Sunday, November 15, 2015

Wedding knowledge: Use Fashion Jewelry To Dress A Perfect Wedding Bride


The most important moment in life is wedding, stress of select wedding for the bride and discerning, and often too much emphasis on the wedding while ignoring the decorative fashion jewelry, all kinds of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc., as the details of the crown of the head is the finishing touch of embellishment role can't be ignored! Ridiculous costume jewelry you can teach according to hairstyle, face to choose their own wedding accessories.

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1, Based on material

According to the election material, bride's face can be modified, weaknesses, so that the bride looks perfect in the crowd. People are generally divided into oval face, long, round, oval, triangular five.

          ① rectangular face

Optional large area while wearing dazzling jewelry earrings, which can increase the width of the face, do not choose swing ring. Best to wear a short chain or collar; also can wear the necklace hanging arc larger, modified face effect can be achieved.

② oval type

Such oval face has long hair, suitable for wearing ruby ​​ring and swing a little thin thick sets of chain or LASH chain, giving a quiet and rich, ripe soft feel. Short people suitably selected earrings and whip chain, two wire file chain and side chain.

③ round face

Elongated V-shaped necklace, small and bright solitaire earrings is tailor-made for the round face of the bride, bride's face it they make slender. It may also be worn fall earrings, both modified face, and was lively and clear.

④ oval face

Oval face bride fundamental for a wide variety of accessories, large flower-shaped earrings, a simple swing ring, thin and short necklaces to wear the best.



2, According to hairstyle

Now bridal hairstyle is no longer a type of gown head, wearing earrings and necklaces from the point of view, there are ears hairstyle, exposed ear style hair, short hair,

Long hair type.

① ears hairstyle

Suitable for wearing swing ring. You can choose to expose only one side earlobe, wearing a large ring and short swing, just the other side of the symmetric and hair. The bride can also choose a short, thin necklace, with thick hair contrasting with each other.

② exposed ear hairstyle

Adapted for insertion ring and swing ring. Large particles are more suitable for the lower half of the face ear plug fuller bride; thick hair of the bride chose a better swing ring, thin hair should choose a small and lightweight earrings.
     
          ④ hair type

Suitable with thin and short necklaces, such as two file chain, square silk chain, S chain, two sets of chains, gemstone fancy chain.

          ③ short hairstyles

Choose slightly longer suitable and thick necklace. Thin hair bride should wear diamond necklace. Thick hair bride can wear thicker stones fancy chain.

          3. The wedding accessories Material

① satin wedding dress with pearl jewelry

② lace wedding dress with diamond gemstone jewelry

Adapted for insertion ring and swing ring. Large particles are more suitable for the lower half of the face ear plug fuller bride; thick hair of the bride chose a better swing ring, thin hair should choose a small and lightweight earrings.

How, recommended by the above mix, I think you will get more knowledge on accessories (necklaces, bracelets, earrings, etc.)  Wish every bride has a wonderful wedding and love forever.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Mother's Day: Flowers a popular gift, but Mom wants tech


It is just under nine weeks until the third-largest retail holiday in the U.S. and already there is talk that a third or more of consumers will head online.

Mother's Day is on Sunday 10th May this year and, as is the case most years, people will be spending up a storm. In 2014, $20 billion was spent on this, the third-largest retail holiday in the U.S.

According to Bing Ads, more than three-quarters plan to spend the same, if not more, this year than last. Based on Mother's Day 2014, Bing predicts the top gift categories will be greeting cards (81%), flowers (67%), eating out (57%) and gift cards (43%).

However, Bing found that mothers are dreaming of gifts that will make their life simpler with 80% interested in consumer electronics despite just 13% of those buying Mother's Day gifts considering this option.

Retailers should take note that 30% of shoppers intend to purchase Mother's Day gifts online. Bing notes that online shoppers will spend 38% more than offline shoppers; an average of $255.87.

However, while that leaves 70% who will shop in-store, retailers should remember that those shoppers will be searching for gift ideas online, too, and search advertising for Mother's Day needs to be addressed now.

In particular, Bing suggests retailers selling technology-focused gifts start their search campaigns at least a month ahead of Mother's Day as shoppers for this gift type begin research over a month in advance. Searches for 'flowers' and 'florists' also begin early, says Bing, and grow to high levels as Mother's Day approaches. Furthermore, search ads should go live at least two weeks before Mother's Day - while search volumes peak mid-April, click-through rates peak two weeks before the holiday.

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How to sell your jewelry to enrich your life?

