Fine Jewelry Based on Your Personality

Most people don’t take into consideration their individual quirks, characteristics and hobbies when buying a piece of jewelry, whether it’s a ring, necklace or pair of earrings. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t. Choosing a piece of jewelry based upon your personality means you can wear an emblem of who you are while improving your style and beauty every day. Announce your individuality to the world with a stylish gemstone pendant or glittering bangle bracelet. Here’s how to choose the right luxury accessory for you.

Sporty Tom Boy

Diamond Earrings with Bezel Setting

If you live a particularly active life and eschew overly feminine trappings, it’s in your best interest to wear jewelry that doesn’t ever get in the way of your many hobbies, whether they’re coding computer applications or scoring the deciding goal in the league soccer tournament. Simple, modern diamond stud earrings are the perfect option for you. They’re elegant, subtle and easy to wear.

Mingling Socialite

Rose Gold Diamonds by the Yard Necklace

Making friends is easy if you’re a socialite, and you often spend a fair amount of time choosing stylish clothes and presenting an attractive appearance. You probably want to get noticed in the best possible way. A sparkling personality deserves sparkling jewels, especially when they’re layered together for a unique effect. Try pairing a stunning architectural engraved ring with a flowing diamond necklace or wearing multiple bangle bracelets with glittering gemstones.

Senior Executive

Square Yellow Diamond Earrings

Being the boss definitely comes with a few perks. But it also requires that all your underlings respect and admire you. You can command both attention and envy by wearing a vintage-style diamond bracelet or a pair of rare yellow diamond drop earrings. The bracelet features dozens of small diamonds that catch the light while the golden yellow diamond earrings give you a warm yet impressive image.

Earth Goddess

Ruby Earrings With Halo

Easy going, outdoorsy and playful, nature lovers love spending time surrounded by trees, water and blue skies. And if you’re one, you’re probably also a huge fan of bright colors. Show that adoration for the full spectrum of the rainbow by sporting colorful gemstones on a pendant, sapphire right hand ring or pair of ruby earrings. These simple pieces of jewelry won’t limit mobility, so you can camp, climb and kayak without worrying about over-sized baubles getting in the way.

If you normally purchase jewelry because you like the style or color of gemstone or to flesh out a classic collection, it’s time to think about expanding your fine jewelry options by selecting pieces that show the world who you are inside. Buy jewelry based upon your lifestyle and discover a whole new reason to accessorize.

Vintage Jewelry: How to Choose the Right Designer

Finding the perfect vintage jewelry designer involves more than selecting a name randomly from the yellow pages or choosing a store from a Google Ad while on Facebook. Even asking friends for recommendations isn’t always the best way to find true love via designer jewelry. If you’re hoping to find the ideal ring, necklace or bracelet with more than a hint of vintage-inspired design, you’ll have to vet the company or individual first. Here are some quick tips on what to look for to ensure you end up with vintage jewelry you can cherish forever and never feel guilty about.

Choose Based on Ethics

Ruby Ring With Diamonds Around

The true test of a vintage jewelry designer isn’t the beauty of their designs or their affordable price point; it’s their commitment to providing ethically sourced fine jewelry that you can be proud to wear. Fortunately, Ziva ensures all its goods come from reliable places that treat the people who mine and produce the gemstones fairly (and with appropriate compensation) and manufacture the designs in-house in the U.S. No matter where you go to buy your jewelry, make sure they treat others as they would like to be treated.

Choose Based on Quality

Art Deco Diamond Bangle Bracelet

After determining whether or not a brand, company or indie designer uses ethical practices, the next chore is discovering the quality of their materials. Many independent designers, like the ones you find on Etsy or elsewhere, may use lower quality metals, gems or other materials in order to increase their profit margin. Even large companies are guilty of this deception. Ziva only uses the best supplies, including high-end jewelry must-haves like gold, platinum, diamonds, sapphires and more.

Choose Based on Customer Service

Vintage Sapphire Ring with
Moon Shape and Pave Diamonds

When you buy jewelry, even if you’re buying from a collection, you want the piece to be special. Any store worthy of the prices that beautiful jewelry costs will endeavor to provide you not only with unique jewelry (regardless of whether it’s custom made or not) and a unique experience. Taking the time to answer questions competently, help you as long as necessary and support your choices even if it means making less money or losing a sale is crucial. Don’t ever stand for bad service.

Finding the right fit with a jewelry designer might not seem all that important at first, but as you experience the highs and lows of shopping for vintage and vintage-inspired jewelry you’ll quickly realize the details matter. Trust Ziva to put your needs first, always, while providing exceptional products with a lifetime guarantee.

How to Get the Best Custom Made Ring

There are few experiences as wish fulfilling as receiving a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind engagement ring. However, a custom ring may seem out of reach for many people. Lots of folks think of them as an option only for the fabulously wealthy or the truly famous, but that’s not true. There are several ways one can go about getting custom made jewelry, and some don’t even require taking out a second mortgage. Here are the most common ways to buy a custom made engagement ring and the benefits and drawbacks of each, and why Ziva Jewels is the best option out of all of them.

Indie Designers

Large Vintage Emerald Ring

Places like Etsy make it seem suddenly so easy to buy custom made anything, but while it’s wonderful to help support independent designers and receive a spectacularly unique custom engagement ring, there are some things you should be aware of before diving in. Remember that sellers, whether they’re on Etsy or some other website, aren't required to source their materials from ethical locations. In fact, the materials may not be high quality at all. Additionally, many independent designers take on more work than they can manage, and your ring may take much longer than anticipated to arrive.

