Wow. I’m not using budget pay ever again!

I just read a GIA article on tanzanite. GIA says there is no way to distinguish whether the tanzanite has been heated. On a GIA report it says that most tanzanite is heated. The heating process doesn’t change the value of the tanzanite because there is no way to determine if it has been heated or no...

Hilarious

Ebay and Etsy have a lot of meteorite

Shawn really is a great host. Always shows all the details of the piece in the beginning. I also appreciate how calm and professional he is, No screaming into the monitor.
Plus, he’s a huge Dark Shadows fan

I find Victoria’s point of view to be rubbish. Just because 1 person has had fairly good luck in their purchases doesn’t mean the rest of us are having that same ‘luck’. My opinion is that it should not be a matter of ‘luck’ ever! Doesn’t matter what the price is. It’s advertised as new and unused a...

From what I’ve read online by jewelers it’s that the discolored opal will stay that ugly yellow color. Some said the discoloration is caused by jewelers rouge (from buffing and polishing). It could also be from contaminates in the air or iron in your water. Most said the discoloration goes all the w...

Tanzurine looks like strawberry quartz to me. Nothing special and not really attractive to my eye. I googled tanzurine and got many photos similar to that posted on ShopLC. Buy it only if you love it. I doubt it will worth
much as it’s just a type of quartzite

Not all sleeping beauty is stabilized using the Zachary method. It depends on who processed the Stone. The Zachary method adds no color or resins to the turquoise. Michael Valitutti on Evine/shophq describes it as closing the pores of the Stone. There were some areas of the Bisbee mine in Arizona wh...

I agree with everyone but we have to remember that she works in a male dominated workplace. Most of the camera people are guys who are set in their ways. I don’t see the big deal with changing from still picture to the host to the live shot of the jewelry. Very elementary camera work. She asks polit...