarre shapes: two columns joined and tending to infinity or two feathers falling one over the other one. The amethyst gemstones are getting smaller, leaving room for the yellow or white gold. If you like one of this extravagant earrings, you will have to pay almost 190 $.
The amethyst dangle earrings will make you feel like an Arabian princess. The fine filigreed body of the earring will fall down on your shoulder, revealing a small, but coquettish gemstone. They seem to be the most expensive of all amethyst earrings, starting with 190 $ and ending to the fabulous price of 500 $ for a pair of amethyst earrings adorned with diamonds.
Amethyst can be taken off during a chemical process and the result is a strange gemstone, which reminds of deep purple before, but resembles most to a pearl. This kind of amethyst, even if is limited as edition, is cheaper: almost 60$.