High-End Designers

Rose Gold Diamond Anniversary Ring

There’s always the option of choosing one of those famous designer names for your custom wedding ring or engagement ring. If you have the money, you can rest assured that you’ll get a piece that’s second to none in quality. But what about the origin of the diamonds and gemstones, does that matter? Just because a company is well known and expensive, doesn’t mean those diamonds came from humane sources. If price or ethics are important to you, a high-end designer is probably not the best choice.

Ziva Jewels Designer

Engraved Oval Ring Setting

An engagement ring isn't the sort of item you want to compromise on, so why settle for pretty good when you can have the best? Ziva Jewels will help you custom design a ring that’s exactly what you've been dreaming of, including using high quality materials sourced only from ethical locations and backed by a lifetime guarantee. You can discuss the entire process from start to finish, and you can custom make a ring that will arrive, as you've ordered it, on time and in perfect condition. All that and you get the ideal ring for a price you can afford. It’s time to stop wondering if you can have a custom made ring and begin the process today.

Issues with Buying Diamond & Fine Jewelry Online

The process of jewelry buying is fairly complicated, especially when taking into consideration all the terminology and technical aspects involved. What shouldn’t be a stressful experience is deciding where to buy, but that’s often the first issue upon which people stumble. While both jewelry stores and online shops have their advantages, both have disadvantages as well. In order to make the simple act of choosing a place to buy simpler and more enjoyable, here is a quick breakdown of the benefits and drawbacks of each option and a recommendation on how anyone can skip the negatives entirely with one little trick.

The Best of In Store Shopping

Ruby Three-Stone Ring With Halo

 The benefits of heading to local jewelry stores or factory-direct stores are fairly clear. You can admire the jewelry in person, try it on and speak with a salesperson about any questions you may have about cut, clarity, carat weight or color. However the drawbacks are equally apparent. The salesperson may pressure you to buy something you’re uncertain about or unready to commit to, or he may offer inexpert advice on a certain piece. Additionally, a store has limited selection, so if you don’t find something you love, you may instead opt for something “close enough,” reducing your enjoyment of the piece.

The Best of Online Shopping

Pear and Oval-Shaped Diamond
Links Necklace

On the other hand, opening a browser and searching an online jewelry catalog means you have a nearly limitless selection of choices, an exciting prospect if you have something specific in mind. There’s also complete privacy, and you’re given as much time to ponder your choices as you’re willing to spend searching. Finally, no one is pressuring you to make a decision. As a polar opposite to in-store shopping, there’s no helpful or knowledgeable salesperson to assist you in answering questions. You cannot try on any pieces and even high quality photos hardly do diamonds justice. More worrisome yet, if you buy from an untrustworthy store, you never know what you’re going to get until it arrives.

Floral Pattern Antique Bracelet

Fortunately, there is a solution for shoppers who aren’t willing to sacrifice any benefits in their search for the perfect ring, necklace, bracelet or pair of earrings. At Ziva Jewels, we’ve combined the best of both worlds. You can browse our extensive collection online at your leisure, and once you’ve found the perfect item simply request to see it in person at a local affiliated retailer. There you may try it on, ask any questions you may have and trust the expert, no-pressure advice of our trusted salespeople. When it comes to diamond buying, you should never settle for anything less than exceptional, and our “Try Before You Buy” program and lifetime warranties ensure you never have to.

Engagement Rings: Selecting the Best Designer

Designer engagement rings aren’t just for movie stars and oil tycoons, though they have an illustrious reputation. Designer jewelry is available to most people seeking high quality fine jewelry that is distinctive, well made and gorgeous. Some people are uncertain of what qualifies as designer made, and others wonder what the differences are between designer jewelry and not. Discover the answers to both these questions and more, and find just how wonderful owning a designer piece of jewelry can be.

Designer Versus Store-Bought Versus Custom

Twisted Shank Halo Engagement Ring

There are a lot of options out there for buyers interested in investing in a one-of-a-kind engagement ring. Many shoppers head to a mall to buy a brand name diamond ring. Others opt to choose a local or family-run business that offers designer-made collections. A few choose to order a custom design from a small artisan jeweler. What are the differences between all of these? Designer-made jewelry is the only one that can offer the best of each category. Chain stores offer name recognition and quality materials, independent jewelers bring singular designs and service, but designers like Ziva Jewels use only exceptional quality materials, offer only attentive no-pressure service and happily custom make any design you desire.

Convenience, Service and Selection

Round Diamond in Square Halo Engagement Ring

Whether you’re interested in a custom design or not, you probably want access to as broad and diverse a selection as possible in order to find something that suits you. Mall stores have a very limited collection of gems, and artisan jewelers an even smaller inventory, but Ziva has an expansive online collection of hundreds of engagement rings, plus they offer a wealth of additional options through their certified retailers. As a result, clients can browse online, find a ring they adore and set up an appointment to see it in person. Our certified retailers never pressure anyone to buy, and are knowledgeable in every aspect of diamond and gemstone buying.

Respectable Ethics

Oval Engagement Ring 
with Moon-Shaped Sides in Diamond Halos

Many diamonds and gemstones come to the U.S. through shameful paths and from disreputable organizations. At Ziva, we know you care about from where your fine jewelry arrives. Manufactured and designed in the U.S. using ethical practices, Ziva’s wedding rings and fine jewelry allow you to enjoy your luxury purchases guilt-free. This makes them far more precious and more beautiful in our opinion. Always seek out a jewelry designer that follows their conscience and offers a guarantee. Ziva provides a lifetime warranty for its work, something very few other stores or designers do.

Designer engagement rings are coveted for many reasons, including their quality, singular design and exceptional customer service. Discover why designer made jewelry is the best choice by visiting Ziva Jewels or contacting us for more information.