Pairing Perfect Necklace With Different Necklines, Part 3/3

Welcome in my last part of how to choose perfect or right necklace with different necklines. Today I´m going to tell you five more necklines and how pair them with perfect necklace. 

This week I´m going to tell you more of following necklines:

• Boat Neck
• Jewel
• Illusion
• Square
• Scoop

Necklines from left to right: Boat Neck, Jewel, Illusion, Square and Scoop

BOAT NECK NECKLINE:

With Boat Neck neckline clothes, choose necklaces that are collar, bib, long beaded or beaded necklaces.

If you want to skip the necklace, choose a pair of sparkling studs.

JEWEL NECKLINE:

With Jewel neckline clothes, necklaces that are choker or short beaded necklace will look best.

ILLUSION NECKLINE:

With Illusion neckline clothes, necklaces that are short and shape matches with neckline will look best.

SQUARE NECKLINE:

With Square neckline clothes, necklaces that are choker, long chain, have angular pendant that fall on the collarbone work well.

SCOOP NECKLINE:

With Scoop neckline clothes, necklaces that are long or short, have large pendant or multiple strand beaded. Also shorter statement necklace and round short necklace will look good with this neckline.

I hope this inspire you to try more necklace styles with your wardrobe. I would also love to know which of these necklines you wear most. Leave your comment below.

~ Minna

Pairing Perfect Necklace With Different Necklines, Part 2/3

Welcome in my second part of how to choose perfect or right necklace with different necklines. Today I´m going to tell you five more necklines and how pair them with perfect necklace. If you can´t now find yours, have a look next week post.

This week I´m going to tell you more of following necklines:

• Off shoulder
• Queen Anne
• High Neck
• Halter
• Halter Strap

Necklines from left to right: Off Shoulder, Queen Anne, High Neck, Halter and Halter Strap

OFF SHOULDER NECKLINE:

With Off Shoulder neckline clothes, choose choker, asymmetrical, short beaded or long beaded necklace.

QUEEN ANNE NECKLINE:

With Queen Anne neckline clother, choose pendant necklace, short necklace, short pendant necklace or round beaded necklace.

HIGH NECK NECKLINE:

With High Neck neckline clothes wear large pearl necklace, long chain necklace, long pendant necklace or multiple long chain necklace. It´s important that necklaces have simple and clean design.

HALTER NECKLINE:

With Halter neckline clothes wear V shape jewelry, necklaces that have large or slim pendant, choker necklace or short necklace that matches the shape of the neckline.

HALTER STRAP NECKLINE:

With Halter Strap neckline clothes wear long necklace, small pendant necklace that have sharper end, choker or short beaded necklace.

If straps have visual details, pair with large stud earrings instead of necklace.

I hope this inspire you to try more necklace styles with your wardrobe. I would also love to know which of these necklines you wear most. Leave your comment below.

~ Minna

Pairing Perfect Necklace With Different Necklines, Part 1/3

I hope your November has started well I´m pretty excited this month posts that will come up. 

During November I´m going to write how to choose perfect necklace with your favorite blouse or dress. This series consists of three parts and each part I will present five different necklines. So if you can´t now find yours, have a look next week post.

This week I´m going to tell you more of following necklines:

• Sweetheart
• Straight across
• Semi-sweetheart
• V-neck
• Asymmetric

Necklines from left to right: Sweetheart, Straight Across, Semi-Sweetheart, V-neck and Asymmetric

At first sight, it might seem like sweetheart and semi-sweetheart necklines are same but actually sweetheart neckline go little bit deeper than semi-sweetheart. Also straight across different from these two. The neckline is literally straight. So what kind necklace is best combination for each of these?

SWEETHEART NECKLINE:

With Sweetheart neckline you can wear bold pendant necklace or necklace that have curved beads or pendants that will end just above neckline. Look for shapes circles, teardrops and ovals.

STRAIGHT ACROSS NECKLINE:

With Straight Across necklines, choose choker necklace that have simple design or made of beads. Also long chain necklace will work too.

If you want to skip the necklace and wear earrings instead, choose statement looking earrings.

SEMI-SWEETHEART NECKLINE:

With Semi-Sweetheart neckline clothes you can wear choker that have simple design or made of beads. Also long drop chain necklace, short beaded necklace and necklace with curved beads or pendant will look good with this neckline.

If you want to skip the necklace and wear earrings instead, choose statement looking earrings.

