Cubic zirconia earrings is one product category that will not stop selling. It is the perfect simulant and look-alike for diamond in the ever popular diamond stud earring category. Diamond stud earrings are universal jewelry essential for most women around the world and is purchased for many occasions whether a self purchase or gifted by a loved one. So it is with cubic zirconia stud earrings as well since they serve to imitate the ubiquitous diamond.
Cubic zirconia, apart from looking like diamond has several advantages over diamond when it comes to stud earrings. Most women have at some point lost a diamond stud earring due to an ill fitting back or just plain carelessness.
As we all know diamond studs are single stones that are usually at least 10 points in size or greater per stone. So losing one of them, apart from being a major hassle, is also expensive. Not only do you have to try and find a diamond that matches the one you already have, you have to buy singly which means it to be more expensive to buy since you’re not buying them a pair at a time. You won’t have this problem if you choose to wear a cubic zirconia stud earrings instead.
If you lose one side of a cubic zirconia pair of earrings, it is relatively easy to find cubic zirconia that looked exactly like the one you have. All cubic zirconia stones are cut by machine to specific tolerances. They are obviously easier to cut than diamonds because you’re not trying to save weight in any way, you’re not trying to avoid things like twinning crystals or areas of strain like you would in a diamond and you’re not trying to avoid a large inclusion that would degrade the diamond.
CZ’s are nowhere near as hard as diamond and with a machine diamond saw they can be cut very quickly. Cubic zirconia have only one grade of colorless and that is a pure white that corresponds with the D color grade for diamond. So matching color and cut is pretty simple. To match the size you only need the diameter length in millimeters of this CZ from one side of the girdle at the other.
If you even want to avoid this hassle, you can simply buy a brand-new pair of cubic zirconia earrings since the cost is usually only about $10 per stone at retail plus the cost of the mounting which can be even a low-price metal like silver.
Owing to its low cost, cubic zirconia also has a very low working cost. This means that jurors who are mounting cubic zirconia’s into jewelry can work much faster because they do not fear breakage. If they are setting a princess cut cubic zirconia into a Chevron setting then they don’t worry about chipping a point because the stone at wholesale is at such a low cost he can just pick up another one and try again.
So common diamond earring styles in CZ like cubic zirconia hoop earrings, cubic zirconia chandelier earrings or cubic zirconia drop earrings are relatively inexpensive. Of course nobody mounts cubic zirconia in gold earring mountings anymore. Gold is at an all-time record price of $1200 per ounce so there’s no point in setting a $1-$2 stone in mountings that cost hundreds of dollars. This has made sterling silver cubic zirconia earrings very popular. Gold cubic zirconia earrings have literally gone the way of the dinosaur.
Cubic zirconia mounted in sterling silver can be made to look like gold by applying a thin plating of gold on the silver. This type of mounting is called vermeil and looks just as good as gold and will hold up quite well to ordinary wear and tear. With sterling silver rings that are plated in gold in this way, it’s understandable that over time the gold will rub off in places and the ring will need to be plated again. But with a cubic zirconia earring, this is not a huge problem since this type of jewelry encounters minimal wear and tear of rubbing against objects or against the body.
The other nice thing about cubic zirconia earrings is that colored cubic zirconia costs the same as regular colorless cubic zirconia and so these types of earrings are available in a variety of colors. These colors are meant to simulate some of the fancy colors that diamond comes in that have been extremely popular with fashionable women.
This has made black cubic zirconia earrings very popular following the Black diamond trend. Similarly pink cubic zirconia earrings and blue cubic zirconia earrings follow similar trends for their diamond counterparts. Colored cubic zirconia jewelry has been around a long time and is nothing new on the market.
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