Alexandrite anyone?

[Bella]

Is it just me or what? Tony and Jessica are showing a Alexandrite bracelet… and I’m sorry it’s just plain ugly! I have seen Alexandrite on other channels in a much higher grade and I still don’t like it. For how much it costs seems like a big nothing to me. I’m always glad when really expensive gemstones just don’t do it for me, such is the case with me on Granditerite, Tanzanite, Moissanite. I know many on here like them and that’s cool, but how many of you really love Alexandrite?

[Lacy]

Bella, I agree. Alexandrite is a dull greenish looking stone unless you have are in black light then it changes to red. How many people walk around or near a black light. I did get sucked into buying a ring with a small stone years ago. It wasn't alot of $$ then. I don't wear it. I think it is on the top 10 stones list. So I guess the collectors would buy this stone.

[MaeWest1953]

Lacy and Bella......

I am all about the bling and if something is dull I have no use for it
Of course I agree with you both, especially about that Grandidierite
One time I bought a pendant and it was just so boring, I knew I shouldn't have done it but the optics in the presentation wooed me, teehee

I tried selling it at a street faire and couldn't get $10.00 for it
Will admit that before I watched ShopLC I never heard of most of the stones they sell....
However I am not a jewelry person that much but I do like pretty stones when I see one

[FarmMom]

It's definitely a quality issue. Real color change gemstones of excellent quality will change color just changing rooms or indoors vs outdoors. Putting a BLACK LIGHT on a stone DOES NOT make it color changing. In fact, MOST STONES will change color under a black light including diamonds and zircons, but also most feldspars such as moonstones and labradorites and many others.

The new alexandrite do come from India and they are a single source mine, but it's an issue just like with the Zultanite vs turkizite . . . same deal, SLC gets the junk but the real stuff is much different.

I bought a cheap one for my daughter, it was her birthstone. They ARE expensive so even finding them in jewelry stores it's almost always the created kind. In this rare instance I was happy to find a lower quality cheap one for her. But, I would rather have the real than the created for myself

But I would much rather have something NICE for myself and not something xcheap.

Same with grandidierite. It's actully a lovely blue green stone that's clear and bright. Like sapphires . . . SLC sapphires and rubies are the same, milky, dull and included (and filled). The real deal is much more expensive but far nicer to look at on the hand

[MayFlowers]

My daughter's birthday is in June so I get to decide between buying her pearls, moonstone, or alexandrite, or all of the above! So far I just have a collection of pearls for her.

[FarmMom]

My daughter's birthday is in June so I get to decide between buying her pearls, moonstone, or alexandrite, or all of the above! So far I just have a collection of pearls for her.

LC has greatly reduced the pricing on their alexandrite, so it IS actually affordable. trying to find something not too hideous is another matter, lol.

I love Moonstone myself, and there are SO many different kinds and colors! I would almost suggest the alexandrite though, since most places do not carry it and that's ONE nice thing about SLC . . .

[Lanai]

I have only actually seen the Alexandrite that SHOPLC has offered and I agree although collectable it is awfully ugly. Not even the smoke and mirror camera tricks can make it look pretty. I don't like Moissanite either although I know many love it. I returned the couple of their pieces that I tried out, they looked fake, like cut glass. I didn't even buy anything huge just 1-2 C in earrings and ring. Never purchased any from other companies so maybe it doesn't always look that way but what I received did.

[Serge]

I’m so glad to see that it’s not just me that doesn’t like Alexandrite or Grandidierite. I’m just like my mom was and I’m not going to buy something I don’t think is pretty no matter how rare it is. I wish I didn’t like Tanzanite but I must admit that from the first time I saw it on a home shopping network in 2003 I fell in love with it. I’m just glad that I bought my good Tanzanite before it got so crazy and overpriced.

[Bella]

Good for you Serge for getting in on the Tanzanite early! My mother and I were at an estate jewelry auction back in the early nineties and there was a lot of Tanzanite items. I told my mom(who knows nothing about gemstones) to buy up what you want cause the prices in the coming years are going up. She purchased 2 really nice large rings and thanks me to this day for my suggestion. Oh and Grandidierite the stone that looks like it was washed up on the beach… sea glass!

[FarmMom]

I also had seen it back in 2002 on a shopping network, a lavendar violet, and fell in love. The one I have now is a rich deep blue, but I'm still glad I got one. VERY few people out here sell it. I might get one or two stones to set for my jewelry store though simply BECAUSE no one sells it Wish I had a bigger budget though so I could load up NOW, lol

That's also why I began buying mass loads of this unknown stone . . . I know if it caught my eye as unusual, it will catch on as a new hot gemstone one day. Once I know what it is, I'll let you know so you guys can get yours too before it jumps in price!