How has your perspective on jewellery evolved over time?

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2. Definitely have shifted to a “quality over quantity” mindset, but I also think that jewelry trends just aren’t very fun right now. I’m waiting for statement necklaces to come back to I can dust off all my J. Crew pieces from the early 2010s.

3. I used to wear a lot now I just wear a toe ring

4. In my hip-hop years I used to wear all the gold stuff I got gifted as a child (for baptism, first communion etc. Italians are super into gifting jewelry to children). Then I turned punk-goth and I wore pounds upon pounds of studs and spikes. Then came the surgical steel piercings, plugs and flesh tunnels.

   Now I’m 43. Got a jolly Roger rubber ring in a gacha machine. I wear it when I remember to.

5. Definitely quality over quantity. I’d rather wait and get the real deal than the fake

6. As a kid/teenager I often dreamed about having lots of jewellery, all with stones and precious metals. Cause, you know, sparkly things, feeling like a princess and whatnot.

   As an adult I realized that I actually neither need pricey jewellery nor care about it. I don’t even enjoy wearing accessories a whole lot, they’re kinda distracting. I got done really nice minimalistic earrings and a couple barely-there necklaces but that’s about it

7. I used to wear some but I don’t anymore. Last time I wore earrings and necklaces were somewhere between Christmas and New Year 2021. My engagement ring and wedding ring I took off before surgery in May last year and they never came back on either. I had a hard time getting them off and I’m scared one day I might not be able to take them off again if I put them back on. I knew a guy who ended in the hospital that way because his finger kept getting more and more swollen due to a ring he couldn’t get off.

8. Queen Alexandra’s (UK) choker necklaces & Tsarina Maria Feodorovna’s (Russia) kokoshnik tiaras r my fav pieces of historical jewellery

9. It’s still basically the same since I was 7 which is “oooh pretty”.

   Expect now I have 12 piercings instead of 2.

10. I prefer wearing colorful bead jewelry that I make but most of them only look good with T-shirts. So the statement necklaces I have aren’t so bad anymore if they can make wearing nice shirts less unpleasant.

11. I used to love jewelry and now I think it is useless crap

12. I went from being uninterested, to being occasionally interested, back to uninterested again.

13. I invest in my jewelry and I only wear pieces that I don’t have to change lol. I wear the same things on a daily. Also, shifted from silver to white gold to yellow gold. I never buy costume jewelry.

14. I used to be a buy it nice (ish) person but now I only wear cheap jewelry where I don’t care if it gets broken, tarnished, lost etc.

15. It has, definitely.

    Not just quality over quantity, but also what matches my skin tone, etc. along with what matches my overall style.

    When my ex-husband and I were looking at engagement rings, I went with what was really “traditional” – a three stone yellow gold ring. 100% not my style, but I thought it was right because everyone else liked it. If I had stuck to what was my “style,” it would would have been a black stone ring.

16. I didn’t get my ears pierced until I was 16 because I thought it was (yes, this is a direct quote) “barbaric self-mutilation in the name of a nonsensical feminine ideal.” I was a fun kid 😂 At the same time, I wore a ring on every finger. My style changed wildly: I had a long boho phase with wood, clay, bright colors, then in college it was all about the statement J. Crew necklace with jeans and a “going out top.” After college, suddenly I wore nothing but small diamond studs, petite silver pendant necklaces, and a silver ring.

    Now in my late 30s, minimalism continues to be key, but I’ve expanded into gold. My go-to is a delicate chain necklace and tiny gold twists that I never take out because they’re so difficult to put back in.

17. It hasn’t. I’ve always liked simple and understated jewellery and been very much a less is more kinda person.

18. I used to wish I liked jewelry.

    Now I’m fine with not liking jewelry.

19. Used to be a strictly silver girl but now I realize gold is a lot more complimentary to my complexion.

    That being said, I only wear a simple necklace, tunnels, and some cartilage piercings.

20. I used to love earrings and now I love earrings.
    I just wear more “serious” ones. Mostly 😀