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There's the typical freshwater glowy-type luster on the lavenders as opposed to the sharp ball-bearing type luster you see on the Akoyas. I'm presuming because the nacre is thicker than the average strand on the market the sharper luster still looks quite warm. Not too happy with the quality of the pictures because if you look at the silvery pearls on the Akoya strand it just jumps at you, but I won't get a new camera till I get back to Australia next month. Hopefully it'll happen soon.

I should add that the best way to describe the pearls is that I'm looking into a strand of different colored soap bubbles. At that size and with such a clean surface in addition to a thicker than usual nacre depth I think it's value for money. I'm guessing the smaller strands would look even more distinct as the luster would look "tighter" with less variation between the colors. But do specify gem quality if that's the effect you want. The normal strands are nice but do not have the soap bubble effect or what we know commonly as orient on this forum.