The festive season is filled with parties galore. At Fashion Addict, we will give you some ideas that you can incorporate into your wardrobe from Ballerina Chic, to Smart Casual Glamour and right down to the Belle of the Ball! With bags, accessories and make-up that will sway your style and make you look like a million dollars.
Ballerina Chic
Style it up with this gorgeous Taupe Clutch (Clear Stones), and dress up in cute but chic Ballerina style glamour.
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Many pieces of antique jewelry have been in families for generations. For the individuals who own them, they represent something memorable and sentimental. They are also used to signify certain milestones.
Sometimes upon word of a recent or planned engagement, a cherished antique engagement ring is given as a gift. Women are known to pass on treasured pieces such as brooches to their daughters when they come of age. It is not unusual for fathers to also pass on watches to their sons when they reach manhood.
The significance of these pieces can never be overstated. They can help to strengthen family bonds as most individuals look forward to receiving these heirlooms.
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Its jewelry sparkle spree for NBA basketball player Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashians wedding. The couple wed in an extravagant Montecito ceremony!
The couples wedding ceremony is indeed over the top from the towering cake, the brides couture gowns and the jewelry that was worth millions! Her wedding jewelry ensemble consisted of over $10 million dollars of jewelry.
Kim Kardashian walked down the aisle in a basque waist Vera Wang wedding dress.
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The color blue is really one of the founding tints that everyone enjoys in some capacity. Our entire planet is almost completely covered in various shades of blue for many natural elements—whether it is water, the sky as seen from the ground, or even the globe in general as seen from space. This foundational and very natural connection to the color has made it extremely fashionable and wildly popular ever since the even ancient times. Therefore, with the realization of a precious gemstone that is native to the Earth and is generally blue in its natural state, all types of people ran to get one of their own. People in countries everywhere are continuing to rush to get these beautiful blue stones known as sapphires. The blue sapphire gemstone itself is though to be representative of sincerity, faithfulness, loyalty. As these traits are always believed to be unique and desirable by people all over the planet, you should try to wear blue sapphire rings yourself to let others know that your personality already embraces and even admires these qualities so that everyone may know you have very high fashion taste as well as a true heart.
Simple because you wish to present a part of your personality in the form of a beautiful gemstone band does not necessarily imply that you have to give up any of your unique and specialized fine jewelry sense. Blue sapphire rings are widely respected for their own versatility and overall ability to transform into a variety of styles, shapes, and of course alluring pairings to make onlookers to stop directly in their steps. The specially shaped cuts which sapphire gemstones can hold helps to make them lovely choices for all sorts of rings in general since they can be fitted into a number of lovely bands—even up to the place of choosing a loose sapphire for a ring that you already own. A blue sapphire band can be alluring and very fashionable with delicate embellishments of the precious metal used for the band itself, or you can pick out a blue sapphire ring which can be fun and flirty with bold geometric cuts to create a more trendy and modern type of design. If you prefer the coloring and class but do not want a gemstone that juts outward then a lower cut sapphire band might be more appropriate for your personal style. Do not be anxious about mixing and combining this tinted blue gem with traditional white diamonds as doing so brings out the brightness of both of them—especially in the form of high class a blue sapphire and diamond ring.
The recent resignation by Global Witness from discussions on the advancement of the Kimberly Process has once again questioned the validity of the Kimberley Process (KP) as an effective means of providing consumers with reassurances about where their diamonds come from. This followed the recent announcement at the Kimberley Process Plenary meeting in Kinshasa that agreement had been reached on the export of diamonds from the Marange region of Zimbabwe from two mines operated by Mbada and Marange Resources which have recently received KP certification.
Controversially an organisation which is subject to EU Restrictive Measures, the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), has a substantial stake in both Mbada and Marange Resources.
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