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Originally Posted by BluePawprint  Thanks for the responses, rec'd my 2 strands today.
Am so relieved the FW AAA white body-rose overtone from PurePearls is NOTHING like the ones I saw locally.
- PureP's were visually round (maybe one I could detect abit off-round), those I saw locally had LOTS of squished rounds!
- PureP's were relatively blemish-free (I haven't taken a close pearl by pearl examination yet, but overall), those I saw had lots of blemishes.
- I can't say about lustre cos I don't have both side by side for comparison. Can't say about overtone, I thought the local strands had stronger overtone, but very mismatched... some pearls in their strand had stronger tones than the others. PureP's seems to have lighter overtone, but even throughout.
And finally, PureP's were half the "half-price sale" of those I saw locally. 
That said, I think I'm abit more used to Akoya's mirror lustre? Compared to Freshwaters, I mean.
As for the tahitians... I really think no one else here wears or sells Tahitian baroques! |
How nice, Bluepawprint - that means you will be the FIRST TO SHOW THEM OFF and perhaps make otherladies get interested as well.
As for the AAA-grade in freshwater: these pearls are round to the eye, but not necessarily round when measured! But as always you must remember: at any other mall or shop you had had to buy a lot more for much lesser quality and in the end it comes to this: if you want to have the very best - there is a cost! You get what you pay for - a really nice round CFWP strand with highest luster can cost several thousand dollars! And compared to what you actually have been buying you have got a really great quality for a fraction of the above mentionend tousands of dollars.....
And you will get used to the more satiny luster of freshwater pearls in no time - they are charming in their own way....