V-NECK NECKLINE:

With V-neck neckline clothes you can wear long or short pendant necklace, longer beaded necklace, drop chain necklace or angular shape necklace. Simple necklaces like one bead necklaces are best choice for this neckline. Also necklaces that have similar V shape will work too.

ASYMMETRIC NECKLINE:

With Asymmetrical neckline clothes you can wear long or short beaded necklaces, chokers, asymmetrical necklaces, long chain necklaces and necklaces that have big pendant work best with this neckline.

If you don´t want to wear necklace, choose statement style earrings or long earrings and combine them with cuff or bangle bracelet. That way you let the neckline speak for itself.

I hope this inspire you to try more necklace styles with your wardrobe. I would also love to know which of these necklines you wear most. Leave your comment below.

~ Minna

Earrings For Different Face Shapes

Happy November!

This week´s blog post is all about earrings and how to choose perfect earrings for your face that will compliment to your outfit as well.

There are 6 major face types which I will represent more closely in the below:

• Round
• Oval
• Heart
• Square
• Diamond
• Rectangular

But first you need to determine which face type you are. It´s very easy to figure out which face shape you have.

Simply tie up your hair and stand in front of mirror straight without leaning towards it. Use lipstick, soap or any other non-permanent marker that will be easy to wipe clean from the mirror and draw your face lines by following your hairlines. DO NOT include your ears!

After you have figure you which is your face type, read below which earrings will be perfect for you and you don´t need to struggle anymore in order to get right earring pair for you that will fit perfectly to your face and not just to your outfit.

My friend draw for me this face shape illustration. Below is more explanation of each face shape 

ROUND:

Characteristics: Your face shape is round when drawn outline resembles a circle. Your face is widest at the cheekbones and you have round chin line. Your face is close to same length from tip of your nose to all sides.

Earrings: Drop, chandelier or long dangle earrings. Avoid any round hoop or button earrings because these will highlight the roundness of your face

OVAL:

Characteristics: Your face shape is oval when drawn outline remind like an egg. Your forehead may be slightly wider than your chin. You have rounded jawline to chin. Oval shape face is slightly longer than they are wide.

Earrings: Long, teardrop, pearls, studs and triangular earrings are best choice

TRIANGLE:

Characteristics: Your face shape is triangle when face width measures about two thirds of the length of the face. Triangle face shape have broad jawline with narrow forehead.

Earrings: Favor chandelier or teardrop shape earrings

SQUARE:

Characteristics: Your face shape is square when drawn outline is not tall but wide wide at all points. Your forehead, cheeks and jawline have similar widths. 

Earrings: Long round earrings, hoop earrings, oval shaped earrings or medium size round earrings. Avoid square shape earrings which will highlight the squareness of your face

RECTANGULAR:

Characteristics: Your face shape is rectangular when drawn outline is longer than it´s wide. Your forehead, cheeks and jawline have same width.

Earrings: Favor stud, teardrop shape, long narrow earring or irregular geometric earrings. Avoid earrings that will add volume to your jawline like some cluster earrings or dangle one pearl earrings.

DIAMOND:

Characteristics: Your face shape is diamond when drawn outline is narrow from forehead and chin. Diamond shape face widest part is your cheekbones. Your forehead and chin are narrower than your cheekbones.

Earrings: Dangle, long or small stud earrings will look good. Make sure the earrings will end before your jawline because that way the dangle earrings will balance your diamond shape face. Avoid wide or button earrings.

In addition there´s also heart shape face which have narrow chin and broad forehead. If you have heart shape face like Reese Witherspoon, wear earrings that are rounded at the bottom. Also chandelier and teardrop shape earrings will work too. Avoid wearing slim drop earrings because it will draw attention to your narrow chin.

I hope you have fun time to figure out which face shape you have and find now perfect earrings for your face shape that will flatter your face and your outfit too. I would also love to see your face shape comment below.

~ Minna

PS. If you like the earring at the end, head to my Etsy shop BlueBellJewelry

Size Guide - When Size Is Everything

I´ve been worked as seller in different store. Being seller in a grocery store is not so hard than being seller in the cloth store.

I never thought that being seller in the cloth store can be any different than being seller on a regular grocery store. I love customer service and highly valued it. 

