How to Differentiate Between Crystal Earrings and Glass Earrings

Looking for wholesale crystal earrings for your online stores, retail or wholesale business? Wholesale crystal earrings are becoming popular currently. Its brilliance effect is so similar to diamond, while it is much cheaper compared to diamond earrings which are very expensive and not every one could afford. Actually, there are another material earrings - glass earrings seeming similar to crystal types. The two types of materials used for making stunning earring sets. Worry no more. Here are ideas and tips that help you differentiate between wholesale crystal earrings and glass earrings.

Instructions

1. Colors & Sizes.

Glass earrings are made of a particular type of glass that is moulded and blown into the exquisite shapes. Wholesale earrings jewelry made of glass is available in multi-color and varied sizes, some glass beads are really tiny with multiple beads clustered together but others are very large and a single of bead is enough to make up the entire earrings. Wholesale crystal earrings have much less color and size selection than glass kind.

2. The shine and reflection level.

Wholesale crystal earrings are different in that they shine and reflect light better than glass does. Lead oxide is added during the crystal production, that makes crystal look different compared to glass, and makes wholesale crystal earrings much glare and also heavier than normal glass. Other difference is that crystal stones in the wholesale earrings are usually cut precisely thus the multi-facets may reflect as much light as possible, while the glass beads can only give off light faintly.

3. The Reflective & Durable Level

Wholesale crystal earrings tend to have gorgeous sparkle than glass, and also have fire - flashes of rainbow colors. That is contributing to the great reflective level of crystal. As mentioned above, crystal contains lead oxide, the degree of lead within crystal determine how reflective it is, the more lead is used, the much shinier it looks. More lead content means higher quality of crystal. Don't worry about that crystal is harmful to people while wearing wholesale crystal earrings because the lead is embedded within the crystal and won't release out and cause harm. Other factor to determine the crystal's reflective level is the facet cutting. More facets and exquisite cut craftsmanship will give off much and shiner light. Wholesale crystal earrings are also more durable than glass types since they are harder due to the additional chemical elements like lead oxide.

The prices of wholesale crystal earrings range from affordable to extremely high in the market, but usually much costlier than its glass counterparts, because the crystal production is quite intricate so that also more expensive.

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