Pearl buying guide

Among few natures most beautiful gift to humans along with diamonds and ruby, pearl is one of the most beautiful jewel, but it is equally complicated when it comes to buying a pearl. To know where to look for and what qualities to look for in a pearl while buying is very important, and this is where a pearl buying guide will be essential. It will tell about how to evaluate pearls, spot fakes and detect dyed pearls. They also provide you full-color guide and tips on pearl care, clasps, and creative ways to wear pearls. While buying a pearl you should have knowledge about its quality, types and its market price. And of course you’ll have to know how to avoid getting a bad one.
Type, size, luster, inclusions, shape, matching, and nacre are the features that determine the quality of a pearl. Type varies from freshwater pearl to south sea and Tahitian; it’s up to you what you desire and what can attract you best. Pearls range in size from a couple of millimeters to over 15 millimeters depending on the type. Normally the larger the pearl, the more rare and valuable it is. Luster is a main factor people love about peal and are attracted to it. A high quality pearl will be brilliant and bright, and even a normal person with no vast knowledge will be able to easily see your own reflection in its surface. Inclusions are the defects on a pearl. Cracks and bumps on a pearl makes it look less beautiful. Rather than calling it defects its imperfections that a pearl have. For obvious reasons less the inclusions on pearl more its value and its beauty. Though most of the people think a pearl is only spherical but there are varieties of shapes that people can choose. Depending upon its kind pearl comes round, off-round, oval, baroque, and ringed where round pearls are the most desired and valuable. A single pearl is beautiful but when a beautiful pearl comes along with many other matching jewelry or even with other matching pearls its value increases and so does its beauty. Nacre is the layers of aragonite and conchiolin that form around the pearl's center. The thicker the nacre, the longer a pearl will typically last. All of these attributes are used to determine the quality and value of pearls and pearl jewellery. By knowing and understanding these, you are in a better position to know what to look for and what you are purchasing.
You can also go for pearl by its rating if examining all the qualities one by one. Rated AAA, AA, and A pearls are rated for their obvious qualities I’ve mentioned in the former paragraph. Where A, AA, and AAA means good, better, and best respectively.