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If you receive an item you are not satisfied with, you may return it for a full refund. Email us at help@perlin-jewelry.com within 30 days. Getting Ready for a Special Occasion Jewelry should be the final touch in completing your attire. Sounds obvious, doesn't it? We're amazed at how often this is overlooked by people getting ready for a special event. Often times, people are so used to wearing their jewelry that they forget it's there. Remove jewelry before putting on powder, makeup and hair spray. Besides getting in the way, the chemicals in these products can deteriorate your jewelry and diminish their appearance. After dressing, they should be the last items you put on. The word gold, used alone, means pure gold or 24 karat (24K) G. Because 24k is soft, it’s usually mixed with other metals to increase its hardness and durability. If a piece of jewelry is not 24 karat, the karat quality should accompany any claim that the item is gold. The karat quality marking tells you what proportion of gold is mixed with the other metals. Fourteen karat (14k) jewelry contains 14 parts of gold, mixed in throughout with 10 parts of base metal. A higher karat rating indicates a higher proportion of gold in the piece of jewelry. Solid gold actually refers to an item made of any karat gold, so long as the inside of the item is not hollow. The proportion of gold in the piece of jewelry still is determined by the karat mark. Jewelry can be plated with gold in a variety of ways. Gold plate refers to items that are mechanically plated, electroplated, or plated by any other means with gold to a base metal. Eventually, gold plating wears away, but how soon will depend on how often the item is worn and how thick the plating is. |
