Types of Finger Rings

There are a tremendous number of styles and types of finger rings. The majority are made from some type of metal for strength, durability, and beauty. These may be inlaid with gem stones, pearls, beads, crystals, charms, and more. The metal is often detailed to create patterns, shapes, or unique embellishments. Engraving in metal is also a common practice to show ownership or commemorate love relationships.

Other materials include glass, beads, wood, and organic materials such as bone.

Common types of rings include:

Promise: A pre-engagement piece illustrating commitment.
Engagement: Shows impending commitment to marriage.
Wedding: Bands worn by both partners to signify the marital union.
Anniversary: Given to illustrate the time a marriage or relationship has been together.
Mother's: Given to show the love and sacrifice of a mother, often given by her children.
Graduation/School: High school and college graduations are often sealed into memory through use of rings as memorabilia.
Birthstone: Bands inlaid with gemstones corresponding to the person's birth month.
Personalized: Name, initial, or monograms offer an individual statement.
Organizations and affiliations: Sports, fraternities, sororities, clubs, and other organizations may have rings that identify members.
Irish Claddaugh: Signifies love, loyalty, and friendship. Can be worn in different ways to signify impending marriage or marital union.
Celebrity Rings: Inspired by the often extravagant looks of celebrities, these rings are usually imitations of highly expensive haute couture finger jewels.
Mood Rings: Highly popularized in the 1970's and 80's, these are said to convey the mood of the wearer depending on the color of the stone or crystal.
Spinners: Consists of two parts, a stationary outer band and a moveable inner band.
Right Hand: Usually worn in opposition to the left-handed wedding or engagement rings to make a bold statement of individual identity.
Puzzle: Worn by ancient royalty, these unique pieces consist of between 3 and 12 bands.

Other Types

In addition to finger rings worn traditionally on the third finger of the left hand, people now wear them on both hands and on many fingers. Pinkie rings and thumb rings are often worn as fun fashion trends. Stacked or numerous rings on one finger, or many pieces on one hand are also worn. Contemporary fashion rules encourage wearing them in different ways and expressing personal style.

Accompanying the trend of personal expression and waning away from classic jewelry standards, body jewelry has exploded onto today's contemporary jewelry scene. Nose, toe, navel, and tongue rings are all widely available in many styles.

Sapphire: protect the blue in your heart

As September's birthstone, sapphire symbolizes loyalty, steadfastness and strength. She graciously passing, sometimes noble, sometimes pretty, and crystal clear. The Earth is a beautiful blue planet, the people in the Earth have a kind of innate sense of belonging to the blue. Many people have a soft spot for blue gems,which the most precious is the blue corundum.

Cartier Bracelets

Sapphire and ruby corundum are a kind of main chemical composition of aluminum oxide, as containing a small amount of different impurities which show different colors.

Montblanc 4810 winter ring

The Sapphire have the characters as follows:

1, uneven color, you can see width ranges growth zone from different shades of hexagons;
2 Mohs hardness of 9, second only to diamond hardness of 10;
3, there are two strong color, usually blue and blue-green;
4, often contains silk-like mineral inclusions or diffuse-like gas-liquid inclusions.

Cartier Panther brooch 1949 designed

In the mace,crown and all kinds of jewelry, we can always see the body of sapphire. If we say that Sapphire is a royal jewelry, and that was not exaggeration. For a long time, sapphire and the nobility have been inextricably linked. King Edward VIII gave up the crown to become Duke of Windsor, and hand in hand with Mrs. Simpson's, that achieved a dream-like love. Now fairy tale hero are long gone, leaving only a series of beautiful jewelry, that part of love with a beautiful memorial. One of the most famous are a cheetah brooch that made of platinum. The cheetah squat at a Kashmir sapphire rounded cut, the upright posture revealed a unique noble temperament of the royal family.

When the Queen Elizabeth II wedding,his father George VI gave her a sapphire necklace and earrings as a gift, after the Queen ascended the throne, it also subscribe to a matching sapphire crown. The sapphire jewelry have been accompanied by the Queen appeared in a number of formal occasions. Princess Diana at the wedding was also wearing a ring set with sapphire,and perfect interpretation of the reality Cinderella.

Cartier mysterious Indian High Jewelry Necklace

Van Cleef & Arpels Fil de l'eau sapphire diamond necklace

Bvlgari Sapphire and diamond watch

Chanel J12 Jewelry Watch

Outside works of sapphire jewelry

In addition to the sapphire have reputation in the royal family, religious history, and also the Sapphire will be in another low-key in the world. At that time, a sapphire navigation key mobile phone Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte has attracted many followers. In the watch industry, sapphire mirror face is even more noteworthy in this respect. Many watches are based on a watch mirror synthetic sapphire, the high purity alumina and ground into a fine white powder, combined with metal oxide by high-temperature synthesis, the final cut with diamond cutter shape of its. The watch face that produced in this way with a high degree of transparency and high wear-resistant properties.

Bvlgari Antique Collection jewelry diamond and sapphire brooch