New Trends: Creative and Custom-Made Gold Jewelry

In this year's spring and summer fashion that involves mostly earth tones like bronze and gold, creative and custom designs combine the sleek malleability of gold with the trendy and glamorously colored precious stones and crystals in almost every piece of jewelry article.

Gold is a precious metal the purest form of which weighs 24 karats. In its purest form, the color of gold is yellow. Check the color of your gold ring to see how pure it is.

Jewelry made of pure or nearly pure gold is very soft, however, so it is impractical to have a gold bracelet made out of it. Lowering gold's purity by adding a certain metal or alloy to it results in a more durable piece. Of course, mixing with other metals affects the color, too.

For example, if copper alloy is added to gold, the color would most probably be reddish or close to bronze. If a white metal alloy is combined with gold, it would make a white-toned gold jewelry. The variations in gold color and tone plus the existence of various types and cuts of precious stones makes for a more interesting range of gold body jewelry choices

Gold jewelry adapts to any shape, size or form as it is malleable and easy to work with. As it can be creatively fashioned into just any design, this type of material can be made not only for the regular female clientele but also for children and men. On a child, gold jewelry would certainly look adorable.

To a man, gold jewelry adds a particular touch of elegance. On a man, gold chain with heavy and chunky links would look right. The severity of such a piece can be relieved by a heavy gold cross pendant or a white-gold "bling-bling" studded with crystals. Young men of today, however, prefer to wear a gold earring on one ear if they are going to wear any gold jewelry at all.