A real pearl is produced by pearl-bearing oysters either in fresh or salt water. Depending on whether human assistance is involved or not, this organic gem can\u00a0either be cultured or natural. It\u2019s worth nothing that almost all pearls on the market today are cultured. Natural pearls formed without human intervention are\u00a0extremely rare\u00a0and are not commercially viable. Therefore, they are usually only found in museums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fake or imitation pearls are man-made beads. They\u2019re often made from glass, plastic, alabaster or shells that have a pearly coating to give a similar appearance to real pearls. Some fake ones can easily be spotted but some can look very close to the real ones. The most well-known one, Majorica pearl, which is made out of glass, can often fool your eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first step you can take is to touch them and feel the temperature. Real pearls are cold to touch for the first couple of seconds before warming up against your skin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Fake plastic pearls have the same temperature as the room temperature and you don\u2019t feel the coolness when you touch them. However, fake ones that are made of glass beads can be cool to touch to start with. But it tends to take them longer to warm up against your skin than real pearls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you examine real pearls closely or under magnification, you\u2019ll notice tiny irregularities and ridges on each pearl\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In a strand of cultured pearls, you can always see very tiny differences between them, even when they are top quality and well matched. If the pearls are completely perfect and identical in terms of shape, size, color and surface characteristics, they are probably fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In addition, cultured and natural pearls reflect light differently from the fake ones. The lustre of fake pearls has a glassy look and is unnatural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both natural and cultured pearls often have an overtone, a translucent color that appears on the outer surface of a pearl. It is especially noticeable among fine quality pearls. You\u2019ll see a hint of pink, green over the main pearl color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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If you notice the pearls have only one uniform color and are lack of depth, they are likely to be fake. But it\u2019s worth nothing that some real pearls have no overtone either. So this method alone cannot tell the authenticity of a pearl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most real pearls are rarely round. They come in all shapes including oval, button, near-round, circled, coin, drop and totally irregular baroque. In general, round pearls command a higher\u00a0price\u00a0than pearls of other shapes. But even with a strand of\u00a0real pearl necklace\u00a0that is perfectly round, you can still see some slight differences in their pearl shapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So whatever the pearl shape, if you find them completely identical, it\u2019s probably a sign that they\u2019re made by machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both natural and cultured pearls have textured surface due to their layered nacre structure. So when you rub the pearls lightly against each other or on your front teeth, they feel a little gritty. Fake or imitation pearls, however, usually feel smooth or glassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Real pearls are normally heavier than the fake ones. Toss them gently up and down in your hand and feel the weight difference. You can use this method to test those made from coated glass or plastic beads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The only exception with this weight test is in the case of solid glass beads. They weigh much heavier than natural or cultured pearls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The drill holes in real pearls are usually very small whereas those in imitation pearls are often larger. Under magnification, the coating around the drill holes of fake pearls is normally thin and looks like a shiny paint. You can often see flakes or chipped coating around the drill holes that will eventually peel off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s important to remember that all the methods above cannot be used alone to reach a conclusive judgment on whether or not a pearl is real. It\u2019s always useful to combine several of these methods together to detect fake pearls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real pearls A real pearl is produced by pearl-bearing oysters either in fresh or salt water. Depending on whether human assistance is involved or not, this organic gem can\u00a0either be cultured or natural. It\u2019s worth nothing that almost all pearls on the market today are cultured. Natural pearls formed without human intervention are\u00a0extremely rare\u00a0and are … Continue reading How to differentiate real and fake pearls?<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11844,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions\/11844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewel-cafe.my\/blog-au2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}