What colors can pearls be naturally?

Can pearls be naturally colored?

Natural Pearl Colors

Pearls, whether saltwater or freshwater, come in a range of colors. The most common color for pearls is white, cream or gray, but they also come in colors such as purple, black, pink, green, champagne, chocolate, blue and lavender. Some pearls have stunning overtones that exhibit multicolors.

What is the rarest color of pearl?

Naturally colored blue pearls are the rarest pearl colors in the world (with one or two exceptions, which we will get to below). The color has existed in pearls for decades, but only recently have naturally colored blue pearls gained popularity in the modern pearl jewelry markets.

Can pearls naturally blue?

Blue Pearl Types: Naturally colored blue pearls are a special rarity, available only in blue Akoya, Silver-Blue White South Sea, Tahitian or Sea of Cortez pearl types.

What colors are natural to freshwater pearls?

Grown in lakes, ponds and rivers, freshwater pearls generally have a bodycolour of white, cream, yellow, orange, pink or purple. These subtle pastel colours are unique to the freshwater variety.

How Do Pearls Get Their Color?

How can you identify a natural pearl?

The Tooth Test: Simply rub the pearl against your tooth, softly. If the pearl is natural or cultured, you will feel the surface as gritty. If the pearl is a faux gem, then the surface will feel smooth. FACT: While observing pearls under a magnifier, specialists can easily tell whether they are a fake or a real gem.

Can pearls be purple?

Pearls are available in various shades and colors, from purple, green, blue, black, pink, cream, white, and even multicolor overtones. Several factors are responsible for a pearl's color, yet it's mostly up to chance.

Are green pearls real?

They might be gray, black or brown, and they can have blue, green, purple or pink overtones. Freshwater cultured pearls are the most commonly produced pearls and they are one of the most popular pearl types among shoppers and jewelry designers.

Are red pearls real?

Red Sea Cultured Pearls: yes, they do exist.

Are black pearls real?

The Tahitian pearl (or black pearl) is an organic gem formed from the black lip oyster (Pinctada margaritifera). These pearls derive their name from the fact that they are primarily cultivated around the islands of French Polynesia, around Tahiti.

How rare is a blue pearl?

Although blue pearls are found in almost every pearl type - Tahitian, Freshwater, South Sea, & Akoya - the chances of you running into a blue pearl in any of these pearl types is extremely, extremely rare. Blue Akoya pearls used to be outcasts in the pearl industry but have recently taken over as a valuable tycoon.

What is Ming pearl?

Ming pearls are simply one brand of bead nucleated freshwater pearls from China. Bead nuked pearls started to appear four years ago and can be divided into two main categories, depending on the quality of their nacre: either smooth or rippled.

How rare is a pink pearl?

Pink pearls are exceptionally rare since only one in 10,000 queen conches produce a pearl, and only one in every 100,00 thousand contains a pearl of “gem” quality… When a pink pearl arrives on the market, it immediately finds a buyer!

How do you tell if a pearl is dyed?

Look at the drilled hole of a pearl. If the nucleus looks dark and nacre inside looks white, the pearl is dyed. The other clue that indicates dyed pearl is dye concentrating around the drill hole or on some spot of pearl surface. Observe the pearl color carefully.

How can you tell the difference between natural and cultured pearls?

It's pretty much impossible to tell the difference between a natural and cultured pearl by just looking at its outer appearance. The only way to make absolute certain whether a pearl is natural or not is to perform an x-ray of the internal structure of the pearl.

Are GREY pearls valuable?

Grey freshwater pearls, which come from the mollusk Hyriopsis cumingii, are significantly more common (and therefore less valuable) than saltwater pearls, but they are nonetheless extremely beautiful and intriguing.

Are chocolate pearls real?

Similar to the color red, chocolate pearls do not occur naturally in any species of pearl, and Freshwater and Tahitian pearls are treated with a pigment-enhancing or organic dyeing process that creates a rich and lustrous chocolate color.

What is the rarest pearl in the world?

The most rare pearl in the world is the Melo Melo, which is produced by a sea snail and not an oyster or a mollusk. The Melo Melo differs in appearance compared to a classic pearl, having a shimmery surface with swirling patterns in the light.

Are bright pink pearls natural?

Pink and lavender is a naturally occurring color found predominately in freshwater pearls. These subtle, pastel colors are not the product of treatment, and the colors do not change or fade.

Are peacock pearls dyed?

These natural iridescent colours are achieved without any artificial dye or treatment.

How does a black pearl form?

Black pearls are formed when that piece of sand gets stuck in the body of a very specific type of oyster, the Tahitian black-lipped Pinctada margaritifera. The interior shell, called the nacre, of most oysters is usually a glossy white or silver but the Tahitian black-lipped oyster features a thick band of black.

What is a blue pearl?

The blue pearl, also known as nila bindu, is a tiny point in the crown chakra that is the seed of Consciousness, or the higher Soul. Located within the pineal gland, it is also known as the mental jewel. In yoga, the blue pearl can be activated through meditation and poses that target the crown chakra.

What is a golden pearl?

Golden pearls, the rarest and largest gems in the world

Naturally colored Golden South Sea pearls come from the tropical lagoons of Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines. Their hues range from a soft Champagne to a very intense 24K gold color.

What is a melo pearl?

Melo Melo pearls are natural, non-nacreous calcareous concretions or masses of mineral produced by the marine gastropod species known as Volutidae—a large sea snail dubbed melo melo.