I got all my good pearls from Pearl Paradise. I have a strand of their freshadama pearls and found I liked their AAA freshwaters better even though they are supposedly a step down in quality than freshadama. I am porcelain/ghostly pale year round with dark brown hair and green eyes (call me Scarlett O’Hara lol) and told the people at Pearl Paradise to send me any overtone other than cream because I look like death in ivory and off white. You might want to look at baroque south seas pearls which wouldn’t be traditional strands.
A little pearl info since you asked:
Any pearl strand out there now is cultured. Natural, noncultured exist, but you aren’t walking into a store and finding one unless you are in the middle east or Japan.
Saltwater pearls also called akoyas when from Japan, South Seas which are larger are grown in Australia and Polynesia area, all are grown in the ocean and are way more expensive than freshwater. They used to be the only thing out there besides natural or total fakes until freshwaters improves. Freshwater fans call them pearl plated beads because they start as a mother of pearl bead placed into the oyster that is covered in nacre.
Freshwater pearls used to be nasty wrinkled things the size of a grain of rice, but they drastically improved over the last 15 to 10 years. They are seeded with a tiny piece of tissue that often dissolves making them all nacre. They still tend to be slightly off round.
White pearls have overtones, often enchanced, of cream, silver or rose.
A little pearl info since you asked:
Any pearl strand out there now is cultured. Natural, noncultured exist, but you aren’t walking into a store and finding one unless you are in the middle east or Japan.
Saltwater pearls also called akoyas when from Japan, South Seas which are larger are grown in Australia and Polynesia area, all are grown in the ocean and are way more expensive than freshwater. They used to be the only thing out there besides natural or total fakes until freshwaters improves. Freshwater fans call them pearl plated beads because they start as a mother of pearl bead placed into the oyster that is covered in nacre.
Freshwater pearls used to be nasty wrinkled things the size of a grain of rice, but they drastically improved over the last 15 to 10 years. They are seeded with a tiny piece of tissue that often dissolves making them all nacre. They still tend to be slightly off round.
White pearls have overtones, often enchanced, of cream, silver or rose.
