Freshwater Pearls Color Enhanced

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Freshwater pearls color enhanced. Ensuring secure safe transactions. Freshwater pearls can be round or irregular in their shapes and exhibit unusual colors. Etsy uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience enabling things like. Which is the most valuable.

Pearls that grow with a natural white color include akoya pearls freshwater pearls south sea pearls and even occasional tahitian pearls which are most often dark. Here are some treatments that are done on pearls. White freshwater and akoya pearls are routinely bleached in order to produce a white pearl. Federal trade commission requires that farmed freshwater pearls be referred to as freshwater cultured pearls in commerce.

The most popular colors for freshwater pearls are white cream lavender and black. Just as pink pearls lavender freshwater pearls have a natural color but it can be enhanced after processing. Only tahitian pearls are naturally charcoal to black in color. Almost all pearls on the market whether freshwater or saltwater are subjected to some form of treatment to enhance the color and appearance.

However black freshwater pearls are not natural in that they have been dyed to obtain their color. We use only genuine pearls. Most freshwater pearl information notes their varied shapes including potato shaped and stick pearls rice shaped and button pearls coin shaped and drop pearls off round and round pearls. Freshwater pearl of the grey gold black pistachio mocha dark cream blue and peacock are color enhanced with a dye.

While white is a naturally occurring color in freshwater and akoya pearls these types are routinely bleached to create an even whiter bodycolor and then subjected to a treatment known as pinking. In addition to the traditional white body color these pearls come in a rainbow of natural pastel colors such as lavender pink and every shade in between. Often called chocolate pearls brown pearls are a steady and enduring color. High quality freshwater pearls have overtones of pink green and blue although lower quality gems do not display any desirable overtones.

Wear them in double strands for a remarkable appearance. Many freshwater and saltwater pearls are bleached to improve the color of white pearls. Delicate and graceful this pearl color will enhance your natural beauty. Cultured freshwater pearls are pearls that are farmed and created using freshwater mussels these pearls are produced in japan and the united states on a limited scale but are now almost exclusively produced in china the u s.

Peacock blue sterling silver visiting my shop for more pearl designs. Bleaching also evens out some surface flaws. Pearl bleaching has been practiced for over 100 years and is considered an industry standard in production of white pearls. A natural color white strand will show slight variances in the hues of each pearl while a bleached strand will appear very uniform.

The latter treatment adds the slight rosé tone found in nearly all akoya pearls. All other black pearls on the market have been dyed.