What's your unpopular jewelry opinion?

[Swanky]

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[Pevi]

I have a jewelry confession: in my culture, nobody thinks twice about piercing a baby’s ears! I didn’t know it was taboo in other cultures. I kind of understand why now, but when my first was born at 33 weeks, they recommended not to pierce her ears. I had to go back to the hospital a couple of months later with the tiniest baby earrings for them to pierce them. My younger left the hospital with the biggest earrings for newborns I found!
I don’t know any girls that didn’t have their ears pierced at birth, the only ones I do are foreigners.
Here, we don’t think twice about putting jewelry on our children. My eldest had a gold bangle until she started playing volleyball, and wears a necklace every day.
My youngest doesn’t like jewelry except for her earrings, so she doesn’t wear anything else.
My unpopular jewelry opinion is that I like earrings on babies. I know it’s shocking in some cultures.

 

[pukasonqo]

I have a jewelry confession: in my culture, nobody thinks twice about piercing a baby’s ears! I didn’t know it was taboo in other cultures. I kind of understand why now, but when my first was born at 33 weeks, they recommended not to pierce her ears. I had to go back to the hospital a couple of months later with the tiniest baby earrings for them to pierce them. My younger left the hospital with the biggest earrings for newborns I found!
I don’t know any girls that didn’t have their ears pierced at birth, the only ones I do are foreigners.
Here, we don’t think twice about putting jewelry on our children. My eldest had a gold bangle until she started playing volleyball, and wears a necklace every day.
My youngest doesn’t like jewelry except for her earrings, so she doesn’t wear anything else.
My unpopular jewelry opinion is that I like earrings on babies. I know it’s shocking in some cultures.

I am Latina but living in Oz, except for my daughter (because her Aussie father refused) all the girls in my family had their ears pierced as babies and as far as I can see it remains the norm in my culture (not just family)
My daughter always grumbled that she had to wait until she was 15 to have her ears pierced

 

[Pevi]

I am Latina but living in Oz, except for my daughter (because her Aussie father refused) all the girls in my family had their ears pierced as babies and as far as I can see it remains the norm in my culture (not just family)
My daughter always grumbled that she had to wait until she was 15 to have her ears pierced

My daughter had a very good friend from Australia and she came with her ears not pierced (she was 7), and asked her mom to pierce her ears almost immediately!
She and her family went back to Australia in 2020, but her mom came back to my country last year and bought several pairs of gold earrings for her daughter because she can’t find similar ones in Australia. The little girl loves her earrings now!

 

[canto bight]

- It isn't necessary for all or even most jewelry to be fine jewelry. I don't own a single piece of jewelry that I don't take off at the end of the day or before showering/swimming/working out/etc. Plus, I get bored of a daily use piece after a few months only for it to be cast away in a drawer or box for years or forever and I am not concerned about passing anything down to anyone. This makes most fine jewelry kind of a waste of money for me.
- On the other side of the coin, apart from Cartier's JUC line, the conventional fine jewelry brands don't make jewelry that is edgy enough for my style. I have been researching less well known jewelry companies recently and am finding slightly more edgy and cool pieces that are better suited for my style, but goes back to the conundrum I have of only wearing a piece of jewelry for a short period of time before outgrowing it.
- I can't believe that not mixing metals is still a thing.
- Rose gold is the superior gold, for sure.

It isn't necessary for all jewelry to be fine jewelry, but something happened within me that change my perspective since last year because all I want is fine jewelry now that I have found my jewelry style and do want to wear the same pieces long-term.

My current unpopular opinion is that I hate most 18k rose gold because it looks too similar to yellow gold. The pinker the better. But 14K yellow isn't yellow enough for me.

I'm also still really into indie designers and should receive my first custom piece in the next few weeks.

 

[422stewart]

It isn't necessary for all jewelry to be fine jewelry, but something happened within me that change my perspective since last year because all I want is fine jewelry now that I have found my jewelry style and do want to wear the same pieces long-term.

My current unpopular opinion is that I hate most 18k rose gold because it looks too similar to yellow gold. The pinker the better. But 14K yellow isn't yellow enough for me.

I'm also still really into indie designers and should receive my first custom piece in the next few weeks.

Same. I have some skinny, thin stacker rings from Etsy in 14k RG, YG, and WG and wish I could somehow buy the Cartier love wedding band in 14k RG as I’ve been following the thread of Cartier’s RG yellowing.

