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The Corundum Conundrum

The mineral corundum has two more famous names – ruby and sapphire. It’s interesting that the colors don’t seem to be similar yet they come from the same rock, so to speak. When it comes to choosing a gift of jewelry it can be difficult to choose the between the red and blue version of [...]

Why do They Call it The Blues?

Everyone knows about the blues. It is a music genre that expresses how you feel when you are, well feeling blue. It is kind of curious that a feeling of being down is associated with such a brilliant and uplifting color though? You wake up, go outside on a sunshiny day and look at the [...]

Cubic Zirconia Makes Fan and Affordable Summer Fashions Possible

Last year saw a major resurgence in bright, bold, colorful jewelry on fashion runways and celebrities quickly picked up the trend.  As the weather outside starts to get warmer there have already been plenty of celebrities donning beautifully bright and bold accessories in what is sure to be one of the biggest trends of the [...]

Royal Engagement Could Spell Success for Jewelers

The ring that took the jewelry world by storm nearly three decades ago is once again causing designers to get busy.  In 1981 Prince Charles used an incredible 18 carat sapphire, set in white gold, to ask for Diana’s hand in marriage and now her son has proposed to his long time girlfriend with that [...]

September Birthstones Sparkle

Most people associate the beginning of September with the final days of Summer and the return to the regular daily grind of the school year, but the month of September also has some significance in the fashion world.  The birthstone for September is the sapphire; which is bold, beautiful and can act as the perfect [...]

Role of Crystal Formation in Cubic Zirconia Creation

Natural gems are minerals that have a characteristic chemical composition and exhibit a definite crystal structure. Under favorable conditions, which, given the rarity of natural gems, happen less often than one might think, minerals in nature form defined crystals. Gemologists have found that there is a direct relationship between a mineral’s crystal structure and the [...]

Shop Loose CZ Clearance to Save

If you use loose cubic zirconia and lab created gems, you’re probably already familiar with PehnecGems excellent wholesale prices on loose cz gems. PehnecGems is the online leader in wholesale sales of loose cubic zirconia, loose lab created rubies and blue sapphires, and loose simulated alexandrite. What many of our customers haven’t discovered is the incredible savings [...]

Match CZ Jewelry to Your Honey’s Personality

Plan to surprise your sweetie with a jewelry gift this holiday? Tight budgets dictated by recession belt-tightening have made cubic zirconia jewelry and lab created gems hot purchases this holiday. Why blow the mortgage or rent money on a tiny, probably imperfect natural gem when you can purchase an absolutely flawless, brilliant white cz diamond [...]

Cubic Zirconia Makes Holiday Jewelry Gift Affordable

Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but it’s cubic zirconia that will ensure there’s a tiny, bow-bedecked jeweler’s box under the tree this holiday. Husbands, boyfriends and partners who traditionally give their special someone a jewelry gift to commemorate special occasions are choosing affordable jewelry elegantly set with white cubic zirconia diamonds and colored cubic [...]

Unusual Color Makes Lab Created Padparadschah Highly Desirable

The Cubic Zirconia Padparadschah Oval is one of the jewelry industry’s more unusual products. It is an inexpensive lab creation of one of the world’s rarest, most expensive gems, the padparadschah sapphire. Bearing the Sinhalese name for “lotus flower,” this unusually colored sapphire is a seductive pink-orange variety of corundum that is so delicate and rare [...]