Hi Karen, please do "fake or real" for citrine too ! Citrines are one of the most faked crystals on the market. I am ok with heat treated amethyst version of citirne, but I don't want to buy color dyed or just dyed glass ones :(
Hi Karen, I honestly am impressed of your devotion and the time you find to reply to every comment. It would be nice to continue this serie of 'fake or real' and include clarification about citrine beads and rutilated quartz beads. I have bought some from different retailers in my country for comparison but they look nothing like yours, some of them have very orange like color.
@@KarenHuiCrystals I agree. What I liked about this video is garnet varieties comparison. It would be so interesting to watch a comprehensive video on quartz. There are varieties with inclusions that sometimes are marketed as high value. I wonder if this is true. How valuable is toumalined quartz or quartz with actinolite or dumortierite? How real are these? Where do they come from?
Stumbled across your videos because I’ve been struggling on trying to find authentic crystals & you helped make it easy identifying crystals. Thank you ! 🙏🏽
Yes yes yes!!! Please do many more videos on real vs fake stones. It will help so many of us! Even ppl like me who are reselling jewelry. We’ve got to know what we have. There is SO much out there. We would love your help, please. Thank you!! You do a wonderful job!
Just found your channel. Please upload more and more videos on how to tell the difference between real and fake gems & crystals, pearls too !! Thank you for all the information.
Hi Karen, thank you for continuing to teach us more about real and fake stones! your stones there are in super high quality compared to the ones being sold here in the Philippines.. i love the garnets especially the almandine one 😍
Karen I love your channel. Thanks for all the information and education on crystals. I am one of those people that walk along a path and a stone calls out to me or catches my eye and i will pick it up and keep it (smile). Blessings always and a big hug thanks
I've been learning so much from you. Thank you for the great video. Looking forward to more similar videos. P.s. So happy you are doing well now. You can have coffee again. Yay!
Sooo happy I ran across your channel...just subscribed. Am learning from you. Thank you I restranded some stretchy bead bracelets. Love how you mix in songs...cute. Take care.
Wow!! I’m glad I watched your Chanel!! So educational. This is the first time I saw you! Can you do Jade? Because when my Son was Stationed in OKINAWA JAPAN! I bought a lot of Jade! And pearls! I went to China town in Las Vegas Navada! And saw vendors and also boutiques Jade is so many different shades and they are very expensive. One of the sales lady completed my Jade Pendant they have some.. but mine is bigger and has Coy fish carving and I also have bangles that has two tones lavender and green! I just wanna learn how can I tell the real Jade and dyed Jade. Thank you
yes please film more!! I would love to start my own business, I am an Aquarius and I extremely fascinate with the earth and with Crystal, gems, stones. I Love your Channel and have been hooked since first one I seen. I have always been curious about the uses and meanings behind them all as well. Do you cover any meaning or healing properties? What's your take on it all? If I may ask. Thank you so much for your very clear, educational videos and your time. Happy you are well!
Glad to have stumbled upon your channel. Very informative. I love gemstone beads bracelets and this will help me so much to pay closer attention to its materials. Thanks 😊
I am starting my online business in a couple weeks. I have purchased most of my inventory from China, UK, Italy, India, and Hong Kong. I never thought about checking to see if what I am buying is real? I just assumed these big companies were honest.
Hi Karen, I really love your videos. I do hope to also see another design like the 7 Chakra. Is 7 Chakra beacelet good? Please do let us know. God bless you Karen.
Could you make a video showing the difference between a natural stone made in nature versus a stone made in a chemical laboratory and are they valued equally. Thanks in advance
Hi Karen, thank you for your post. It helps a lot. You have good English. I recently bought semi precious stone in shopee store from china. It said that the stone are generic and not branded that's why it is cheaper. Does generic mean from laboratory? Do you consider laboratory made fake? Thank you
I love watching your videos... Dear, can you share how to identify stones? I find it hard to identify my mix stone chips which i won from a certain shop.
Hallow Karen, I would like to know about yellow topaz in a beaded bracelet. It is my birthstone, but I got a fake citrine. I would love to have a real yellow topaz. I also love garnet but where I am living you don't find any. Thank you.
I am making jewelry for a few years now. I started to make them myself as I am allergic to most metals except for copper. I wear copper earrings and never have problems. The moment I wear something els my ears swell and they get infected. So because I even am allergic to silver and gold, and you can't find earrings made of copper I started to make my own. I make everything myself and all in copper. I can wear tarnished copper, so I have my jewelry in bare copper and tarnished copper. While I was making them I wanted a to add beads to my collection. Not plastic, but natural stones. So I started a year ago to look into that. Now I have a big collection of stones. In the beginning it was hard to find the real thing. One indication that I use very quickly was the price. When you buy 5 strands of 8mm beads of rose quartz for 4 euro, it's fake... (48 beads per strand) . I took one bead and hammered it... and yes they were glas. They are beautiful but fake. If people want me to make a bracelet, but it has to be cheap, I give them those beads. I tell them ofcourse they are imitation beads. Some people don't care. For myself I only want the real beads. And I finally found a good dealer. They sell also imitation, but they say when it's like that. U am very happy that I found your channel. Can you also make a video about unakiet? I live these stones so much... Thank you.
I am only allergic to silver earrings, and alloy parts. So most of my custom-made jewelry pieces are made with 925 sterling silver. Yeah, some people don't care about what it is, they care about how it looks. But for those who really wanna buy natural crystals, they got cheated by the sellers.
Thanks for this interesting video. I noticed you're looking at weight on bracelets but for those of us who make custom bracelets how many beads do you recommend using at 6mm, 8mm and so forth? Additionally it's helpful to have real genuine product to compare new product you ordered from Amazon. One of the things that always is a red flag for me is when Chinese bead manufacturers lace their red beads with hot pink thread to enhance the color. There should be an industry standard where everybody uses clear colored thread. As I said this is a red flag for me and says that a manufacturer is trying to pump up the color. I'm curious what your thoughts are about that because I noticed some of your beads have red thread as well.
Hi, since I am a jewelry maker too, 90% bracelets are made to order, so it's difficult to say how many beads to use with 6mm or 8mm in one bracelet, every customer has different wrist size, and I use a wrist guage to make custom bracelets. For the threading part, my best understanding is, rose quartz should be threaeded in pink cords right? But most China seller use red pink cords to thread. About the Amazon, there are sellers selling fake crystals, I had a video about that. :)
Thank you, it's my pleasure to share. :) Please feel free to visit my stores at www.diynotion.com www.gemandsilver.com www.etsy.com/shop/DiyNotion www.shopee.ph/diynotion.ph
loving your vids karen!!!, but are you wearing black onyx which is fake lol? ps yes love more about real vs fake... also very interesting eg india vs brasil pricing what to look for etc if you dont mind as when i search and see it 5 times cheaper i think it must be fake etc thanks gaina KAREN AND CHRIS!
Hi Karen, I'm from the Philippines and recently bought crystal bracelets from Shopee live sellers (Chinese sellers). Now, I'm not sure if what I got are real ones. Thank you for this video! Looking forward to seeing you in Shopee PH also :)
I have garnet bracelets and a sphere but the beads and the sphere are not flawless at all they show cracks in the stones although fully well polished. I have a rosary and mantra necklaces made with garnet beads and those are flawless and look more like glass although they are very heavy. So, I wonder which one is fake or real?... I dont know how to make out.
Hello karen, i want to ask about the kunzite how to dIffrentiate the genuine kunzite with the fake kunzite? I want to buy but affraid get the fake kunzite, thanks before, hope you and your family always be healthy and happy