Carl Blackburn, owner of Diamond Estate Jewelry Buyers, has published a new article entitled "Sell Your Jewelry & Enrich Your Life." Nationally recognized as a consumer advocate for ethical estate jewelry sales, Blackburn discusses the more emotional aspects of selling estate jewelry in this new article--offering advice on how to turn the sale of old jewelry into a journey of self-discovery and personal development:

"Many of our possessions wield emotional power. And perhaps none hold greater power than fine jewelry. We purchase and receive jewelry to celebrate the most emotionally rich experiences of our lives. A mature woman's jewelry box often reads like a diary of her most treasured moments and milestones. But, at the same time, it can contain hidden resentments and unresolved emotions--all of which can impede her continued growth and happiness."

Blackburn goes on to discuss how we can address the negative emotions and issues that are attached to jewelry from broken relationships, as well as how to choose exactly which fine jewelry we should keep and what should be placed on the sell pile:

"The fine jewelry that you keep should be a mirror of your soul--one that reflects the interior design of your spirit. So before surveying your jewelry box, spend some time in quiet contemplation. Start by taking a financial and emotional inventory of where you are now in your life. Meditate on all of the things you love and why you love them. What do you still yearn for (financially & emotionally)? What in life continues to stir your passion in a positive way?"

Over the past 7 years, more people have begun to sell their estate jewelry due to the depressed economy and soaring gold prices. Many sellers have been pleasantly surprised by how much money is actually stored in their jewelry boxes. However, Blackburn advises clients to take their time when considering what to do with the cash from their jewelry sale:

"Taking an overdue vacation is one way that some people use the money from the sale of their fine jewelry. And that is perfectly fine. Sometimes a vacation is what we really need to rediscover ourselves and rejuvenate our spirits. But also think more deeply about the ways in which you can use this money to fulfill "the real" you. Make a list of your primary interests and passions. Think about the things that you've always wished to become better at or try for the first time..."

6 ways to sell your jewelry

1.Have promotional materials made.
In order for people to know you are selling jewelry, you have to get the word out. Business cards, fliers and coupons will allow you to pass on your contact information easily. Ask local businesses with the appropriate clientele if you can leave your promotional materials with them in order to help you spread the word.

2.Enlist your friends and family.
Ask friends and family to help you get the word out about your jewelry business. Hand them stacks of business cards and fliers to hand out to their friends and family and so on. You can offer those who help you market your business special deals on your inventory.

3.Attend craft shows.
Every city hosts at least one, if not more, craft shows for locals to come and sell their items. This is a great way to get your name out into community and sell some of your jewelry at the same time. Once people are able to see your items, hopefully they will become repeat customers as well tell others about the great jewelry they purchased.

4.Host in-home parties.
Make it easy for the customer and go to her house. Have her invite a few friends that are interested in seeing your jewelry and give a demonstration. Offer incentives for the customer who invited the friends and offer similar rewards to any of the attendees that choose to book another in-home party with a different group of women.

5.Start a web site.
If you don't know anything about creating or designing a website, hire someone. It is a small investment into a business tool that can boost your business. Consider marketing your jewelry with pictures and descriptions or enabling customers to order jewelry online.

6.Partner with local businesses to increase your client base.
If you sell complementary items, together you may be more powerful than on your own. This way you can each help to market both businesses. You can offer discounts if your items are purchased together or offer coupons for the other's business when they buy something from you. For example, if you partnered with a clothing store, you could offer a 20 percent coupon off a piece of clothing with a purchase of a necklace and vice versa. A deal may send customers your way that may have otherwise been reluctant.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Bling of the Jungle: The Best Animal Jewelry

 

 What's it like being your own boss at only 24?

It has its perks for sure, but it can be hard too. If I'm not feeling well and need to stay or I really want to go for a walk in the afternoon, I have the ability to do it without asking permission from someone.

But it can be hard at times, there are many times I've had to cancel plans with friends in order to take care of something with work. Being your own boss means having your business consume your life. Luckily, this is may passion in life, and I enjoy every minute of it.

How do you transition from a side project, making jewelry to get extra cash as a student, to a full-time business?

The biggest transition was actually when I was still a student. The recession had hit my family pretty hard and my parents asked me to either move home and go to a local college or I would have to support myself. I didn't want to leave UGA and my life in Athens so I buckled down and really turned it into a business.

After graduating, I moved back in with my parents to save money and really pushed myself with the business. I was so excited to be able to focus solely on Bent by Courtney and not have to worry about school or paying bills on time. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you push yourself.

To what do you attribute your success?

Hard work. I know you hear that a lot from people, but you can't get anywhere in life if you aren't willing to pay your dues. I have pulled all nighters making jewelry to ship to boutiques and worked straight through weekends and holidays.

You have to be fully dedicated to making your dreams a reality. I also couldn't do this without the support of my family and fiancé. They have been right by my side the whole way encouraging me and helping in any way possible.

Where do you find inspiration for your jewelry?

