Forget plain, old colorless diamonds. Today, the jewelry stores are alive with color and colorful jewelry is becoming a mainstay of the high fashion set. It used to be the case that colorful jewelry meant rubies that your grandmother wore, but that is no longer the case. Now, from sapphires and topaz to emeralds and onyx, jewelry pops with every color under the rainbow.



Of course, now that gemstone jewelry is becoming more and more popular, it can be hard to find a truly unique piece that will make you stand out from the crowd. Where can you go to stay on the cutting edge of gemstone jewelry and still be the only one in the room who has the accessories that you have? The following places should be tops on your list.

Gemstone Jewelry Styling Events

Chances are, your local jewelry hosts styling events at least once a month, and these events are great ways to get in on the new designs before anyone else. During styling events, jewelers come to the store and bring with them a huge selection of loose gemstones and different settings from which to choose. Although the settings are technically pre-designed, you can be assured that they are the latest the designers have to offer.

An added bonus of shopping for jewelry this way is that the jeweler is only around for a limited time, so often your brand new piece of jewelry is created on the spot, or at least within a few hours of you picking it out, so you can start enjoying it right away.

Custom Gemstone Jewelry Designers

Another way to find your dream piece of designer gemstone jewelry is to pay a visit to a custom jewelry designer who is well versed in working with gemstones. Custom jewelry designers usually keep a selection of gemstones on hand for customers to see, but if they don't have exactly what you want, they can usually get it for you very easily. Custom jewelry designers can't work as fast as the jewelers in styling events, especially if you decide to special order something, but they can design everything for you, from the setting up, so that extra time will pay off with the piece of jewelry of your dreams.

If you can't bring yourself to wear the paltry styles of gemstone jewelry in the shops that everyone else is throwing on, these two options can help you get jewelry with that "wow" factor you are after. In fact, you are really limited only by your imagination, so get designing and get the perfect piece of gemstone jewelry for you.