Shawn Warren

Shawn Warren based in New York came up with wrap bracelets that you can get in neon colors. The bracelets coil around your wrist smoothly while the magnetic clasp will not cause any problem. The chunkier chains look better with more dramatic effect. Cheap yet classy, this is how I will describe these wrap bracelets.

Some of the choices include a wrap bracelet in blue leather with silver and gunmetal chain. The eye catching neon yellow version too also look great. You can get them for $275.

Shawn Warren also came up with a single band version that makes use of snap closure. This comes in blue, coral, and neon yellow leather and 2-tone metal. Each sells for $225

Baublebar

If you are looking for bracelets with that perfect spring vibe, BaubleBar is another site to visit. They made use of bright enamel and vibrant metals for their bracelets this season. Everything is bright at BaubleBar and they offer a ton of options over at their website.

They have this rope cuff with gold plated metal, lucile, and enamel. They also have a collaboration with DKNY producing three pieces of elegant bracelets for spring.

Gerard Yosca

The designer made brilliant enamel bracelets that retail for just $98. The pieces use Swarovski crystals and semi precious gem stones.

Classic Solitaire

This is a very popular setting for diamond engagement rings. The stone is positioned high to allow maximum exposure and enhance its brilliance. The diamond also appears bigger in this kind of setting.

Cathedral Solitaire

This setting puts the stone well inside the confines of the bands which extends from each side. This is basically done to have good protection of your diamond.

Contour Solitaire

The Contour Solitaire setting also offers maximum protection of your center diamond as it uses the band to hug the stone but the band tapers upward.

Knife Edge

This engagement ring setting makes use of angled shanks that are highly polished which exposes the center diamond to light enhancing its brilliance. This is very similar to the classic solitaire.

Trellis Solitaire

This is another popular setting which follows the Art Nouveau style. It makes use of interlaced prongs to hug the diamond in the middle. It is very elegant to look at and very easy to wear.

Bezel Set Solitaire

This kind of diamond engagement ring setting provides maximum protection as a whole rim overlaps the perimeter of the stone. The bride to be can wear her engagement ring without the fear of losing the stone while she busy with her everyday stuff.

Multiple stones or with Sidestones

Adding additional diamonds will definitely add brilliance to the stones. You can consult your jeweler what cuts of stones would fit the look you want to achieve.

I’d just EAT HIM UP. He’s so sexy.

The jewelry is amazing too — LV Jewelry is smart hooking up with such a creative talent.

In order to promote the product further, Secret has announced that with the purchase of specially marked packages of Secret Flawless™, there will be chances to win prizes that include a brilliant and spectacular one carat flawless diamond worth fifteen thousand US dollars. Sorry Canada, apparently the contest is only being offered to US residents.

To find a prize, you buy Secret Flawless™ in a selection from five fragrances as well as unscented or follow the “no purchase” instructions available online. Once you have your secret code from the back of the label, enter your information into the website and play a game to find out if you are a winner. Prizes will include movie tickets, shopping sprees, diamonds, dinners and other prizes. The contest runs until June 2009 so there is plenty of time to obtain your code.

And the most exciting part of the contest, if your deodorant stick is a diamond winner, it will contain a piece of “fake bling” hiding inside!

The “giardinetto” ring, designed as a bouquet of flowers, was a gift from the actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) to the vendor’s grandmother, the actress Mercia Swinburne (1900-1993). The pair became life-long friends after they were introduced by Vivien’s husband, Sir Laurence Olivier.

Mercia and her husband George Relph acted in many performances with the Oliviers, including a number of plays during a six-month tour with the Old Vic Theatre Company of Australia and New Zealand in 1948. The writer George Cotterell in his book Laurence Olivier, London, 1975, records, “The Old Vic touring party comprised ten administrative and technical staff and forty actors, including some of the Oliviers’ closest friends, most notably George Relph and his wife Mercia Swinburne”. Swinburne and Leigh performed alongside one another in The School for Scandal and in the Old Vic’s revered performance of The Skin of Our Teeth. The tour was met with high acclaim.

In the years after the Old Vic tour the two actresses remained in close contact. Not only were several gifts passed between Vivien and Mercia, but also many intimate notes and letters in which they shared their private lives and a trusted friendship.

In his 1969 biography of Vivien Leigh, Alan Dent mentions how “Miss Mercia Swinburne spoke to me eloquently and emotionally of her love for ‘Larry and Vivien’ which was deeply shared with that of her husband, the late George Relph. Both, as I know full well, did capital work with the Oliviers in Shakespeare, Sheridan,…etc, both in England and on an Australian tour…”. Equally, it is clear Leigh regarded Mercia highly. Dent records: “More than once in her later days Vivien was heard to say that the friends she most deeply loved were ‘Victor [Stiebel], Bumble [Dawson] and Mercia [Swinburne].”

The ring is asymmetrically designed with a bouquet of flowers arranged in a facetted diamond vase. It has cushion and pear-shaped diamond flowerhead petals and this delicate composition is enhanced by similarly set ruby and emerald. The diamonds are mounted in silver and the coloured stones are in gold.

The Art of Jewels Sale, to be held by Bonhams, will also feature the jewellery collection of another famous Hollywood actress Deborah Kerr. Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) starred in over 50 films over four decades. Some of her best-loved movies include From Here to Eternity (1953) with Burt Lancaster, The King and I (1956) with Yul Brynner and An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant. She was also a leading lady to Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, James Mason, Stewart Granger, David Niven and Spencer Tracy.

For further information on The Art of Jewels Sale, please go to www.bonhams.com/jewels.

I’ve been to a Lia Sophia and a Silpada Designs party myself, and I have to say I loved Lia Sophia way way way more, but that’s just me maybe… They looked more professional and way more prepared for the needs of my friends…

If YOU have ideas, pointers, etc… let us know in the comments section!

Quickly becoming a leader in fine diamonds and luxury jewelry, the company is accepted by the community as one who defines the diamond industry. In 2006, The Robb Report, a magazine that writes about luxurious and expensive products ranging from boats to jewelry, recognized Hearts on Fire as an icon and an innovator. In the same year, the company designed a spectacular six and a half million dollar diamond bra for Victoria’s Secret.

And now they have recently launched their newest collection called the Architectural Collection. Masterfully crafted, this set of seventeen limited pieces was actually highlighted in the October 2008 issue of Architectural Digest, a magazine usually reserved for actual buildings and structures. Interestingly, the creators have chosen eight of the most famous buildings in the world and used their design elements to fashion the pieces of this extraordinary series.

The buildings used and the associated jewelry collection names are:

• Montreal’s Olympic Stadium – “Encapsulate” necklace and earrings
• Beijing National Stadium – “Ceremonious” bracelet and ring
• Sydney Opera House – “Virtuoso” necklace
• Chicago Spire – “Culmination” earrings and ring
• Boston Bunker Hill Bridge – “Legendary” necklace and earrings
• London’s British Museum Glass Canopy – “Convergence” pendant necklace and ring
• Tokyo’s National Gymnasium – “Boundless” brooch
• New York’s Art Déco Chrysler Building – “Sculptural” bracelet, earrings, ring

Plenty of diamonds set in white gold, each piece is unique in design from the handmade Ceremonious where no two rings are alike to the moving radials of the Boundless brooch much like a venetian blind!

More info right here on the HOF site!