Music and nature are inspiring me the most right now. Those seem to be the constant inspirations but sometimes something simple like a color can inspire me as well.

What is the best-kept secret in the Chattahoochee Valley?

I would have to say Bibb City Studios. I know I might be a little biased because I rent a studio space there, but it is truly a hidden gem. On the main level of the building you can find a jewelry gift shop, vintage store, and a restaurant -- coming soon. The upper level is home to 13 artist studio spaces where many talented local artists work. Stop by and come see us!

Vital stats

Name: Courtney Akers

Age: 24

Job: Owner/Designer of Bent by Courtney jewelry

Hometown: Columbus

Current home: Columbus

Family: Jeff & Maureen Akers

Education: UGA

Favorite book: "Girl Boss" by Sophia Amoruso

Favorite movie: "Almost Famous"

Favorite restaurant: 11th & Bay

Favorite quote: "It's better to burn out than fade away" -- Neil Young

Best concert attended: The Allman Brothers at Chastain Park

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Do you know the best animal jewelry?



THE JEWELRY COLLECTION of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, was a bit of a zoo. Almost literally. She owned little pearl brooches by Seaman Schepps that depicted pecking chicks. She also wore a Cartier diamond clip in the form of a preening flamingo and a great many of the house’s fiercely decadent signature panther pieces.

Animal motifs have long stalked the world of fine jewelry. Along with Cartier’s cats, which last year celebrated their 100th anniversary, there are Bulgari’s Serpenti watches and bracelets, launched in the 1940s. And over the course of its 157-year history, French jeweler Boucheron has assembled an ark-worthy menagerie, ranging from hedgehogs to peacocks.

Until recently, pieces like this were generally set aside in favor of more abstract stuff. These days, however, a group of designers including Daniela Villegas from Mexico and French jeweler Lydia Courteille are revisiting the expressive charm of fauna-based finery.

Perhaps the freshest take comes from New York-based designer Marc Alary. His flat, graphic animal silhouettes are crafted in white and yellow gold, left plain or studded with gems. “I’ve been drawn to animals as far back as I can remember,” said Mr. Alary. “At a young age, we’re given stuffed animals and animal trinkets as gifts, so there must be something soothing about them.”

Parisian designer Aurélie Bidermann also cited youthful memories as the spark for her animal and insect designs—as well as French artist Paul Jouve, known for his paintings of African mammals. Ms. Bidermann said she’s particularly pleased when she manages to merge whimsy and savoir faire: her ladybug pendant has well-engineered gold wings that lift up to reveal a bed of rubies. “It’s important that my jewelry has the highest quality while [staying] playful.” she said. That’s also the case with Mr. Alary’s monkey pendants and earrings with lanky, movable limbs. Made of 11 different parts, they’re as much toy as they are a feat of craftsmanship.

The newfound appreciation for these pieces is also reinvigorating older brands, like American label David Webb , which launched its brightly enameled animalia in 1962. Its frog bangle was recently reissued and is now available on Net-a-Porter. In the works, said co-owner Mark Emanuel, is “a magnificent monkey bracelet.”

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

One BuzzFeed post on #thedress has grabbed 28M views, 79% from mobile, 94% from social sources



BuzzFeed sprouted from the depths of web culture, and began its life as a place to find delightful things on the internet. The explosion of Cates Holderness’ post about The Dress (white and gold, by the way) is a reminder that while we now do so many more things, we’ve never moved away from our roots. Indeed, we launched the Cute or Not app yesterday.

What has happened instead is that the world has moved toward us. What might, a few years ago, have been a web culture phenomenon is today a cultural phenomenon, and the distinction between the two isn’t really intelligible. Last night, we talked to each other on Twitter and also handed phones around in bars and bedrooms. Mindy Kaling’s writers fought about it, Kim and Kanye disagreed, and Taylor Swift was wittily confused. The president of Estonia also weighed in. And we covered it as a web phenomenon and a piece of fabric in the world. First Cates shared the image itself, and as it became news, Claudia Koerner in Los Angeles and Ryan Broderick in London got the story behind it; Brian Galindo and Kristin Chirico found it online; and Ginny Hughes roused a couple of neurologists to explain the cognitive workings behind the different perceptions of the dress.

Some of the muscles we used in our, er, comprehensive dress coverage were the ones we’ve had for years; others, like rigorous science writing, were very new ones. And indeed, we have many new muscles at BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed News has dispatches up today from Mike Giglio in Kirkuk, Iraq; Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem; and Karla Zabludovsky in Durango, Mexico; in the last several days we’ve published Aram Roston’s searing exposé of for-profit foster care and Joel Anderson’s rich profile of a revered black icon’s risky presidential campaign; onstage at CPAC today, Sean Hannity asked Jeb Bush about McKay Coppins’ story on his LGBT views. These, too, are all part of a culture and conversation that lives on the web, and they benefit from the roots and distribution and tools that grew with us out of the web.

