When choosing jewelry for yourself or for your loved one if you are having hard time deciding whether to get a Modern ( Contemporary) or Traditional Jewelry consider the following factors:

Life Style and work environment: While modern jewelry and simple designs maybe more acceptable in the corporate environment , entrepreneurs, artists, freelancers, self employed, or people who work in casual business environments can afford to wear more bold jewelry with bigger stones.

Fashion Style: Do you wear suits to work? Or jeans and a shirt? I am not going to suggest that you wear minimal jewelry or very simple jewelry just because you wear a suit to work. It actuallly looks very nice to spice up that dark suit. You can always try to choose elegant jewelry with colorful gemstones or beads or even colorful glass. Vintage jewelry may go very well with a black or navy suit. If you keep the shirt and the accessories simple you can wear vintage or ethnic jewelry at work.

White or Yellow: White Gold is more modern and contemporary while yellow gold is more traditional. A lot of people to do not like to mix and match yellow and white gold but a lot of designers are using multi color gold in their designs, so why not break the rules if you feel like it. I actually like the combination of white and rose gold jewelry.

Bold or Minimalist: If you choose to wear bold jewelry try to keep your outfit simple or wear minimal jewelry if you are wearing a big red gown!

What would you wear it with? Going out to a party at night, an event, to work, to a gathering, funeral, business meeting, birthday, theatre, visiting in laws? Always consider the occasion when choosing which jewelry to wear.

And the most important factor to consider is : What looks best on you? Always consider your skin color, hair and eye color when choosing jewelry. Just like makeup some gemstones and gold color look good on some people but not others. If you are very pale white gold may make you look even paler, why not go with 18K yellow gold, you may choose a satin or matt finish. If you have darker or olive skin I suggest you go with colorful gemstones, 18K or 24K shiny gold.

The below group of pictures below is modern. Tiffany’s jewelry is modern and in my opinion somewhat boring…

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And here are some more traditional , ethnic or vintage jewelry:

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