How to Buy Heart Pendants for Valentine's Day

Buy a truly unique heart pendant to offer your Valentine a symbol of your undying love. You can vary your purchase by getting a heart pendant with a semi-precious stone or personalizing it with a charm accent. For a Valentine's Day gift, a heart pendant should be extra special, so look at the many interesting designs on the market, such as double- or triple-heart pendants.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Search for the perfect pendant while keeping form, design and size in mind. Heart pendants come in highly polished or sand finishes and have solid or patterned styles.

2. Educate yourself about the various forms of metal, and learn which substances will best suit your budget and your sweetheart's taste. Plan to pay more for platinum or white gold pendants and chains. While yellow gold prices run the gamut, try to get a pendant made of at least 14K gold and stay away from gold-plated or gold-filled jewelry.

3. Check out silver heart pendants. Silver is the least expensive of the precious metals, but very durable and attractive. If you do go with silver, make sure it is labeled as sterling silver, or it will tarnish. Some artisans also design heart pendants out of ivory, turquoise and ceramic, which can all be paired nicely with silver chains or hung on attractive silk ropes.

4. Explore how heart pendants hang from their chains. Each heart pendant has a unique way of resting on its chain, adding elegance to its overall look. A popular style of jewelry you can buy for Valentine's Day is a floating heart pendant in which the chain slips right through the heart's open center.

5. Investigate pendants with bail attachments. A bail is a jewelry component, or finding, that is used to connect a pendant to its chain. An interesting style of bail can lend more appeal to a pendant. Some bails have fancy patterns and come in oval teardrop, or V-shaped designs.

6. Buy a puffed, closed heart pendant for a delicate, youthful look. These Valentine's Day pendants also work well when when bought in a patina finish.

Tips & Warnings

• Pair the heart pendant with a chain that matches it correctly. An expensive pendant shouldn't be combined with a cheap chain.
• Don't give a lone pendant as a Valentine's gift without a chain. You want your significant other to be able to wear the necklace right away.

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