I realize this is a late post, but I had to add my comment. As a former Nurse Manager of 350+ employees for over 30 years both in hospital and home health settings—-a company can have a policy that they want their staff to adhere to 100% of the time. However, in practice the policy may not be follow...

I agree, I have never had my fingers, my wrists, or my ear lobes turn green when I wore 10K gold. Maybe you had nickel in the 10K back then—many manufacturers don’t use nickel anymore because they know a lot of people have problems with nickel. Check out the 10K gold, I think you will be happy!

I have only watched/viewed ShopLC for a short time, but am a jewelry lover! I really like 10K gold (and 14K!). Depending on what the additional metals the manufacturer mixes it with I find sometimes the 10K yellow or white gold can be quite beautiful! It’s sturdy, but of course not worth what 14K is...

I wonder if it’s possible that the opals changing color are coated with some type of material that sometimes changes color over time? Just a thought... I truly do not believe that the color of the metal (or the purity of the metal— sterling vs. 10K—14K—18K gold makes any difference.) If opals changi...

Well Spooky, I have quite a few opals in sterling silver stored in anti-tarnish containers and some without the anti-tarnish strips and there is no difference between the two with the opals. I really don’t think the metal color or purity is making the difference regarding the color change IMO.

Hi. I know I am just jumping in on this conversation, I am new to ShopLC, but not jewelry and not opals. I have a lot of opals, jewelry and gemstones in small and large sizes going back to purchases from 6—7 years ago. Most of mine are stored in my jewelry boxes (not anti-tarnish), some are in plast...