Pearl Necklace Collection

By London’s favourite online freshwater pearl retailer

PEARL JEWELLERY COLLECTION By Carla Pearls

Pearl necklace – ‘princess’ or ‘choker’?

Each pearl necklace length has its own name – this is a unique feature to pearl jewellery. Lengths vary from ‘collar’ that sits tightly around the neck, to ‘rope’, which is up to 64” long and can be worn many times around. The most confusing two lengths however, are probably ‘choker’ (15“ – 16”) and ‘princess’ (18”-20”). They only have 2 or 3 inches difference but could be quite significantly different in terms of the look they offer.

Princess length pearl necklaces have a very graceful and elegant style and look wonderful with a low-neck evening dress, or other V neck tops. A choker length that are just a couple of inches shorter gives you a sweet and chic look, while being perfect to wear with office outfit as the pearls will show through a shirt collar – a princess length pearl necklace, however, would be completely covered up with a shirt.

About Carla Pearls

The London based Carla Pearls (operated by Carla Jewellery UK Ltd.) is an online pearl retailer with excellent reputation, and serves customers from all over the UK as well as rest of the World. The website is available in both English and French.

Carla pearls offers dispatch within 24 hours and delivery within 1-3 working days for anywhere in the UK free of charge, and with a minimum cost for orders outside the UK. As well as a 14-day cooling off period where you can return your purchase with no questions asked (provided that item is not damaged).

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Pearl Necklace – there is no better way to bring out your elegance!

For some reasons or others, pearl necklaces seems to be the most popular way of using pearls in jewellery. Perhaps it’s the way that the tenderness of pearls hugging around one’s neck, as well as the beauty, that make pearl necklaces especially popular.

Pearls necklaces are designed with more and more variety, but the most traditional designs are always appreciated the same way – in fact that is one thing people say about pearls: they last forever, with their subtle elegance and flexibility in style, pearls never get ‘too out of date’.

The classic single strand 18” inch pearl necklace is simply a necessity for a lady’s jewellery collection, a gentle piece of jewellery that you can always rely on, especially on the days when you have no idea what to wear. Then there’s the double and treble strand, increasing luxuriousness but never too much.

If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then pearls are a girl’s soul mate.

Pearls, the gemstone that has always been the favourite of many ladies with a taste for elegance and classiness. A girl with a real taste of fashion always has a strand of pearl necklace or two, perhaps given to her by grandmother or mother as family treasure, perhaps received as a gift from boyfriend or husband who pampers her, or purchased by herself as a special treat. Pearl necklaces come in different ranges, from affordable to very pricy – mikimoto pearl necklace probably represents the highest of the range, with a class strand priced at 2000 pounds at least. Mikimoto is the person who invented pearl culturing technique and bringing pearls into the life of everyone – not just that of royalty and the extremely rich. Mikimoto company today has the best pearls culturing technique in the world and only produces the largest, best quality pearls. In terms of fashion pearl necklace, Chanel is probably the market leader. Chanel pearl necklace has their signature chanel cross sign fitted with pearls, or a rich style treble strand pearl necklace that Coco Chanel often wore to bring out her feminine yet powerful beauty. On the other end of the market, we can find pearl necklaces at around 100 pounds a strand, typically 7-8mm in size, in online specialty pearl jewellery shops. High street jewellers normally charges a premium due to higher operating cost, with a strand of pearls priced between 150 – 200 pounds, depending on the quality rating. The term that is mostly heard is ‘freshwater pearl necklace’ – this means that the pearls are grown in oysters that are maintained in freshwater, instead of salt water. In terms of quality, freshwater pearls and saltwater pearls are actually equal. We tend to see more freshwater pearls on the market simply because most of the pearl farms are set up on rivers or purpose-built pearl farms (or pools), instead of set up in the sea.