I learned a lot when I was a seller in a two different cloth store. When customer walks in, I try to serve her/him best possible way. I must admit that most of my customers were women and beside being seller you also are temporary friend for them. Some customer may tell you most painful things when they coming to buy new shirt for parties or special occassion that they have and my job was to figure out what size cloth they were use. Of course, back then was Winter so I always had to ask it. Some customer told directly what size they were using and some whispered it to me like it was big secret or they might shame the size they will need. Can´t wonder how big value the small tag is for some people but it also goes for jewelry too.

I personally haven´t trusted the size labels for years now. I consider them more like guideline and they do not define me and the size label shouldn´t define you either. It doesn´t hang there to tell you whether you are good or bad person. 

Good thing about the jewelry is that there isn´t hang any size tag to let the world know what length necklace you wear, what´s your ring size is etc. So take a honest measure of your ring size, wrist size or anklet size. Choose the necklace length that is most comfort for you.

Cheating about the size does only hurt you and I personally think that too small clothes or jewelry will not look as good as the right size.

~ Minna

Gift Guide 3/3 - Perfect Bracelet

Finding perfect bracelet could be difficult especially if you are going to buy it as a gift but also finding perfect bracelet for yourself that fit fit perfectly can be challenging.

Bracelets are available so many different variations ⎯ with clasp, stretchy ones, with charms or without charms, different beads and pearls, leather ones etc. 

What should you know before searching bracelet that will fit you? 

Firstly, you need to know your wrist size or if you buy the bracelet as a gift then recipient´s wrist size. The wrist size you can measure yourself at home, you just need couple things to do that.

Measuring your wrist size:

- Take pencil or marker

This image shows how you should measure your wrist size with strip of paper

- Take non-stretchy string or narrow piece of paper (it´s important that the string or yarn what you use for measuring your wrist size is non-stretchy because otherwise the measuring result can be wrong)

- Wrap the string/paper around your wrist and mark where ends meet or hold it with your other hand.

- Take a ruler and measure the result against the ruler

- Add half or one inch measure result so the bracelet what you are going to buy have some room move and you can also bend your arm normally

The perfect size bracelet is too big, if it fall out from your hand when you face it towards the floor. Bracelet is also too big for you if you flew out from your wrist when you gently shake it.

Perfect length bracelet should be snug fit but not squeeze from anything or feel otherwise too tight. Make sure you have enough room to use your hand normally (that´s why I personally recommend to add half or most often one inch more in the measure result). 

 Above image works on bracelets which have clasp but how you measure if the dream bracelet you want do not have any clasp?

Image on the left works for bangle bracelets and also cuff bracelet which do not have any clasp. They are meant to slide through your hand. The image have detailed instruction how you can measure if you are going to buy bangle or cuff bracelet.

Some bracelets are stretchy which will "forgive" minor measuring errors but if there are missing several inches or centimeters the stretchy bracelet will not look good in your wrist. Buying stretchy bracelet, I will recommend to use method that I have represented on the first measuring photo.

The stretchy bracelet can have snug fit or little bit loose but it shouldn´t be too tight. How you know when the stretch bracelet is too tight? Well, the beads or pearls doesn´t go evenly around your wrist. Most stretchy bracelets are made of strong elastic cord (usually translucent color) and if this is visible, your bracelet is slightly too small for you. Another good thing is to keep in mind when your stretch bracelet might be too small is when you take it off and pattern of the beads stays on your skin little while.

Cuff bracelet is like a bangle bracelet but

isn´t closed. Cuff bracelets are meant to

fit tightly on the wrist. Adjust the cuff so

it doesn´t pinch.

Finally few bracelet length that might help you buy perfect bracelet.

• Standard women´s bracelet length: 6.5 - 7 inches (7 inches is most common)
• Standard men´s bracelet length: 7.5 - 9 inches (8 inches is most common)
  
  Above measurements are only average lengths what women and men usually use but every people´s wrist size vary like ring size.

I hope you find your dream bracelet that pleases your eyes or when you look at the specific bracelet, it immediately remind someone close to you. I hope my blog post help you determine which length bracelet you should buy.

~ Minna

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Gift Guide 2/3 - Buying Necklaces For Her

It´s middle of the October and more and more Holiday stuff are arriving in the stores.

Many haven´t yet awake for buying Christmas gifts for friends and family. If you planning to buy gifts for friends and family on Etsy, take note where the store is locate. Just before Christmas when last shipping days are approaching the Postal system have rush and delivery may be delayed week or two.

