Everyone is obviously thinking about Christmas and what costume jewellery they will be wearing for on Christmas day and for their Christmas party costume jewellery too. But we like to plan ahead, so we are helping you decide what costume jewellery or fashion jewellery to pick for your New Years Eve parties, whether you are going out or staying in.

New years eve celebrations can be so wide ranging, from staying at home by yourself or with friends, to going to the city for example to the celebrations at Trafalgar Square or going to a New Years Eve Ball. Whatever you do on New Year’s Eve, you can always wear costume jewellery with any outfit.

So if you decide to stay at home with loved ones or friends and lounge around watching TV or getting movies, then make it a little more special by adding a classy pair of sparkly costume jewellery earrings, or a stunning costume jewellery ring. Who says you can’t wear costume jewellery with your lounge wear…the celebrities do!

Or if you are having a house party why not have a themed party. You could plan a James Bond themed party, where women have to getting dressed up like Bond Girls, and could accessorise their outfit with crystal costume jewellery, like crystal earrings and crystal cocktail rings with hair accessories, and the men can wear suits or tuxedoes with double cuff shirts and crystal cuff links.

Finally if you are one of the lucky ones who have been invited to a New Years Eve ball, you can really afford to go all out there with your outfit and jewellery. Since you can’t always afford diamonds, you can wear the next best thing sparkly costume jewellery! Wear crystal belle costume jewellery necklace and earring set, with a Swarovski crystal cuff bracelet to be the belle of the ball!

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Retaining the finish and value of your costume jewellery is quite easy. It’s simply a matter of knowing what and what not to do! Listed here are tips on how to take care of your precious jewels, what to avoid, how to clean costume jewellery and much more……!!

 Maintaining your gem’s colourful sparkle! - Gemstone Jewellery and costume jewellery

• The best single piece of advise we can give you is to wipe your precious costume jewellery with a clean, soft damp cloth after wearing. This little habit will ensure that your costume jewellery is always looking its best.
• When your costume jewellery is not being worn, storage in a soft pouch is recommended.
• There are some things to avoid. Salt water and harsh chemicals such as chlorine bleach or detergents can cause damage. The chemicals erode the finish and polish of the gems leaving them dull. Hairspray, perfume and perspiration can also cause dullness if not regularly cleaned off.
• Because gemstones differ so much, so do their cleaning procedures. It really is best to have your Showcase jeweller advise you on them individually. We can also check its condition and advise you of any repairs that may be necessary to restore its full beauty and value. It’s certainly the safest way to ensure you retain the value and sparkle of your treasured pieces.

 Keeping silver bright and shiny. - Silver Jewellery

As with most precious metals, in time silver will oxidize. Properly maintained silver actually improves with age. It develops a lush patina when treated well.

• Simply clean with a mild soap and water solution. Pat dry with a soft cloth. If dirt is more stubborn a silver cleaner is appropriate. But don’t rub silver with anything other than a polishing cloth or fine piece of felt. Tissue paper or paper towels will cause scratches.
• Like other jewellery, avoid wearing silver in chlorinated water as this will discolour it.
• Store your silver jewellery in a cool, dry, dark place. A tarnish preventative bag is a good idea, or wrapped individually in plastic pouches, a soft piece of felt or cloth.
• As air and light cause silver to tarnish, the less of them the better when stored.

 Pearl Jewellery

• Keep hairspray and perfume away from your pearl jewellery, this can permanently damage the coating on your precious beads. After applying hairspray and perfume wait a few minutes for it to dry completely before putting on your pearl jewellery.
• Don’t store pearl jewellery in plastic bags, always store in the box or silk pouch that they should be supplied with.

 Beaded Jewellery

• If you have beaded jewellery made from gemstone, or pearls, store them flat, preferably in a silk pouch. If the string breaks, let a professional jeweller restring them for you. If you are considering buying expensive beaded jewellery look for beads are a knotted between each bead, so that if the string breaks you won’t loose so many beads!

 Fashion Jewellery

• Gold or Silver plated items can vary considerably in quality. To be called Gold Plated, jewellery only needs to be coated in gold up to 1 micron. Better made products are usually coated upto 3 microns. Because precious metals are only coated onto base metal, the care instructions given above are even more relevant.
• We would also personally advise you not to wear fashion jewellery on a day to day basis, but rather for “special occassions” - that way you’ll enjoy them for much longer!

 Protecting your costume and fashion jewellery

• Always protect your costume jewellery from sharp blows, scratching, chemicals, sunlight and heat/cold. Ideally, store your costume jewellery in a soft lined box or pouch.
• Try to keep pieces apart, so that they don’t rub together or tangle up.
• Wear fashion jewellery for appropriate tasks, avoid wearing rings when cleaning, gardening or performing sports activities.
• Don’t let your costume jewellery come into contact with nail polish removers, perfume and hairspray
• Clean your fashion jewellery regularly, use a professional jewellery cleaning product (always read the manufacturers instructions)
• When washing your hands (away from home) - don’t place your cocktail rings on the wash basin - remove them and place them onto your necklace or place in a pouch in your handbag/purse
• Never go swimming in your costume jewellery, chlorine in swimming pools can cause damage

Be sure to follow out advice and you can enjoy your costume and fashion jewellery for years to come!

