By Pierre Smith
When you're on the lookout for a good ladies fashion jewelry piece, the best place to look is a magazine. Let's face it, women choose their jewelry according to the trend. A quick look at that fashion magazine can save you the trouble of buying your girlfriend something your grandma would wear. After all, you'd want her to wear that bracelet you've been saving your money for. You don't want her sneaking out of the house to exchange it for something else, or keeping the piece in the box "to remember you by". Ladies fashion jewelry pieces are made to be flaunted, and here's a list of what most women would want.
Personalized Bracelets
Nothing spells "fashion-worthy!" more than personalized bracelets. This ranks number one in our list of top ladies fashion jewelry pieces. However, this is a tricky jewelry piece to buy for your lady. The designs for most personalized jewelry pieces are age-sensitive. If you're buying a bracelet for someone who's in the age bracket of 12 to 30, it's still safe to go for chain bracelets with dangling charms on them. These charms usually come as letters, which you can cunningly use to spell out her name.
Again, you have to be careful because while some women like the way you call them by their nicknames, they might not be so fond of the nickname anymore when it's immortalized in their charm bracelets. If you're giving the bracelet as a gift to someone who's a little more mature, a bangle with her name engraved on it might be more appropriate. If you can afford it, you can probably have her favorite gemstones set on the bangle. Just make sure that the metal you choose for this can handle the engraving as well as the setting of the gemstones.
Gemstone-set Bangles
Among the favorite jewelry items are gemstone-set bangles. There are personalized versions of this, although some women prefer not to have their names engraved on the metal. Usually, the most popular designs of these bangles are made popular because of their brand name. Watch out because some of these pieces have inflated prices. Remember, you're buying not just the metal's value and the design but the patent of these bracelets as well. Women adore platinum bangles with their favorite gemstones set into place. However, if you don't think you can afford this, bangles also come in white gold, and of course, silver.
Bracelet Lockets
Bracelet lockets are very rare types of charm bracelets. These are favorite ladies fashion jewelry items precisely because they're rare. They're available in stainless steel, silver, white gold, yellow gold, and platinum. Antique bracelet locket pieces used to have a sort of "frame" on the inside of the locket so you can insert your photo. However, with today's technology, you can actually have your photo "printed" onto the metal. For lockets with printed photos, it's advisable for you to use stainless steel or sterling silver. The other metals might be too delicate for the printing process.