Jewellery is such a fabulous and valuable accessory; it can be subtle and delicate adding just a touch of class to an outfit. Or it can be bold and dramatic completely transforming a look or, of course, completing a look. If you have the courage, you can create a really great style and a unique style by being brave with your choice of jewellery.
This season statement jewellery is back. Go for a statement piece of jewellery that either compliments your outfit or matches it perfectly. Go for bling for a really dramatic look.

Nicole Richie, who has started up her own Jewellery line and has always been a really big fan of statement jewellery, is often seen wearing unique pieces of jewellery like an oversized cocktail ring or a headpiece. The headpiece is a great idea if you really want to break away from standard trends as so few people wear them. You will really stand out from the crowd. Also, with oversized jewellery it is best to go for one big piece of jewellery and make a statement with that one piece. Think big but think less is more at the same time.

Obviously buying jewellery can be expensive depending on where you go to get it. Some online sites like Compton & Woodhouse have a great system where you can pay for the item of jewellery you wish to buy in instalments. This means that your wallet doesn’t take one big hit; you can spread the cost across a number of months.

Tungsten wedding bands can offer you numerous design choices, allowing you to mix traditions and even create new ones. Whether you want a high polish space-age ring that declares you’re not bound by tradition, or whether you want a diamond studded affair – it’s all possible. The number of design possibilities is limited only by your imagination.

Modern Color Choices

What’s nice about tungsten is the ability to get a wide range of silver or gray hues with different alloys and treatments. Many people choose tungsten as a low cost alternative to platinum. It can be polished to a high gloss that is retained for the lifetime of the ring. If you want a wedding band that is darker than silver, but still a white metal, this is perfect.

Combine It With Other Metals

If you do want a dash of gold or platinum, there’s no reason you can’t put a band in and create multi-colored effects. Designs using different metals can be more costly, but they are also more unique and memorable. While the tungsten part of the ring will remain as fresh as the day it was crafted, other metals may wear slightly and give a textured appearance. This can add to the look of the piece, accentuating the different layers for a novel look.

Add Some Gems

Just because it’s a wedding band made of tungsten doesn’t mean you can’t add gems to it. Black as well as white diamonds go very well with tungsten wedding bands, and add a hint of luxury to your choice. You can put a single solitaire in, or add them in a band around the circumference. As a choice for matching wedding bands, it’s nice that each individual gets their own diamonds to celebrate the wedding, and not just the bride.

In general, the fashion trends 2010 women’s adornment are sighed to a few basic points:
1. Necklaces, earrings, rings, bracelets in the fashionable season in 2010 can be weared in a differ huge, oversized, they are loaded with a variety of design styles and the interplay of materials, sometimes even the unpredictable forms. They resemble a warrior’s armor, the amulets, then a scattering of flowers on the chest, then east queen jewelry. Femininity FORCE decorations, making 2010 his favorite. On the fingers stringing huge rings, and in the ears – the giant ring, semiring, and crosses.

2. What is important is not only a large amount of jewelry, but also its quantity. For example, wear bracelets, the more – the better, and, on both hands, and almost to the shoulder.
3. Luxury necklaces and necklaces in 2010 would be appropriate not only the traditional evening, but during the day. Worth noting that it is better to wear headsets, consisting of traditional necklaces and earrings. In 2010, the suite is complemented by similar bracelets.
4. In a fashion brooches! Large, luxurious brooches. Sticking them on your chest, to dress or suit, and the headpiece. Just do not overdo it. Brooch be one. High – two, for example, a beret and corsage, but make sure they were thoroughly consistent in style.

Materials decorations, selected by leading designers are quite diverse. You may choose gold jewelry, silver and other precious metals as well as leather, wood, textiles and plastics.

Color does not seem to be very bright, excepting for a bright golden color. Golden color – is the main favorite in 2010. Most young people abandon the gold color, considering it vulgar. Some years ago, the golden color was super fashionable yet, and it was everuwhere – from boots to outerwear. Now, in 2010, golden color takes revenge in necklaces and massive chains.

If you are Jewellery designer you can try yourself taking part in biennial international design competition New Traditional Jewellery that call for entries for their 2010 event. Jewellery designers from all over the world are invited to respond to the theme ‘True colours’.

The New Traditional Jewellery competition aims to create new traditions and revive old ones by giving them new forms. Consequently it is a condition of the design contest that entries should add a new chapter to an old story. They must be wearable and be inspired by a historical or traditional piece of jewellery. The source of inspiration should be made known and illustrated by means of a photo, and the translation into a new ornament be explained.

New shapes evolving out of existing, threatened and/or lost traditions does not imply entries must be figurative. Organisers want to emphasise that the inspiration, and not the design per se, should originate from the past.

There are two categories in which designers may enter:

– Category A is for established jewellery artists and silver designers
- Category B is for final year and advanced students of all art academies; fourth-level students of the gold
and/or silversmith disciplines of training colleges, or comparable levels of part time education or evening classes

Each participant may submit only one finished piece of jewellery and designs may not have been exhibited before nor seen or sold by third parties. Only ornaments made specifically for this contest will be eligible for nomination.

Entries are due before 1 June 2010.

For more information and to enter visit www.newtraditionaljewellery.com/. Starting with the fourth edition, New Traditional Jewellery (NTJ) will become a biennial event. The three preceding editions of this international design contest and the ensuing travelling exhibitions have been proof of the success of this project and its right to exist. The quality requirements as to the nature and scope of and entries for the event are becoming increasingly strict. In order to meet these requirements in a professional manner NTJ will become a biennial design contest.

The next edition will be exactly this year. For the design contest and exhibition 2010 the technical jury of New Traditional Jewellery (NTJ) has chosen the theme ‘True Colours’ because literally as well as figuratively this theme offers considerable scope for inspiration.