What did the poor pearls do to deserve this?

[Lady_Disdain]

A low for pearl dying.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/112589...ls-70-80mm-tail-pearl?ref=shop_home_active_66

 

[lilliefuzzysocks]

Yikes, That is terrible. It looks like a new version of Pearl Party garbage pearls.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Jackson Pollock meets pearls?

 

[BWeaves]

Jackson Pearllock?

I do not like it, Sam I am.

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Jackson Pearllock!! Perfect!

 

[Lady_Disdain]

Could we market them as "confetti pearls" and charge a premium?

 

[jesskat]

lillie: holy gross! those were a thing? That's just a mess.

 

[lilliefuzzysocks]

Jesskat, Pearl Parties are selling them on facebook and getting between $10-$25 a piece for those dyed garbage pearls. It's not until they try to sell them do they figure out they have been had. Very sad state of affairs. A sucker born every day on facebook pearl parties.

 

[ennui]

They come in greens, too.

Perfect for your Halloween clown costume.

 

[pearlescence]

There must be squillions of those early attempts at FW bead nuking in sacks at the back of pearl factory storerooms. I don't know, I kinda have no problem with these. They don't pretend to be anything they aren't. Just fun and cheap as chips as we say

 

[MoonSprinkles]

I have to admit, I do like the splotches of color. But I would not want to be told they are high quality and get something I did not expect to get. I just like oddly colored things, and I love confetti patterns lol They would make a fun cheap bracelet, if they were indeed cheap, otherwise, no.

 

[Marianne]

Just waiting for someone to market them as natural hybrid confetti pearls...

 

[Pearl Dreams]

Just waiting for someone to market them as natural hybrid confetti pearls...

Brilliant!

 

[pattye]

Years ago these were painted with zebra-like stripes!! Hmmm, "natural confetti pearls," love it, lol!

 

[GemGeek]

Check these out. I bought them out of curiosity.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?4269-Zebra-pearls-on-eBay&highlight=Striped+pearls

 

[pattye]

AHA! There they are!!

 

[ericw]

Maybe it's a pollution effect?

 

[la_corsetiere]

Check these out. I bought them out of curiosity.

https://www.pearl-guide.com/forum/showthread.php?4269-Zebra-pearls-on-eBay&highlight=Striped+pearls

I have to admit, I kind of like the zebra stripes...

 

[ericw]

I have to admit, I kind of like the zebra stripes...

I agree you, la_corsetiere, these striped pearls are not at all unpleasant.
Sure they are printed using an industrial inkjet process, but more successful than what we would expect.

 

[Pareltje]

Hahaha maybe I would hang them on my Christmas tree LOL.