Real life, runway and red carpet always have the effect on current jewelry trends. Here is the list of 12 trends for fashion designs that will become popular for this coming season.

Chandelier Earrings: available in many sizes. You can look at Lagos, John Hardy and more for the new modestly sized to keep you up to date for this earring style.

Jazz Age Styles: The combination of the now-filming remake of The Great Gatsby and HBO’s currently hit the Boardwalk Empire series. This trend is shown in the spring dresses styles in the 2012 runway shows.

Button and Stud Earrings: These styles are always a “must have” in any wardrobe because they are very popular through years and years. You will always see these two style in any red carpet events and other jewelry collections through the year.

Sporty Aesthetics: Imagine of the brightly color watches with hoodies and neoprene coordination. This trend is really come for this year, 2012 when the spring is running away. You can look for this sporty watches style in the December/January that will be issued by  JCK.

Hair Jewelry: such as barrettes, hair bands, tiaras and brooches are always found at the bridal runway shows. The hair jewelries are very attractive to all the younger clients.

Moveable and Interchangeable Jewels: the best example for this type is ear charms. The ear charm can mix with various fashion items and bring multiple looks for owners depended on the items attached to. Due to these reasons, ear charms are growing into interested category fashion item. Check on Tresor’s Collection and Oliver Smith Jeweler for the examples.

Pyrite: an individual style with fun, funky and inexpensive. There are so many indie jewelry designers who are interested in this style. Check on Jamie Joseph Manning, Robindira Unsworth and more for a more detail on pyrite collection.

Pearls: always stay in the fashion trends. Look at the new collection from LAGOS for the latest design on both freshwaters pearls and mother-of-pearl jewelry products.

Geometric Shapes and Tribal Effects: Horn and leather are represented for the tribal style. Look for these materials if you are interested in this trend.

Pendant Necklaces: there are no size-limited with multi-layer style. Pendant necklaces can accessorize for a range of dresses depended on your requests.

Tangerine Tango: an evident for this spring runway shows. It’s in the Pantone’s Color for this 2012 year. You can combine this color together with other bright colors for “color blocking” theme. Let’s try.

Yellow Gold and Stones: Already seen in the spring runway shows for the rich gold color clothes and golden stones such as beryl and rutilated quartz. Both colors will be prevalent in the future time. Keep your eye open for this coming trend.

If you want to look differently, handmade jewelry could be your choice. Handmade jewelry has become more popular recently and also gives you the pretty and fantastic accessories. When you need a unique look, you can match handmade jewelry with your favorite little dress or any outfits. Keep reading the article to learn the top trends in handmade jewelry. You will be able to pick the best styles for you after the reading.

There are different handmade jewelry trends available today.

Layered jewelry – A kind of handmade jewelry that gives you a sophisticated look. The most famous piece is the multi-strand necklace. This style can be found also in the wrap rings and stacked bracelets. However do not wear too many pieces of this layered jewelry type because it will distracted your look instead. Only one kind is enough for the time.

Big and Bold – The chunky accessory is also in the handmade jewelry trend. Large bead, stacked or very colorful jewelry are sometimes fall into this trend. Gemstone jewelry can also be big and bold. The other styles are thick or dome-shaped rings, leather bracelets, cuffs and multi-strand layered necklaces. This handmade jewelry is perfect for anyone who wants to stand out of the crowd.

Sterling Silver with Bright Color gemstones – Sterling silver is really a big trend in handmade jewelry due to their value and affordable in price (compare with other precious metals like gold and platinum). Actually sterling silver always looks great by itself, without any beads or other gemstones around. However, there are many pieces of sterling silver present their exotic looks with brightly colored gemstones, even more shine and attractive. You can select a piece of this handmade sterling silver jewelry forvariety of occasions and combine with your lovely dress for a more adorable look.

Filigree – Filigree jewelry is generally made by gold, silver and platinum. They are very popular in a handmade jewelry industry for the use as earrings, pendant necklaces and ring mounts. Due to their delicate design, filigree jewelry has always become heirloom pieces for the family. This malleable metal can be rolled into a thin filament or wired. Then, the jewelers were used these wires to make an intricate openwork design for their art work. This handmade filigree jewelry is best with the special occasion like the weddings, special dates or important meetings. Complete your look with the filigree jewelry would be your best choice.

If you are interested in the gold vermeil products, you should at least learn about the vermeil itself before going for this product type.

First, what is a “vermeil”? Some of you might have no idea at all about the meaning for this word. Vermeil (pronounced as Ver-May) is referred to a piece of jewelry that consisting of at least 92.5% of silver and coated with at least 2.5 microns of gold. The quality of gold should be higher or equal to 14K. The higher gold content would be the better for the gold vermeil jewelry product.

Then, there are two different way for electro plating product.

The Flash plating is the method that dipped the metal into the gold electroplating solution for a short time. This method is also called “color plating” as only little of gold will be coated on the metal piece. By this way, the gold will wear off within a couple week.

The Micron plating – this method is measured the coated gold on the metal surface. This is the standard method for gold vermeil. The jewelry pieces are placed in a gold solution for certain of time, depend on the gold thickness which in general, 2.5 micron is an acceptable thickness for gold vermeil jewelry.

Check for the color of gold vermeil jewelry before make a purchase. The different of gold quality will give a different color in gold vermeil jewelry. The 14K, 18K, 24K, 32K of yellow gold, pink gold or other gold tone will give a different color tone on the gold vermeil pieces.

If you are decided to go with the gold vermeil jewelry, the only recommendation is, go with the trustable seller. As you can see from the above information that there are different way for plating, and if you are not use to these technique, you might not be able to differentiate between the flash plating and micro plating items. Talk to the sellers, ask for their comment on each pieces. Talking to the sellers can give you more information than you can expect. You will probably learn a new tip on how to look for the high quality gold jewelry that you are not known before. Keep talking and ask for their advice for the best piece you should go for.

Turquoise is in and out the fashion world for a long time. If you look for new in 1960s to 1970s, turquoise was really popular among that time. High demand on turquoise production war reported in that time. However, in the early 1980s, the demand was fade out. But now, it’s time for the turquoise to come back again in this century. The turquoise demand is continuously increasing in recent years and thus making its way to comeback. It is not surprise to know about this as the beauty of turquoise is always catches the people attention whenever they look at the stone.

Natural turquoise is actually coming withhigh price especially when compare with stimulants or plasticized/ stabilized turquoise. The reason is really involved with the availability of naturally turquoise which rarely found, even rarer than diamonds or gold. As the result, the price of top quality of natural turquoise is never come down, in the similar way as diamond prices. They are always increase if you are really falling in love with the natural turquoise stone, you are suggested to look for the real one now and go with it if you can afford for the cost.

Production of natural turquoise is also another factor for its high price. The mining technique is still using the primitive manner by break the stone out of the rock with a hammer can chisel. The technique is used for protection of turquoise from its mother rock. Therefore, the technique is man-base with labor intensive process. And not all the turquoise found in the mine can be sale as the world class gemstone grade. The high quality turquoise is coming with hard stone qualities which will not scratch easily even you are wearing the piece every day.

Turquoise was popularly used in Native American culture which you can see lots of them were used in beads formats; sliced, drilled and strung with different filaments for different bead jewelry designs and styles. The old beads from necklace of this time are now cost around $600 and the price can also increase if the beads were made by a famous Native America bead makers. The high grade turquoise is now sold by carat unit like the other gemstone. You can mix and match the old and new turquoise into your jewelry piece if you like. The stone will last with you for a longer time.