How To Live With Diamond Jewellery
The tough part of buying diamond jewellery is finding the ideal piece that suits your style and budget, which speaks to you and becomes part of your life. But there’s more to diamond jewellery than just buying it and wearing it. We have to live with diamond jewellery.
No, I’m not saying that owning jewellery is like having a pet dog or cat, but we do have to take care of it, and there are tips and tricks when it comes to jewellery, that can make your enjoyment of it easier and even more pleasant.
In this article, we are going to have a look at some things that you may not have thought about when you went shopping or first wore your new fine jewellery!
What To Do If Your Ring Gets Stuck On Your Finger?
Getting a ring stuck onto a finger is probably something that has happened to most of us at one time or another. It can happen in unexpected ways. Perhaps your fingers have swollen slightly in hot weather. Maybe you’ve been working out harder than usual. Possibly you have tried on a friend’s ring that seems to be the right size – until it simply refuses to budge from your finger!
Whenever a ring gets stuck, we have visions of cutting the ring off the finger. Those moments of panic when we imagine having to cut off our finger to remove the ring – we’ve all been there.
Here are four ways to remove a ring that is stubbornly fixed to a finger that now seems to be growing in size by the moment.
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1) Elevate your hand above shoulder level for five to ten minutes, if the finger is swollen, then blood will tend to flow out of your finger making your digit slightly slenderer. This may be enough to do the trick.
2) Place your hand in cold water (with ice if possible). Our extremities tend to shrink when they are cold as blood is withdrawn from our fingers when they are cold. The blood vessel contract. The change can be just enough to let a stuck ring move freely enough to pull it off.
3) Soap and water (or baby oil) can reduce the friction between the ring's metal and your skin. Massage the sudsy water or baby oil so that it gets under the ring between metal and skin. Move the ring up your finger with a mixture of twisting and pulling will get most stuck rings free to huge sighs of relief.
4) Use string to get a ring off your finger. This trick (and it can look like a magic trick) requires a piece of thin string, elastic band or dental floss. Push one end of the string under the ring from the top of your finger. This can be tricky, but using a cocktail stick or toothpick can make the task easier. Just push the string through using the stick. Even though the ring I stuck tight, there’s usually enough space to allow the string to be pushed through.
When you have the string pulled out, wrap it around your finger. Do it as tightly as possible without causing too great discomfort. Wrap the string, floss or elastic band so that it covers your finger down to your knuckle.
To remove the ring, just unwrap the thread from the top, above the ring, and the ring will slowly move down to the end of your finger and back to freedom.
This trick works because wrapping the string around your finger will compress it, making your finger slightly thinner enabling your ring to be removed.
Can You Shower While Wearing Your Diamond Ring?
Whether or not you can wear your diamond ring in the shower or bath has two answers. Yes, you can wear your diamond ring in the bath or shower; but you really shouldn’t!
It is a matter of better safe than sorry. The best way to protect your ring or other diamond jewellery is to take it off before you get lathered up. That’s because soap, shower gel and shampoo can leave soapy deposits on the ring that will make the diamonds look less brilliant; it will have less sparkle.
If you need to wear a ring while washing your hands from time to time, nothing serious will happen – just remember to use a gentle soap and try to avoid rubbing the suds over your ring. The same applies to putting on body lotions or creams and even cosmetics. Regular bathing while wearing your ring will mean a faster trip to a jewellery professional for a thorough clean.
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Did You Know That Diamonds Can Chip?
Diamonds, the hardest substance known to man - right?
True, diamonds are the hardest natural substance in the world. But they are not indestructible. Diamonds are 58 times harder than corundum which is the next hardest substance, but they can chip! If a diamond gets a sharp impact at the right place, your diamond can fracture, and part of the diamond can split away.
How can you avoid getting the diamonds in your jewellery chipped?
Some diamond shapes are more prone to being chipped than others. Emerald cuts, princess cuts and diamonds in triangular shapes, with sharp points or edges, are the most at risk. Round, oval and cushion cut diamonds are less likely to be damaged by impacts such as being dropped or knocked against a hard surface.
The setting you choose for your diamonds also has an effect. The corners of any diamond are the most at risk of damage, so choose a setting that protects them. The next most risky part of the diamond is the girdle (the widest part of a diamond, often cut with a relatively fragile edge). Settings such as channels, rub over, or four corner prongs will give the best protection.
The way you wear your ring can also present a risk of damage. If you are engaged in physical activity such as sports, gardening or even cooking, then you can be putting the diamonds in your rings at risk.
If a diamond gets chipped, it isn’t the end of the world. A skilled jeweller can minimise the damage by recutting the diamond or repositioning the diamond on the ring to conceal the damage.
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Now that you know how to live with your diamond jewellery, you might want to find out more about diamond jewellery and how to take care of it. Please check out this article about diamond jewellery maintenance.
