By Roberto Garabell
 Cultured pearl earrings are usually small but eye-catching and very expensive. If you want to be sure that you're getting your money's worth, follow these helpful tips about buying and taking good care of your jewelry investment.
Shopping for Cultured Pearl Earrings
There are a lot of things to consider when sourcing for cultured pearl earrings online and from your usual commercial or specialty store:
Online Auctions - One may find a great bargain online when looking for cultured pearl earrings. The price tags you will see online are usually low to attract and gain share of the market. Make sure that you check whether the online retailer issues a proof of the quality of the pearls that they're selling. This proof may come in the form of a certificate of authenticity similar to the one issued to buyers of gold or diamond jewelry.
Jewelry Websites - You can find good prices for pearl earrings from online shops. Just inquire about their method of delivery so you can make sure that the cultured pearl earrings will get to your doorstep in great condition.
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By Victor Epand
 Pearls have been popular in pearl necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry items and pearls continue to be very popular gems in today's fashion jewelry.
They are formed when an irritant or a foreign body such as a piece of sand enters the soft tissue of an oyster. The mollusk secretes nacre, which is a mixture of fine crystalline calcium carbonate and an organic binder that coats the irritant as a self defensive mechanism. As successive layers of nacre are deposited and harden, the pearl grows.
Most pearls used in fashion jewelry today are processed through method call pericultre, where that the irritant needed to stimulate pearl development is introduced by man. In some rare cases, the irritant enters the mollusk tissue with no intervention what so ever from man. The resulting gem is said to be a natural pearl and is very rare and quite expensive.
Historically, pearls have been harvested from seas and oceans by pearl divers. Early records document pearl divers retrieving pearls off the seabed in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Mannar, which is |
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