Fashion Jewelry

Fashion Jewelry Metals
We use 14k yellow and 14k white gold, sterling silver, and non-tarnishing rhodium as the final and permanent heat-bonded finish on all its high quality fashion jewelry. Almost all the sterling silver jewelry is finished in non-tarnishing rhodium which costs about $6,000.00 per ounce. It looks the same as highly polished sterling silver, but will never tarnish.

Most jewelry manufacturers use silver or brass as a base or core metal. We had used both for many years and both are good; but, as a fashion jewelry manufacturer, we discovered that our exclusive jeweler's bronze was superior in all ways for beauty and wear ability. Even though its initial cost is greater, cost has never been our prime concern. Customer satisfaction is--and always has been--our greatest concern.

Fashion Jewelry Stones
Our fashion jewelry and rings contain the finest man-made and laboratory-created gemstones possible--class "A" Russian Formula cubic zirconia and genuine Swarovski Austrian Crystal stones (although a few of our ring styles do feature natural gemstones rather than their lab-created counterparts). While lab-created stones such as cubic zirconias are typically associated with clear diamonds, they can be colored to realistically simulate other natural stones--ruby, sapphire, emerald, amethyst, tanzanite, aquamarine, pink diamond, and golden topaz to name a few.

Many Shades of Colored Cubic Zirconia Stones
From time to time we receive questions about the various shades of the Russian formula cubic zirconia stones in our fashion jewelry. What many people don't realize is that the very finest cubic zirconia stones--just like natural gemstones--come in varying shades. Our exclusive diamond faceting is responsible for the extraordinary brilliance you will enjoy forever.

Natural stones can and will have many different shades, from darker to lighter. In fact, all natural stones except perfect blue-white diamonds have these variations.

Cubic zirconia stones, too, have these color variations due to the highly sophisticated process used to create them--vacuum induction. In this manufacturing process, a large free-form piece of cubic zirconia is created as the various quality ingredients necessary for cubic zirconia are electronically injected into a vacuum.

For stones other than clear diamond cubic zirconias (e.g., ruby, sapphire, emerald, peridot, or tanzanite cubic zirconias), permanent coloring is also perfectly blended at this time, meaning the color is permanently ingrained throughout the stone--not just on the surface. Many lower-quality cubic zirconia stones only have a coloring on the surface which will lose brilliance over time, but we use only the highest-quality cubic zirconia stones, Russian formula, in our fashion jewelry.

However, color tends to be lighter on the extremities of the uncut, free-form cubic zirconia and darker towards the center. Typically, larger stones are cut from the center of the cubic zirconia, and smaller stones are cut from the extremities of the cubic zirconia stones.

Different renderings of cubic zirconia stones have slightly different shades, and cubic zirconia stones cut from different locations on the newly-created free-form cubic zirconia will have slightly different shades. So, the cubic zirconia stone you get will have a beautiful, realistic ruby, sapphire, emerald, tanzanite, or peridot appearance but its very own unique shade.

Birthstone Chart

BayJewels birthstone colors will please even the most discriminating individuals. You will be able to enjoy their unique colors virtually forever.

January - Garnet February - Amethyst March - Auquamarine April - Clear Diamond May - Emerald June - Alexandrite

July - Ruby August - Peridot September - Sapphire October - Pink Tourmaline November - Golden Topaz December - Brazilian Blue

Cleaning Your Fashion Jewelry

With the exception of our replica watches and jewelry that contains certain natural stones (such as jade, pearls, coral, etc.) this is how we beautifully maintain tens of thousands of pieces of jewelry:

1. Immerse the jewelry for 8-10 seconds in any good liquid gold or silver cleaner.
2. Rinse the jewelry clean under a warm water faucet.
3. Rinse the jewelry once again in a separate glass or plastic container in a soapy water solution.
4. And finally, thoroughly rinse the jewelry again under the warm water faucet, then...
5. Towel dry and leave your jewelry on the towel...
6. Blow-dry your jewelry with your hair dryer for about 10 seconds at a distance of about 8 to 10 inches, being sure to blow under or behind the stones. Do not hold while blow-drying as the items can get very hot.