I honestly would pay the 18k pricing of a RG love wedding band for a 14k RG version as to not have to worry about the yellowing.

 

[sparklebunny]

I have a jewelry confession: in my culture, nobody thinks twice about piercing a baby’s ears! I didn’t know it was taboo in other cultures. I kind of understand why now, but when my first was born at 33 weeks, they recommended not to pierce her ears. I had to go back to the hospital a couple of months later with the tiniest baby earrings for them to pierce them. My younger left the hospital with the biggest earrings for newborns I found!
I don’t know any girls that didn’t have their ears pierced at birth, the only ones I do are foreigners.
Here, we don’t think twice about putting jewelry on our children. My eldest had a gold bangle until she started playing volleyball, and wears a necklace every day.
My youngest doesn’t like jewelry except for her earrings, so she doesn’t wear anything else.
My unpopular jewelry opinion is that I like earrings on babies. I know it’s shocking in some cultures.

This is pretty much the same thing in my mother’s culture too. Little girls with ear piercings are not an issue.

She took me to a mall ear-piercing place when I was about five. Unfortunately, I wonder if those cheap piercing guns wound up giving me a nickel allergy. I was never really able to wear earrings because they make me itch so badly.

 

[Purrsey]

I can understand the culture part for ear piercing.
For my daughter, I told her she will only get hers when she is ready. Even if she never wants it in her whole life, it's her decision. For now, she will almost cry just at the thought of it lol.

For me and my sisters, we only got ours when we were ready and asked our mom to take us there. I think probably I was 10.

 

[GraffS]

I was 2 years old when I demanded to get my ears pierced. Actually I demanded pretty earrings and wouldn’t sleep or eat until I got them. So it was obvious I had to pierce my ears which got me a bit worried once I realized it’d be painful.
And been a great negotiator I agreed to the piercing only if they allowed me to have my manicure and pedicure done.
Somehow these tricks don’t work at this age anymore.

 

[A bottle of Red]

I can understand the culture part for ear piercing.
For my daughter, I told her she will only get hers when she is ready. Even if she never wants it in her whole life, it's her decision. For now, she will almost cry just at the thought of it lol.

For me and my sisters, we only got ours when we were ready and asked our mom to take us there. I think probably I was 10.

Same I told my girls when they can take care of the piercing they can get earrings.

 

[SDC2003]

The little ring on hermes cdc jewelry is annoying bc it flips back and forth, makes an annoying clic sound, and on the leather bangles it leaves a mark. I wish Hermes would make a different cdc line without that annoying ring. of course they couldn’t call it a cdc.

 

[canto bight]

Same. I have some skinny, thin stacker rings from Etsy in 14k RG, YG, and WG and wish I could somehow buy the Cartier love wedding band in 14k RG as I’ve been following the thread of Cartier’s RG yellowing.

I honestly would pay the 18k pricing of a RG love wedding band for a 14k RG version as to not have to worry about the yellowing.

That's what puts me off on Cartier's rose gold too.

I prefer the color of 10K rose gold even more, but I don't see a lot of pieces I'd want in that variation across the board.

 

[336]

I hate rose gold.

 

[olaeliza]

My mother saves all her gold jewellery for special occasions and opts for costume jewellery day to day. I think her opinion would defientely be unpopular on here I think the general consensus here would match mine: gold is for everyday wear!

 

[JOJA]

My mother saves all her gold jewellery for special occasions and opts for costume jewellery day to day. I think her opinion would defientely be unpopular on here I think the general consensus here would match mine: gold is for everyday wear!

I feel like this is common in older generations. My MIL doesn't wear any of her fine jewelry daily, she only wears on special occasions which have become few and far between since the pandemic. I hate that her stuff just sits there because she has amazing pieces.
I on the other hand won't buy anything I can't wear 24/7 or daily. I am only interested in enjoying on me and not in the safe.

 

[Pevi]

I feel like this is common in older generations. My MIL doesn't wear any of her fine jewelry daily, she only wears on special occasions which have become few and far between since the pandemic. I hate that her stuff just sits there because she has amazing pieces.
I on the other hand won't buy anything I can't wear 24/7 or daily. I am only interested in enjoying on me and not in the safe.

My MIL is exactly the same! She has beautiful gold pieces, but she mostly wears silver every day. Her everyday jewelry is nice but what she keeps in her safe is spectacular and she never wears it.