The allergy is caused when the skin comes in contact with the metal viz. white gold/yellow gold/silver/platinum consisting nickel. Another reason for the allergy is sweat. During the sunny days, when jewelry is worn for a longer duration, skin perspires under the jewelry. This perspiration comes in the contact with the jewelry metal, dissolves the nickel present in the metal and form nickel salts. Salt reacts with the skin and leads to the allergy. Women suffer more with this allergy than men.

     The symptoms of these allergies are bleeding, pierced hole in ear or nose swells and yellow colored liquid known as pus comes out. There is a constant itching and burning. rew people gei a blue tuluicd patch in their finger, which is visible after the ring is removed.

Other precautions that can be taken to avoid allergy are:

1. Ask your jeweler if the piece can be coated with . a new layer of metal or a clear protective film.

2. Apply several coats of clear or transparent nail polish at the back of the ring. In same way nail polish can be applied to other jewelry items too.

3. People who are highly sensitive to nickel should get their jewelries lacquered, coated or plated with palladium.

5. Keep your skin dry when wearing jewelry. Apply talcum powder before wearing the jewelry to prevent the moisture.

6. Wear offending pieces for only a short time and change the jewelry items more often.

7. Keep your jewelry clean, dry and tarnish-free keep the jewelry clean and dry.

8. Do not wear tight earrings or rings or chains; leave little space so that air passes through it.

     Jewelry enhances the beauty and makes the wearer more charming. Unfortunately, few people have to bear pain of becoming beautiful as they suffer from the allergy.But, with these precautions and care the allergy can be avoided and they can continue to look good by wearing the fascinating jewelry items.

     86. The custom of wearing a diamond ring on the fourth finger of the left hand comes from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that the vena amoris ('vein of love') runs directly from this finger to the heart.

     87. We have heard about 'PERFECT MARRIAGE', it is with perfect costumes, makeup, jewelry and many more. Earlier in olden days, many princesses during their wedding wore diamonds jewelry. They not only wear diamond jewelry's but they also stud diamonds on their wedding dress, which established their pride and honor.

     88. 70% of all brides receive a diamond engagement ring; over 75% of all first-time brides receive one.

     89. While 5 5 percent of men prefer the element of surprise, 50 percent of couples choose the diamond engagement ring together.

     90. 90% of all grooms receive a wedding band, one in five receive a diamond wedding band.

     94. In 1919 an American physicist, Marcel Tolkowsky, calculated the best theoretical compromise for the cut of a diamond to release the most beauty and then devised the current pattern for the modern, round brilliant cut, the most widely used diamond cut in the world. The typical brilliant- cut diamond has 58 facets; 33 on the crown (top) and 25 on the pavilion (bottom).

     95. A rough diamond will lose 40% - 70% of its weight in the cutting process

    96. Antwerp is the diamond cutting capital of the world, then Amsterdam , Tel Aviv, New York and London .

     97. Two events near the end of the 19th century helped change the role of diamonds for the next century. First, the discovery in the 1870s of diamond deposits of unprecedented richness in South Africa changed diamond from a rare gem to one potentially available to anyone who could afford it. Before the 1870s diamonds were still rare, and associated with the aristocracy. In 1871, however, world annual production, derived primarily from South Africa , exceeded l million carats for the first time. From then on, diamonds would be produced at a prodigious rate.