They also share with Cates’ post something more abstract about how we think about content: We are interested most of all in what a story does — not just in how many people read it, but in what effect it has on their lives and on the world. Cates’ post delighted people and connected them. To steal an idea from Ze Frank, its power was less in the encapsulated item itself than in the network around it. That’s true of a brilliant piece of entertainment; it’s true of a recipe or a DIY suggestion; and it’s true of a news article that forces the resignation of an allegedly corrupt official or changes a government policy.

And finally, I’m so glad that Cates is the new wearer of the golden BuzzFeed crown (which, in point of fact, Kaye Toal made for her this morning). Cates predates me slightly at BuzzFeed, and started here as a community user who loved animals and loved the internet. She embodies a key element of the spirit that we’ve always had: She lives inside the internet and loves the internet without any cynicism or any particular illusion about it.

So thank you, Cates, for following a tip from a BuzzFeed Tumblr follower to The Dress.

Thanks are due too to our tech team for keeping the site up — Cates’ post alone has had more than 28 million views so far, 79% from mobile and 94% from social sources — so I could spend last night arguing with my kids about The Dress. And thanks, of course, to the many writers who were up late and early with smart and creative angles (some of which we’ve adapted into Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German) — among them, Katie Notopoulos’ devastating smackdown of the delusional white-and-golders; Ginny’s exploration of how autistic people see themselves in this moment; and Daniel Dalton’s coda to the whole strange and wonderful affair.

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Salma Hayek's Jewelry Life

 

MILAN — Surely walking into a room filled with oversize photos of one’s own face is enough to send a shiver down any spine.

Gorgeous Mexican actress Salma Hayek is the new face of the Milanese jewelry brand Pomellato in a stunning campaign, which was unveiled during this year's Milan Fashion Week. The amazing pictures were taken in a pool by Los Angeles photographers known as Mert & Marcus (Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott) which Hayek praised by saying, “I would pay for them to take my picture!” It’s easy to assume there was a level of nepotism since the actress’s husband, Fran?ois-Henri Pinault is the chief executive and chairman of Kering, which owns Pomellato, but after seeing the campaign, it’s pretty obvious Hayek was a great choice regardless.

But Salma Hayek, the calm eye at the center of a storm of flashbulbs at a second-floor gallery at 10 Corso Como, the Milanese concept store, was unfazed. “You know, I don’t get to see the pictures,” she pointed out with a throaty laugh, “because they stand me in front of the pictures and take pictures.”

Such is life in the funhouse mirror of spokeswomanship, an endless feedback loop of reflection. Luckily, Ms. Hayek’s new campaign, for the Milanese jewelry label Pomellato, is lovely. “Maybe that’s why I don’t mind it,” she said. “If they were ugly and they said, ‘Why did you take these terrible pictures …”’

Fat chance. Any charges of nepotism — Ms. Hayek’s husband, Fran?ois-Henri Pinault, is the chief executive and chairman of Kering, which owns Pomellato — withered before them.

For the photos, Ms. Hayek and a vault’s worth of jewelry took a dip in a Los Angeles pool, in the company of the photographers Mert & Marcus, or Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. (“I would pay for them to take my picture!” she said.) The shots have a Vargas-girl glamour that’s notably different from the spectral type projected by Pomellato’s former face, Tilda Swinton. A reporter suggested that Ms. Swinton and Ms. Hayek, in their other lives as actresses, probably hadn’t often gone for the same roles.

Ms. Hayek, who praised Ms. Swinton, said Pomellato had approached both because of their differences. “It’s them who told me, ‘You are also unique,”’ she said, “and you know what? I saw similarities. In the naked eye, maybe you see two people who cannot be more different, and then when you see the philosophy behind the brand, you can see there are a lot of similarities.”

Before heading downstairs for a dinner in her honor, attended by editors and friends (including Giambattista Valli, who came despite a ready-to-wear show scheduled the following day, and at the end of the evening slipped to a quiet room for a private tête-à-tête with Ms. Hayek), she took a moment to reflect on the role of jewelry.

“To me, jewelry can be, if you are very lucky in life, a little map of your story,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be expensive. It marks special moments in time. The people that give it to you, and why and when, tells you a little bit of that time. When you’re gone — again, if you’re very lucky and didn’t have to sell your jewelry — this stays behind for the next generations.”

She fondly recalled some pieces inherited from her grandmother (“some with diamonds” and “some plastic”). “Even if I think some of them are ugly, it doesn’t matter,” she said. “There is a piece of her and who she was.” She plans to pass them along to her daughter, with a promise: “I won’t wait until I’m dead.”