Recent content by KarinK

As far as I know, only Sarah from Kojima sells authentic Kasumi pearls but I may be wrong.

You may want to learn to string yourself. There are guides and lots of advice here.

"The vendor has great feedback but..." Feedback can be bought these days.

They also seem to have very low luster, probably more like matte in real life, so they look like cheap pearls too s well as dyed FW.

Cees can also ship from Europe which was a great to help to me in Denmark, not having to pay extra costs for goods entering the EU.

There is also Cees (one person) whom many here has bought from, myself included. You can find him on Instagram.

The flat sides is something I've never seen in Tahitians, only FW.

I had a strand of naturally golden Akoya pearls that I ended up finding a new home for because pale yellow is just not my color. It looked lovely, though.

I would have had my eyes constantly fixed on the pearls and not know the faces of anyone there :D What a picture treat!

Thinner thread! Unless it is only one or two pearls where it's tight. You do not want to enlarge all the holes.

"I can't help but wonder if he's privately laughing at what idiots we all are" - this, absolutely.

Jeremy is the owner of Pearl Paradise and have decades of pearl experience. If he says something, he is sure :-)

If you want to compare how blue akoya look, try to check out some of BWeave's posts. She has a lovely collection of blue akoya - and they have a completely different color from these. Generally blue akoya mostly look silver and only blue in the right light.

Agree, they have the typical potato shape and the circles also typical for FP.

The colors are off compared to Tahitian pearls.