Avoiding Christmas hustle, shopping online at home is most relaxing. You don´t need to wait to pay your purchases but buying online is also difficult when you don´t see the actual product. It´s important that the seller provide all the size and measurement so that you can decide.

Today I´m going to tell you how to buy necklaces for special woman in your life.

Before you run to buy expensive or less expensive necklace for her, take a note what kind of jewelry she normally like to wear.

It´s also good to pay attention does she like to wear silver, gold, rose gold, bronze or copper jewelry.

Rose gold offer alternative choice for usual gold jewelry and women who like to normally wear gold jewelry also likes the rose gold ones.

After deciding necklace color, take a moment to think what length the necklace you would like.

I have used this image to shows different necklace length where different length necklaces approximately will fall.

Of course, it can vary too since our neck circumference vary from
each other but the image gives good guideline.

Most common length are Princess and Matinee length necklaces that usually fit most of us.

If you don´t know what length you should buy, take your favorite necklace and measure it against the ruler or if you don´t have any favorite jewelry that you can measure, stand in front of mirror and take non-stretchy string/cord and place it around your neck. adjust it until it looks good to you and then measure it against the ruler. That way you have the measure in order to buy proper length necklace.

As you may know, necklaces comes nowadays so many different kind variations.
Now you have decided the chain color and length you want. Let´s think next what kind of necklace you like.

Collar and choker necklaces are usually between 12 - 16 inches and very popular among the young people. Both of these kind necklaces goes just around your neck. The necklaces can be crocheted, different types chains, with or without charms, leather string or piece of velvet fabric. Collar and choker necklaces can be wear with jeans and formal dress. Events: Cocktail party, formal casual party, business meeting.

Princess and Matinee necklaces are usually between 17 - 24 inches and necklace goes on your bust. This length necklace is most popular one because the necklace won´t tangle up. Princess necklaces can be wear with open collar shirts, cozy sweater to boat necks and evening gown. and Matinee necklaces can be wear with turtle neck tops or tailored shirts. Events: Wedding, office, business, casual and evening out.

Opera necklace is usually between 28 - 34 inches and necklace goes on your bust or inch or two below that. Opera necklace can be wear with any high necklines or evening dress. Events: Formal event, night out, opera or other similar events.

Rope necklace is usually over 45 inches. Generally rope necklace will fall somewhere around your waistline. Rope necklaces are ideal for those who wants to stand out from crowd. Rope necklace can be wear blue jeans and t-shirt to elegant gown. Events: evening out, everyday, formal events.

Choosing right necklaces for you, is also good to know your face shape, what kind of body type you have and even your height.

I bet none of these things didn´t across your mind that these things can affect what kind of necklace is right for you.

Sounds too hard? It actually not. Most of time people automatically choose things that naturally suited for you. Like specific colors, clothes and even jewelry.

Face Shapes

If you have round or oval shape face ⎯ choose necklace that is between 20 - 26 inches. Necklace will elongate your face.

If you have square or oblong shape face ⎯ choose necklace that is between 14 - 16 inches or 17 - 19 inches long. Necklace will make your face look longer.

If you have heart shape face ⎯ choose necklace that is between 12 - 13 inches or 16 - 18 inches. Necklace will soften your face angles.

Height

Short – If you have a shorter frame of 5'4” or below, then look for necklaces that help elongate your frame, but not hang too low. If you are looking for a shorter necklace try the 16”-18” length, as this should fit your proportions correctly. When looking at longer necklaces, try between 20”-24” as this will hang effortlessly.

Regular Height – Luckily those that are between 5'4” and 5'7” can wear any necklace length, but remember to consider your face shape and body type before you buy.

Tall – With a taller frame you can usually wear any necklace length, but longer styles will work particularly well as they will accentuate your height. When looking at shorter styles, ensure that the necklace size complements your face shape before you buy.

Body Types:

Pear shaped – As your body is smaller on the top then it is at the bottom, look for necklaces that help broaden your shoulders. Necklaces that are 18”-24” work well as they sit just above your bust and draw attention towards your upper body.

Athletic – Those that have an athletic shape can typically wear any type of necklace, although longer necklaces can help elongate your body more.

Hourglass – For an hourglass shape, try a necklace length that just sits on your décolletage to help accentuate your curves.

Inverted Triangle – With broader shoulders, longer length necklaces will help bring the eye down to your waist, highlighting the smallest part of your body.

Now that you understand what necklace suits you, it’s time to explore the wide world of necklaces. 

~ Minna