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Now you can get wholesale costume jewellery and wholesale fashion jewellery at fantastic prices. As an online costume jewellery shop we have fewer overheads than that of other companies and therefore can pass these reduced savings onto our customers. 

Even though many companies nowadays are worried about the credit crunch and what it will do to their business, we still see many new shops opening up or even more popular, jewellery parties taking place. These are all ways in which women or men can help earn a little extra cash for their household whilst thoroughly enjoying themselves with their friends and family.

It’s not only our costume jewellery that really makes great pieces in a shop, but also crystal cuff links. And with the majority of our cufflinks encrusted with Swarovski crystals you really cannot go wrong with this high quality costume jewellery.

Contact us at Shefaly | House of Jewels and we will be happy to go over your needs whether you are looking for bridal costume jewellery, fashion accessories or men’s cuff links.

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Costume jewellery has always been regarded as a must have accessory for any woman or man. And now it’s even easier with the advent of the internet costume jewellery has never been easier to purchase from online costume jewellery shops. They have been bought by all types of individuals as they are so affordable and can dress up any outfit. Costume jewellery also makes great wedding jewellery too. Costume jewellery has been seen worn by the likes of Marilyn Monroe to Paris Hilton.

Online costume jewellery shops makes shopping easier as no longer have to travel down to your high street on a really busy Saturday just to find that they have nothing you like! In addition, high street prices are generally so much more expensive since that have such high overheads, whereas online costume jewellery and fashion accessory retailers can offer reduced price high quality costume jewellery, including cocktail rings, hair accessories and bridal jewellery, since we have reduced overheads.

Online costume jewellery shops are also safe to buy from. All you have to do is to make sure that the online store offers a secure checkout where you know your card details are safe. A few well known payment carts are; World Pay, PayPal and Protx. Also make sure that the Online Costume Jewellery Shop has a telephone number you can contact them on should you have any problems. You don’t really want to wait for an email reply. Always check their returns policy too just in case you are unhappy with you jewellery. As long as the store has these main points you should feel confident in buying from the store.

If you need any help in buying costume jewellery, or have found somewhere else and are not really sure please do contact us and we will be happy to help. Feel free to browse our extensive range of costume jewellery on our online costume jewellery store, Shefaly | House of Jewels.

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Nowadays there is no longer a wedding season per say- although most couples seem to enjoy having weddings in the summer, Christmas weddings and becoming ever more popular. For this reason, Christmas or winter wedding jewellery can be different to say summer wedding jewellery.

Winter weddings can have all sorts of themes including snowflakes, icicles, and most poplar of all Christmas themed. In a Christmas themed wedding you are likely to chose traditional colours like red and green to match say the Christmas tree, or Santa Claus. So how do you chose jewellery in these colours, especially since at this time of year you are more likely to find fashion jewellery on the high street for Christmas parties or for new years eve parties but not necessarily Christmas wedding jewellery.

If you are looking at wearing a red dress for your winter wedding, why not try gold costume jewellery, which is a great contrast at this time of year. Or if you are trying a traditional white dress why not add a dash or crystal costume jewellery to the outfit.

If you are going for a green themed wedding why not try the gorgeous green chic necklace and earring set, it compliments any outfit. And if you are the guest at such a wedding we have a huge range of green rings or green bracelets that would be great to wear.

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Most people have bought this Christmas outfits already, or some may be looking at wearing something they already have in their wardrobe, but whatever you decide to wear to the xmas party or new year’s party, you can make yourself stand out by the costume jewellery you wear.

And just because it’s Xmas doesn’t mean that your Christmas costume jewellery needs not be fashionable. You should still be looking at accessorising your Xmas outfits with statement giant jewels. This is the easiest and cheapest way to accessorise your outfits.

Or why not try adding a bit of colourful costume jewellery to your little black dress- try Swarovski crystal bracelets, or large costume jewellery rings. These pieces of costume jewellery or fashion jewellery can really help your outfit look different to those around you, and his is sure the case if you are wearing an outfit this Christmas that you may have worn before.

Try matching the costume jewellery to your gorgeous new pair of shoes rather than to your handbag or even try not matching it to any of the colours in your outfit as this is a great look seen on the catwalks too.

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It can be quiet difficult to find a gift that’s unique yet impressive when it comes to men. You could be something expensive like a new laptop or watch, or how about something not so expensive like a computer game? The problem with such gifts is that you do not know if they will like what you have chosen.

The best away around this is to buy the most important men in your life something that you would most likely chose for them or at least have some input into anyway. This could be ties, clothing or other accessories. We think the best type of gift is something unique and that can be cherished for a long time, and you really can’t go wrong with a stunning pair of cufflinks.

