We all know what the Ballerina Pearl Company started a few years ago, right? They were the originators of the latest Tahitian craze, chocolate pearls. The popularity of their pearls brought imitators quickly into the market, but Ballerina's pearls were different. They were not dyed, they were bleached.There was a lot of hubbub in the industry last year about the difference between dyed pearls and bleached pearls. The CPAA jumped on board demanding disclosure. Betty Sue King went on record saying dyed Tahitians "cheapened the prestigious name of South Sea pearls." It really all just boiled down to the fact that a loud member of the CPAA was THE distributor of the over-priced "bleached" version of chocolates. The members were circling their wagons, protecting their own.
In my opinion, what is the difference? Neither are natural. They are both treatments. They are both permanent. If the sun goes down, your windows go dark. If you paint your windows black, your windows go dark. It's semantics, people.
Well guess what this Ballerina invention has now lead to. More varieties of bleached Tahitian pearls.
According to Akira Hyatt and published in the recent Summer edition of Gems & Gemology, she was asked to examine two different strands of Tahitian pearls with odd coloration. There were golds, browns, greens with tones that just did not seem natural. She was able to determine by EDXRF analysis that the Tahitians were bleached! They were not dyed!
I wish I could show a picture of the strand. There is a photo in the G&G. But those G&G folks would have my pearls for breakfast if I posted it here. THEY own the photo. THEY are the mighty G&G, a part of mighty GIA.
On a side note. Anybody know why GIA never had the word "the" in front of it? Do you put the word "the" in front of God?
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I personally believe that I believe that I don't believe that I believe that enhanced pearls are the same as natural pearls simply bcoz enhanced pearls are help by man to enhance their beauty just like many beauty queens who won beauty pageants bcoz they had undergone plastic surgeries that alter their ugly duckling looks and turned them into swans. I think that is unfair. Natural beauty is God's gift to the world and they have more value and meaning and you cannot put a price tag on beauty that is not controlled by man.
Thank You World!
Thanks for these great posts! I hope you'll find the time to keep this web log alive.
Is it the same as why you didn't put "the" before Pearl professor? ;)
Anyway, I really like the posts
Oh, but I do;) Check out the title on my profile. Maybe I should switch it to "Mr. Pearl Professor".
I personally don't like chocolate colored pearls. Though I have owned a baroque chocolate brown pearls that looks like wood or a beaded bracelet from a buddhist monk. I like wearing it bcoz it get's a lot of attention especially from men. And usually people who knows me follows my fashion sense and style.
But! I personally believe that white pearls are still the most beautiful that is why they are always in demand, resulting in higher prices.
And as what they said that a true Golden South Sea pearls are rarest but still they are not the highest prized. Why is that? There's a lot of good reasons...
1. A white pearl will look bigger than a colored pearl of the same size. That is also the reason why weighty people are advised not to wear white t-shirts and wear black instead. Black has a slimming effect and white has a fattening effect.
2. Throughout history. White is considered the color of perfection and beauty.
3. There are few collectors for cultured pearls except for natural pearls and usually people buy cultured pearls as accessories and they only by white pearls bcoz it is the most beautiful and that is why they became the most expensive.
A perfect white diamond is the most beautiful diamond but they are not the most expensive. Red being the most expensive but still white diamonds are the most popular.
4. Rarity does not really make the price. Red diamonds being the rarest makes them more expensive than white diamonds but when it comes to pearls. Golden pearls are rarest but white pearls are the highest price. And the reason for that is beauty and collectors. Collectors pays premium prices for fancy colored diamonds but there are fewer collectors for cultured pearls so the price for pearls are determine for beauty, fashion, rarity. They said that white diamonds are as plenty as peridots but would ytou buy a peridot for the price of diamonds? No! bcoz diamonds has more beauty than peridots.
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