Even most of the people can easily afford a strand of freshwater pearl necklace, some girls prefer to go for even cheaper options, thus creating a market need for faux pearl necklaces. In fact there’s a subtle different between ‘fake pearl necklace’ and ‘faux pearl necklace’. The nuance is that, fake pearl necklace are usually made of pastic – beads that are coated with a shiny pearl like paint. These pearls usually have a slippery surface which are marble like and they are always much lighter – about the weight of normal plastic beads. Faux pearls, or stimulation pearls, on the other hand, are actually made with ‘whipped up’ oyster shell power with chemicals. These pearls are basically a middle point between fake pearls and real pearls, as they are made of the same material as real pearls, but not naturally grown out of oysters. Faux pearls are normally more expensive than fake pearls but cheap comparing to real ones, while they are as heavy as real pearls with a similar surface touch.

Some celebrities almost adopt pearl necklaces as their signature image, the Queen, of course, and our lovely late Princess Diana – someone even especially documented how many pearl necklaces Princess Diana had and the collection was in the hundreds, beautiful, all kinds of designs with subtle or big differences from one another, matching with any of her outfits. Sara Jessica Parker is another pearl-loving girl, with her famous image of wedding dress collection where she holds a big handful of pearls in the photo shoot. Pearls, the gemstone that has always been the favourite of many ladies with a taste for elegance and classiness. A girl with a real taste of fashion always has a strand of pearl necklace or two, perhaps given to her by grandmother or mother as family treasure, perhaps received as a gift from boyfriend or husband who pampers her, or purchased by herself as a special treat. Pearl necklaces come in different ranges, from affordable to very pricy – mikimoto pearl necklace probably represents the highest of the range, with a class strand priced at 2000 pounds at least. Mikimoto is the person who invented pearl culturing technique and bringing pearls into the life of everyone – not just that of royalty and the extremely rich. Mikimoto company today has the best pearls culturing technique in the world and only produces the largest, best quality pearls. In terms of fashion pearl necklace, Chanel is probably the market leader. Chanel pearl necklace has their signature chanel cross sign fitted with pearls, or a rich style treble strand pearl necklace that Coco Chanel often wore to bring out her feminine yet powerful beauty. On the other end of the market, we can find pearl necklaces at around 100 pounds a strand, typically 7-8mm in size, in online specialty pearl jewellery shops. High street jewellers normally charges a premium due to higher operating cost, with a strand of pearls priced between 150 – 200 pounds, depending on the quality rating. The term that is mostly heard is ‘freshwater pearl necklace’ – this means that the pearls are grown in oysters that are maintained in freshwater, instead of salt water. In terms of quality, freshwater pearls and saltwater pearls are actually equal. We tend to see more freshwater pearls on the market simply because most of the pearl farms are set up on rivers or purpose-built pearl farms (or pools), instead of set up in the sea.

Even most of the people can easily afford a strand of freshwater pearl necklace, some girls prefer to go for even cheaper options, thus creating a market need for faux pearl necklaces. In fact there’s a subtle different between ‘fake pearl necklace’ and ‘faux pearl necklace’. The nuance is that, fake pearl necklace are usually made of pastic – beads that are coated with a shiny pearl like paint. These pearls usually have a slippery surface which are marble like and they are always much lighter – about the weight of normal plastic beads. Faux pearls, or stimulation pearls, on the other hand, are actually made with ‘whipped up’ oyster shell power with chemicals. These pearls are basically a middle point between fake pearls and real pearls, as they are made of the same material as real pearls, but not naturally grown out of oysters. Faux pearls are normally more expensive than fake pearls but cheap comparing to real ones, while they are as heavy as real pearls with a similar surface touch.

Some celebrities almost adopt pearl necklaces as their signature image, the Queen, of course, and our lovely late Princess Diana – someone even especially documented how many pearl necklaces Princess Diana had and the collection was in the hundreds, beautiful, all kinds of designs with subtle or big differences from one another, matching with any of her outfits. Sara Jessica Parker is another pearl-loving girl, with her famous image of wedding dress collection where she holds a big handful of pearls in the photo shoot. tend to see more freshwater pearls on the market simply because most of the pearl farms are set up on rivers or purpose-built pearl farms (or pools), instead of set up in the sea.