Cufflinks can come in so many different shapes and sizes. Cufflinks can be small and plain or they can be large and big. You can even buy pairs of cufflinks which reflect the man or woman’s personality this includes cufflinks that look like a set of cards or even gold clubs. The best type of cufflinks are the crystal cufflinks as they not only look more expensive than they really are, but they can really be great as an accessory during the holiday season. Crystal cufflinks can be given as a gift at Christmas and can be worn at a new year’s party, or can be a wedding gift to your fiancé.

Our crystal cufflinks come in different colours and styles to reflect the type of person you are buying for. And although we are writing about gifts for men, our crystal cufflinks are unisex so are a great present for the women in your life too!

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Christmas is fast approaching and you are sure to be thinking of what to buy for all your relatives and friends. For the next few days we are going to go through the costume jewellery gifts you might want to buy some of the most closest people in your life.

Today we thought we would start with the most important person, your wife, mother sister or significant other! Although you could buy make up, perfume, flowers or chocolates, why not put some extra thought into you present and think outside the box? Why not consider beautiful costume jewellery. Although it’s not rubies or diamonds, Swarovski crystal costume jewellery is definitely the next best thing.

As a gift, costume jewellery is so apt as a Christmas present because it’s that time of year when everything is sparkling and you have many parties to attend too. She’s sure to be grateful to think of one less thing to match to her outfit! Also, it comes so beautifully gift wrapped that it is one less thing for you to think about!

Or for the working women you could buy her a pair of gorgeous Swarovski Crystal Cufflinks. For example, pair a gorgeous black double cuff shirt with the pink Nyx cufflinks to start work in the New Year with a real bang.

You could also stay save and buy a cocktail ring. As these are adjustable to fit any ring size and also come is so many shapes, sizes and colours you really can’t go wrong, and if the lady doesn’t like it, send it back for free returns during our extended return period in the new year.

If you need some help deciding what to buy, why not drop us an email and we will be sure to help all we can….

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Christmas is oh so close now and I thought I’d write a little something about the type and colour of costume jewellery you might want to wear to your work Christmas party, family Christmas dinner or for your Christmas ball.

The main colours for the holiday season are reds and greens, but for some reason you don’t see many items of clothing on the high street in these colours. Normally you get your little black dresses, tops, skirts or shirts, so how do you look Christmas-sy in black!? Simple, add a dash of colour with some costume jewellery.

People can be quiet shy to wear for example red earrings, or a green bracelet, but it can look so fabulous when worn right. For example, you could team up a gorgeous LBD with a red necklace and earring set like the one below and with a pair of red shoes to look stunning at your Christmas party.

Cocktail rings are the best and easiest (not to say the cheapest!) way to add colour to an outfit and a burst of this season’s hottest colour. Cocktail rings are one of those accessories that never go out of fashion, can never be worn enough, and is suitable for people of all ages, young or old! And the chunkier the cocktail ring the more in fashion you will be.

Bracelets are also great to add to your fashionable outfit. The next best thing to cocktail rings, bracelets really do add pizzazz to your work wear or evening wear. Try going for a light red bracelet for day wear and a darker, more burgundy colour bracelet for evening wear.

And don’t think its only women who can wear colour- men can wear gorgeous red or green crystal cufflinks. And because they are just so stunning, you can wear them to work too!

Finally, you really cannot go wrong with a fine piece of hair accessory. For those of you who are on the shy side and want to follow fashion but don’t want to stand out in a crowd too much go for a gorgeous little hair slide in red. This hair accessory also makes great bridal jewellery for Christmas Brides and really does add a touch of sparkle.

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Costume jewellery can come in so many different styles, shapes and colours, but when considering a fine piece of costume jewellery quality is of utmost importance. For example, when buying cocktail rings, there are many out there that you can be for £10.00 or less but these are guaranteed to break or stones fall out of them within a couple of weeks of you wearing the product! That is why the House of Jewel’s costume jewellery is generally of such high quality. In addition, we have bought in an extra exquisite range of costume jewellery called the Anjouxxx Collection.

This exclusive range of costume jewellery is designed with Cameron Diaz & Catherine Zeta-Jones in mind. Its style is opulent and of the highest quality. The costume jewellery is hand crafted, many from sterling silver, and contains glass crystals, Swarovski crystals or Austrian Crystals. The elegant and dazzling designs compliment the use of these stones, and is the type of costume jewellery you can pass onto a loved one.

The prices for this range can be expected to be at a premium due to the additional attributes provided, but we are sure that it is worth it!  This range is exclusive to our website only, designed exclusively by Shefaly (now a registered trade mark), and named after someone special in her life.

The Anjouxxx collection costume jewellery was initially made as Asian bridal jewellery or English wedding jewellery. However, this type of costume jewellery is also fabulous as evening wear for parties, especially costume jewellery for Christmas parties or balls and even proms! They can also be matched up with so many other types of costume jewellery like cocktail rings or bracelets that are available. So even though you may be paying a premium for this collection of costume jewellery, you can wear it so many times that the cost becomes minute in relation to the wears you can get out of it!

(Please note that Anjouxxx collection cocktail rings are not adjustable to fit and require a large, medium or small ring size to be stated at checkout).

 This range has without a doubt made a movement of a new trend!

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